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Katrin Becker @katrinbecker.eu · 22/08/2026

Our project "INFRADEM – Reconfiguring Digital Infrastructure as a Site of Democratic Transformation" received a generous 5-year funding from the VolkswagenStiftung 🎊.

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Katrin Becker @katrinbecker.eu · 22/08/2026

I am so looking forward to continuing to work with the fabulous @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @wesselreijers.bsky.social, Danny Lämmerhirt (Waag Futurelab), and Jan Rathje (CeMAS). Thanks a lot to @mirod.bsky.social and Gregor Bauer for your valuable contributions to preparing and delivering the pitch!

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Lukas Oberndorfer @lukasoberndorfer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Die Klimakrise hat damit eine dreifache Klassenstruktur: Wer am meisten emittiert, hat den größten Einfluss – und kann sich am besten schützen. Wer das Klima am wenigsten schädigt, hat am wenigsten Einfluss und trägt die schwersten Folgen. 5/7 www.awblog.at/klima-energi...

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Verantwortung für die Klimakrise: Reiche und Konzernbesitzer:innen in die Pflicht nehmen

Die Klimakrise ist nicht nur eine ökologische, sondern auch eine soziale Frage: Während weniger wohlhabende Menschen die Folgen wie Hitze oder Überschwemmungen besonders stark spüren, profitieren die ...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/06/2026

I just woke up and this is the first nonsense of the day. Setting the bar high! 🫣 > We want your thoughts on what you are most excited to see from our scanners. We want your thoughts on what our spas should be like.

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Something to remind myself of once in a while: Anathema is such an amazing band! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OynD...

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Fragile Dreams

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

How long will it take until the biggest gas field in Europe (in Groningen, NL) will be reopened? But this time around, the Dutch government can't afford the grave mistakes of the past, and respect the local people and environment.

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Anna-Verena Nosthoff @annanosthoff.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"Unbedingt lesenswert" – ich freue mich ganz außerordentlich über diese ausführliche und schöne Besprechung meines Buches "Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst" (@suhrkamp.de) in der @faznet.bsky.social von @hannahschmidtott.bsky.social: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

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Zwei neue Bücher zur Digitalisierung: Jetzt herrschen die Algorithmen

Likes bestimmen Sichtbarkeit, Interfaces lenken Klicks, Algorithmen sortieren Inhalte: Dirk Baecker und Anna-Verena Nosthoff zeigen, wie Gesellschaften digital gesteuert werden.

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Band and song of the day: Múr - Heimsslit They deserve more listeners. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMS6...

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Múr - Heimsslit (Official Music Video)

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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Eine neue Folge Future Histories LIVE! Diesmal spreche ich mit @annanosthoff.bsky.social (@criticaldatalab.bsky.social; Uni Oldenburg) über ihr neues Buch 'Kybernetik und Kritik: Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst' (@suhrkamp.de). Zu finden hier: buff.ly/ljnfHXe #FutureHistories #Podcast

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Just reading Abraham Kuyper's inaugural address at the VU. What a great thinker he was!

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

We played a gig yesterday with Paper Knife at Hafenbahnhof in Hamburg. It was a great night! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n98N...

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Paper Knife @ Hafenbahnhof

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Song of the day: some great Irish music! Let's take another round www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhjZ...

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The Scratch - Another Round (Official Video)

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Peer review is becoming highly demotivating due to AI generated papers. While waisting more of my time, I increasingly have the tendency to just decline review requests.

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Join the webinar on Continuity funding for research and innovation, on January 7, 4pm CET. Message me for a link! Continuity funding is an alternative to current R&I funding focused on competitive projects, instead supporting sustainable science. Read more: news.dyne.org/rethinking-r...

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Rethinking R&I Funding: Opting for Continuity

There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to.

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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 30/11/2025

The irony of machine learning turning into this GenAI monstrosity is that it would be wonderful to have a tutor who can check my work while I self-learn at times when teachers need sleep. Instead GenAI is not only disenfranchising educators, but creating "diseducation" systems for experts.

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Rainer Mühlhoff @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🌟 Work With Us! 🌟 Stellen im DFG-Projekt „Prädiktives Wissen ist Macht: Ethik und Recht kollektiver Privatheit“: ▶️ 1x 75% Ph.D.-Stelle in Rechtswissenschaften (@hannahruschemeier.bsky.social) ▶️ 1x 100% Postdoc-Stelle in Philosophie (Rainer Mühlhoff). Alles Infos: 👉 purposelimitation.ai/dfg-project/

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DFG Project: Predictive Knowledge is Power

27 Nov 2025: We are hiring

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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Really glad to see this out! @apsmolenska.bsky.social and I give our account for @boell.de of why the future of the dollar is also crucial for climate policy

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

There’s a growing & deeply problematic tendency to use #genAI for political and historical education Take this example from Germany, which translates as: «Hey AI, who should I vote for.» What’s typical here is that AI is not only addressed as pseudo-person but also as a kind of impartial judge 1/

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KI-generierte Bilder aus den Wahlprogrammen der Parteien zur Landtagswahl - Ausstellung und Podiumsdiskussion; Materialien für Schulklassen

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

First experience of having to review an AI generated 'academic' paper... how bleak.

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Research and innovation funding in Europe is broken. But, there is an alternative! Together with @jaromil.bsky.social I'm working on an idea for continuity funding, for long-term, sustainable, and non-precarious R&I Check it out here: news.dyne.org/rethinking-r...

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Rethinking R&I Funding: Opting for Continuity

There is a widening consensus that research and innovation (R&I) funding in Europe is not working the way it is supposed to.

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Brett Scott @brettscott.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Want a simple foundation from which to understand confusing topics like trade deficits, tariffs, and stablecoins? Check out my new video where I explain the international monetary system in under 15 minutes www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHT...

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The entire global monetary system explained in under 15 minutes

YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

New post 🚨 The Risk of More Reliable AI briandavidearp.substack.com/p/the-risk-o... -- Maybe hallucinations are good?

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Brett Scott @brettscott.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

A typical financial market has *fundamental* traders who watch the world and *technical* traders who watch other traders. A striking feature of the Bitcoin market is the almost total absence of the former. This has increasingly serious implications for all of us www.asomo.co/p/the-whale-...

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The Whale of Mass Destruction

How a fundamental weakness in Bitcoin might (technically) crash our economy

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

🤖 In other news, it seems all those influencers telling you your workplace HAS to get on the AI bandwagon or will be left behind don't wholly know what they're talking about. fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...

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MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved

Michael Love@elkmovie.bsky.social • 6m
I thought this sounded familiar and it turns out it literally just found an old George RR
Martin quote and wrote a short story out of it:
George R.R. Martin > Quotes > Quotable Quote (?)
"I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners.
The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing
designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect."
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- George R.R. Martin

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Many EU member states are arguing for forcing WhatsApp to inspect all our photos w/AI. If the AI is in any “doubt” if it might be child pornography, your photo, location & other details get reported to Europol and a local police force. This is a terrible plan: berthub.eu/articles/pos... #chatcontrol

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Chatcontrol 2025 edition in Brief - Bert Hubert

In short, led by Denmark, many EU member states are arguing for forcing WhatsApp/Signal/etc to inspect all our photos and links, using AI. If the AI is in any “doubt” if this might be child pornograph...

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Anna-Verena Nosthoff @annanosthoff.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Das sechsteilige Feature "Tech Bro Topia" über die Ideologien der Tech-Milliardäre (von Musk bis Andreessen, vom Longtermism bis zum #eacc) ist nun online @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy. Es war eine Freude, dabei zu sein – vielen Dank für die Einladung: www.deutschlandfunk.de/tech-bro-top...

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Podcast "Tech Bro Topia" (1/6)

Sommer 2025: Die USA vollziehen den Schwenk zum Autoritarismus. Mittendrin die Tech-Bros aus dem Silicon Valley.

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I've just tried Google's NotebookLM and though I've never been too impressed by ChatGPT and the like, this seems to change a lot. It can write original papers, grant applications, you name it; accurately because it only cross-references the texts you add. How to deal with this?

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

In what kind of world do we live when we are not even sure whether billionaires exists or not??? Source: Forbes newsletter.

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METR @metr.org · 10/07/2025

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Marijn Sax @marijnsax.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

De UvA rolt nu de 'eigen' AI Chat uit. Alle medewerkers hebben nu toegang, studenten binnenkort ook. Inclusief UvA-logo's voor vertrouwelijke feel. Het wordt echt een drama, hele simpele feitelijke vragen (bijv. wat staat in artikel 25(1) van de DSA) leveren meermaals totaal foutieve output op.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/07/2025

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

$The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.$

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Joe Rogan talking with Bernie Sanders is strangely heart warming. They genuinely make an effort to bridge ideological differences to have a meaningful conversation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYVz...

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Joe Rogan Experience #2341 - Bernie Sanders

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Having a bit of a Trump appreciation moment, what's going on?

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The problem with the idea of "stochastic parrot" is that, while it denies the (false) claim that Ai is something like a human being, it leaves the door open for the (false) claim of it being something like an animal.

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

if you don't have kids, you might not know there is currently a massive global Luddite social movement stirring around smartphones and kids. in the Netherlands, parents of over 45,000 kids have signed anti-phone pledges www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

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Opinion | We Don’t Have to Give In to the Smartphones

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Patrik Hummel @pathumm.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

At the University of Lucerne, there is an open PhD position in Philosophy within the new Zug Institute for Blockchain Research. The application deadline is on 20 June. For full details, see: tinyurl.com/45huzpek

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wiss. Assistent:in / Doktorand:in (50%) am Lehrstuhl für Philosophie und Blockchain - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistenz, Doktorandin, Mitarbeiter oder Praktikant: Sie suchen einen Job an der Universität Luzern? Hier finden Sie unsere offenen Stellen und Lehrstellen.

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

What is "Positive Luddism" and how can it help us rethink the political relationship we have with technology? I tried to answer this question in the great Doing Digital Utopia Glossary, co-organised by @annanosthoff.bsky.social and @fmaschewski.bsky.social doing-digital-utopia.de/artikel/posi...

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Positive Luddism – Wessel Reijers

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Just stumbled upon a paper that I can't believe has actually been published: www.nature.com/articles/s41... It's good to have a nuanced view on this complicated heritage, but this paper is completely apologetic, even in its title, for indeed a great scientist that supported a lethal idea.

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The outstanding scientist, R.A. Fisher: his views on eugenics and race - Heredity

Heredity - The outstanding scientist, R.A. Fisher: his views on eugenics and race

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Wessel Reijers @wesselreijers.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Whoever is doing an ethnography of AI talk on Reddit must be having a complete field day. There are so many gems of discussions on there.

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