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Florian Weber

@fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
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Working on medienhaus/ and at the Berlin University of the Arts • Sociology & Technology Studies at TU Berlin Formerly Social Sciences at Humboldt University & Computer […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ chaos.social/@fnwbr, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Na, Berlin? Wäre das nicht mal was? www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business…
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
RE: chaos.social/@HonkHase/117217674940… Das ist alles so unfassbar unbegreiflich... Was da an Zeugnissen und Bewerbungsabsagen von nicht angenomennen Volontärinnen aus 2019 auf diesem Drive verloren hatten, ist mir ein absolutes Rätsel. Und das macht mir Sorge: gearscht sind […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
RE: flokinet.social/@frelsisbaratta/117… Aus gegebenem Anlass: #AutisticiInventati
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@davidculley/116619970… same ✌️
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Gabriel Yoran @yoran.com · 28/04/2026
„Die ersten fünf Gedanken erhalten Sie kostenlos. Sie können sie beliebig oft denken und auch als Plugin in eigenen Denkfiguren verwenden. Ab dem sechsten Gedanken wird eine monatliche think fee fällig, die von der Komplexität des Gedankens abhängt.“
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026
RE: mastodon.sboots.ca/@sboots/11645526… looks like the kids are alright: "There’s that NBC News poll showing AI with worse favorability than ICE and only a little bit above the war in Iran and the Democrats generally" and "31 percent of those Gen Z respondents said they feel […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026
mamdani doing the right thing, part #553: asking john wilson to do communication for the NYC mayor's office www.youtube.com/watch?v=oohRn36CWhs
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026
is the meltdown beginning today? seems like microsoft can't afford this anymore :') github.blog/news-insights/company-n…
A screenshot of https://github.com/features/copilot/plans, showing that the more premium plans of GitHub Copilot (namely Pro and Pro+) can't be purchased anymore. They are being displayed as "temporarily unavailable".
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
RE: vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116403741047910… 🫠
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026
So @1password seems to think that now’s a good time to increase prices by 20%. What’s happening and did no one on their team tell them to read the room with @scottgal, Rutger Bregmann, or @pluralistic? Thank you for making the decision for me, #1Password. Another US-based subscription cancelled.
Screenshot of an email from 1Password:

“Hi Florian Weber,
Since 2005, 1Password has been on a mission to make security simple, reliable, and accessible for everyone. As the way people work and live online has evolved, so has 1Password.
More recently, we've invested significantly in new features that make 1Password even more powertul and effortless to use, helping protect what matters most to you, including:
• Automatic saving of logins and payment details
• Enhanced Watchtower alerts
• Faster, more secure device setup
• Al-powered item naming
• Expanded recovery options
• Proactive phishing prevention

While 1Password has grown substantially in value and capability, our pricing has remained largely unchanged for many years. To continue investing in innovation and the world-class security you expect, we're updating pricing for Family plans, starting March 27, 2026.

