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Eike Schultz
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AI scientist @ Uni zu Lübeck, Germany | Active for #VoltSH | Member of the LGBTQ+ community

Feel free to reach out for any reason, always happy to help out! You can find my contact details at the obvious places.
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gnarlyghost.bsky.social
River Monster
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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darrylayo.bsky.social
Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free”

the library bought it.

which in turn means that the community bought it.

In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
November 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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voltschleswigholstein.org
Geh morgen wählen! 🗳💜

Am Sonntag, 16. November, ist OB-Wahl. Deine Stimme zählt, und du kannst auch ohne Wahlbenachrichtigung oder mit spontaner Erkrankung wählen 1/4
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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kjhealy.co
What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d
here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
Much more interesting than the story was its source: Jordan Lasker, who got the Columbia data from a hacker. The Times initially identified him only as “Crémieux,” his Twitter handle, describing him as “an academic and an opponent of affirmative action” and even linking to his (incredibly racist) Substack. But not only had Lasker’s name already been published by The Guardian in an article about a “natalism” conference full of racists (sensing a theme here), one of his few published articles—another piece of “scientific” racism—was also so atrocious it got his co-author, Bryan Pesta, then a tenured professor at Cleveland State University, fired. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported the story back in 2022. Pesta published the article, “Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability,” he co-wrote with Lasker in the first issue of a new journal of which he was the editor in chief. The entire issue was nothing but racist pseudoscience, but worse, it turned out that Pesta had gotten the data for his article by lying to the National Institutes of Health about what he intended to do. That got him canned, and deservedly so. There’s a reason why race “science” is on the fringes of academia: It’s complete nonsense, the province of freaks, liars, and failures. None of this was in the Times article. Either the authors and editors knew about it and chose to whitewash a racist troll, or they did no investigation whatsoever of their only source—perhaps because they were worried about being scooped by Chris Rufo. Their only concession was a stealth edit adding that Lasker “writes often about I.Q. and race.” Oh really? What, pray tell, does he write exactly?
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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unraveledpress.com
Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities
dansinker.com dan sinker @dansinker.com · 8d
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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cameronwilson.bsky.social
In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat.

They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.

This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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markus.reuter.netzpolitik.org
Eine demokratische Gesellschaft braucht keine (biometrischen) Big-Data-Auswertungen mit Profilbildung durch Verknüpfung von allen möglichen Datenbanken - egal wer diese Überwachungssoftware herstellt.
ricardalang.bsky.social Ricarda Lang @ricardalang.bsky.social · 9d
Stattdessen braucht es europäische Alternativen zu #Palantir.
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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danisaacs.bsky.social
3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
My Facebook post of @ChiquitaBrands and @Chiquita posting "We've just overthrown the government of Brazil", to which the later replied "We apologize to those who have served a misleading message from a fake Chiquita account. We have not overthrown a government since 1954"
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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xkcd.com
Earthquake Prediction Flowchart

xkcd.com/3165/
Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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darkforestpress.bsky.social
I cannot tell you how happy I am that I get to listen to @iwriteok.bsky.social and @margaret.bsky.social play pathfinder!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part One
Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 02/11/2025 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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dwisk.us
The TV Academy is inviting me to a “GenJam”. Like a game jam, but for generative AI.

As the entertainment industry cooks itself in desperation, digital creators are just out here building passionate audiences and making money.
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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ingwarpero.bsky.social
Welche Produkte in 🇩🇪 mit 19% besteuert werden:

- Hafermilch
- Windeln
- Sojaschnitzel

Und Welche mit 7%:

- Kuhmilch
- Fleisch
- Froschschenkel

Und Welche überhaupt nicht:

