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Albrecht Zimmermann

@azimmermdm.bsky.social
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Maître de conférence @ Greyc Lab, University of Caen, NBA and NFL enthusiast (and sometimes data analyst), Luddite Reality has a left-wing bias www.scientific-data-mining.org

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Der dtsch. Staat verteidigt sich schon arg vehement nach links! taz.de/Kunstfreihei...
taz.de
Kunstfreiheit in Thüringen: Polizei wirft Poetry Slammer Verunglimpfung des Staates vor
Nach einem Poetry Slam in Gera nimmt die Polizei einen Künstler ins Visier. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, den Staat verunglimpft zu haben. Was Juristen dazu sagen.
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The entire "Superintelligence will destroy all of humanity" is a smoke-screen to distract from the ways "AI" already gets or risks getting lots of people killed: spoilsofwar.substack.com/p/nuclear-wa...
spoilsofwar.substack.com
Nuclear War could be Just Another Hallucination
Military discussing how to use AI to launch
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.hors-serie.net/antisemitism...
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« Antisémitisme de gauche » : la grande fake news
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com
What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism
Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My favorite Ringer writer is at it again! "[E]xecutives fucking love this narrative. They’ve been peddling it for years, long before Coxon resigned from Anthropic and kicked off the latest media meltdown. These guys have demonstrated conclusively that nothing they say should be taken at face value.
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"The owners aren’t after Ballmer because he violated the spirt of competition. They’re mad he fucked with the money. Specifically, their money by taking luxury taxes off the table and using resources outside of what they were allowed to use
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Seerat Sohi is not pulling any punches. "Even though Republican legislators have invoked Title IX to enact transgender bans, they are also trying to scale back its influence.
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Alan Lewis Chambers #FBPE #RejoinEU @alanlewch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
AI AS NORMAL TECHNOLOGY AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research Early evidence from two case studies. Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan Aug 05, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/aisnakeo...
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AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
Early evidence from two case studies
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I'm just now reading @randomwalker.bsky.social's writeup of his ICML keynote. It is very insightful. Everyone thinking about the future of work in the age of AI should read this. www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-...
normaltech.ai
What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.forever-wars.com/first-in-gaz... "In southern Lebanon, I'm assuming [Israel] want[s] to, at least on some level, preserve the environment because it's very rich in soil[.] [...] But the one thing they have kept the same as Gaza is the targeting of medics and journalists in southern Lebanon."
forever-wars.com
First in Gaza, Now in Lebanon, This Is The Destruction She Saw
An aid worker with recent experience in both places talks to FOREVER WARS about the similarities and differences in both Israeli assaults
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Au terme de trois ans et demi de thèse, trois CSI contresignés par tout le monde et deux rapports de thèse autorisant la soutenance, l’Université Grenoble Alpes a interdit la soutenance[.]" rioultf.substack.com/p/candidats-...
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Candidats et lampadaires autoproclamés
Soutenance de thèse interdite à Grenoble
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
No matter how many powerful, right-wing bastards die (finally), it never gets old. That this one was an Ayn-Rand-disciple only makes things sweeter. But man, did he cause suffering to people!
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
www.miningmx.com/top-story/65... And this shit's nuts as well: the Chinese government realized early on that transitioning away from fossil fuels would require certain materials, and started locking up supplies. European leaders preferred building LNG terminals (looking at you, German "Greens").
miningmx.com
G7 resolves to fight China metals dominance - Miningmx
GROUP of Seven leaders have agreed to deepen co-ordination to reduce their dependence on China for critical minerals, with plans to align stockpiling strategies and launch a new monitoring platform ba...
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
www.europesays.com/europe/73123/ This shit's stunning: there are European countries that still haven't recovered from the last round of too-big-too-fail banks (looking at you, Greece) and the COMPETITION commissar comes out in favor of creating huge banks that will be even harder to regulate!
europesays.com
EU competition chief backs cross-border bank mergers – report - Europe
Europe’s competition chief Teresa Ribera. Credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com
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Cléo @cleoschweyer.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026
9/ J'ajoute 3 observations un peu amères pour conclure: - l'impact environnemental n'a été cité par personne; - les invité·es côté STEM semblaient parfaitement incapables d'engager un dialogue avec les autres professionnel·les présent·es; - les enseignant·es du secondaire présent·es étaient...