Current vs New Pricing:
Current price: $59.88 USD / year
New price: $71.88 USD / year”
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11608023465… Most underrated and under-taught fact when it comes to IT-related degrees at universities:
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026
RE: fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/11607… That's the exact type of pipeline #OpenAI, #Google & Co. want us to build all of our transportation, health, energy, and legal infrastructures on. 🤡 > But as we dug deeper, the real problem emerged: no one on the team could explain […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026
i’d looove to be able to read the #signal engineering chat room right now :’)))
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026
RE: mamot.fr/@ploum/115923251561577968 Sure, there's a selection bias in here, but to summarize: in a seminar with 60 students not a single one of them wrote a better exam with the aid of a #LLM. Or as the author would put it: > "Can chatbots help? Yes, if you know how to use them. But […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026
Re #WhatsApp interoperability: am I the only one who is smelling malicious compliance here? Why are the only solutions compatible with Meta's messenger platform coming from complete unknown corners of the interwebz, have no user-base and no history of previous offerings? Why is there zero […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@babetteknauer/1159… > “Not only does the UG want to be the first university in the Netherlands to be independent of tech giants such as Google and Microsoft, but the board of directors also wants to allocate serious funds.” This is what the Berlin […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026
> "The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market, and they endlessly pass around the same $100bn IOU." And if you're interested in what "vulgar Thatcherism" refers to, you should give this one by @pluralistic a […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026
How it started: "#AI is going to write all our software" How it's going: @tldraw "shuts down external contributions" because of too much slop tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away-from-my-t…
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Stay away from my trash! - tldraw: Build whiteboards in React with the tldraw SDK
The tldraw SDK provides tools, services, and APIs to build beautiful whiteboards and infinite canvas applications with real-time collaboration and a powerful React-based canvas.
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026
«Wir sehen genau das jetzt mit den Hoffnungen vieler Unternehmen und auch der öffentlichen Verwaltung, irgendwie durch KI (spezifischer wird es ja meist nicht) effizienter zu werden oder schlechte Prozesse abzuschaffen. Dabei wird eben nicht […] darüber gesprochen, warum ein Prozess so ist, wie […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025
🤦🏻‍♂️ mastodon.social/@fromjason/11573029…
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fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 (@fromjason@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 video "This podcast is sponsored by Meta" Listen to #Meta's new ad about the "positive impacts" of data centers in small communities, at the top of today's Daily podcast by #NYT: "I had to travel for work, missing moments I can't get back. Then Meta opened a data center and brought new jobs. Now, I don't worry about missing out anymore."
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025
the hipsters have re-invented bootstrap all over again www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKPaxQJs-30 #css #shadcn #react #frontend
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025
Dass Patentämter sich wahrscheinlich massenhaft mit von #GPT generierten Anträgen mittlerweile rumschlagen müssen erinnert mich a die Versuche mittels #LLMs Sicherheitslücken und CVEs für Open Source Projekte automatisiert erzeugen zu lassen. Diese ganze Technologie bringt auf den zweiten und […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025
Für alle spontanen unter euch, heute spricht Kean Birch bei uns an der TU Berlin über Tech-Bros und Oligarchien! Kommt gerne vorbei. 🤗 chaos.social/@fnwbr/115695153331506…
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📅 Today at @tuberlin@wisskomm.social: Kean Birch @keanbirch@mastodon.social will talk on “The Rise of a Tech Oligarchy?” The event will take place on Wednesday, December 10th, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, in room FH 919 at TU Berlin’s Institute for Sociology (Fraunhoferstraße 33, 10587 Berlin)
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025
📅 Today at @tuberlin: Kean Birch @keanbirch will talk on “The Rise of a Tech Oligarchy?” The event will take place on Wednesday, December 10th, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, in room FH 919 at TU Berlin’s Institute for Sociology (Fraunhoferstraße 33, 10587 Berlin)
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025
👀 tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11568325898…
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
I think that one thing that kicked "being an AI thought leader" into higher gear than what happened with "the cloud" or whatnot is that to be an "AI expert" you literally don't have to know or be capable of anything.
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025
Spreading the word! 🎉 mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/1156158…
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Niki Tonsky (@nikitonsky@mastodon.online)
How to get hired in 2025 https://tonsky.me/blog/hiring-ai/
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
😭 tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/11541389008…
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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ (@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt)
What could go wrong with a cloud-connected bed? https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025
rare leak of me reading #OpenAI announcements
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025
“Free coffee with the #Claude app” Really?! They’re really trying out every little angle to get people to use this bullshit. mastodon.social/@Daojoan/1153217118…
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JA Westenberg (@Daojoan@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image I know local hxc bands celebrating 200 Spotify plays with better merch.
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025
governments signing contracts with companies constantly yapping about #AGI or “productivity boosters”, meanwhile their freaking bots can’t even fill out a simple PDF form for me #AI #LLM #OpenAI #SAP
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025
@simon highlighted this 💸 quote re #AI slop: > As AI tools become more accessible, workers are increasingly able to quickly produce polished output [often] unhelpful, incomplete, or missing crucial context. The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025
[uspol] CNN reports: «Jon Stewart normally only hosts “The Daily Show” on Monday nights nowadays, but tonight he is returning to his longtime desk for one Thursday edition, Comedy Central announced this afternoon. [He] will presumably have a lot to say about ABC’s decision to bench Jimmy Kimmel […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025
Der Akademische Senat der @HumboldtUni hat soeben mit 12 Ja- zu 9 Nein-Stimmen entschieden, dem neu verhandelten Hochschulvertrag mit dem Land Berlin zuzustimmen. Obwohl mehrere juristisch unabhängige Gutachten bestätigt haben, dass eine Klage zur Einhaltung der existierenden Verträge sehr gute […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025
Oh the irony... 🥲 #GitHub announces a new tool to detect generated #AI slop in your issues and comments using LLMs. via github.blog/changelog/2025-09-05-gi…
Screenshot of the GitHub Blog, featuring:

"Two GitHub Actions are now available to help open source
maintainers using the GitHub Models inference API:
• Al moderator: Scan new issues and comments with Al for spam, link spam, or Al-generated content. You can auto-label and optionally minimize them, with support for custom prompts."
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2025
We have really arrived at a point in time, where the whole #AI hype is being used by high courts as an alibi for not containing monopolistic & anti-competitive behavior. 🤯 > This court […] has no expertise in the business […] or the engineering of GenAl technologies. And, unlike the typical […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025
Lese gerade Ole Nymoens “Warum ich niemals für mein Land kämpfen würde” und vor dem Hintergrund von #Wehrpflicht und Kriegstüchtigkeit sind da wieder einige richtig gute 💸 quotes drin: «Zu dieser Freiheit [gehört für die FDP], dass die einen mit 200km/h über die Autobahn brettern, während die […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025
bro is being out here receiving hundreds of replies that he potentially theoretically maybe might be wrong; yet he’s doubling down in the comments with the same energy as his profile picture 😭 infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/1151…
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Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror@infosec.exchange)
Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" https://blog.codinghorror.com/breaking-the-webs-cookie-jar/
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025
Any normal browser extension would have not even been accepted. But for some reason these LLM corporations not only deploy their sh*t, they’re also being thrown money at. > > When we added safety mitigations to autonomous mode, we reduced the attack success rate of 23.6% to 11.2% > > I would […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025
just one more teraflop bro. i promise bro just
one more teraflop and we'll find the AGI
bro. it's just a bigger computer bro.
please just one more. one more teraflop and
we'll build god
bro. bro cmon
just give me 22 billion dollars and we'll solve
intelligence i promise bro. bro bro please we
just need to build one mor
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025
In the light of #ChatGPT, #Palantir, and #Grok I've been re-reading Benjamin Bratton's "The Stack" from 2015. If you happen to randomly find this gem on a flea market, go get it for good bunch of real 💸 quotes: "[...] Software is now asked to structure flows of […] [Original post on chaos.social]
The cover image of "Arcology: The City in the Image of Man", 1969 by Paolo Soleri. It shows the cross section of an imaginative city named "Babel 2b", what he imagines to be a "highly integrated and compact three-dimensional urban form".

Now quoting his own book:
"A hyperstructure over 1 kilometer high and 2 kilometers in diameter at the bowl base. Vertical shafts carry (1) the vertical transportation system, elevator batteries, and continental, transcontinental air transport “sleeves;” (2) services, exhausts. Anchored to the shafts are the platform-grounds of the city: (1) at the periphery, the residential spaces; (2) in the medial belt, the gardens and waste processing plants; (3) toward the center, civil facilities and work. The top platform-ground is for cultural institutions: schools, labs, studios, theaters, libraries.

At the ground is a system of parks, gardens, and playgrounds. Under the ground level..."

Full text continues on https://www.organism.earth/library/document/arcology#babel-2b
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025
I really appreciate @simon's in-depth reporting, because it is tangible and comes with a real human touch. But in the face of celebrating a simple feature such as "a native platform add event dialog" I really cannot do otherwise but call this a hype. It's 2025: allegedly #AI is going to kill […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025
Scratch an AI evangelist and a fascist technocultist bleeds: youtu.be/olhu9UhFGl4
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025
Aha: “Surprisingly, we find that when developers use #AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.” The study looked at “experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories”. I’m not sure if I’m actually surprised then. If I’m not working on simple […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025
> “We are entering a world where we will learn to coexist with AI, not as its masters, but as its collaborators.” – Mark Zuckerberg @trenner is spot on🎯 "[They're] framing the conversation in a very specific way. Rather than “is this the future you want?”, the question is instead “how will you […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2025
some real good 💸 quotes in there: "But let me just wave my hands loosely into the general direction of the devastated political landscape in Europe and North America to make the well-reasoned point that all that centrism, moderation, and anti-horseshoe rhetoric has ever accomplished is […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025
Surprise surprise 🤡 “Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months […]
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025
Love the most recent #PHPStorm splash screen! 🥳 furry.engineer/@ret/114670342662638…
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Ret (@ret@furry.engineer)
Attached: 1 image good god this made me feel old
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025
And the other day I learned: the exact same key combo works on macOS! 🙌 Yay for consistency and keyboard-based shortcuts. mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/11…
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Federico Viticci :ticciseal: (@viticci@macstories.net)
Attached: 1 image Probably not new in iPadOS 26 beta 3, but it doesn't matter since it's an *excellent* feature: Press Command + Shift + / to instantly open the menu bar and search the 'Help' menu for any command – just like on macOS.
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Florian Weber @fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2025
East Berlin was beautiful today:
The viewing platform construction on the Kienberg hill in East Berlin during sunset.Berlin skyline during early sunset; taken from the east on top of the Kienberg hill.
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