Ulf Treger
@ulf-t.bsky.social
Doing digital things, code, design, maps. Working and living (mostly) in Hamburg. Part of city/data/explosion and A Thousand Channels.
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I have a new chapter out, offering a tech-critical and feminist critique of the false “security” created by video doorbell cameras, like Ring 👀
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
Security of Self | Research and innovation
Cybersecurity needs a new understanding to enable societies and individuals to thrive in the digital context. A manifesto for a holistic and collaborative approach, The Security of Self invites a para...
www.uottawa.ca
December 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I have a new chapter out, offering a tech-critical and feminist critique of the false “security” created by video doorbell cameras, like Ring 👀
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
“Whose Security are we Talking About Anyway?” co-authored with the brilliant Jane Bailey & Jacquie Burkell.
Find it here: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
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🚨 noyb has filed complaints against #TikTok and #Grindr. As it turns out, TikTok even tracks you while you're using other apps. For example, TikTok was able to track a person’s Grindr usage - which allows it to draw conclusions about his sexual orientation and sex life
👉 noyb.eu/en/tiktok-un...
👉 noyb.eu/en/tiktok-un...
TikTok unlawfully tracks your shopping habits – and your use of dating apps
TikTok tracks its users even if they're using other apps. The video platform therefore also knows what dating app you use
noyb.eu
December 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🚨 noyb has filed complaints against #TikTok and #Grindr. As it turns out, TikTok even tracks you while you're using other apps. For example, TikTok was able to track a person’s Grindr usage - which allows it to draw conclusions about his sexual orientation and sex life
👉 noyb.eu/en/tiktok-un...
👉 noyb.eu/en/tiktok-un...
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🗣️📢 Call for short essays, poetry and short fiction: LOOMING ‘zine (issue 2, winter 2025).
Deadline: Dec 1
LOOMING is a technocritical zine celebrating the human and the analog in the face of Big Tech.
CC @kconrad.bsky.social
Submit to: [email protected]
Deadline: Dec 1
LOOMING is a technocritical zine celebrating the human and the analog in the face of Big Tech.
CC @kconrad.bsky.social
Submit to: [email protected]
Learned about the Library of Babel group via @olivia.science and her highlighted quote from @melaniedusseau.bsky.social from the essay "A Psalm for the Analog" - definitely worth reading the whole thing, and this table of contents is so solid.
Zine is linked: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
Zine is linked: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
November 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
🗣️📢 Call for short essays, poetry and short fiction: LOOMING ‘zine (issue 2, winter 2025).
Deadline: Dec 1
LOOMING is a technocritical zine celebrating the human and the analog in the face of Big Tech.
CC @kconrad.bsky.social
Submit to: [email protected]
Deadline: Dec 1
LOOMING is a technocritical zine celebrating the human and the analog in the face of Big Tech.
CC @kconrad.bsky.social
Submit to: [email protected]
„Olympische Spiele in Hamburg: Mehrheit dagegen.“
www.ndr.de/ndrfragt/oly...
Immerhin eine schöne Nachricht heute 😁 #nolympia #hamburg
www.ndr.de/ndrfragt/oly...
Immerhin eine schöne Nachricht heute 😁 #nolympia #hamburg
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
„Olympische Spiele in Hamburg: Mehrheit dagegen.“
www.ndr.de/ndrfragt/oly...
Immerhin eine schöne Nachricht heute 😁 #nolympia #hamburg
www.ndr.de/ndrfragt/oly...
Immerhin eine schöne Nachricht heute 😁 #nolympia #hamburg
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[NEW BLOG POST] Uber letting drivers label data during downtime marks the collapse of a long fiction: gig work, content creation & data labeling were never separate. The Great Digital Labor Convergence is here—everyone now feeds the same AI machine. www.casilli.fr/2025/10/18/a...
AI and the Great Digital Labor Convergence | Antonio A. Casilli
www.casilli.fr
October 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
[NEW BLOG POST] Uber letting drivers label data during downtime marks the collapse of a long fiction: gig work, content creation & data labeling were never separate. The Great Digital Labor Convergence is here—everyone now feeds the same AI machine. www.casilli.fr/2025/10/18/a...
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AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.
This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.
Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.
Be warned.
This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.
Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.
Be warned.
October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.
This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.
Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.
Be warned.
This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.
Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.
Be warned.
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Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.
October 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.
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What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...
October 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...
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Viel wichtiger als die Kulturkampf Veggieschnitzel Entscheidung im EU Parlament ist das hier:
www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-staaten-e...
Ein kleiner Etappensieg. Informiert dennoch weiter über die Pläne zur Chatkontrolle und wie man dagegen protestiert!
www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-staaten-e...
Ein kleiner Etappensieg. Informiert dennoch weiter über die Pläne zur Chatkontrolle und wie man dagegen protestiert!
"Chatkontrolle" - EU-Staaten erzielen keine Einigung
Die EU-Staaten haben erneut keine Einigung auf eine sogenannte Chatkontrolle im Kampf gegen sexualisierte Gewalt gegen Kinder erzielt.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
October 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Viel wichtiger als die Kulturkampf Veggieschnitzel Entscheidung im EU Parlament ist das hier:
www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-staaten-e...
Ein kleiner Etappensieg. Informiert dennoch weiter über die Pläne zur Chatkontrolle und wie man dagegen protestiert!
www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-staaten-e...
Ein kleiner Etappensieg. Informiert dennoch weiter über die Pläne zur Chatkontrolle und wie man dagegen protestiert!
Da seit heute das Doom AI Buch von Yudkowsky und Soares auf meinem Tisch liegt, ist das eine gute Gelegenheit für ein passendes Gegengift
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
“AI will kill everyone” is not an argument. It’s a worldview.
