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Thomas Amberg
@tamberg.bsky.social
Making, 👩‍💻 engineering & teaching IoT — https://quite.social/@tamberg
Just posted a challenge "System zur Ortung invasiver Hornissen" www.farming-hackdays.ch/challenges/s... for Open Farming Hackdays, Feb 06/07, 2026 www.farming-hackdays.ch - consider joining us!
System zur Ortung invasiver Hornissen
32h Hackathon für Agritech, Food Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit. Löse reale Challenges, pitch dein Projekt und vernetze dich. Ticket sichern!
www.farming-hackdays.ch
January 17, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy: "AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

There is so much genius in this essay

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Made a simple idea generator (no "AI") github.com/tamberg/idea which picks a random line each from n files.
GitHub - tamberg/idea: A simple idea generator
A simple idea generator. Contribute to tamberg/idea development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reposted by Thomas Amberg
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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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.
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September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
October 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Here are my slides on "Managing State on #Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing
September 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Here are my slides on "Composing UIs for #Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing
September 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Here are my slides "Reparieren im Haushalt mit 3D-gedruckten Teilen" www.tamberg.org/zuerichlernt... for yesterday's zuerich-lernt.ch workshop at www.recreazzz.repair
September 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Here are my slides on "Getting Started with #Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing
September 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Here are my slides on "Writing #Kotlin for Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing
September 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Here are my slides on "How system calls made my day" www.tamberg.org/fhnw/2024/Ho... presented at today's #TechTalk of fhnw.ch/imvs
January 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Here are my slides on "Using #GitHub as a #Library to Share Your #Hardware" www.tamberg.org/sgmk/2024/Us... presented at mechatronicart.ch X-mas Umtrunk
www.tamberg.org
December 7, 2024 at 8:21 PM