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nsdoku.bsky.social
Am heutigen internationalen Transgender Day of Remembrance erinnern wir an die Opfer von trans*feindlicher Gewalt.

Weltweit kämpfen queere Personen immer noch um grundlegende Menschenrechte wie dem Schutz vor Diskriminierung, Gewalt und Ausgrenzung.

#transRightsAreHumanRights
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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lauraillustrates.bsky.social
remember to take breaks to do the things you love
illustration of a a fluffy white sheep baker making some bread, with dough and some bread making tools and ingredients. there is text next to the illustration that says "even dough needs to rest"
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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s-bahn-muenchen.de
Information zum Oktoberfest / Polizeieinsatz:
Das Oktoberfest ist vorerst geschlossen. Bitte fahren Sie nicht zur Festwiese!!!
The Oktoberfest remains closed. Please do not go to the festival area.
Weitere Informationen unter: stadt.muenchen.de/news/oktober...
Oktoberfest vorerst geschlossen
Aufgrund einer Sprengstoffdrohung im Zusammenhang mit der Explosion im Münchner Norden wird die Theresienwiese vorerst bis 17:00 Uhr nicht geöffnet.
stadt.muenchen.de
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...
The War on Science
YouTube video by Shaun
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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david-jenkins.bsky.social
1775. An editor comes into work on Christmas eve to find a manuscript on his desk. The title: A HISTORY OF PYRATES by Charles Johnson. (We have no budget so we’ll say the editor is played by Michael Stuhlbarg).
December 24, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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olivia.science
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
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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efdavies.bsky.social
München aufgepasst: morgen um 17 Uhr gibt es eine Demo für die europäische Friedens- und Sicherheitsordnung. Für die Ukraine und gegen einen „Deal“ zwischen zwei Autokraten auf dem Rücken der Ukraine. Kommt zahlreich!
Aufruf zur Demo „kein zweites München 1938“, 15. August, 17 Uhr, Arcisstraße 12 in München.
August 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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gruene.de
August 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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amnesty.de
Seit heute kontrolliert #Polen die #Grenzen nach #Deutschland - eine Retourkutsche.
👉 Die Zurückweisungen von Schutzsuchenden an beiden Seiten der Grenze müssen aufhören. Sie sind illegal.
👉 Wer sich von einem gemeinsamen Vorgehen der EU zu Asyl verabschiedet, produziert Staus, sonst nichts.
July 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
King behaviour 👑
June 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
yes trains
garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · Jun 21
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
absolute genius
letsnotdate.bsky.social Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · Jun 15
Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to…
A: find your mom’s Facebook
B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were
C: badly photoshop that into a locket
D: convince you I’m your daughter.

Happy Father’s Day Daddy.
June 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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nprpatrick.bsky.social
The joy-scrolling website that you didn’t know you needed. h/t @rekha6.bsky.social

owlsintowels.org
Owls in Towels
owlsintowels.org
June 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month
8 panel comic Panel 1: Yellow guy is working on a laptop in the background. In the foreground is a Brand Manager. Yellow Guy: “Sir, shall I put up our rainbow profile picture?” Panel 2: Brand Manger snaps his head round and hisses “Cool your jets, Eugene. I’m checking the Profitometer” Panel 3: Gonna do my best to explain this. We see The Profitometer. A huge machine that whirs and ticks. A digital display at the top of the machine reads “Supporting Pride equals”Beneath this display is a huge gauge with “Max Loss” on the left and “Max profit” on the right. There is a needle that is pointing exactly half way between the two extremes. Panel 4: Close up on Brand Manager’s face. His teeth are gritted. Sweat trickles down his brow. Panel 5: Close up on gauge. The needle remains exactly central Panel 6: Close up on Brand Manager’s eyes. They are concentrating intensely. Also, more sweat. Panel 7: Close up on the gauge. The needle clicks ONE DEGREE towards profit Panel 8: Brand Manager screams like a football coach “GO GAY EUGENE”
May 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
Overcompensating is SO GOOD
May 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
oof shower me in any Russian literature... i was obsessed with it in hs. double points if it was 700+ pages long
chantalalive.blacksky.app Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · May 14
I was obsessed with Dostoyevsky’s CRIME & PUNISHMENT.
garrt.bsky.social Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · May 14
This post makes me want to know if there is one book they read in high school English class that they especially enjoyed?

For me, it would be Mikhail Bulgakov's 'The Master And Margarita'

(If we're including plays, then it is Amiri Baraka's 'A Black Mass')
May 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
People need to chill with their "Scholz is the worst chancellor in history" takes. First of all, *all* history, really? I can think of worse ones. Even if you consider only post-war, there was literally a Nazi chancellor (Kiesinger). So Scholz is worse than a NSDAP party member? Cmon.
May 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
HAHAHAHA
May 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social
An alle Sender, Talkshowbetreiber und Medienverantwortlichen: Wer ab heute noch AfD-Vertreter einlädt, kann sich nicht mehr rausreden: Er normalisiert bewusst Rechtsextremismus. Schluss mit der falschen Neutralität! Demokratie bedeutet nicht, Demokratiefeinden ein Forum zu geben.
spiegel.de: Verfassungsschutz stuft gesamte AfD als gesichert rechtsextremistisch ein
May 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
also spying on bird nests outside my window!
numcog.bsky.social Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · May 1
Middle age joy is watching the bird feeder
May 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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theonion.com
Drake Catches Himself Singing ‘Not Like Us’ In The Shower
Drake Catches Himself Singing ‘Not Like Us’ In The Shower
April 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
“Plaintiff, (...) lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated. Instead of accepting the loss like the unbothered rap artist he often claims to be, he has sued his own record label in a misguided attempt to salve his wounds.”
April 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
visdeurbel.nl/en/
April 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
@ramitsethi.bsky.social missed your live but watched it tonight. I could listen to you bitch about Trump and what hes doing to the world economy every day <3 love your podcast
April 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
boopdasnoot.bsky.social
This excellent review lives rent-free in my mind. I didnt even read the book, I just went down the goodreads rabbit hole. Review by Kyle www.goodreads.com/user/show/95... from the book Dark Matter www.goodreads.com/book/show/27...
A 1 star review from goodreads that goes: There's a moment late into the book that really bothered me, where Jason recounts first seeing Daniela (his wife) at a party. He notices her chatting up some guy in "tight jeans", who a friend told him sleeps with everyone. And so based on a rumor, and the fact that he BELIEVES Daniela is in an uncomfortable position, he gets, ya know, super masculine and jealous and angry. Of course, he has to "rescue" this woman and claim her for himself. And so he does. 1. Slut shaming goes both ways. 2. Don't assume she needs another man to swoop in and claim the prize (crossed out) save her. 3. You admit to "cockblocking", and you essentially put yourself in the position to woo her and have sex with her, which makes you ultimately worse. 4. I fucking hate you so much, Jason, you pathetic POS.
March 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM