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Romy S. Rasper

@romluras.bsky.social
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Investigating NeuroTech & Prosthetics through Crip Technoscience. Independent Researcher. white middle-class endo dya nonbinary queer aroace disabled neurodivergent; es/it they er/he Posts mostly in 🇺🇸, manchmal 🇩🇪

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Christopher Coenen @chrixcoenen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#THIEL SHALL NOT PASS! #BERLIN 9/24, 5pm: Against #Thiel and his & #Trump 's Fifth Column in the EU !!! Alle raus am 24.9., 17:00, um in #Berlin gegen #Thiel und die Fünfte Kolonne von ihm, #Trump, #Musk & Co. ( #HaltDieFresseSpringerpresse , #noAfD) zu demonstrieren !!! 👉🏻 thielshallnotpass.org
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It‘s pride month Fight transnormativity, policing which expressions of transness seem „acceptable and redeemable“, defining who is worthy to be a rights-bearing subject. Fight the singularization of narratives trans people get to have. There is more than „born this way“. 1/2
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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 20/05/2026
We have 6 recurring events each week: - Solidarity Sesh - Infodumplings - Campfire Learn Together - Watering Hole Hangs - Operations Meeting - Editorial Meeting Join us. stimpunks.org/events/
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Events
We serve neurodivergent and disabled people and our allies with passion-driven programming organized by our learners. We do concerts, lunch & learns, field trips, art shows, art lessons, dance…
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
AI agents for research: - invented fake datasets - p-hacked results - used nonrepresentative datasets - concealed or excused misdeeds But hey, who needs integrity in science!
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AI agents may be skilled researchers—but not always honest ones
Two high-profile tools have been shown to make up data and “p-hack” their results
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
can we stop allowing asinine techbros to hijack language and policy around the body, ffs. Implicit in the idea of biohacking is this deeply ableist notion that you can "hack" your way out of age, disability and illness. Can we please stop.
Lydia Christofferson, an assistant nursing professor in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, recently began supplementing her meals with a greens powder and a Himalayan resin called shilajit, which she had read can ease perimenopausal symptoms.

