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#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something startling: Anthropic operates a biology lab and claims its AI has found a new CRISPR like enzyme system — […]

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Chag Sukkot sameach!

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Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Wenn die AfD eine Wahl gewinnt, übernimmt Merz die Forderungen der AfD. Wenn die Linke eine Wahl gewinnt, will Merz das Grundgesetz ändern, damit die Linke ihre Ziele nicht umsetzen kann.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

#Monday again, like an unplanned awkward encounter with a talkative distant relative.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

גמר חתימה טובה to all of you.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something hopeful: Record number of visitors for fediverse community conference — berlinfedi.day/en • Something unsettling: US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons — […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#Politics #Religion #Nationalism Alice hurts Bob. To make up for it, Charlie hurts David. Makes sense? I believe that group identification is responsible for the majority of violence today.

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Hendrik Weimer @hweimer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: mathe.social/@tomkalei/117270657938… If you believe that AI companies suddenly behave ethically when it comes to not stealing other people's research works, you suffer from a variant of Gell-Mann amnesia. #ai #science

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

#Monday again, like a halfdry teabag found in a forgotten pot of mouldy tea.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

#AI #Incident #IsItReal #IsItPR To everyone who's wondering why we keep getting these weird statements from AI producers (has found tons of security leaks, 10% chance to kill humanity, must be throttled by governments) and incidents (hugging face, german wiki), here's a small reminder in form […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

#Kahnemann #Tversky #ThinkingFastAndSlow "Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it." D.Kahnemann, "Thinking, Fast and Slow", Penguin Books 2012/2024, p.460

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

#Germany #Berlin #Politics #Prüf Thousands of people demonstrate against the rise of the far right in Berlin.

Masses of people, seen from the back, move along Friedrichstraße in Berlin. A big poster with a traffic sign reads "rechts abbiegen veboten" (no right turns).

Masses of people, seen from the front, walk along Friedrichstraße in Berlin.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something liberating: LibreOffice without AI features breaks download record — www.heise.de/en/news/Download-recor… • Something foreboding […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#IT #Security #CompanyTalk "What's our biggest attack vector?" "The Sales/Marketing department."

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

My email client is broken. By evening I make sure that I have read all emails. Next day I open it and it is again full of emails. I read those again by evening, the next day I open the client, and it is again full of emails. This is horrible! There's no end! Where can I file a bug report?

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Thomas Ebinger (Moderator) @ebinger.bildung.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Wie doppeldeutig die Formulierung von der ausgestreckten Hand doch ist.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something concerning: OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki — […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

#Meteorologie #Kalauer Irgendwie, seitdem es Wettervorhersagen gibt, ist das Wetter ja immer total angesagt.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something liberating: New EU consumer rights for easy and attractive repairs now official — […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

#Mozart #Oper #Verballhornung Ihr kennt doch die Arie aus Figaro, oder? Wo Cherubini abends noch Hunger hat? "Höret mein Herze / hört wie es pocht / sagt, ist es Nudelwasser / was da so kocht?"

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something sensible: China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux — www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-w… • Something negligent: Over 170,000 nonprofits lose their data […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Leaning back, my eyes now closing, this time as each time before. Quoth the dentist, "Floss some more".

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So, you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/Tech this week? • Something consequential: France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s -- www.reuters.com/world/frances-top-c… […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

#SocialMedia #Language We use this term "social media" for microblogs, blogs, picture sharing. Can't we find another official collective noun that describes X, Meta, Instagram, etc? What about "antisocial media"? Or "commercial communities"? Or "social advertising"?

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

#Tech #Coding #AI #CognitiveDebt Sensible advice from Ankur Sethi on how to "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code": ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cogniti… "I might not personally be able to change the course of the […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So, you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/Tech during the summer holiday? Something sensible: EU Court rules that VPNs are lawful technical tools — […]

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Der Haken @der-haken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Du kannst dein eigenes DataCenter sein. Trinke reichlich Wasser und konsumiere so viel Literatur wie moeglich.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

#Research #Publishing #OpenAccess The university has declined to take over open-access publishing fees for our paper. Bit of a blow. (I do not need to write here how unhealthy our current funding/research/publishing/access model is, a quick search will yield plenty of comments.)

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Klaus Stein @lapizistik.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

P == NP für N = 1

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

#Music #Audio #Community #SocialMedia There is no social media for sharing audio and music, is there? We have microblogging platforms for short texts, we have blogs for long texts, we have platforms for sharing short videos, we have social networks for images. There's nothing for just audio […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Nach drei Wochen Sommerpause das erste mal wieder den Rechner hochgefahren. Beim Einloggen ist mir mein Passwort sofort eingefallen. Leider.

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Remember, kids: In proper scientific terms, an attempt to explain observable phenomena is called a "hypothesis". It is called a "theory" when it fits all the observable facts, and there is no observable evidence to the contrary. We don't call it a "truth" because there's always a chance that […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

#Kahnemann #Tversky #ThinkingFastAndSlow "Many unfortunate human situations unfold ... where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this kind often turns […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

#Kahnemann #Tversky #ThinkingFastAndSlow "... an angry face 'pops out' of a crowd of happy faces, but a single happy face does not stand out in an angry crowd. The brains of humans and other animals contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. ... No comparable rapid […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So, you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/Tech this week? • Something hopeful: German Bundesrat passes right-to-repair legislation — […]

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Korallenherz @korallenherz.korallenherz.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

"Chrupalla sagte im Fernsehsender Phoenix: "Wir werden dafür sorgen, dass politische Parteien in diesem Land nicht mehr beobachtet werden können." HABT IHR DAS KAPIERT HABE ICH GEFRAGT www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-w… […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So, you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/Tech this week? • Something sinister: A New Lawsuit Claims the Memory Crisis Was Manufactured on Purpose — […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So, you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/Tech this week? • Something offsetting: EU Commision sees Amazon and Microsoft as cloud gatekeepers under the DMA — ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner… • Something predictable: Chinese […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

#Heatwave #StayingCool #Heat Of all the various ways I've tried, this is the most effective to stay cool in a hot office or at home: • Go to the bathroom. • Take your t-shirt off and rinse it under cold water. Yes, make it totally wet. • Wring it out. • Put it on again. Leave the bathroom […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

I got an email from X (twitter) recently, telling me that my account was suspended for violating community rules. Which is strange, cause I haven't posted anything in two years, with my last post being the announcement that I won't post any more. Oh, and trying, twice, unsuccessfully, to get my […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So, you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/Tech this week? • Something trouble brewing: SpaceX Buys Cursor In Largest Startup Acquisition Ever At $60 Billion — […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

#Literatur #DDR #BRD #Schriftsteller Heute wäre Hermann Kant 100 Jahre alt geworden. Eine Stimme wie er fehlt heute. Einer, der sich gekümmert hat. Falls ihr ihn noch nicht gelesen habt: unbedingte Leseempfehlung für seinen Roman "der Aufenthalt".

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So, you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/Tech this week? • Something foreboding: US government forces shutdown of Anthropic's AI Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

@ccc.de Enttäuschend. Kaum Leute, dafür eine riesige Palästina-Flagge. Auf Nachfrage meinte ein Ordner, dass sie Flaggen von Nicht-Nationalstaaten dulden. Schulterzucken auf meinen Hinweis, dass Palästina sich sehr wohl als Staat gegründet hat, nur ohne offizielle Grenzen. Und auch als ich […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

#Palantir #Demo20260613 #Netzpolitik #Grundrechte #Thiel #Sicherheitspaket @ccc.de Ist das Thema zu sperrig? Seid ihr alle hinter euren Rechnern verschimmelt? Warum sind so wenig Leute hier? Los, bewegt euch und kommt her!

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CCC @ccc.de · 12/06/2026

Anlasslose #Vorratsdatenspeicherung und #Palantir – Du willst dich nicht systematisch filzen und dein Gesicht vermessen lassen? Demo Samstag in Berlin & Kiel www.ccc.de/de/updates/2...

Demo in Berlin am 13. Juni, 14 Uhr, Warschauer Str. Ecke Marchlewskistr.

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