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Matthias Ring

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Algorithms & apparatuses, magic & meanness. Even when you’ve figured out the mechanism, the tricks still work.

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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 10h
That “super intelligence” executive order was another insider grift, this time to sell “.si” domains - they bought the domains over the summer. x.com/adamscochran...
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) on X
1/15 SCOOP: Trump’s “Super Intelligence” Scandal: I believe Trump’s “SI” Executive Order was ANOTHER criminal plot to enrich the Trump family. Insiders seem to have profited MILLIONS off of .si domain names before his Truth Social posts.
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 20/09/2026
BEING THERE by Lee Shulman & Omar Victor Diop: forgotten 1950s US family slides, all white and all middle class. Often there's an empty chair where the photographer got up to take the shot. Diop now sits in it. No AI involved: Interview (German): taz.de/Fotoarbeit-z...
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Fotoarbeit zu Rassismus: „Es geht um den Platz am Tisch“
Für das Projekt „Being There“ haben die Künstler Lee Shulman und Omar Victor Diop Familienfotos aus dem Amerika der Nachkriegszeit bearbeitet.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
*It's the fruitfly version of a Turing Test argument; if my AI girlfriend is just as girlfriendly as my girlfriend, then who cares that she's a sheet of NVIDIA product that breathes coal? Sure, Alan Turing can declare that, but you can also point out that she's a slop hack.
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Dirk Holtwick @holtwick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What happens when you lock Claude in a macOS Sandbox? holtwick.de/blog/bx Vote and discuss on HN news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4961... #ai #sandbox #macos #claude #anthropic #hn
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What happens when you lock Claude in a macOS sandbox? | Dirk Holtwick
A hands-on report on AI coding tools inside Apple's Seatbelt sandbox: how Claude tries to get around restrictions, what really needs protecting, and how the app BX came out of it.
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 06/09/2026
Bought book yesterday. Play the System – parametric approaches in graphic design, edited by Heike Grebin (HAW Hamburg, Slanted). Design as rule-making rather than one-off layouts. The book is the website in paper form. 320 pages of rules, variation and what comes out of them www.play-the-system.xyz
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Play the System
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 05/09/2026
A historian asked three chatbots about a WWII diary that exists only in a private family printing. Two invented it. In the voice of US military history, put in a Japanese girl’s mouth. His point isn’t hallucination, it’s flattening. hnn.us/article/ai-is-an-anti-primary-source-machine
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sobering, insightful essay on how chatbots mangle historical primary sources. 🗃 www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The LA-born Maren Hassinger can make industrial cable take on the lightness of a dandelion bristle or the weightiness of a tree root. I write about her remarkable retrospective at BAMPFA in the Bay Area. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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An Ecosystem of Her Own | Carolina A. Miranda
Maren Hassinger’s alchemical touch transforms the most resistant materials into evocations of the endlessly changing natural world.
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 03/09/2026
Anti-AI graffiti sfstandard.com/2026/09/02/a...
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The latest tech billboard trend? Anti-AI graffiti
Spray-painted screeds have popped up across the city.
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 02/09/2026
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The Indirect Disclosure Effect: How Disclosing Generative AI Use Impacts Human Creative Collaboration with AI | Information Systems Research
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 26/08/2026
Newsletter for graphic design & typography: Katherine Small Gallery, also a bookstore. Expect rare books, prints, posters and typographic gems, mostly antiquarian — a great source for design history and inspiration. Sign-up at the bottom of the page. ksmallgallery.com
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Katherine Small Gallery
Small exhibits about graphic design, typography, ephemera, and stamps.
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 25/08/2026
Curated link list of digital tools for creative coding and generative design. The spectrum ranges from experimental open-source projects and custom scripts to essential utilities that shape digital and analog workflows — continuously expanding creative boundaries. www.slanted.de/news/digital...
generative design, pattern
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 20/08/2026
I wrote a bit about Zalgo, the glitchy text you sometimes see. I wanted to explain not what it is in the meme/lore sense, but how it is constructed, and why is it even possible to construct it. unsung.aresluna.org/zalgo-the-go...
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Zalgo: The good, the bad, and the very, very ugly – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Last spring I was asked to write a piece with tips on how to suss out AI-generated images. I countered that that premise weakens democracy by promoting the idea that everyone can claim expertise regardless of their credentials, a key tenet of anti-democratic technoutopianism. What strikes me now…1/n
An excerpt of my piece for Art in America: 
At some point, every person needs to accept that they cannot claim impartiality or universal expertise: I cannot tell if a bridge is safe to drive over or determine whether my lettuce contains E. coli. So I value agencies and organizations that employ experts who can. The same goes for the sources of information I consume, including those that provide images illustrating current events, who should be responsible for doing the provenance research outlined here. That's as far as my own provenance research can go.
One model for alleviating the paranoia may be as simple as supporting news agencies and image archives that employ professionals to authenticate the images they reproduce. The Associated Press has now shown this can be done.
If this seems impractical, I have to ask: what's more impractical, strengthening journalistic integrity, or requiring that all consumers of news become their own digital forensics experts?
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
«Wer schreibt Geschichte?» Das Abschlusspanel der Tagung «Schreibt KI Geschichte?», die am 17./18. Juni am Haus der Wannseekonferenz @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social stattfand, ist jetzt online - mit Anja Neubert, Steffen Jost und yours truly, moderiert von Alina Bothe #Histoslop
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Wer schreibt Geschichte – Historisches Lernen mit oder ohne KI
YouTube video by Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 15/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... „While the rich are largely responsible for the climate crisis, those living in social housing, without air conditioning or shutters, will be the first to suffer the consequences.“
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Le Corbusier’s social housing was meant to be the dream. In a summer of extreme heat, it is a nightmare | Anna Richards
When temperatures get to 40C inside, and French building regulations won’t even allow shutters, these tenants’ listed homes are simply unlivable, says Anna Richards, a journalist based in Lyon
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/08/2026
‘It is perhaps with these early expressions of intent that we might best understand the attitude to science that Anna Atkins absorbed: it was social, it was a means to understand the world and it was a way to expand the human heart.’ Gaby Wood on cyanotypes. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Gaby Wood · Translucency: Cyanotypes
I don’t​ remember when I first learned to make cyanotypes, but I had loved Anna Atkins’s prints for many years...
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 04/08/2026
Two identical chairs. One needs an AI label. One doesn't. The EU AI Act's transparency rules apply from 2 August. If you make AI images commercially in the EU, this is now your issue. 🧵 #EUAIAct #AIAct #Deepfake 1/8
chair in an empty, minimalist room with bare walls; photograph is photorealistic, 50 mm, daylight, LABEL: AI GENERATEDchair stands on a soft cumulus cloud against a brilliantly sky, photograph is surreal photorealistic, 50 mm, daylight, NO LABEL: AI GENERATED
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 02/08/2026
As of today, the use of AI becomes more transparent in the EU. Here’s how EU law makes sure AI works for you, in full openness ↓
Visual featuring a hand holding up a plain green card, similar to a referee's card. On the left are black labels with white text reading "AI", "AI MODIFIED", and "AI GENERATED". Below, bold text reads "The label says it all." The European Union logo appears in the top-right corner.
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 30/07/2026
Best fair in #Hamburg so far. Indiecon Fair — Sept. 5–6 at Gleishalle Oberhafen. Independent makers of more than 130 publications and zines from all over the world. Free entry. www.indiecon-festival.com #indiecon2026
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Indiecon 2026
Indiecon is a three-day publishing festival based in Hamburg, Germany. A joint effort of independent magazine, book, art print, zine, newsletter, podcast and website publishers from all over the world...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 30/07/2026
Raoul Vaneigem—Situationist, author, and lifelong aspiring revolutionary—has passed away at the age of 92. "Let ten people meet who are resolved on the lightning of violence rather than the long agony of survival; from this moment, despair ends and tactics begin." —The Revolution of Everyday Life
A photograph of Raoul Vaneigem in the year 1960.
