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Debora Weber-Wulff
@wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
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I still teach various media and software-oriented subjects at an engineering college in Berlin, Germany, although I retired in April 2023. Projects on […]

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wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d
I #di_day it a few days early. I helped my husband put together his new frame.work laptop (and that is an awesome thing, heavy, a bit loud, but easy to build and swap out what you need and to upgrade as necessary).
After building we installed Ubuntu 25, easy as pie. And all his favorite apps are […]
Original post on fediscience.org
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mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy
Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Is the Fulton County election office search warrant online (preferably the affidavit, but I'll take the order itself)?

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operations.openstreetmap.org
OpenStreetMap Ops Team @operations.openstreetmap.org · 5d
If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how […]
Original post on en.osm.town
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Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d
"Trump's letter to Norway should be the final straw," writes Anne Applebaum for @TheAtlantic. She breaks down the bizarre document, and what it means: "Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now […]
Original post on flipboard.social
flipboard.social

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thetnholler.bsky.social
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d
🔥Greenland politician: “Trump doesn’t know about Greenlandic people. We don’t value💰/Kardashian lips/fake boobs… we won’t give up free health care & education… 🇺🇸are so greedy they’re trying to shoot their friends… Trump surrounds himself with white power— our rights would probably be taken away.”

wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15d
@SilviaMarton
Nördlich von Kopenhagen ist Louisiana, eine Moderne Kunst-Museum. Sie haben einen Kinderparadies, wir haben unseren 7-jährigen mal dort gelassen während wir im Museum rundgingen. Der Junge wollte nicht weg, es hat ihn so viel Spaß gemach! Er hat uns ganz begeistert alles gezeigt […]
Original post on fediscience.org
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david.prochnow.xyz
David Prochnow @david.prochnow.xyz · 16d
Die Medien sollten X.com Zitate immer mit Formulierungen wie: „Auf der Deep-Fake-Porno-Plattform X schrieb Merz …“, einleiten.

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lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d
Okay, this must absolutely have been made with some kind of generative AI, but it's not pretending to be real, it's hella funny/deadly serious and just superb. (I especially love the tough walrus smoking a cigar while driving a fishing boat 😂 ) Kudos to the makers!

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bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d
https://hackerone.com/reports/3506159
0 days since the latest slop

wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22d
I called a pharmacist to see if they were still open (they were!). I admit to being surprised to have a real human answer the phone! There have gotten to be so many "support bots" out there that my normal reaction is to scream into the phone that I want to speak with a human. That actually often […]
Original post on fediscience.org
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wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22d
It is that serious::

“If you’re running a vulnerable version [of n8n] and you’re reading this before patching, close this newsletter and go update. The write-up will still be here when you get back.”

https://www.rockcybermusings.com/p/weekly-musings-top-10-ai-security-20260102-20260108 […]
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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d
@EUCommission @_elena
The EU Commission should stop advertising X on "our" web site. They're not the USA Commission nor an ad network.

Tap "give us more feedback" in the footer, select "other" and type in the form https://commission.europa.eu

Write your […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Tap "give us more feedback", select "other" and type in the form on https://commission.europa.eu Screenshot from the EU commission Mastodon post of December 22 2025. The text says "All I want for Christmas is no more addictive algorithms"

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purple.woof.tech
Purple :verified: @purple.woof.tech · 24d
Is anyone else experience this thing where your fellow senior engineers seem to be lobotomised by AI?

I've had 4 different senior engineers in the last week come up with absolutely insane changes or code, that they were instructed to do by AI. Things that if you used your brain for a few […]
Original post on woof.tech
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heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d
If you have a moment, file a complaint against X with the Apple App Store.
• App Store X X Corp. Developer Website › Tell us more... Pornography or sexual content For what reason... Predatory behavior toward children Describe the Issue X is using its Al bot to generate child pornography on demand. Enter between 5 and 1000 characters: 63/1000 reportaproblem.apple.com

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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 27d
I need university administrators (and probably some other people too, but definitely university administrators) to understand something: you cannot motivate your faculty to do more research or better teaching.

They are already maximally motivated people. They did not get the job by being […]
Original post on discuss.systems
discuss.systems

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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29d
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jan 3
@sixtus
@DerSpiegel
Bitte beachten! Das ist Software, kein Mensch!

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sixtus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Mario Sixtus 🇭🇰馬六 @sixtus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jan 3
"Nach Kritik (...) hat Elon Musks KI-Chatbot Grok Fehler eingeräumt."
HALLO DPA! JEMAND ZU HAUSE? DAS IST EIN INTERVIEW MIT EINEM STÜCK SOFTWARE! DAS GESTEHT GAR NICHTS UND RÄUMT GAR NICHTS EIN, ZUM FICK NOCHMAL!" Kaum 2026 und schon antropomorphende Journalisten! 🫣🤪🙄 […]
Original post on mastodon.social
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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jan 2
Computer scientist Yann LeCun: ‘Intelligence really is about learning’ - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/56c46ea8-e1d8-45ff-ab32-4dcd4c93be8d via @FT

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paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy
Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · Jan 1
Timezones are so silly. New Zealand and Australia are in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · Dec 30
39C3: Vom interessanten Rechtsverständnis des "Wurstkönigs" bei Palantir & mehr

Constanze Kurz und Franziska Görlitz warnen vor dem Einsatz von Palantir bei der Polizei. Damit seien Grundrechte in Gefahr […]
Original post on social.heise.de
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shoq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Shoq @shoq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 30
Carl Sagan called it over 30 years ago. And the saddest thing is that too many under 30 don’t even know what the fuck he was talking about. For the very reasons he was talking about. #WASF

https://stzl.ink/9wjruk
Reminiscent of Carl Sagan's prescient fear/warning.

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davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy
David Ho @davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Dec 29
As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many applications now require an internet connection to function.
A pop-up window from Adobe Acrobat indicating that it cannot verify subscription status. It suggests checking the internet connection and provides options to "Quit Adobe Acrobat" or "Try Again." An error code (12014) is displayed along with a link to a for troubleshooting.

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chris köver @ckoever.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 26
Morgen bin ich auf dem #39c3 , um dort über Ausländerbehörden zu sprechen, die Handys durchsuchen. Ihr könnt auch im Stream zuschauen. ✌️

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/chaos-communication-congress-netzpolitik-org-auf-dem-39c3/
Chaos Communication Congress: netzpolitik.org auf dem 39C3
Szene vom 37C3 – CC-BY 4.0 TheDigitalRoadtrip; Bearbeitung: netzpolitik.orgBeim 39. Chaos Communication Congress sind auch Redakteur*innen und Autor*innen von netzpolitik.org auf der Bühne. Lest hier, wie ihr die Vorträge vor Ort oder per Stream verfolgt – und wann ihr die Redaktion persönlich vor Ort treffen könnt.
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big awoo notation @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · Dec 25
The two hardest problems in Computer Science are:

1. Getting up in the morning
2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Dec 23
@jgamble
Dorfromantik, dann Sakura

wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Dec 23
@julian @yaarur @ai6yr
Thank you so much for this! I use it to generate a QR code for my slides for talks that I give and I put their institutional logo in the middle. They are so proud to see them! And always with a link to your web site.

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xgranade.com
Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · Dec 22
And yes, this is once again critiquing Dash's whole "I trained this model myself from open weights." That's fine-tuning. You didn't "train it yourself," you took a model someone gave you *in its compiled form* and tweaked it. Unless you have provenance for all the training data that went into it […]
Original post on wandering.shop
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xgranade.com
Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · Dec 22
One adjacent example of intentional miscommunication: the word "open" as applied to AI. An LLM cannot be "open source" unless you have access to the training data and methodologies. "Open weights" is a craven attempt to misdirect the word "open" — we might as well say that bunch of machine code […]
Original post on wandering.shop
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