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...
axios.com
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
Managing those AI identities will require companies to completely reassess their cybersecurity strategies.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 02/05/2026
The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 06/05/2026
DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
First Luigi Mangione, now this - it's becoming harder and harder for me to not think that shooting (at) rich people does lead to good outcomes. people.com/hilton-donat...
people.com
Hilton Donates Unserved White House Correspondents' Dinner Lobsters and Steaks to Local Shelters
A spokesperson for the Washington Hilton confirmed to PEOPLE that the hotel donated the meals at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to the local community, after suspected shooter Cole Tomas Allen...
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Even if in the end it didn't work, one cannot but applaud this kind of direct action. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘She’s opening the bees!’ US beekeeper jailed for trying to save friend from eviction
Massachusetts woman set swarms of insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to evict elderly man with cancer
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A very well-argued "preventing data centers from being built is left-wing, actually".
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
by @himself.bsky.social "Europe and China entered the 2010s chasing the same horizon, an economy rewired around electricity, but by the mid-2020s the landscape already looks uneven, tilted by scale and speed: in China, electricity now makes up roughly 30–32% of final energy use and is rising fast,
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I find this absolutely fascinating: an ex-Fidesz man wins a two-thirds parliamentary majority (meaning, he can pass whatever, including constitutional changes) and 2/3 of the European political scene proclaims that Democracy Has Been Saved! Would love to fast-forward two years...
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
So Auriemma is a sore loser...who would have thought?! 🤔
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Tommy Lloyd: "Arizona basketball needs to become a locomotive, where everything surrounding it is pushing it forward."
media.tenor.com
a man says " you keep using that word . i do not think it means what you think it means "
ALT: a man says " you keep using that word . i do not think it means what you think it means "
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Pieter Robberechts @probberechts.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Our Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics (MLSA) will happen again as part of @ecmlpkdd.org! 📅 7 or 11 Sept 2026 📍 Naples, Italy 📝 Submissions due 5 June 2026 \w @hugoriosneto.bsky.social @azimmermdm.bsky.social & Maaike Van Roy dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/events/MLSA26/
dtai.cs.kuleuven.be
MLSA 2026
13th Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics at ECML/PKDD 2026
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Auf englisch nennt man das "bait and switch": "Antisemitismus" - also die pauschale Feindseligkeit gegenüber Juden - schreiben, wenn man "Antizionismus" - also die Ablehnung des israelischen kolonialen Projekts - meint.
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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A bad AIxcuse is better than none? “59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs bc it ‘is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.’ Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
The ‘AI-Washing’ of Job Cuts Is Corrosive and Confusing
Whatever you think about whether artificial intelligence is coming for your job, it has already mastered one corporate skill: hogging the credit.
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
10/10, no notes!
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Defector @defector.com · 11/03/2026
I will never forgive Trae Young for surpassing Kobe Bryant’s career high for assists in a game eight times: defector.com/i-will-never...
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I Will Never Forgive Trae Young For Surpassing Kobe Bryant's Career High For Assists In A Game Eight Times | Defector
Kobe Bryant was not just some normal NBA player. No indeed: He was the second-best shooting guard in the history of the Los Angeles Lakers franchise, and something like the 11th-best Laker overall,…
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The horror Israel/US has unleashed on Iran is going to unfold over time, over generations x.com/arianajasmin...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/03/2026
This feels like something The Righteous Gemstones would have sold.
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Why have an Apple Watch when you can have smart rosary beads?
Faith meets firmware.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
One of the things the Iran War is clarifying is that AI integration into the military will mean that your children will be sent to war in the Middle East to protect the data centers of the Gulf and Israel. Also, here’s a podcast episode where I talk AI, Anthropic & Iran with @devindra.bsky.social:
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When The War Goes AI, The Data Centers Will Be Targets (f/Engadget's Devindra Hardawar)
We talk Anthropic, OpenAI, Iran and the mil-tech oligarchy. Children will be sent to protect data centers the way their fathers were sent to protect oil fields
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⚔️ Michael Whitney @michaelwhitney.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
people opposing this are cowards
Girl Scout troop's idea to sell cookies outside of a Mount Laurel, New Jersey, marijuana dispensary has drawn both praise and criticism.
