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Florina Piroi

@flrp.bsky.social
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TU Wien, Center for Research Data Management, Computer Science, ML/AI. Hobbies are my own. P.S. I block easily and do not re(ply)follow

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EtzGlangtsAba @etzglangtsaba.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
Control and regulate the platforms, not the people using them. I do not want to give my personal data to the platforms, especially not my ID card data.
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MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @madeindex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🇪🇺 The new digital ID & biometric verification law called EU KIDS ACT must be stopped! It is a serious #HumanRights nightmare, especially for #Privacy & would negatively change the internet forever. We need to stand together & fight this dystopian, authoritarian mass-surveillance movement! 🔽 1/2 🔽
A square graphic design. The flag of the EU, on top is written in mostly white: #STOP EU KIDS ACT. EU is red and the bottom and top sides are also red.
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
today ... the elevator, tomorrow ... this or that student.
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Starting September 2026, Google will block any Android app whose developer hasn't registered and provided government ID. This affects all apps, not just Play Store apps. F-Droid calls it an "existential threat." @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org
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Keep Android Open
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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Cartooning for Peace @cartooningforpeace.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📢 [ALERT – CARTOONIST] #Poland: Semyon Skrepetsky, a Russian #cartoonist and artist in exile, shot dead in the street 👉 Read the statement from the @europeanjournalists.org - EFJ: europeanjournalists.org/blog/2026/06...
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Poland: Russian cartoonist and artist in exile Semyon Skrepetsky shot dead in the street
The Russian artist and cartoonist Semyon Skrepetsky was shot dead in the street in eastern Poland, near the border with Belarus, on 15 June. The European ...
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
way better than overthinking
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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/… Yikes! The safeguards that apply to data transfers from the EU to companies in the USA under the GDPR are gone... 😮
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Less than three weeks until early registration deadline! Information about travel, accommodation, grants is now available. 2026.essir.eu #ESSIR2026 #Bucharest
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Kobuk! @kobuk.at · 15/05/2026
Wer sind die „Legenden“ und „Genies“ der Musikgeschichte? Eine neue Kobuk-Recherche zeigt: meistens Männer. Wir haben hunderte Artikel aus Spiegel, Standard, Rolling Stone und Musikexpress ausgewertet. Den Text lest ihr im aktuellen Falter und jetzt auf unserer Website:
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Der strukturelle Sexismus im Musikjournalismus
Legende oder Prinzessin? Im Musikjournalismus sind die Rollen für Männer und Frauen klar verteilt. Eine Analyse der Wortwahl.
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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026
Nice, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval #ESSIR2026 will be held in Bucharest, Romania. Great programme at: essir2026.aimultimedialab.ro
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17th European Summer School on Information Retrieval
Welcome to ESSIR 2026 The European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is held regularly, providing high-quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. The mission of the school is to enable students and young professionals to learn about modern research challenges and methods on IR and related disciplines; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and to grow a community of researchers, students, and industry professionals working on IR with collaborations all around the world.
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I do wonder how long the flights between Auckland and New Zealand are ...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
It’s still so strange to me that both russia and the USA are openly campaigning for Orbán 🤯
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/04/2026
what an introductory paragraph!!
reads: Introduction
In March 2026, an Anthropic employee released the source code of Claude Code, a
wrapper around their large language model that is widely used to generate code in
programming tasks. Its thousands of lines of Typescript code contained many hopeful
prompts and in cantations to shape Claude’s behaviour. Here are some examples:
“Report outcomes faithfully”; “Never characterize incomplete or broken work as done”;
“Be careful not to introduce security vulnerabilities ” (prompts.ts in Anthropic 2026) .
There is more than a passing resemblance here to the Azande witch -doctor apprentice
who, while stirring the medicine, utters: “You medicine which I am cooking, mind you
always speak the truth to me. Do not let anyone injure me with his witchcraft, but le t
me recognize all witches. … Let me be expert at the witch -doctor’s craft so that people
will give me many spears on account of my magic.” (Evans-Pritchard 1937: 93). In the
case of Claude, the incantation s appeared insufficient: analysis of the codebase, which
according to a company executive was “pretty much 100% written by Claude Code ”,
revealed severe security vulnerabilities (Townsend 2026).
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wilhelmholz.bsky.social @wilhelmholz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Hör-Empfehlung! „Bizarre Situation: So wie es in Umfragen aussieht, wird es im nächsten ungarischen Parlament eine rechte Partei – von Herausforderer Peter Magyar – geben, daneben eine sehr rechte Partei – die Fides von Viktor Orban - und dann noch eine extrem rechte Partei von MHM“ @arminwolf
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
do we dare to hope?
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
log in own eye one no see ...
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Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
After reports about Russian meddling during the Romanian presidential elections, the EU Commission launched an investigation into TikTok. But more than a year later, and just days from a crucial vote in Hungary, the EU's probe is still open. What's taking so long? www.ftm.eu/articles/bru...
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Slow EU TikTok probe raises fears of foreign meddling ahead of Hungary vote
As Hungary heads to the polls on Sunday, reports about Russia interfering in the elections are gaining urgency – and so does a European Commission probe into whether social media platforms are doing e...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/04/2026
I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
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I used AI. It worked. I hated it.
I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.
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James F Ford @jamiefford.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It seems to me, Trumpy is getting his priorities all wrong. The rich never understand the necessity of social responsibility and health care. Electing rich people immediately widens the gap between haves and have nots.
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Congratulations!
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Maik Fröbe @maik-froebe.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I am happy to share that I defended my PhD thesis this week. I want to thank all the people I collaborated with and met at conferences and workshops over the years! Especially a big thank you to my PhD supervisor, Matthias Hagen, and to Laura Dietz and Udo Kruschwitz for reviewing my thesis.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 24/03/2026
Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.
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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Is the world really going to have to burn because the USA can't impeach a president?
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Donald isn't lying. He did speak to a former POTUS who wishes he started a war with Iran. It's just that the former POTUS is him.
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
oh, yes ...
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Donald wants to be on Russia's side in our war to destroy NATO, but have NATO on his side in the war to destroy Iran. That he says he's already won.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/03/2026
Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/


    COMMENT
    02 February 2026

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
You're not protected.
You're just not targeted yet.
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Armin Wolf @arminwolf.at · 03/02/2026
Könnte man ev. aufhören, „Melania“ eine „Dokumentation“ zu nennen? Wenn wer ein Werbevideo von sich produzieren lässt, über das er volle inhaltliche Kontrolle hat, ist das keine Doku, sondern ein Imagefilm. (Ungewöhnlich ist dabei nur, dass man normalerweise für PR bezahlt und nicht bezahlt wird.)
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Reminder: it's not ok to execute guilty people, either
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 18/01/2026
Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters
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Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I've lived in such a political system for a good part of my early life. Every single line is true. The damage of a dictatorship to generations of young minds is huge, from creativity potential to self-fulfilment to innovation spirit to courage to dare ...
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TU Wien @tuwien.at · 08/01/2026
🏆 Große Erfolge für die TU Wien: Stefan Rotter wird mit dem EPS-QEOD-Preis für seine Forschung an Licht geehrt, Eduard Gröller erhält den IEEE-Lifetime Award für Visualization & Graphics. www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu... © Stefan Rotter / Amélie Chapalain/TU Wien Informatics
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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026
How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought. ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_git… #github #floss
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How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 18/12/2025
Drake "Hotline" meme

