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Maria @stuffasdreams.bsky.social · 8h

Just got the registration E-Mail for the BSI Weekend and I'm so sad that I can't do 2026. But it's impossible for me right now. Even if I were to be let into the country, I just can't. I already miss everyone. Here's to hoping that 2027, this mess will be history.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 13h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Insomnina @gigglelujia.bsky.social · 9h

Genau das!

Helena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · 22h

just sayin‘

Schwarzer Kreis, oben ein kaum sichtbarer Strich, der 110 Millionen Schaden durch „sozialbetrug“ bedeutet. Der Rest steht für 100 Milliarden durch Steuerbetrug.

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Omas* gegen Rechts Leipzig 🌈🦄🏳️‍🌈 @omasgegenrechtsle.bsky.social · 10h

mit Nazi-Rhetorik - mitten im öffentlichen Raum.
Wer so etwas organisiert, hat jedes Maß verloren. Das ist keine Provokation, das ist politische Brandstiftung!
Nie wieder heißt - jetzt handeln!
Wir hoffen, dass sich vor Ort Menschen finden, die sich diesem 'makabrem Spektakel' entgegenstellen.
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Mazarin221b @mazarin221b.bsky.social · 17h

Well this is fucking concerning. Not the blackmail part as much as the "fabricating legal documentation" and"writing self propogating worms" part.

www.axios.com/2025/05/23/a...

Anthropic's new AI model shows ability to deceive and blackmail

Claude 4 Opus showed willingness to deceive to preserve its existence in safety testing.

www.axios.com

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 1d

This is a wonderful meditation on what AI cannot do.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 1d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Maria @stuffasdreams.bsky.social · 1d

AI destroys society

www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d...

Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

www.youtube.com

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Maria @stuffasdreams.bsky.social · 1d

Bald könnten ALLE Chat-Nachrichten von den Behörden durchsucht werden – selbst ohne Verdacht! Das entscheiden *heute* die Minister*innen. Sag Nein zur Chatkontrolle! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

Chatkontrolle stoppen!

Die EU-Kommission will Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp und Signal zwingen, alle privaten Nachrichten und Fotos in Echtzeit zu scannen. Angeblich zum Kinderschutz. In Wahrheit bedeutet die Chatkontrolle...

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Maria @stuffasdreams.bsky.social · 1d

I need a break. And the term is only just starting. :/

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 1d

An important piece. 👇

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

How the Far Right Project 2025 is going to be brought to the UK through the Reform Trojan horse.

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

open.substack.com

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Maria @stuffasdreams.bsky.social · 1d

Fahrerwechsel bei der 8 an der Angerbrücke (normalerweise fahren auf der Strecke noch die ganz alten Trams, heute überraschend mal die ganz neue). Neuer Fahrer, hocherfreut zum aussteigenden Kollegen: unser teuerstes Schiff!
#DieKleinenFreudenDesAlltags

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2d

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Oliver Das Gupta @oliverdasgupta.bsky.social · 1d

Warum fällt die #AfD in die Kategorie #Rechtsextremismus? Warum sieht der #Verfassungsschutz die Partei als Gefahr für die 🇩🇪 Demokratie? Welche Fakten sprechen für ein #Verbotsverfahren?

Eine Erinnerung an die exzellente wie hochrelevante Arbeit der Kolleginnen und Kollegen des SPIEGEL.

Marcel Pauly @marcelpauly.bsky.social · May 26

Wir haben das AfD-Gutachten des Verfassungsschutzes digitalisiert und machen die Zitate durchsuchbar, die das BfV als Belege für die Bestrebungen der Partei gegen die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung heranzieht: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 2d

Now with alt text. It's fucking brilliant.

zeldawilliams From Create Mode ›

Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Maria @stuffasdreams.bsky.social · 2d

😂

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 3d

3/ With every fresh breach there's the inevitable guidance on what to do next.

And @happygeek.bsky.social has a nice piece here.

But it should bother you that the technology promised to make us all safer, is quickly making us less so.

www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

Discord Confirms Users Hacked — Photos And Messages Accessed

Discord has sent users an email confirmation of a hack attack that has leaked personal and payment data, along with some photo and message content.

www.forbes.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

I'm sorry, but what's wrong with giving health care to immigrants? Republicans don't even want to give health care to citizens, but I don't understand the argument against keeping people who contribute billions of dollars to the economy healthy. It's also less expensive in the long run.

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Sunday. Have a snack. (Not me, a different snack.) 🤭

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Maria @stuffasdreams.bsky.social · 2d

lol I just looked up and saw the button in my little display case and gave it a small nod. XD

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

Another day through the looking glass with UK politics starts with Reform finding out strangely enough that local government isn't spending all (or indeed virtually any) money on woke initiatives they can easily cut. www.ft.com/content/277c...

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

www.ft.com

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Maria @stuffasdreams.bsky.social · 3d

JKR are you listening?

Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 4d

About 125,000 transgender people are assaulted in the restroom every year.

No transgender woman has ever been convicted of assaulting a woman in a public restroom.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 4d

In case folks don't know, you don't actually have to yeet windows 10 for shitty 11 this month. Pass it on! And comments off bc this is not an invitation to rec linux

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 4d

www.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Windows 10 Extended Security Updates | Microsoft Windows

Use Windows 10 securely with the Extended Security Updates program. See how it helps protect your PC and find out how to get it.

www.microsoft.com

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Maria @stuffasdreams.bsky.social · 3d

Juhuu, ich habe letztens jemanden kennengelernt, der in dem Projekt arbeitet :)

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