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New York Shitty @newyorkshitty.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Baltimore graffiti war
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
An artist became a private investigator and used her license to make art which launched an investigation, which is now being turned into a play. I write about the absurd and poignant work of Julia Weist — which explores the ways we are saturated in surveillance: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/t...
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She Became a Private Eye for Her Art. Investigators Had Questions.
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This terrifying story is not getting nearly enough attention @theguardian.com
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If I had to pick between shadows and essences, I’d pick shadows. They’re better dancers. - Dean Young
DEAN YOUNG
Romanticism 101
Then I realized I hadn't secured the boat.
Then I realized my friend had lied to me.
Then I realized my dog was gone no matter how much I called in the rain.
All was change.
Then I realized I was surrounded by aliens disguised as orthodontists having a convention at the hotel breakfast bar.
Then I could see into the life of things, that systems seek only to reproduce the conditions of their own reproduction.
If I had to pick between shadows and essences, I'd pick shadows.
They're better dancers.
They always sing their telegrams.
Their old gods do not die.
Then I realized the very futility was salvation in this greeny entanglement of breaths.
Yeah, as if.
Then I realized even when you catch the mechanism, the trick still works.
Then I came to in Texas and realized rockabilly would never go away.
Then I realized I'd been drugged.
We were all chasing nothing
which left no choice but to intensify the chase.
I came to handcuffed and gagged.
I came to intubated and packed in some kind of foam.
This too is how ash moves through water.
And all this time the side doors unlocked.
Then I realized repetition could be an ending.
Then I realized repetition could be an ending.
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 13/06/2026
This is what the end of MAGA might look like. Kennedy Center live feed: www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...
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LIVE: See Donald Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 31/05/2026
www.totei.com/story/trevor...
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Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on Making Art with AI and What the Discourse Is Missing
The artists talk process, slop, and why optimism and pessimism don’t quite cover it.
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Photobook Junkies @photobookjunkies.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
📷 Harry Gruyaert
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 19/05/2026
Symposium: Texturen. 04.06.26 HfbK Hamburg - Vortrag: „Zur Kunst des Metaphernflechtens“ - Vortrag: „Wortspiel als Methode“ - Vortrag: „Es sieht so aus wie, es ist ungefähr so, oder so ähnlich.“ u.a. hfbk-hamburg.de/en/calendar/...
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Texturen – Symposium aus Anlass der Verabschiedung von Hanne Loreck | HFBK Hamburg – University of Fine Arts
Symposium anlässlich des Abschieds von Hanne Loreck, Professorin für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, HFBK HamburgProgramm:11.00 UhrBegrüßung durch Martin Köttering (Präsident der HFBK Hamburg)Im Ansc...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/05/2026
Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: scim.ag/42dMPBg
To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake.
Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points.Investigators also examine reflections. The lines connecting points on an object to matching points in its mirror image run parallel in reality, so similarly should meet at a vanishing point. In this image, the lines again do not converge on one point, revealing it to be a fake.
Image: An AI-generated image of a plastic cartoon dinosaur toy with its reflection visible in a small mirror. Four dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting points on the toy with the same points on its reflection: the top of its eye, the end of its jaw, its hand, and its foot. The lines extend out to the side of the image, where they all cross at different points rather than meeting at a single point.Shadows can be a giveaway, too. Because the Sun is so far away, its rays are essentially parallel when they reach Earth's surface. That means that the lines connecting points on an object to the shadows they cast in sunlight should also intersect at a vanishing point. In this Al-generated image, that is clearly not the case.
Image: An AI-generated image of colorful, semi-transparent plastic cubes arranged in a group in a city plaza. Six dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting corners of several cubes with the corresponding corners in their shadows. The lines extend upward off the edge of the image, toward where a vanishing point should be. Three of them converge on roughly the same point, but two extend further, and one cuts across all the others at an angle.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 09/05/2026
This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 06/05/2026
www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/komska...
