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by Hendrik Wagenaar

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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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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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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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by Hendrik Wagenaar

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Thank you Theo
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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
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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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chaolim85.bsky.social
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
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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....
The Essential Tension: Patsy Healey’s Conception of Democracy in Planning and Public Policy
Patsy Healey was a major democratic theorist. Although often implicit, it is easy to discern in her work a normative-empirical theory of democracy that is characterized by a focus on improving stat...
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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
Registration – Building Futures
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by Hendrik Wagenaar

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Bonus: The Yarvin Explainer
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Bonus: The Yarvin Explainer
Even weirder than you thought
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by Hendrik Wagenaar

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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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by Hendrik Wagenaar

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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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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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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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by Hendrik Wagenaar

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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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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...

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Are we Entering the Age of Cyber-Fascism?
Hendrik Wagenaar (Vienna, March 18, 2025)
medium.com
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by Paul E. Smaldino — Reposted by: Hendrik Wagenaar, Christopher D. Manning, Jana Lasser , and 1 more

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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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