She didn’t used to see herself as a biohacker. Nor did she relate to Peter Attia, one of the best-known proponents of biohacking — especially after he and some other longevity experts appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Now that the term has become more common, a biohacker seems like “a more everyday person,” said Ms. Christofferson, 45. “People trying to be the healthiest version of themselves, using whatever it takes to get there.”
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Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New article in the Disability Studies Quarterly journal - vol 45, issue 2 Cyborg Maintenance: The Invisible Work of the Technological Bodymind Joshua Earle (University of Virginia) dsq-sds.org/article/id/6... #DisabilityStudies #AgentialRealism #Disability #Cyborgs
Poster for the article - off-write text on a dark green background, with a photo of a desk with books behind the green background. The poster features DSQ's logo in blue letters and information regarding the article such as the title and authors, listed in the post.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 08/03/2026
Right, so. Re: "BlueSky will implode." There will never be a social media platform that enables you to have the degree of security, freedom, and privacy that many of you seem to desire because the problems with these platforms aren't technical, they're social. Further, they're uniquely social.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 18/02/2026
Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026
“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”
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As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/11/2025
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1
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Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
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Katheterkarambolage @broviacboy.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Gibt es hier Menschen von der LMU München, die mir diese Datei senden könnten? :) ADHD Comorbidities: Handbook for ADHD Complications in Children and Adults doi.org/10.1176/appi...
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ADHD Comorbidities | Psychiatry Online
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Today I‘m attending the transdisciplinary transfeminism conference at the Goethe university in Frankfurt (Main)! I’m talking on the intersection of Crip, Queer and Transfeminist Theory in context of future- and technology-making. Very excited! Nervous too, tho cgc.uni-frankfurt.de/transfeminis...
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Transfeminismus | Cornelia Goethe Centrum
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Additionally, I guess The New York Times didn’t get the memo on Jasbir Puar‘s „homonationalism“
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Beautiful, disgusting and apt prose. Love it! <3 *snaps with fingers*
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Fight the naturalist fantasy of a stable biological body as grounds for politics and culture across time and space. Inspired by and largely taken from: „When Monsters Speak - A Susan Stryker Reader“ edited by McKenzie Wark 2/2
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It‘s pride month Fight transnormativity, policing which expressions of transness seem „acceptable and redeemable“, defining who is worthy to be a rights-bearing subject. Fight the singularization of narratives trans people get to have. There is more than „born this way“. 1/2
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Das ist doch absurd grausam.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The guy whose daddy bought his way into Wharton, the guy whose grades were so shitty he's never disclosed them – that guy just destroyed the Department of Education. This is what dystopia looks like. This is what Fascism looks like.
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
💯 Dazu auch nach den 551 Fragen bsky.app/profile/arne...
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 12/03/2025
Analysen von Volksverpetzer und welche von Buzzfeed zeigen: Es gab weitaus weniger Berichte zum Anschlag in Mannheim wie zu Magdeburg und München. Weil der Tatverdächtige Deutscher mit Neonazi-Vergangenheit war? www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/mann...
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Nur halb so viele Artikel zu Mannheim wie zu Magdeburg & München
Mehrere Analysen zeigen: Es gab weitaus weniger Berichte zum Anschlag in Mannheim wie zu Magdeburg und München. Weil der Tatverdächtige Deutscher mit Neonazi-Vergangenheit war?
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Helena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Breaking News: Aus Bürgergeld soll „Grundsicherung für Arbeitssuchende“ werden. Möge die SPD jämmerlich zugrunde gehen.
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Queer als unterdrückungsbewusste Hinterfragung der Konzepte des Menschseins. Im Detail stellen sich dann Fragen wer wie (sicher) reclaimen kann (Whiteness protects quite a bit against Dehumanization and weirdness), aber das ist ein deep dive für ein anderes Mal und nicht als für comment 3/3
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ich vermute, dass einigen die Teilablehnung des Menschlichen Angst macht, weil die Aberkennung des Personhood-Status auch mit Entrechtlichung einhergeht. Für mich ist es aber ein Reclaiming der Dehumanisierung indem das Nicht-Menschliche aufgewertet wird. 2/3
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Agreed. Potenzial des boundary blurring liegt in kinship jenseits des Menschlichen und Verbreiterung von personhood auf non-humanoide. Statt humanoide Exzeptionalität, Redefinition als Teil vom ökologischen Netzwerk. 1/3
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Sozialpolitik für soziale Gerechtigkeit ist antifaschistische Basisarbeit und entzieht rechten Ideologien den Nährboden.
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Mirja Nicolas @privilegienschreck.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Ich frage mich, wann sich die Psychosomatik für all das Leid und die toten Menschen mit ME/CFS verantworten werden muss. Ich werde darauf hinarbeiten, dies noch zu erleben. Gute Studie zur (Nicht-)Versorgung von Long Covid und ME/CFS. www.zefq-journal.com/article/S186...
ME/CFS wurde in der bis 2023 gültigen S3-Leitlinie „Funktionelle Körperbeschwerden“ als psychosomatisches Syndrom definiert. Demnach verursachen oder verschlimmern Betroffene ihre körperlichen Beschwerden u.a. durch dysfunktionale Gedanken, Vermeidungsverhalten, Dekonditionierung oder falscher Ursachenüberzeugungen [22]. Dementsprechend werden auch bei Long COVID psychosoziale Faktoren als verursachend und aufrechterhaltend angenommen [23]. Die der o.g. Leitlinie gemäße Behandlung zielt auf den Abbau fehlerhafter Krankheitsüberzeugung und die Steigerung der körperlichen Belastungsfähigkeit, empfohlen werden Psychotherapie, Psychopharmaka, Physio- und Bewegungstherapie sowie aktivierende Rehabilitation [22]. 72% der hier Befragten berichten von entsprechenden Behandlungen bzw. Behandlungsempfehlungen, insbesondere körperlicher Aktivierung. 56% geben an, dass sich ihr Gesundheitszustand infolge ärztlich veranlasster Untersuchungen oder Behandlungen verschlechtert hat.
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I am so glad that I read Nik Brown‘s „Hope Against Hype – Accountability in Biopasts, Presents and Futures“ in my STS master. Made me sensitive to the discrepancy of hype and actual outcomes of tech. Made me wary of promises and invested in pulling back curtains of the mobilized futures politics.
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Was @iotemka.bsky.social sagt, plus: mit beiden wird andere Ansätze der Möglichkeiten diskutiert, abseitig einer unwahrscheinlichen territoriale Aufteilung. Jan von Aken hat in den ersten 30 Min des Interviews bei Jung & Naiv darüber geredet. Das fand ich erhellend: www.youtube.com/live/ls0tBHg...
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Parteivorsitzender Jan van Aken (Die Linke) | Bundestagswahl 2025 - Jung & Naiv: Folge 745
YouTube video by Jung & Naiv
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Eine der beeindruckendsten Zahlen der Wahl in Deutschland ist für mich das Ausrinnen der FDP(!) zur AfD. 890.000 Wähler_innen sind von der (ohnehin schon kleinen) FDP zur AfD gewandert. Über diese Liberalismus-zu-Rechtsextremismus-Pipeline muss man mal ordentlich diskutieren.
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Tomás Criado @tscriado.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Butler, on point: "Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage. Perhaps it is time to stand apart from these passions to see how they work, but also to find passions of our own: ..."
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Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Epistemicide is going on in the USA atm. Ressources, knowledge and access are destroyed with the primary goal of complete eradication of marginalized communities.
Post by taliabhattwrites:

Epistemicide" is a term you should become very familiar with in all discussions regarding trans oppression.
It sounds fancier than it is. The term is related to the concept of epistemic injustice. In essence, trans people have historically been subject to a form of epistemicide: our stories, histories, testimonials, ways of life, all erased and buried to maintain the patriarchal myth of dichotomous, naturalized, immutable sex.
We are then further marginalized through epistemic injustice, prevented from participating in the processes of knowledge-production, our testimonies devalued, our voices suppressed and our identities defined for us, not by us. The perception of us shaped by others, instead of ourselves. The conversation about us dominated by the voices of those who'd rather stamp us out, shouting over us constantly.
If you're not accounting for this as a central mechanism animating transphobia, you're missing a lot of the picture.
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 25/01/2025
If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat.
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
See this quote tweet for example:
Tweet from Musk at 1:41 in the morning of 2. September 2024, writing „interesting observation“ with quote tweeting Autism Capital, which writes „Also known as the Reich effect“ above a screenshot from a 4C post, saying: „People who can't defend themselves physically (women and low T men) parse information through a consensus filter as a safety mechanism. They literally do
not ask "is this true", they ask "will others be OK with me thinking this is true". This makes them very malleable to brute force manufactured consensus; if every screen they look at says the same thing they will adopt that position because their brain interprets it as everyone in the tribe believing it. 

Only high T alpha males and aneurotypical people (hey autists!) are actually free to parse new information with an objective "is this true?" filter.

