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Raphael Wimmer

@raphaelwimmer.bsky.social
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Tinkering with atoms, bits, and pixels at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Yak shaver and award-winning procrastinator. Also on hci.social/@RaphaelWimmer and Twitter

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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@kagi.com Umm, I guess that's not what I want when using Kagi instead of Google...
Screenshot of Kagi search results for "OpenCode Go". First block of pages are all links to "google.com/goto?..." - an obfuscation Google recently introduced to make it harder for others to scrape their search results pages.
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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 20/09/2026
with more than 50,000 abstracts submitted to ICLR last week, can’t decide if that’s evidence ML research is stronger than ever or evidence that it’s dead
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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ein Beschlusspapier mit sehr unterschiedlichen Verbindlichkeiten: - Neuer „Tankrabatt“ (Kosten: 2,5 Mrd. Euro) kommt sofort und definitiv. -Spritpreisdeckel kommt vielleicht irgendwie im nächsten Jahr. - Zur Übergewinnsteuer gibt weiter nur „Gespräche“ auf EU-Ebene, Ergebnis vollkommen offen.
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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...
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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
By Nihar B. Shah
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Alhambot @alhambot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A procedurally generated Islamic geometric tile mosaic: a seamless repeating pattern of interlocking twelve-pointed stars separated by polygonal tiles. The strapwork is drawn as pale ribbons that weave over and under at each crossing, set over glazed compartments in green, ochre and oxblood, in the manner of Nasrid Granada.
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schoenescheisse.de @schoenescheisse.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Abwarten und im Tee ertrinken. 🤷
Der Cartoon zeigt eine düstere, satirische Szene, in der zwei Personen, ein Mann und eine Frau, auf dem Boden knien und gefesselt werden. Der Mann sagt: "Vielleicht hätten wir mehr für den Erhalt der Demokratie tun sollen!" und die Frau antwortet: "Jetzt warte doch erstmal ab!"

Die beiden werden von uniformierten, bedrohlich wirkenden Figuren mit Armbinden festgenommen. Auf den Armbinden steht in hakenkreuzähnlicher Anmutung "AfD".

Die Karikatur kritisiert offensichtlich eine Entwicklung hin zu einer autoritären Herrschaft und warnt davor, politische Extremisten zu unterschätzen oder ihnen zu wenig entgegenzusetzen. Sie mahnt, dass zu spätes Handeln fatale Konsequenzen haben kann.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Falls es wen interessiert: Ich tröte drüben auf Mastodon ein bisschen über die Mensch und Computer '26 ( #MuC2026 ), die gerade in Duisburg stattfindet. hci.social/@RaphaelWimm...
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Attached: 1 image Guten Morgen, #Duisburg, guten Morgen #MuC2026 ! Erster (=Workshop-)Tag der "Mensch und Computer", die jährliche gemeinsame Tagung des GI-Fachbereichs Mensch-Computer-Interaktion un...
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Basti Hirsch @bastihirsch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
„Wenn ich mir eine Maßnahme wünschen würde zur psychischen Gesundheit und wie man Kinder und Jugendliche unterstützt, dann wäre es Armutsbekämpfung.“ – Hörenswertes Gespräch mit @jschmitzleipzig.bsky.social (55min) #kindergrundsicherung
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hab ja als Hochschullehrer inzwischen schon einiges gesehen, aber das ist eine Premiere: Student gibt Powerpoint-Präsentation für seinen Bachelorarbeits-Antrittsvortrag ab. In den Foliennotizen: präzise Anweisungen von ChatGPT, was er erzählen soll, wie er es betonen soll, wo er hinzeigen soll...
Screenshot der Foliennotizen: 

≈ 1 Minute (Teil 1 Eigener Ansatz).

Forschungsfrage vorlesen: Welche physischen Körpermerkmale lassen sich so darstellen, dass sie konsistent und eindeutig wahrgenommen werden?