How rational is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s prophecy?
www.vox.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Da seit heute das Doom AI Buch von Yudkowsky und Soares auf meinem Tisch liegt, ist das eine gute Gelegenheit für ein passendes Gegengift
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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![Comic. [Two people hiking up mountain] PERSON 1: Okay, we’re nearing the next downhill segment I’ll put in the order. ...Confirming start and end points… Submitted! [water slide being dropped from above by drones] PERSON 2 with long hair: Look, here it comes! [Waterslide positioned on downhill slope of mountain with both people riding down] BOTH: Wheeee [Waterslide carried back into the air] [Both people continuing to hike up next slope] [caption] On-demand waterslide delivery has really improved the whole hiking experience.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidm63b6uwkz3637hw7j676gmfr7goembontcnk3vq4dakkqbfvg7a@jpeg)
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"Oberflächlich professionelle, aber inhaltsleere KI-Texte zwingen Mitarbeiter zu stundenlanger Nacharbeit und kosten Unternehmen Millionen Euro. Trotz Milliarden-Investitionen in KI-Technologie bleiben messbare Produktivitätssteigerungen aus. Die scheinbare Effizienz entpuppt sich als Trugschluss"
Golem.de: IT-News für Profis
www.golem.de
September 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"Oberflächlich professionelle, aber inhaltsleere KI-Texte zwingen Mitarbeiter zu stundenlanger Nacharbeit und kosten Unternehmen Millionen Euro. Trotz Milliarden-Investitionen in KI-Technologie bleiben messbare Produktivitätssteigerungen aus. Die scheinbare Effizienz entpuppt sich als Trugschluss"
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I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
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Oh hey.
“As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don’t dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation.”
“As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don’t dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation.”
Waiting for Robots
An essential investigation that pulls back the curtain on automation, like AI, to show human workers’ hidden labor. Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are incline...
press.uchicago.edu
September 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oh hey.
“As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don’t dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation.”
“As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don’t dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation.”
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Ein unfassbarer Vorgang: Die EU-Kommission suspendiert das Kartellverfahren gegen Google und beugt sich damit Trumps Wünschen.
Eigentlich wäre die EU-Kartellstrafe gegen Google für heute geplant gewesen, doch diese wurde Stunden vor der geplanten Ankündigung auf Eis gelegt.
Eigentlich wäre die EU-Kartellstrafe gegen Google für heute geplant gewesen, doch diese wurde Stunden vor der geplanten Ankündigung auf Eis gelegt.
September 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Ein unfassbarer Vorgang: Die EU-Kommission suspendiert das Kartellverfahren gegen Google und beugt sich damit Trumps Wünschen.
Eigentlich wäre die EU-Kartellstrafe gegen Google für heute geplant gewesen, doch diese wurde Stunden vor der geplanten Ankündigung auf Eis gelegt.
Eigentlich wäre die EU-Kartellstrafe gegen Google für heute geplant gewesen, doch diese wurde Stunden vor der geplanten Ankündigung auf Eis gelegt.
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The philosophical project of the "high/low" art hierarchy is conceptually united with the classically liberal public/private distinction. Today the latter is basically obsolete bc privatization, so that means the former is too
dilettantearmy.com/articles/lim...
dilettantearmy.com/articles/lim...
August 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The philosophical project of the "high/low" art hierarchy is conceptually united with the classically liberal public/private distinction. Today the latter is basically obsolete bc privatization, so that means the former is too
dilettantearmy.com/articles/lim...
dilettantearmy.com/articles/lim...
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You'd hardly know the Guardian had partnered with an AI company 🙄
August 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
You'd hardly know the Guardian had partnered with an AI company 🙄
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Inklusion braucht keine großen Reden – sie braucht kleine Handlungen. Zum Beispiel: einen Alt-Text zu deinem Bild.
July 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Inklusion braucht keine großen Reden – sie braucht kleine Handlungen. Zum Beispiel: einen Alt-Text zu deinem Bild.
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I said a couple of weeks ago that if AI were well and truly fucked we'd see the amount of quantum computing news items spike and uh
August 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I said a couple of weeks ago that if AI were well and truly fucked we'd see the amount of quantum computing news items spike and uh
Eine Sovereign Cloud von Google, Azure und AWS ist nicht souverän (Surprise Surprise).
www.golem.de/news/digital...
www.golem.de/news/digital...
Golem.de: IT-News für Profis
www.golem.de
August 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Eine Sovereign Cloud von Google, Azure und AWS ist nicht souverän (Surprise Surprise).
www.golem.de/news/digital...
www.golem.de/news/digital...
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In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...
August 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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The primary use case is fraud.
Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They're Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell
Realtors are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties, inciting anger.
futurism.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The primary use case is fraud.
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Wusstest Du, dass das Innenministerium ein Sonderregister für trans, inter und nicht-binäre Menschen plant? Wir sagen: Nie wieder! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen! weact.campact.de/petitions/ke...
Kein Sonderregister für trans* Personen – Nie wieder Listen gegen Minderheiten!
Hallo, ich bin Penelope Alva Frank, Transfrau, queerfeministische Aktivistin und Gründerin der queerfeministischen Bewegung Queermany.
Ich weiß, wie es ist, jeden Tag Blicke, Sprüche und Angriffe ausz...
weact.campact.de
August 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Wusstest Du, dass das Innenministerium ein Sonderregister für trans, inter und nicht-binäre Menschen plant? Wir sagen: Nie wieder! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen! weact.campact.de/petitions/ke...