Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerNatascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Diese Massenpsychose, die gerade die deutsche Medienlandschaft bezüglich des Siegs der Linken in Berlin ereilt erinnert stark an New York und den Versuch Mamdani zu verhindern. Er ist jetzt übrigens nach ein paar Monaten der beliebteste Bürgermeister seit langem. 733733894
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerLisa Poettinger @lisapoettinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Menschen wollen statt Rassismus, Abschiebungen, Wohnungsnot, Sozialkürzungen, Krieg & Massenmord in Gaza eine international gerechte, soziale Politik anhand der Menschenwürde & wählen #DieLinke. Komplette Presse stürzt sich drauf & versucht einen Skandal zu konstruieren. Auch das ist #Rechtsruck. 510815
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerNatascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Es gibt einige Dinge denen ich zustimmen kann in diesem Text, aber in 3 Dingen irrt der Mann. 1. Ostdeutschland die Ausnahme 2. Emotionen vs soziale Realität 3. Normalisierung Und das ist ärgerlich, zeigt es doch einen Unwillen sich mit den Realitäten außerhalb Deutschlands auseinander zu setzen. 9385100
Reposted by Peter-Paul Pichlertante @tante.cc · 08/09/2026The most surprising realization I had in the last years was how important it is to be public about your refusal to participate in harmful acts therefore giving others "permission" to do so as well. It really matters. 4397123
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write... 83147855
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerLauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 10/08/2026We have more data about ourselves than ever. So why is everything converging on the same? In my new post I use data on high streets, Billboard hits, a million films and my own AI personas to expose the algorithms behind the sameness and how to regulate them. laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...laurenleek.substack.comTemperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the SameWhat 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it. 36120
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced in response to prompting; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings and complex ideas"insidehighered.comStudents as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect. 722277
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 04/08/2026We wanted to have an honest conversation about our newly launched membership programme. Our latest Stage Talk explores this funding model, from sustainability to editorial independence, as we discuss both the promise and the pitfalls. Search 'Stage Talks with Bellingcat' rss.com/podcasts/bel...rss.com"Inside The Membership Model" with Bellingcat's Development Team | Podcast Episode on RSS.comThis week, we explored how our work is funded - what keeps our open-source collective's lights on? Bellingcat's Sarah Bishop Woods and Mareike Vitt, both members of our Development Team, joined us to ... 16416
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerTeresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Vielleicht brauchen wir gar nicht so viel Tech-Innovation und stattdessen mehr Menschen, die Männlichkeit kompatibel für ein Zusammenleben mit anderen machen. 527869
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 22/06/2026"I am part of multiple rapidly expanding global networks of people & communities who are resisting AI & objecting to the power of the big tech companies. Within these resistance networks, women are leading the way" a must-read from my colleague Jennie Stephens www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comDo women have an AI problem?While big tech has been strategically investing to promote a positive narrative around AI, many rapidly expanding global networks of people and communities are resisting AI tools, writes Jennie C Step... 520573
Peter-Paul Pichler @pppichler.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026Das passt. Jens Spahn ist natürlich in Peter Thiels "Geheimverein". 🤮 161
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.socialnature.comMeet the academics refusing to use generative AIResearchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. 26906354
Peter-Paul Pichler @pppichler.eurosky.social · 26/02/2026Number of days where it is important that this song exists is pretty wild right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWlD...youtube.comSpiritbox - Soft Spine - Live From Toyota Ontario ArenaYouTube video by Spiritbox Official 020
Peter-Paul Pichler @pppichler.eurosky.social · 11/02/2026I am deeply ashamed at recognizing myself in the conclusion of this🧵. I spend a lot of time being outraged at what the US is doing but apparently did not care enough to find out that the EU differs mostly in messaging. This is horrible. 010
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerProf Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Managed to write something after a long silence, honestly. This one is personal, about letting go of past worldviews, and vowing to refuse to fit in. Maybe some it will resonate. jksteinberger.medium.com/against-fitt...jksteinberger.medium.comAgainst fitting inBetween dissolution and crystallisation 108318
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerSimon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 08/01/2026DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung. Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.dfg.deKünstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung 19614195
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerLaurie Macfarlane @lmacfarlane.bsky.social · 06/01/2026When Trump takes Greenland with no major repercussions, he won't stop there. This doesn't mean invading Europe. But it does mean destroying European social democracy. 🧵bbc.co.ukUS discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White HouseIt came as European allies rallied behind Denmark after renewed US insistence it must have Greenland. 1311161
