Laurencius Griener
@laurenciusg.bsky.social
Politics and PA @uni-konstanz.de
Digital Politics and Digitalization in federal systems
Cycling
(he/him)
Digital Politics and Digitalization in federal systems
Cycling
(he/him)
So, I just discovered #duvetknowitschristmas and I think my situation qualifies
December 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
So, I just discovered #duvetknowitschristmas and I think my situation qualifies
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To add, modern management likes data like a dragon likes gold: they hoard it, but have little desire to actually effectively use it.
December 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
To add, modern management likes data like a dragon likes gold: they hoard it, but have little desire to actually effectively use it.
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Meine Pressemitteilung zur Anfrage:
www.sonja-lemke.de/detail-artik...
www.sonja-lemke.de/detail-artik...
Pressemitteilung: Erhebliche Mängel beim Einsatz von KI in der Bundesverwaltung: Die Linke MdB Sonja Lemke
Auf Anfrage der Bundestagsabgeordneten Sonja Lemke musste die Bundesregierung umfangreiche Informationen rausgeben, wie sie KI in der Bundesverwaltung einsetzt. Wie bereits in den letzten Jahren, aufb...
www.sonja-lemke.de
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Meine Pressemitteilung zur Anfrage:
www.sonja-lemke.de/detail-artik...
www.sonja-lemke.de/detail-artik...
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Deutscheste KI-Revolution: Formulare ausfüllen.
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Deutscheste KI-Revolution: Formulare ausfüllen.
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i think about this way too much - how tech companies act vs. “legacy” companies that produce consumer goods, news, media or entertainment.
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
i think about this way too much - how tech companies act vs. “legacy” companies that produce consumer goods, news, media or entertainment.
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"the law does not self-enforce. the law does not self-execute.
there are more parking ticket enforcement in Brussels than there are enforcement of the DMA" Cori
there are more parking ticket enforcement in Brussels than there are enforcement of the DMA" Cori
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"the law does not self-enforce. the law does not self-execute.
there are more parking ticket enforcement in Brussels than there are enforcement of the DMA" Cori
there are more parking ticket enforcement in Brussels than there are enforcement of the DMA" Cori
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+ OUT NOW: »Alles muss man selber machen« + Ein Buch zur Geschichte der Rätebewegungen. Ein Buch über Menschen, die sagen: So kann es nicht weitergehen, wir nehmen unser Schicksal selbst in die Hand – und Räte bilden für alle gesellschaftlichen Bereiche … Zur Feier des Tages verlosen wir 1 Band! /1
October 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
+ OUT NOW: »Alles muss man selber machen« + Ein Buch zur Geschichte der Rätebewegungen. Ein Buch über Menschen, die sagen: So kann es nicht weitergehen, wir nehmen unser Schicksal selbst in die Hand – und Räte bilden für alle gesellschaftlichen Bereiche … Zur Feier des Tages verlosen wir 1 Band! /1
AI slop for political communication is a questionable response to the whole "we have to better explain our policies to ordinary people" discourse of the last decade or so.. It gives the vibe of a low-barrier explanation, without explaining anything really.
There’s a growing & deeply problematic tendency to use #genAI for political and historical education Take this example from Germany, which translates as: «Hey AI, who should I vote for.» What’s typical here is that AI is not only addressed as pseudo-person but also as a kind of impartial judge
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Landtagswahl.ai
KI-generierte Bilder aus den Wahlprogrammen der Parteien zur Landtagswahl - Ausstellung und Podiumsdiskussion; Materialien für Schulklassen
www.landtagswahl.ai
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
AI slop for political communication is a questionable response to the whole "we have to better explain our policies to ordinary people" discourse of the last decade or so.. It gives the vibe of a low-barrier explanation, without explaining anything really.
Currently reading Platformland by @richardpope.org for my Masters. I have rarely used my red as in disagreement marking so little because the patterns described are just so intuitive when having grown up on the internet.
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Currently reading Platformland by @richardpope.org for my Masters. I have rarely used my red as in disagreement marking so little because the patterns described are just so intuitive when having grown up on the internet.
Who wants to join me in the forest?