- Flugkerosin
- Schiffsdiesel
- Int. Flugtickets

Unser Steuersystem ist völlig absurd und gehört reformiert!
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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ansgartrinkmann.bsky.social
Fliegenpilz. Ist dieser Pilz essbar? KI: ja Person tot. KI: Du hast Recht, es ist ein giftiger Pilz. Möchtest Du mehr über giftige Pilze erfahren?
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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astrokatie.com
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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boroughbound.bsky.social
Oops, I went crazy thinking about magic.
October 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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kathakritzelt.bsky.social
Im ZDF wurde zum ersten Mal ein queerer katholischer Gottesdienst übertragen. Vorbereitet wurde der Gottesdienst von der Queergemeinde Münster.
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Es gibt zu viele negative News, deswegen poste ich jeden Tag eine #guteNewsdesTages.
October 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
If we put half as much resources into metadata and cataloging as we do into dumb AI stuff, we’d way better off in terms of the info/data ecosystem
crossref.bsky.social Crossref @crossref.bsky.social · 28d
Panel at #Crossref2025 wonders if metadata has an image problem. Bianca Kramer says the word metadata not used in the Barcelona Declaration. Mariángela Napoli thinks perception of metadata is something too technical. Kazuhiro Hayashi describes metadata as "the unsung hero". Time for a rebrand ;)
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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alisonburnis.bsky.social
As a person who will do math in her head to avoid the time lag of having to dig out my phone and open the calculator app and punch numbers in, I have come to realize I’m not the market for genAI simply because I would rather use my brain than open an app if given the choice.
October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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netzpolitik.org
Ausländerbehörden dürfen Handys von Geflüchteten durchsuchen und behalten – auf unbestimmte Zeit. Was als Maßnahme zur Identitätsfeststellung verkauft wird, ist digitale Repression: ein Eingriff in Privatsphäre und Würde, der im Rechtsstaat keinen Platz haben sollte.

netzpolitik.org/2025/eingezo...
Eingezogene Handys: Eine Härte, die nur Schwäche zeigt
Ausländerbehörden dürfen Handys von Geflüchteten durchsuchen und behalten – auf unbestimmte Zeit. Was gesetzlich als Maßnahme zur Feststellung der Identität verkauft wird, ist in Wahrheit digitale Rep...
netzpolitik.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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jesseltaylor.bsky.social
"everyone is mad at me and that's good" is one of the most poisonous inventions of the social media era
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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brat.fm
I know writers who use subtext, and they're all COWARDS
October 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
‘The exceptionally limited edition book.’ (My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books)
Title: The exceptionally limited edition book Part 1. Bound in cloth taken from the author's wardrobe! (image of tweed-bound book) Indecipherably elegant font! Your mere presence sullies its beauty! Part 2. Luxurious presentation! (the book inside) Three slipcases (inside a) Lightproof Velvet bag (indide a) Archival Glass box (inside a) Lead-lined Biometric safe Part 3. Scroll of Authenticity! (image of long, text-covered scroll with am ornate seal) Includes author's signature, home phone number and invitation to stay for a few days over the summer. Part 4. Too heavy to hold: reading assistants On standby 24/7 (image of two figures holding huge book) Sign up promptly to ensure you are considered for the waiting list to enter the lottery to register your interest in preordering a copy!
October 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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jocelynl.bsky.social
ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right

I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed
This is fine dog meme Am orangish brown dog sits on a red chair wearing a hat that matches his fur color. A circular table in front of him has a coffee cup on it. Around him, flames roar and smoke covers the ceiling. His speech bubble says "this is fine"
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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investigativ.greenpeace.de
Durch eine Teilnehmerliste, die @fragdenstaat.de per IFG erhielt, können wir dem Netzwerk der Stiftung Familienunternehmen 4 weitere Großunternehmen zuordnen, darunter Pharmariese Roche & Haribo 🍭

Wieder kein Mittelstand dabei 🤷‍♀️

Die ergänzte Liste gibt's hier: daten.greenpeace.de/dataset/netz...
Liste des Netzwerks der Stiftung Familienunternehmen - Greenpeace Datenportal | Umweltdaten
Greenpeace konnte erstmals große Teile des Netzwerks der Stiftung Familienunternehmen (SFU) offenlegen. 258 Unternehmen und die dahinterstehenden Familien konnten wir dem Netzwerk zuordnen. Dabei...
daten.greenpeace.de
October 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM