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Hendrik Wagenaar @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social · Sep 6

Das stimmt so nicht: Der Ausdruck „stochastic parrots“ (stochastische Papageien) stammt von Emily M. Bender et al – als kritische Bezeichnung für große Sprachmodelle.

Hier ist der direkte Link zur Veröffentlichung:

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · Jun 23

How do digital practices shape democratic values and processes? Today, the 'Democracies in Digital Societies' group at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) met to work on our first paper, 'What is Digital Hybridisation?' Stay tuned for updates! More about our work: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/members/c...

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · Jun 23

Big thanks to all the colleagues who contributed, including @astridmager.bsky.social @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social@nikolausf.substack.com @asmeincke.bsky.social @leonido.bsky.social @riederb.bsky.social

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Hendrik Wagenaar @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thank you Theo

Theo Lim @chaolim85.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thinking about democracy, action, and the process of producing research a lot recently. This article reflecting on Patsy Healey's work by @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social was a pleasure to read. I also very much enjoyed the reflection at the end on the importance of intellectual inspiration and exchange

Planning Theory & Practice @planningtheory.bsky.social · Jun 6

Democracy as Lived Experience. In his article "The Essential Tension: Patsy Healey's Conception of Democracy in Planning and Public Policy" @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social reflects on two major themes in Patsy Healey's work: democracy and epistemology. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · Apr 30

Join us at the @univie.ac.at event at #EXPO2025 in Osaka!
🗓️ May 28, 15:00–20:30 JST
📍 Austrian Pavilion, “Empowering Lives” Zone
🌍 From planetary health to democracy & molecular innovation — and on how empires were built with music

Info & registration: international.univie.ac.at/en/cooperati...

Registration – Building Futures

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Mar 14

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies

Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Apr 25

reporting on this has really got to get better about communicating the magnitude of the breach here. if you read the nyt article with minimal context, you would have no sense that this was watergate-level impeachable misconduct

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · Apr 25

President Trump has personally ordered the Justice Department to open an investigation of Democrats' primary ways for raising donations.

It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Hendrik Wagenaar @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social · Apr 25

Bonus: The Yarvin Explainer
open.substack.com/pub/drsmallt...

Bonus: The Yarvin Explainer

Even weirder than you thought

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Hendrik Wagenaar @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social · Apr 25

The long English version can be found here: medium.com/@hendrik.wag...

Are we Entering the Age of Cyber-Fascism?

Hendrik Wagenaar (Vienna, March 18, 2025)

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Hendrik Wagenaar @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social · Apr 25

I published an analysis of the role of the tech billionaires in the slide towards authoritarianism in the US. It’s an op ed in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Der Aufstieg des Cyberfaschismus

In den USA gestalten nun die Tech-Milliardäre die Politik. Den Staat sehen sie als Hemmschuh, gewählte Regierungen als Relikte einer vergangenen Zeit. Die Wahldemokratie muss jetzt dagegenhalten – bev...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Mar 27

Curtis Yarvin, a close ally of Peter Thiel, recently declared that the system is “irreparable,” that “To capture an elite, you have to demolish its institutions,” & that “Every existing institution of science, outside the scientists & the labs themselves, must be fully cremated…” 1/

Barbarians and mandarins

"As soon as it stops accelerating, it stalls and explodes."

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Hendrik Wagenaar @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social · Mar 27

I wrote a piece on America’s descent into authoritarianism and the role of the tech oligarchs in it:

medium.com/@hendrik.wag...

I am particularly indebted to @gilduran.com’s invaluable reporting on the murky, dangerous world of the tech barons

Are we Entering the Age of Cyber-Fascism?

Hendrik Wagenaar (Vienna, March 18, 2025)

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · Mar 27

My partner spent the last weeks researching the ideologies of tech oligarchs. Here’s his take on what is going on in the US and beyond: medium.com/@hendrik.wag...

@hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social

Are we Entering the Age of Cyber-Fascism?

Hendrik Wagenaar (Vienna, March 18, 2025)

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