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerFred Heussner @fredheussner.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Ich habe endlich Zeit gefunden, den Text "Donald J. Trump und der neue Cäsarismus" (www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...) in die @blaetter.bsky.social zu lesen und: es hat sich gelohnt. Der Text von @fargonaut.bsky.social ist ein Must-Read für alle #AntifaÖkonom:innen, denn er bietet... 🧵 /1blaetter.deDonald J. Trump und der neue CäsarismusDer Kampf um die Gewaltenteilung in den USA geht in die nächste Runde. Nachdem US-Präsident Donald J. Trump die Bundespolizeibehörde ICE angewiesen hatte, die Zahl der Abschiebungen massiv auszuweiten... 12613
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 10/10/2025One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason. 692448525
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerGil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/20251/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that 8773103371
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerMatthias Schmelzer @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Zusammen für Gaza - Demo am 27.9. in Berlin www.zusammen-fuer-gaza.de 092
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/08/2024🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy 22491167
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerDJ Black @djblack21.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Israel is perpetrating a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza, committing illegal acts with the “specific intent” of wiping out Palestinians, Amnesty International has said. youtu.be/OOCxGiJkRXkyoutu.beIsrael carrying out ‘live-streamed genocide’ in Gaza, Amnesty saysYouTube video by Al Jazeera English 23221
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerProf Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025It's here. Pit in stomach feeling. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comTrump and Musk have ushered in a terrible era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it | Julia SteinbergerThe speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this, says Julia Steinberger of the University of Lausanne 32645197
Peter-Paul Pichler @pppichler.eurosky.social · 01/04/2025Can find no mention of this in any German news? 121
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerProf Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I wish I could unfollow anyone not skeeting about Gaza and Palestine right now. There is a for-real genocide going on RIGHT NOW and people are still skeeting about sandwiches and art and USians having protest signs. It makes me want to throw up. 2526
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerLisa Poettinger @lisapoettinger.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Es ist offiziell: Ich habe ein #Berufsverbot bekommen (Auszüge⬇️). Weil ich eine marxistische Analyse der #Klimakrise vertrete. Ich stehe dazu: Die Wirtschaft muss demokratisiert werden, damit nicht einige wenige Superreiche für ihre Profite den Planeten zugrunde richten können. 28954031723
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerProf Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 08/02/2025The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won. What now? A 🧵. 1/ t.co/FKxxmLyfce 30840419
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerParis Marx @parismarx.com · 02/02/2025The United States has declared economic war on some of its closest allies and Silicon Valley is itching to use the power of the state to defend its interests at all costs. It’s time for an alliance not just to combat US belligerence, but to build a different vision for tech.disconnect.blogWe need an international alliance against the US and its tech industryThe United States must face consequences for economic warfare 421962473
Peter-Paul Pichler @pppichler.eurosky.social · 14/01/2025Without reversing the trend of increasing floor space per capita in Germany, climate targets for housing and construction will not be met. Congrats @napiontek.bsky.social on his first paper =) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comlive (a) little: GHG emissions from residential building materials for all 400 counties and cities of Germany until 2050Germany is trying to solve the housing crisis in many of its cities with new construction. At the same time it is trying to meet its greenhouse gas em… 263
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerProf Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Here it is: I think it's some of the most important writing I have ever done. What We Are Up Against. Exposing the secret history of the making of the climate crisis should change everything about how we act to stop it. link.medium.com/T6eZSPLevKblink.medium.com 1116264
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/12/2024Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/wheresyoured.atNever Forgive ThemIn the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor... 19153681815
Peter-Paul Pichler @pppichler.eurosky.social · 14/12/2024Handarbeit für heute erfolgreich erledigt. Danke an alle! #b1412 #FrankfurterAllee 060
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerParis Marx @parismarx.com · 09/12/2024The tech industry makes our lives hell, but at least you can help name the worst billionaire of the year. Cast your ballot! 🗳️ 1210026
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerAnnika Joeres @annikajoeres.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Trump und Orbàn und ihre klimaleugnerischen Freunde lobbyieren nun auch bei uns: Wir bei @correctiv.org decken ein Netzwerk auf: Geschaffen, um Klimapolitik zu bremsen & weiter Öl & Gas zu verbrennen. Auch finanziert aus den USA. Verbunden mit FDP und CDU. 🧵 correctiv.org/aktuelles/kl...correctiv.orgGas und Öl statt Klimaschutz: Wer Trumps Pläne nach Deutschland bringtUS-Klimaleugner und marktradikale Thinktanks beeinflussen deutsche Politik: Verbindungen zwischen FDP, CDU und Trump-Netzwerken enthüllt. 16789461
Peter-Paul Pichler @pppichler.eurosky.social · 02/12/2024Want a good life for all and a healthy planet? Universal energy access is key. Our new study shows universal access to modern energy may actually reduce projected total energy use, thanks to its impact on population dynamics. 🧵 #GreenSky #ClimateSky iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...iopscience.iop.orgThe energy-population dividend: Evidence from energy-specific population projections - IOPscienceSearchThe energy-population dividend: Evidence from energy-specific population projections, Camille Belmin, Peter-Paul Pichler, Guillaume Marois, Shonali Pachauri, Helga Weisz 23715
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerSarah Briggs @sarahbriggs.bsky.social · 29/11/2024If you’re interested/working in climate and health, or sustainable healthcare, this starter pack now has almost 130 people in it. Been so great to find many new people! Will also add list of other relevant packs in thread. Let me know if you have recommendations! go.bsky.app/CNgg2Hv 105515
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/11/2024Renewables are exceeding expectations - but so are emissions. Why? Part of the fossil economy's staying power comes from false promises of techno-neutralisation. CCS is the OG machine saviour. A new blog for you, on why its second coming hasn't come. ketanjoshi.co/2024/11/24/2... (+ thread) 41948303
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerDestenie Nock, PhD @destenie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Started this starter pack with energy justice & climate justice folks. Let me know who I should add to it. go.bsky.app/HXiuKJ5 (P.S. yes this is my way of finding my friends that migrated to bluer skies) @costasamaras.com @menrywy.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social @sidersadapts.bsky.social 89477148
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerAndrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Generative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process (And This Is Why I Hate It)psychsciencenotes.blogspot.comGenerative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process (And This Is Why I Hate It)I really hate generative AI, because there are many reasons to hate it. It's abilities depend on stolen data; it uses so much electricity it... 2522690
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerOskar Wood Hansen @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Carbon inequality & climate policy: Another starterpack to make sure you follow whats good. Please suggest who should be included! go.bsky.app/E3qHxFZ 92614
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 19/11/2024The UK's strong welfare state led to people creating some of the greatest musical trends in history. Could Universal Basic Income do the same and more? 2859997
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerEdward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 14/11/2024This piece by @karlbode.bsky.social is excellent. TL;DR: How the creation of an alternate-reality universe filling voters’ heads w/ propaganda has been a decades-long project for the benefit of the right-wing and corporate interests. You should read it.👇 www.damemagazine.com/2023/03/06/a...damemagazine.comAmerica’s Propaganda Apocalypse Was Decades in the Making | Dame MagazineAmericans have always had a strained relationship with factual reality. From early efforts to redefine genocide as the justified expression of deity-sanctioned exceptionalism, to generations of market... 34514
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerDeath and Gravity @bushidosquirrel.bsky.social · 09/01/2024Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal media: should shoplifters be executed? 55109564868
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/07/2024Vaclav Smil is still churning out "fossil fuels are unavoidable forever" content for the most disgustingly rich fossil fuel lending bank on the planet (note how he strenuously avoids mentioning degrowth in this rant) privatebank.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...privatebank.jpmorgan.com 3225
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerDavid Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 21/03/2024I've got some comments here on an article that called for "behavioural manipulation" - i.e. the "engineering of consent" by marketing techniques - as maybe "our best chance at avoiding ecological catastrophe." My view, in short, is nah. news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ecol...news.mongabay.comEcological overshoot is a ‘behavioral crisis’ & marketing is a solution: StudyA paper generated by the Merz Institute, an Aotearoa New Zealand-based think tank, and published in the journal Science Progress in 2023, hypothesizes that the environmental crises our planet faces to... 4136
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 07/05/2024"The evidence does not support the claim of win-wins or triple wins for environment, economy & people ... Rather our cases show that poverty & forest loss both are persistent across different regions of the world...where market mechanisms have been the main policy option for decades"phys.orgMarket-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: ReportMarket-based approaches to forest conservation like carbon offsets and deforestation-free certification schemes have largely failed to protect trees or alleviate poverty, according to a major scientif... 1179
Reposted by Peter-Paul PichlerTHIS ACCOUNT IS MOVING @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2024Absolute shots fired. From: www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic… #Science #Academia #PeerReview #Research 19548143