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Arne Berger

@arneberger.bsky.social
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Professor of Human-Computer Interaction • Co-Design, Smart Things, More-than-Human • Luddite • Mountainbiker • Changing the world does not come from above or from outside. private account. → arneberger.de

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 9h
wouldn’t have predicted catholicism as one of the big allies in the fight against ai, but i’m here for it
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 01/10/2026
Update: They're here! www.etsy.com/listing/4583...
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Do Not Connect Machine to Internet Sticker - Etsy
This Stickers item by CriticalPointTV has 5 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Brooklyn, NY. Listed on Sep 30, 2026
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So glad that this quote can be added to my forthcoming article on AI and Epistemic Dispossession because I had to say that they will absolutely be using AI to erase science and history but I didn’t yet have the ‘he admit it’ smoking gun
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 28/09/2026
To remind people that human understanding still matters, and you are using yours wisely www.etsy.com/listing/4583...
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AI;DR Sticker - Etsy
This Stickers item is sold by CriticalPointTV. Ships from Brooklyn, NY. Listed on Sep 28, 2026
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026
for fucking REAL. the depth of trauma for those undiagnosed with ADHD is real. not just the way we feel like we're constantly failing (because everyone is telling us we are) but not understanding WHY because we have no context to understand other people aren't struggling with the things we are.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
A massive Microsoft data centre was fined after a drone investigation revealed the use of illegally operating gas turbines -->> www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is in ourselves and only in ourselves that we can touch the interior of being, because it is only there that we discover a being which has an interior and which is nothing but this interior. - #MerleauPonty
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Arne Berger @arneberger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How important they feel and how empty they are.
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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 23/09/2026
Company 1: Our autonomous car broke free and ran 3 red lights to get to its given destination. Company 2: We just saw our car also broke free, ran 5 red lights and killed 2 people. Company 3: Ha! Our car ran 15 red lights and killed 2 adults, 5 kids and some dogs. Media: So awesome! It's alive!
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(They're not telling the truth. Well, some of them might think they are, because of their cooked brains, but they're not actually. Regardless, the answer is jail.)
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They're either telling the truth and we need to put them in jail to stop them, or they're lying and we need to put them in jail because it would be funny. Either way, the answer is clearly jail.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Okay. Let's take them at face value. Put them in jail. That's the only logical response to such an "admission."
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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
approximately one industry in our civilization has figured out "systematically keep track of things that go wrong, and then systematically try to prevent them from happening again", and this is the result
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
My job at the orphan crushing factory is very stressful.
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AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat to society
Top researchers at Aisi, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind report burnout and stress over developing powerful AI
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kai @kaiq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There needs to be a word for how a bad technology can still help you by accident, but in a way that is actually a case against the technology
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Each drop has presaged a time of turmoil and eldritch horror. Prophecy warns of the Tenth Drop, the Blorp that Shakes the World
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning
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LEARNING | jerthorp
Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/08/2026
Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 21/08/2026
“Jason was genuinely one of the kindest professors at the university” Jason Arday remembered by his former students at Durham, where he taught between 2019 and 2022. By @michaelamakusha.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/jason-arda...
Students remember Jason Arday, pictured smiling in a doctoral gown: ‘People would say how much they were looking forward to his classes’
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Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 06/09/2026
What books are best to read more about the (slave) labor conditions of people coerced into running online scams?
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Der Experte @derexperte.ggor.de · 06/09/2026
Prof. Dr. Norbert Schwanitz, Leiter des Instituts für Kabelbinder
KI-generiertes Bild, fiktive TV-Zuschaltung: Ein schwer gebauter Mann Anfang sechzig. Er hat eine Glatze. Er trägt einen grauen Walrossbart und eine runde Schildpattbrille. Markant: eine Knollennase, dazu blasse Haut. Er trägt einen dunklen Rollkragenpullover unter dem Sakko. Im Hintergrund eine Bürowand mit einer Pinnwand voller Zettel und einem Wandkalender. Grobes Webcam-Standbild mit Kompressionsartefakten; er sitzt und blickt direkt in die Kamera. Bauchbinde: Prof. Dr. Norbert Schwanitz, Leiter des Instituts für Kabelbinder. Oben links 11:00 Uhr und ein rotes LIVE-Zeichen, Ortsmarke Limburg.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Octo @octodontidae.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey, international mutuals. There's a kindergarden in Germany currently collecting international postcards with greetings in the local language. If you have the time and funds and want to make a few German children smile, hmu and I will send you the address.
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
sorry, what. *what*.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The destruction of USAID will go down in global history as one of the most lethal political disasters ever. An estimated 14 million people will die from this decision by 2030… twice the number killed in the Holocaust. The collective human grief will mark humanity forever.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/08/2026
We did it! “The Nerd Reich” is a New York Times Instant Bestseller! My book debuts at #3 on the non-fiction list. Thanks to all who pre-ordered /bought the book—or requested it at the public library or promoted it on social. Without you, I’m just an unemployed guy with a laptop. But with you…
Image: Nerd Reich book cover, a New York Times Instant Bestseller
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/08/2026
Facebook directly enabled the Rohingya genocide. Every executive involved in running the company today chose to work at a company that directly enabled those deaths. Compared to that, it is _nothing_ for their products to cause your children harm. Billions for a settlement is a pittance.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
thelancet.com
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.
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mbrewer ↙↙↙ @smalladventures.net · 21/08/2026
The lesson Apple took from everyone hating Facebook's "pervert glasses" is, apparently, that people really hate glasses.
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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"I imagine myself as a small stone in a powerful gear mechanism, so that data workers are not completely run over without any resistance." From @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, a firsthand account of conditions and resistance from Apple's outsourced data workers. data-workers.org/luciana/
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“This is Capitalism”: Apple’s Hidden Data Workers at the Shadows of the AI Boom, by Luciana
The working conditions and resistance of Apple's outsourced data workers in Spain.
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If scholars don’t enter these seemingly “politicised” & mediated “debates” they don’t want to have anything to do with bcs. it doesn’t concern their subject, they won’t have a subject in the future. With “race science” being established, everyone can eventually be turned into an unwanted “other”.
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Arne Berger @arneberger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ehemaliger Chefredakteur verunglimpft Jason Arday am Tag seines mutmaßlichen Suizids auf Basis reiner Mutmaßung. Kein Wort über Hetzkampagne der Presse oder ongoing investigations. Damit nicht-weiße Profs in Deutschland wissen, dass @zeit.de rassistische Hetze im Zweifel mitträgt. (Geschenk-Link)
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Jason Arday: Hochstapeln auf Exzellenzniveau
Die Uni Cambridge erschafft einen woken Posterboy und lässt sich reinlegen. Was den Fall Jason Arday mit Felix Krull verbindet – und vom Hauptmann von Köpenick trennt.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/08/2026
"Why do the kids hate the filterless sociopaths who are destroying the environment and the economy and who monologue like James Bond villains?"
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It's not about plagiarism. It's about the hounding. It's about them wanting to mob up on certain people, and it's predictable who those people will be. If they cared about intellectual theft, we wouldn't be living in the world we are living in. This is about a hierarchy of who deserves to exist.
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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I would like this to be required reading for all academics in light of the harassment and bullying of Jason Arday paulddf.substack.com/p/who-killed...
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Who Killed Jason Arday?
Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British a...
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#JasonArday is not a “tragedy”. This is about an individual subject who fell victim to their own institution failing them, was then hunted down by the media, the right and mediocre fellow-academics who, in the name of fighting plagiarism, defy academia’s and humanity’s actual ethics: Do no harm!
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
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