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Hannes Bajohr

@hannesbajohr.de

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Working on AI, political theory, and the German philosophical tradition in the 20th c German Dept #UCBerkeley

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Hannes Bajohr @hannesbajohr.de · Nov 10

Hi. I teach and research at UC Berkeley on AI and its relation to literature, culture, and politics. These are my recent essays about the topic, covering ideology, image/text relations, meaning, authorship, agency, and other aspects of cultural AI.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Cool :)

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 5d

Excited to learn that @hannesbajohr.de and I got the Peder Sather grant to study AI and narration in collaboration with The Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, led by Jill Walker Rettberg. Our goal is to bridge humanities and CS approaches to AI and narration.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21d

Look who came with

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 21d

“The new Elsevier AI solution will empower researchers to identify emerging areas of inquiry + funding opportunities, uncover knowledge gaps, synthesize literature rapidly, connect with collaborators + accelerate productivity.” Academia should’ve long ago ✂️ ties with such commercial vendors.

infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 21d

Company News: Elsevier Announces Development of a "Next-Generation 'End-To-End' AI-Powered Solution For Academic and Corporate Researchers"; Closed Beta Launching Today, Available For Purchase During Q1 2026 www.elsevier.com/about/press-... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #AI #scholcomm

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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 22d

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Hannes Bajohr @hannesbajohr.de · Sep 8

Oh, and for the application of structuralism to LLMs: Anything by Gianni Gastaldi (structuralism rephrased as category theory). www.giannigastaldi.com/p.publicatio...

Juan Luis Gastaldi

www.giannigastaldi.com

Hannes Bajohr @hannesbajohr.de · Sep 8

Surprisingly good: Philip Pettit, The Concept of Structuralism, 1975 (gets stuff wrong, but very approachable for the analytic-minded).

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · Sep 7

Who wants computers to make music that sounds human. That's so boring 😂

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · Sep 6

Newsom vetoing the previously approved transit bridge loan will be a disaster for the Bay Area

This means deep cuts to transit, like BART trains only once an hour or worse

Call the governor's office now and join the rally to save transit on Monday morning

actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

Flyer for emergency rally to save bay area transit

9am, Monday, Sept 8th and SF Civic Center Plaza

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · Sep 5

Say a prayer to those poor Europeans, stuck taking fast, reliable transit through their dense and well laid-out cities instead of paying an oligarch $35 for the privilege of sitting in traffic on a 24-lane highway to get to the Chili's out by the interstate

The Economist @economist.com · Sep 5

Will the absence of robotaxis in Europe mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?

Robotaxis will be the Sputnik Moment for a declining Europe

A slow-motion car crash on Europe’s roads

econ.st

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Sep 5

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

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McKinley Valentine @mckinleaf.bsky.social · Aug 26

hey @theguardian.com this piece is wildly irresponsible! To post an "interview" with an LLM, with zero context given that that it cannot answer questions about itself, and that you've basically just asked it to generate some science fiction dialogue?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’

Cofounder with Michael Samadi of AI rights campaign group Ufair says it should watch over the technology in case an AI becomes conscious

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's called fascism. Fascist regimes, like Mussolini's Italy, directly nationalized some businesses. American journalists need reminding that this isn't necessarily a 'socialist' thing. Articles like this don't help the public interpret what's happening in the US. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism

The president is embodying the type of big government that right-wing politicians and thinkers have been warning about for a century.

www.theatlantic.com

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Aug 9

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

Summary of our concerns

1. Implementation Timeline We have learned that the UC system has suffered numerous and increasingly frequent cyber attacks and security breaches. For years, the administration has done little to stud...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 1

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

www.mellon.org

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Christian Dries @morbuscriticus.bsky.social · Aug 2

The early bird catches the worm...
30 % pre-order discount for Günther Anders' masterpiece »The Obsolescence of the Human«
👇
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791265...

The Obsolescence of the Human

Now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology With this first English translation of influ...

www.upress.umn.edu

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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · Jul 28

holy fucking shit

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Gawhary @gawhary.bsky.social · Jul 18

Das Gaza-Hunger-Experiment. Mein heutiger Text @taz.de

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GHF-Essensabgabestellen in Gaza: Das Gaza-Hunger-Experiment

Hilfen für Gaza scheitern nicht an der Logistik, sondern an politischen Entscheidungen. Immer wieder sterben Menschen bei der Essensausgabe.

taz.de

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Dr. Maha El Hissy د. مها الحصى @mahaelhissy.bsky.social · Jul 21

As the Max Kade Visiting Professor at Columbia, I was due to give a public lecture during Spring Term that I had to cancel after the abduction and arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE/DHS agents and Columbia’s failure to offer any protection for its students.

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · Jul 16

Def miss the days when deep learning stood for something like 'the weird empirical science of real-world patterns that don't have nice mathematical representations but attract flexible function approximators'