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On the Wire above the Ruins | Yuliya Komska
Funambulism in postwar Germany
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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This reddit thread about "surreal old photos from nothing" is a great reminder that AI are interpolatable archives which form attractor basins of compressed "blurry JPGs of the web" which you can shove around and blend into each other. www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 25/04/2026
January 1976, Mallorca: A 14-meter fin #whale washes ashore at Colònia de Sant Pere. What follows: bureaucratic wrangling, chainsaws, explosives, and sticky ash on wardrobes. "The monster vanished, leaving only a black mark on the ground." en: riowang.studiolum.com/2025/12/sea-...
Two people standing in front of a beached whale.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 28/04/2026
Do I Belong in Tech Anymore? “Why am I here? Does any of this work actually matter? And if I stop caring about the quality of my work… will anyone notice?” [ky.fyi]
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Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 28/04/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher
The energy giant said it had seen an "exceptional" performance at its oil trading business.
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/04/2026
Exploring the origins of an incredibly dumb, Magic Eye-themed WHCD conspiracy theory.
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Did a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? An Investigation
Exploring the origins of an incredibly dumb, Magic Eye-themed WHCD conspiracy theory.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 25/04/2026
January 1976, Mallorca: A 14-meter fin #whale washes ashore at Colònia de Sant Pere. What follows: bureaucratic wrangling, chainsaws, explosives, and sticky ash on wardrobes. "The monster vanished, leaving only a black mark on the ground." en: riowang.studiolum.com/2025/12/sea-...
Two people standing in front of a beached whale.
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 19/04/2026
Taylor Lorenz and Areeba Fatima discuss on YouTube how Iranian LEGO videos poke fun at the U.S. government. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQfI...
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How AI Legos Became Iran's Secret Weapon
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth.dev · 15/04/2026
Shortest talk ever on CSS layout. @kevinpowell.co at @smashingconf.com.
Kevin Powell standing on stage in front of a large screen which shows some css which reads:

.my-website {
  all: ai;
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 14/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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Is AI the greatest art heist in history?
New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Melania's press conference about the Epstein Files Cartoon by @johnbuss.bsky.social
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 10/04/2026
www.heistberlin.com/news/copies-...
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Copies of Görlitzer Park "Master Key" Distributed By Mysterious Bunnies
The masked "Union of Easter Bunnies" handed out chocolates with the master key to the park's controversial fence locks – and also hid a few for members of the press.
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Olivera Stajić @oliveras.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"Es ist eine Schande, wie laut am Dienstag die Stille in Europa war. Trumps Drohung war historisch und grausam." Kommentar von @cfahrenbach.bsky.social für @derstandard.at www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Eskalation mit Iran verschoben: Eine Schande, dass Trump mit seiner Drohung durchkam
Es ist eine gute Nachricht, dass der US-Präsident keine Verschärfung des Krieges befohlen hat. Aber die vergangenen Tage haben dramatische Schwächen in Europas Umgang mit ihm offengelegt
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Very cool discussion of the use of color theories in industrial hygiene.
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Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“The problem isn't that we'll decide to stop thinking. The problem is that we'll barely notice when we do.” —Minas Karamanis
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 04/04/2026
First good day. Bar is open. ☁️ Ponton op’n Bulln. Hamburg, Elbe ⚓️
Purple deck chairs and orange crates on a pontoon overlooking the Elbe river in Hamburg on a cloudy day.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🫡
The Economist cover: Xi looking at Trump - NEVER
INTERRUPT YOUR ENEMY
WHENHE'S
MAKING A MISTAKE
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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · 30/03/2026
Are you reluctant—and rightly so!—to use AI programming on a Mac? I found following: holtwick.de/en/blog/bx-s...
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AI Coding Tools in a Sandbox: Why Your File System Needs Protection | Dirk Holtwick
AI coding tools like Claude Code or Copilot have full access to your file system. bx protects everything except the current project directory with a single command.
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