This is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision making. Democratic, but a democracy only for those who are free to think.“
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thanks for sharing! I’ve read some, know of most and added those I’m not familiar with. 🫶🏻
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Musk doing the Nazi Salute is not an autistic thing! But it is an „Aspie Supremacy“ one. Based on eugenicist Hans Asperger, who sorted autistic children into „useful“ and „worthless“ for the Nazis, this fascist ideology within the community should be known and talked about: youtu.be/ui2h_pHDDmk
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"Aspie Supremacy" - A Deep Dive
YouTube video by Ember Green
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Edgar Allan Poe™ @deraltepoet.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
„Das wirklich beängstigende am Totalitarismus ist nicht, dass er Massaker begeht, sondern dass er das Konzept der objektiven Wahrheit angreift: Er gibt vor, die Vergangenheit wie die Zukunft zu kontrollieren.“ George Orwell (* 25. Juni 1903 - † 21. Januar 1950) Quelle: gutezitate.com/zitat/202829
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Nach dem Bedauern, das du noch im Dez Podcast ausgedrückt hast, freu ich mich, dass dein Jahr, so mein Verständnis, „liberating“ zu starten scheint (und hoffentlich dahingehend fortentwickelt🤞🏻). Gerade wenn 2025 sonst am Arsch ist, ist es ermutigend das (pièce de résistance) zu sehen.
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Highly recommend watching @leslieexp.bsky.social essay, title says it all: youtu.be/lA9eTXWymvo
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Plague is a Racket: Disaster Capitalism and the Pandemic
YouTube video by Leslie Exp
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Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Ich erinnere mich, wie Freundinnen von mir vor ein, zwei Jahren schon sagten, sie glaubten, dass ihr deutscher Pass irgendwann wertlos sei. Jetzt spricht der Kanzler-Kandidat der Union genau das aus. Die AfD wird nicht überflüssig durch eine Merz-CDU, sie kommt nur noch schneller zum Ziel.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Yes. It’s positive & negative eugenics.
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Uuuh, that sounds interesting! Spontaneously, I feel reminded of John Law‘s method assemblies. Put that interview on my want-to-read pile 😆
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
… head over to @stimpunks.org and read their glossary entry. It gives a great overview and touches on many aspects that brought me this conviction over the past decade: stimpunks.org/glossary/nor...
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Normal
Normal was created, not discovered, by flawed, eccentric, self-interested, racist, ableist, homophobic, sexist humans. Normal is a statistical fiction, nothing less. Knowing this is the first step tow...
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My new tattoo. I got at the end of November this year. As queer crip person, I now wear this deeply held conviction on my skin. If you’re curious the why …
Black and white picture of the upper back from Romy (romluras) showing the tattoo, saying „normal is killing us“ in a cyberpunk-esque font, divided in three lines. Top says „normal is“, filled out in black, middle says „killing“ with a metal-like shading and „us“ at the bottom, with a light shading at the lower left and upper right corners of the individual letters.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/11/2024
This is one of those examples that illustrates a harm of algorithmic systems that is often invisible—system “predicts” who is likely to miss appointments, and recommends double booking those slots, thus punishing poor people by wasting their time. arstechnica.com/health/2024/...
AI guardrails

Last, the administration's proposal also tries to shore up guardrails for the use of AI in health care with edits to existing policy. The goal is to make sure Medicare Advantage insurers don't adopt flawed AI recommendations that deepen bias and discrimination or exacerbate existing inequities.

As an example, the administration pointed to the use of AI to predict which patients would miss medical appointments—and then recommend that providers double-book the appointment slots for those patients. In this case, low-income patients are more likely to miss appointments, because they may struggle with transportation, childcare, and work schedules. "As a result of using this data within the AI tool, providers double-booked lower-income patients, causing longer wait times for lower-income patients and perpetuating the cycle of additional missed appointments for vulnerable patients." As such, it should be barred, the administration says.
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Erläuterung: In Unterstützung zu dem was Lili geschrieben hat, möchte ich mit dem Zitat explizit machen, dass diese Realität nicht in den Köpfen bleibt, sondern die daraus resultierenden Handlungen horrende Folgen für Andere hat (bewusst subjektiviert, siehe „Othering“).
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Romy S. Rasper @romluras.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Dazu das Thomas-„Theorem“ aus der Soziologie: „Wenn die Menschen Situationen als wirklich definieren, sind diese in ihren Konsequenzen wirklich“ Im englischen Original: “If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences” CN Paranoia, Mord de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas-...
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Thomas-Theorem – Wikipedia
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/11/2024
this is a green flag for openai & meta to formally be arbitrators of our languages & mass exploit the population (& researcher that've poured their souls into low resource languages),all to throw unreliable AI that has so far proven to result in more harm than benefit www.reuters.com/technology/a...
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Orange enlists Meta and OpenAI to develop AI language models in Africa
Orange will enlist OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI large language models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, it said on Tuesday.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/11/2024
most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/
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