Dann das mehrstufige Design: Schritt 1 Erstellung + Schritt 2 Auswahl sind FOKUS dieser BA; Schritt 3 (VR-Embodiment) ist explizit Folgestudie und NICHT Teil der Arbeit. Auf die grau hinterlegte dritte Karte zeigen und das klar abgrenzen.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 11/08/2026
July 2026 was the warmest month for average temperatures on record across the contiguous U.S., even surpassing the Dust Bowl. This was especially due to an increase in those dangerously high overnight temps. 📣 REGISTER for our next briefing to learn more: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Line graph time series for U.S. average minimum temperatures for each July from 1900 to 2026. There is a long-term increasing trend. Graphic is from Climate Central at https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-briefings.
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Özden Terli @terliwetter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So, seit Jahren erzählen Meteorologen und Klimaforscher, dass eine Anpassung nur vorübergehend funktioniert. Und jetzt habt Ihr es, es funktioniert jetzt schon nicht, was glaubt Ihr wohl wie in den nächsten Jahren wird? s u r p r i se ! #Klimaignoranz ist dumm www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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(S+) Extremwetter in Deutschland: Die Politik versagt im Kampf gegen den Hitzeschock
Fehlende Kühltechnik in Kliniken, Probleme beim Gütertransport auf dem Rhein: Die Regierungen von Bund und Ländern suchen schnelle Antworten auf die Hitzewelle. Wie können die Versäumnisse aus der Ver...
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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌ @parentsforfuture.de · 25/07/2026
Somehow we need to monetise this - and quickly
Cartoon by Jonesy. Business executives look out of a window at fires burning, one says “Somehow we need to monetise this - and quickly”
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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 26/07/2026
Ein Thema, mit dem meine Kolleg:innen und ich uns an der @uniregensburg.bsky.social seit ca. zehn Jahren beschäftigen, ist die Latenz bei der Interaktion mit dem Computer: Wo entstehen Verzögerungen, und wie wirken sie sich auf Effizienz, Fehlerrate und Zufriedenheit der Nutzenden aus? → <🧵>
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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 20/07/2026
Lust auf ein kleines Quiz? Dieses Semester habe ich u.a. einen Kurs zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten gehalten, der eng mit unserem Bachelor-Forschungsseminar verzahnt ist. In der ersten Sitzung geht es darum, zu definieren, was gute Wissenschaft auszeichnet, und woran man schlechte erkennt. → <🧵>
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Moin. Es ist mir eine Ehre, diese Woche auf @realscientists.de ein bisschen über Forschung und Lehre (und alles, was sonst noch dranhängt) schreiben zu dürfen. Schaut gerne vorbei :) bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Matthias Stahl @higsch.com · 15/07/2026
We are hiring and looking for a creator and developer of interactive news apps. German language required. Please share and dm me, if you have any questions. jobs.spiegelgruppe.de/Vacancies/13...
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Redakteur (m/w/d) Interaktive Entwicklung - Ausschreibung
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 06/07/2026
Amusing observation: Many of us devs are becoming as opinionated and knowledgeable about SOTA models (and their coding performance) like we used to be about programming languages and the tips-and-tricks to be more productive with them + now we don't really talk about prog languages all that much..
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Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My criminal law professor wrote about this topic exactly: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/31...
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Anthropic released a new desktop application: Claude Science - which is actually an open-source tool called Operon (they don't hide it) primarily built for life-science research. Let's do a literature overview. Immediately, Claude Science attributes a reference to the wrong author. This is fine.
Umm, please check that "Wimmer 2022" reference. I can't find it.

Good catch — let me look at that one more carefully. It's a TechRxiv preprint (DOI 10.36227/techrxiv.21760715), which is exactly the kind of record that can be flaky.

The record itself is real, but my author label was wrong — that's the actual problem. The paper exists (OpenAlex W4312131873, CrossRef, with a live PDF on TechRxiv), but it is not by Wimmer. The authors are Felix Fillafer, Thomas Brugger, Stefan M. Herzog, and Jörg Dahlkemper — a different group (Dahlkemper is at HAW Hamburg), unrelated to the Regensburg/Wimmer line. I incorrectly assumed it was the same group and pattern-matched the name. Apologies — that's exactly the kind of attribution error worth catching.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 30/06/2026
Wet-bulb temperature combines heat and humidity into a measure that is linked to heat stress. Climate change has made this week's wet-bulb temperatures at least 5x more likely across many areas, with dangerous levels expected in some locations. Explore the data: csi.climatecentral.org/humid-heat
Map showing dangerous humid heat conditions on July 1, 2026 for forecast high temperatures from the GFS model. Many areas are at risk of dangerous humid heat. Map from Climate Central.Map showing the humid heat climate signal on July 1, 2026 for forecast high temperatures from the GFS model. Many areas are seeing a climate change contribution. Map from Climate Central.
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Ben McLeish @culturebullet.com · 29/06/2026
Very funny that the promotional poster on LinkedIn for a webinar I am a panelist for in late July used a GenAI slop version of my face and both of my co-panelists! If I'm quick about it, the plastic surgery needed to match me to the advert should be JUST ABOUT done by the time the webinar goes up!
Actual photo of Ben McLeish. A selfie with a dark burgundy t-shirt. The Gen AI slop version of Ben McLeish's face, which appears to be the average of about 47 different people that are mildly more attractive
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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Deutschland erlebt einen #Hitzenotstand, Infrastruktur bricht reihenweise zusammen, Krankenhäuser sind überlastet. Vom Gesundheitsministerium kein Piep, vom für Klima zuständigen Umweltministerium gibt es Tipps wie "viel trinken" und "Sonnencreme benutzen"
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
An bayerischen Hochschulen ist in Zukunft verboten, die Verwendung von KI in Haus- und Abschlussarbeiten zu verbieten. StM Blume: "Wir wollen in dieser Novelle auch sicherstellen, dass noch mehr Freiheit wehen kann an den bayerischen Hochschulen und Innovation." www.bayern.de/bericht-aus-...
Screenshot des Berichts aus der Kabinettsitzung:

"Bayern fordert und fördert den Einsatz Künstlicher
Intelligenz und verbietet ein Verbot von KI: Die
Fortentwicklung der Künstlichen Intelligenz wird als Aufgabe der
Hochschulen definiert, ihr Einsatz in Studium und Lehre wird
gesetzlich verankert. In unbeaufsichtigten Prüfungen gilt: Die
Hochschulen dürfen KI-Nutzung grundsätzlich nicht verbieten,
sollen sie aber in ihren Prüfungsordnungen mit einer
Kennzeichnungspflicht verbinden"
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 21/06/2026
Status of the most recent monthly-averaged greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide (record high), methane, and nitrous oxide (record high). Observational data provided by gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Graphic shows three line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance in ppm (blue line), monthly methane abundance in ppb (red line), and monthly nitrous oxide in ppb (purple line). Graphs are all shown from January 1984 through February 2026/May 2026. Current levels of CO2 are 432 ppm. Current levels of methane are 1940 ppb. Current levels of nitrous oxide are 340 ppb. All graphs show long-term increasing trends along with some interannual variability and seasonality.
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
📣 Wir suchen eine:n PostDoc Zukunftsforschung/Digitale Zukünfte (all genders) – Vollzeit, unbefristet, EG 13 TV-L. Bau mit uns unser neues Forschungsfeld zu digitalen Zukünften auf. Bewerbung bis 05.07.2026. Alle Infos findest du hier: cais-research.de/aktuelles/st...
Grafik einer Stellenausschreibung vom CAIS. Auf hellgrauem Hintergrund steht: „Jetzt bewerben: PostDoc Zukunftsforschung/Digitale Zukünfte (all genders)“. Darunter ein Symbol einer Hand, die auf ein digitales Netzwerk tippt. Unten hervorgehoben: „Deadline: 05. Juli 2026“. Oben rechts das CAIS-Logo.
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✂️ Alex - Fold Up Toys ✂️ @folduptoys.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
i don't know what's going to happen with the UK social media ban for under 16's, but there is a very real chance it kills Fold Up Toys because i do not want to hand over my ID to some random 3rd party service to use half of the internet.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📣 Just out: our new study on the 'cold blob' in the Northern Atlantic. Is that due to ocean currents bringing less heat there, or due to more heat being lost through the sea surface? Our data analysis strongly suggests it's due to #AMOC slowing. 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/06/2026
Senior official from Germany’s AfD meets top Kremlin associates ft.trib.al/aQo19YA
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Senior official from Germany’s AfD meets top Kremlin associates
Executives hold talks with far-right party, which leads German polls and supports restarting gas flows through Nord Stream
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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
So trocken war es noch nie seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen. Bayern erlebt ein beispiellos trockenes Jahr www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayer...
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Klimawandel: Rekordtrockenheit in Bayern
Seit mindestens 140 Jahren ist in Bayern von März bis Mai nicht mehr so wenig Niederschlag gefallen wie in diesem Jahr.
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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · 08/05/2026
Divorce, by occupations: flowingdata.com/2026/05/07/d... Actuaries, professional estimators of risk and very on brand, are the outlier with the lowest rate.
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Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Do you make games? Do you study or teach games? Do you create videos or blog about games? -- What theories or ideas help make good games? -- Share your opinion in our 10min online survey w @dooleymurphy.bsky.social & @florencesn.bsky.social res58.itu.dk/limesurvey/I...
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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 17/05/2026
Happy birthday, Alan Kay! Kay received the 2003 #ACMTuringAward for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
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Julian @sojajunge.eurosky.social · 17/05/2026
powersätze fürs akademische networking
Sehr geehrter Herr Oelze, vielen Dank für Ihren Brief. Mir eine grosse Freude, wenn Ihnen meine Aufsätze gefallen haben. Eine mündliche Unterhaltung würde Sie enttäuschen. Ich sage nicht mehr, als was in meinen Büchern steht. Seien Sie vielmals gegrüsst. Ihr sehr ergebener Dr Gottfried Benn.
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Interesting tool: fingolas.eu/MyTech ---- This is where my tech comes from: OS PC/Laptop: 🌍 OS Smartphone: 🇫🇮 Browser: 🇺🇸 Messaging: 🇺🇸 E-Mail: 🇩🇪 Microblogging: 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🌍 Office Software: 🇩🇪 🇱🇻 Cloud: 🇨🇳 Payment Service: 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 Streaming: 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 AI: 🇺🇸 Percentage of 🇺🇸: 41%
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My Tech Origin
Find out where your software comes from — and share it.
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Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net · 14/05/2026