The spy who came in from the #WiFi: New technology is able to infer the identity of individuals without a WiFi device on them through passively recording communication in radio networks. Researchers @kastel-labs.bsky.social @strufe.bsky.social warn of risks to #privacy. www.kit.edu/kit/english/...
October 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Who wants to join me in the forest?
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Okay das ist witzig, wenn man das so visualisiert
October 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Okay das ist witzig, wenn man das so visualisiert
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I think we might have locked ourselves into a professionalization trap. Shocking revelation: It's capitalism's fault.
The Professionalism Trap
The Professionalism Trap
September 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I think we might have locked ourselves into a professionalization trap. Shocking revelation: It's capitalism's fault.
The Professionalism Trap
The Professionalism Trap
Liebes BMDS,
W T F
W T F
September 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Liebes BMDS,
W T F
W T F
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opening the word document again
September 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
opening the word document again
Update: Bluesky has some of "the juice"
* BREAKING: LIVING PRESIDENT, WHO IS ALIVE, TO APPEAR LIVE AT 2PM TO ANNOUNCE MOST INCONSEQUENTIAL THING YOU'VE EVER HEARD OF
September 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Update: Bluesky has some of "the juice"
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I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
August 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
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should have been clearer here but what i personally meant by 'good enough' is that it is good enough at making ppl think the tech does what they say it does. and so ppl believe they are having a different experience w/ the models than they are because it is good enough to give a user that impression
all of this is basically a trojan horse for my sinking feeling right now that generative AI will be 'good enough' and that's...potentially a very bad outcome!
August 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
should have been clearer here but what i personally meant by 'good enough' is that it is good enough at making ppl think the tech does what they say it does. and so ppl believe they are having a different experience w/ the models than they are because it is good enough to give a user that impression
Es gibt sie doch, die Verwaltungsdigitalisierung in Deutschland..
„Kleine Revolution“: In Hessen erstellt das Finanzamt Kassel im Rahmen eines Pilotprojekts für 6000 Menschen die Steuererklärung für 2024. Nächstes Jahr soll die Idee schon hessenweit ausgerollt werden. (hanvoi) www.fr.de/rhein-main/l...
Hessen: Wenn plötzlich das Finanzamt die Steuererklärung erledigt
Hessen startet in Kassel ein Projekt, bei dem das Ausfüllen der Steuererklärung überflüssig wird. Ab nächstem Jahr soll es den Service überall geben.
www.fr.de
August 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Es gibt sie doch, die Verwaltungsdigitalisierung in Deutschland..
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@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
August 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
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"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...
Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently.
A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of tea...
www.chalkbeat.org
August 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...
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Broke: covid broke people’s brains
Bespoke: being forced to look at themselves in video chats broke peoples brains
Bespoke: being forced to look at themselves in video chats broke peoples brains
Male anguish about hair loss has never been more evident. Social media, dating apps, “Zoom dysphoria” and a sometimes-predatory marketplace are stoking the anxiety.
The newest side effect of hair loss — more public anxiety
Social media, dating apps, “Zoom dysphoria” and a sometimes-predatory marketplace are stoking the anxiety.
wapo.st
August 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Broke: covid broke people’s brains
Bespoke: being forced to look at themselves in video chats broke peoples brains
Bespoke: being forced to look at themselves in video chats broke peoples brains
I agree there is some naivity in the article, both regarding this and the appeal to "full humanity" later on. The real value of the article is in its discussion of higher education though.
I won't deny that the implications and challenges are massive, and we're only beginning to understand them. But claiming that a chatbot already «has effectively achieved Ph.D.-level competence across» a variety of disciplines? That's just repeating baseless industry hype. We should know better …
Uff. But true.
July 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I agree there is some naivity in the article, both regarding this and the appeal to "full humanity" later on. The real value of the article is in its discussion of higher education though.
We have come so far that the Pitchbot posts headlines that are good actually, at least if you read them as sarcastic.
After mostly shrugging off Trump’s assault on government for the last five months, establishment Democrats have finally found something to be outraged about: Zohran Mamdani’s primary win.
June 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We have come so far that the Pitchbot posts headlines that are good actually, at least if you read them as sarcastic.