+ Burlington County
Girl Scout troop's cookie booth outside Mount Laurel marijuana dispensary draws praise, criticism
By WPVI, Amanda Pitts
March 06, 2026, 17:52
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (WPVI) -- A Girl Scout troop's idea to sell cookies outside of a Mount Laurel, New Jersey, marijuana dispensary has drawn both praise and criticism, prompting the cancellation of a planned follow-up sale.
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Dass die Linke bei meinen Wahl-o-mat-ergebnissen immer an erster Stelle ist - normal. Dass Die Partei inzwischen ziemlich verlässlich Nr. 2 ist, sagt viel über die anderen aus. Das Volt !!! für BW vor den Grünen liegt, sollte alles bzgl. dieser "grünen" Landespartei sagen.
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Karlito P @litop12.blacksky.app · 01/03/2026
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
So the German chancellor (incidentally not on Bluesky but still on X) engages in geopolitical victim blaming, condemning the Iranian military for shooting back. Not the first time, I haven't voted for the ghoul, and I don't even live in Germany anymore but still fucking depressing!
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Die Befragung von mehr als 2.000 repräsentativ ausgewählten Ber­li­ne­r:in­nen hat gezeigt: Nur 46 Prozent können als solide De­mo­kra­t:in­nen bezeichnet werden. Sie lehnen Vorstellungen von einer Einparteienherrschaft, einer Diktatur oder einem Führer strikt ab."
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"I'm not trying to predict where we are on a trajectory of historical collapse. I'm pointing out that launching an unprovoked war to overthrow a longstanding enemy under cover of negotiation to resolve a pretextual crisis is the sort of aggression typical of empires in, at a minimum, steep decline.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Saving the people of Iran from being massacred by their government in the streets by massacring elementary schoolgirls from the air.
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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
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Amy Newell was elected to Brookline's Board of Library Trustees @amynewell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"Rejecting or resisting a commercial technology designed to attempt a mass wealth transfer and to erode public institutions is a valid political position." - @bcmerchant.bsky.social
bloodinthemachine.com
Actually, the left is winning the AI debate
But it does need to get organized.
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"The UK and US are not “being invaded by the third world” despite what their respective fascists say. They are on track to become the very cliched image of the “third world” that they once looked down on – places with little global soft power and impoverished masses
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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Last night I wrote "How much money does the NBA make while the WNBPA Argues with itself?" wagesofwins.substack.com/p/how-much-m... Here is a quick thread...
wagesofwins.substack.com
How Much Money Does the NBA Make While the WNBPA Argues with Itself?
The WNBA’s Player Association has made yet another offer in an effort to resolve the labor dispute with the WNBA.
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"Twice in global history, the Western world has been seized by an era-defining fixation on longevity: the desire to resist ageing, forgo physical and mental decline, and perhaps even escape death.
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"And yeah, the reincarnation of the Frontiersman archetype in the guise of the Delta Force operator or Green Beret, was very important to the public consciousness, to government approved narratives about what exactly we were doing in Iraq or in Syria. ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/interview-...
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Interview: Seth Harp on the American Addiction to War
The author of the bestselling book The Fort Bragg Cartel and I discuss the special forces at the center of his reporting and the ideological underpinnings of a war machine thats only growing as it bre...
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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"And a younger generation of Black politicians rose to prominence in his wake—the likes of Barack Obama, Cory Booker, and Kamala Harris—who didn’t come out of the civil rights movement and spent much of their lives in integrated schools and workplaces.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/02/2026
god give me the confidence of a mediocre white man to refute domain experts based simply on “it isn’t anything real cuz i said so” 10/
reads: Another piece of framing is therefore needed to shore the argument up. What’s responsible for the AI frenzy? False consciousness and trickery. “Artificial intelligence, if we’re being frank, is a con: a bill of goods you are being sold to line someone’s pockets,” write Bender and Alex Hanna in their book The AI Con, published in 2025 to grateful reviews in literary and intellectual quarters. In this view, the money and attention flowing into AI aren’t reflections of anything real, they’re simply the con in action.
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