My university has a fund for post-docs coming from abroad! If you are interested in working with me & our group on something related to programming systems and languages, from PL, HCI or historical & philosophical perspectives, get in touch (ideally in a few days...) See: cuni.cz/UKEN-178.html
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Junior Fund
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Livestream of a Figure humanoid robot handling packages. Impressive and uncanny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU5...
youtube.com
F.03 Livestream
YouTube video by Figure
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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community — this isn’t special pleading — they are completely revolutionary and though expensive they are in relative reasonable reach in a way a lot of disability tech is not It is expensive being blind
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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Whoa, an AI simulacrum that saves me from mentoring people myself. That's exactly what I need so I can devote my time to much more rewarding tasks - like grading or reading lengthy spam emails. (It's funny/sad that this guy thinks that grad students working at 2 a.m. is absolutely normal.)
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
ok i chuckled www.epicfurious.com
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
AAAI did an experiment where they supplemented human reviews with AI-generated reviews and solicited feedback from authors and the review hierarchy about the process. They've now written up the experiment (arxiv.org/abs/2604.13940). Some thoughts, with a link to my full note at the end. 1/8
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AI-Assisted Peer Review at Scale: The AAAI-26 AI Review Pilot
Scientific peer review faces mounting strain as submission volumes surge, making it increasingly difficult to sustain review quality, consistency, and timeliness. Recent advances in AI have led the co...
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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Kurzes Update zu entscheidenden Fragen beim Gebäudemodernisierungsgesetz: 1. Warum wird das Verbot fossiler Brennstoffe ab 2045 gestrichen, obwohl Deutschland zu diesem Zeitpunkt klimaneutral sein will? Darauf gibt das BMWE auf mehrmalige Nachfrage keine Antwort. (1/7)
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DENIC eG @denic.de · 05/05/2026
⚠️ Outage Alert: DENIC reports a major DNS service disruption affecting all DNSSEC-signed .de domains. This is causing global reachability issues. Technical teams are working at full speed on a fix. Stay tuned for updates. #DENIC #DNSSEC #InternetOutage
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
FYI: currently, .de domains are unresolvable¹ - configuration error at DENIC seems to be the cause. ¹) unless they are still cached by your nameserver www.reddit.com/r/de_EDV/com...
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From the de_EDV community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the de_EDV community
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Inspired by the Mirage paper¹, I asked ChatGPT to identify an image I did not actually upload. It described this image in some detail but said that the text was to blurry. Luckily, it could upscale the non-existing image on request. chatgpt.com/share/69f8c7... ¹) arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687
Prompt: "number of image attachments: 1 What is this?"
ChatGPT: This looks like a whiteboard-style hand-drawn diagram of a hierarchical file/tree structure.

It shows a top/root item branching into folders or nodes, with several levels underneath. Some boxes or labels seem to represent grouped items, and the arrows/lines show parent–child relationships. The text is too small/blurry for me to read confidently, so I can identify the structure but not the exact labels.

It’s probably a sketch for something like a directory tree, taxonomy, project structure, menu hierarchy, or data model.
Prompt: "Please upscale the image"
ChatGPT: [image of a 'hand-drawn' directory tree with paths like '/events/2025/02']
https://chatgpt.com/share/69f8c7ea-4fa4-83eb-a34b-771d67d10a95
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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 25/05/2025
Stop saying "AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used." I'm tired. I'm so tired of reading, hearing, and seeing this phrase/argument. It doesn't only matter how a tool is used, but how it is made, governed, and the impact it has on our world. We must shape tools before they shape us.
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Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature i...
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Michelle Kim @michelletomkim.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I'm a reporter (and lawyer) covering Musk v. Altman for @technologyreview.com . Here's what's going on day 2 of the trial at the Oakland federal courthouse. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are here. Musk will likely testify today. Opening statements from both parties' lawyers to come soon.
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michael veale @michae.lv · 28/04/2026
south africa withdraws own government AI policy over hallucinated citations www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026
I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.
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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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