Bad: Fabricating your participants

Good: Having Qualtrics fabricate your participants
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TU Wien @tuwien.at · 18/12/2025
Das Wiener Doktoratskolleg für digitalen Humanismus ist gestartet. Die Auftaktveranstaltung zeigte Wiens Strategie, mit Forschung & Förderung Hauptstadt des Digitalen Humanismus zu sein. 👉 www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu... © WU Wien, C. Bachmaier
Gruppenfoto: von links nach rechts: Marta Sabou (WU Wien), Jan Maly (WU Wien), Veronica Kaup-Hasler (Stadträtin Kultur und Wissenschaft Stadt Wien), Manuela Baccarini (Uni Wien), Peter Ertl (TU Wien), Bernadette Kamleitner (WU Wien), Sophie Lecheler (Uni Wien), Michael Strassnig (WWTF), Peter Knees (TU Wien)
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn’t want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little.
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
too little for the damage they do
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Only life as we know it.
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TU Wien @tuwien.at · 25/11/2025
Orange the World 2025 🧡 Die TU Wien schaut hin und setzt ein Zeichen gegen Gewalt an Frauen und Mädchen. Achtsamkeit, Inklusion und Gleichberechtigung gehören zu unseren zentralen Werten. Gewalt hat keinen Platz an der TU Wien. www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/orga... © TUW
Gruppenfoto mit ungefähr 15 Menschen, die großen "Orange the World"-Schildern vor einer orangen Flagge zusammenstehen.
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Anna Stärk @annastaerk.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Selbsternannte „Alpha Males“ träumen auf Social Media von einer Welt, in der Männer allein bestimmen. Sie wollen zurück in eine Vergangenheit, die auch in Österreich noch nicht lange her ist: Bis vor 50 Jahren durften #Frauen ohne Erlaubnis des #Ehemanns kein Geld verdienen. 1/6
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noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu · 20/11/2025
📰 "#Privacy activists are predictably outraged. Billboards urging Ursula von der Leyen to put Europeans over #American tech CEOs lined the street outside the #Commission HQ, the Berlaymont, throughout Wednesday morning." 👉 Continue reading: www.euractiv.com/news/eus-dig...
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EU’s digital law cuts spark fears and doubts on competitiveness | Euractiv
"If it's about competitiveness, this is certainly not helping," said Mario Mariniello from a Brussels-based think tank
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TU Wien @tuwien.at · 11/11/2025
Im September 2025 hat das TU Wien Research Data Repository die international anerkannte CoreTrustSeal (CTS)-Zertifizierung erhalten und damit gezeigt, dass die TU Wien beim Aufbau einer verlässlichen und nachhaltigen Forschungsinfrastruktur zu den Vorreiterinnen zählt.
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TU Wien Research Data Repository erhält CoreTrustSeal
Die TU Wien gehört dadurch zu den Top-Playern in der Liga der offenen Repositorien.
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Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF @fwf-at.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Jede/r fünfte Österreicher:in glaubt an geheime Mächte in der Politik, gleich viele wie in der Schweiz und mehr als in Deutschland (12 %). Eine Studie @unisalzburg.bsky.social zeigt, wie #Verschwörungsglaube und #Politik zusammenhängen. Mehr auf scilog entdecken 👉 scilog.fwf.ac.at/magazin/euro...
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Europas Politik im Bann der Verschwörungen
Im Zuge der Coronapandemie wurden Verschwörungserzählungen zum politisch relevanten Phänomen. Forschende der Universität Salzburg untersuchen in einem internationalen Projekt, wie diese Inhalte in den...
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Every time before a lecture starts ... #teaching #nlp #ws25 #whatamidoinghere
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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025
FAIR data: 'too little, too late', unless … by @steltenpower: Some thoughts and suggestions to seriously try for researchers that want to share their data. communities.surf.nl/en/regie-op-dat…
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FAIR data: 'too little, too late', unless …
When people say "make data FAIR" I wonder whether they mean doing extra paperwork after the fact, or changing how data are created so they’re FAIR from the start —
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Humans always think they’ve covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they’re wrong a lot.
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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I might want to pin it on all my feeds!
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