Florian Weber
@fnwbr.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Working on medienhaus/ and at the Berlin University of the Arts • Sociology & Technology Studies at TU Berlin
Formerly Social Sciences at Humboldt University & Computer […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://chaos.social/@fnwbr, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Formerly Social Sciences at Humboldt University & Computer […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://chaos.social/@fnwbr, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115923251561577968
Sure, there's a selection bias in here, but to summarize: in a seminar with 60 students not a single one of them wrote a better exam with the aid of a #llm.
Or as the author would put it:
> "Can chatbots help? Yes, if you know how to use them. But […]
Sure, there's a selection bias in here, but to summarize: in a seminar with 60 students not a single one of them wrote a better exam with the aid of a #llm.
Or as the author would put it:
> "Can chatbots help? Yes, if you know how to use them. But […]
January 26, 2026 at 5:56 PM
RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115923251561577968
Sure, there's a selection bias in here, but to summarize: in a seminar with 60 students not a single one of them wrote a better exam with the aid of a #llm.
Or as the author would put it:
> "Can chatbots help? Yes, if you know how to use them. But […]
Sure, there's a selection bias in here, but to summarize: in a seminar with 60 students not a single one of them wrote a better exam with the aid of a #llm.
Or as the author would put it:
> "Can chatbots help? Yes, if you know how to use them. But […]
Re #whatsapp interoperability: am I the only one who is smelling malicious compliance here?
Why are the only solutions compatible with Meta's messenger platform coming from complete unknown corners of the interwebz, have no user-base and no history of previous offerings? Why is there zero […]
Why are the only solutions compatible with Meta's messenger platform coming from complete unknown corners of the interwebz, have no user-base and no history of previous offerings? Why is there zero […]
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chaos.social
January 25, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Re #whatsapp interoperability: am I the only one who is smelling malicious compliance here?
Why are the only solutions compatible with Meta's messenger platform coming from complete unknown corners of the interwebz, have no user-base and no history of previous offerings? Why is there zero […]
Why are the only solutions compatible with Meta's messenger platform coming from complete unknown corners of the interwebz, have no user-base and no history of previous offerings? Why is there zero […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@babetteknauer/115933572328791779
> “Not only does the UG want to be the first university in the Netherlands to be independent of tech giants such as Google and Microsoft, but the board of directors also wants to allocate serious funds.”
This is what the Berlin […]
> “Not only does the UG want to be the first university in the Netherlands to be independent of tech giants such as Google and Microsoft, but the board of directors also wants to allocate serious funds.”
This is what the Berlin […]
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chaos.social
January 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@babetteknauer/115933572328791779
> “Not only does the UG want to be the first university in the Netherlands to be independent of tech giants such as Google and Microsoft, but the board of directors also wants to allocate serious funds.”
This is what the Berlin […]
> “Not only does the UG want to be the first university in the Netherlands to be independent of tech giants such as Google and Microsoft, but the board of directors also wants to allocate serious funds.”
This is what the Berlin […]
> "The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market, and they endlessly pass around the same $100bn IOU."
And if you're interested in what "vulgar Thatcherism" refers to, you should give this one by @pluralistic a […]
And if you're interested in what "vulgar Thatcherism" refers to, you should give this one by @pluralistic a […]
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chaos.social
January 24, 2026 at 5:24 PM
> "The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market, and they endlessly pass around the same $100bn IOU."
And if you're interested in what "vulgar Thatcherism" refers to, you should give this one by @pluralistic a […]
And if you're interested in what "vulgar Thatcherism" refers to, you should give this one by @pluralistic a […]
How it started: "#ai is going to write all our software"
How it's going: @tldraw "shuts down external contributions" because of too much slop
https://tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away-from-my-trash
How it's going: @tldraw "shuts down external contributions" because of too much slop
https://tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away-from-my-trash
Stay away from my trash! - tldraw: Build whiteboards in React with the tldraw SDK
The tldraw SDK provides tools, services, and APIs to build beautiful whiteboards and infinite canvas applications with real-time collaboration and a powerful React-based canvas.
tldraw.dev
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 AM
How it started: "#ai is going to write all our software"
How it's going: @tldraw "shuts down external contributions" because of too much slop
https://tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away-from-my-trash
How it's going: @tldraw "shuts down external contributions" because of too much slop
https://tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away-from-my-trash
«Wir sehen genau das jetzt mit den Hoffnungen vieler Unternehmen und auch der öffentlichen Verwaltung, irgendwie durch KI (spezifischer wird es ja meist nicht) effizienter zu werden oder schlechte Prozesse abzuschaffen. Dabei wird eben nicht […] darüber gesprochen, warum ein Prozess so ist, wie […]
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chaos.social
January 21, 2026 at 8:41 AM
«Wir sehen genau das jetzt mit den Hoffnungen vieler Unternehmen und auch der öffentlichen Verwaltung, irgendwie durch KI (spezifischer wird es ja meist nicht) effizienter zu werden oder schlechte Prozesse abzuschaffen. Dabei wird eben nicht […] darüber gesprochen, warum ein Prozess so ist, wie […]
the hipsters have re-invented bootstrap all over again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKPaxQJs-30
#css #shadcn #react #frontend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKPaxQJs-30
#css #shadcn #react #frontend
December 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
the hipsters have re-invented bootstrap all over again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKPaxQJs-30
#css #shadcn #react #frontend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKPaxQJs-30
#css #shadcn #react #frontend
Dass Patentämter sich wahrscheinlich massenhaft mit von #gpt generierten Anträgen mittlerweile rumschlagen müssen erinnert mich a die Versuche mittels #LLMs Sicherheitslücken und CVEs für Open Source Projekte automatisiert erzeugen zu lassen.
Diese ganze Technologie bringt auf den zweiten und […]
Diese ganze Technologie bringt auf den zweiten und […]
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chaos.social
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Für alle spontanen unter euch, heute spricht Kean Birch bei uns an der TU Berlin über Tech-Bros und Oligarchien! Kommt gerne vorbei. 🤗 https://chaos.social/@fnwbr/115695153331506231
Florian Weber (@fnwbr@chaos.social)
📅 Today at @tuberlin@wisskomm.social: Kean Birch @keanbirch@mastodon.social will talk on “The Rise of a Tech Oligarchy?” The event will take place on Wednesday, December 10th, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, in room FH 919 at TU Berlin’s Institute for Sociology (Fraunhoferstraße 33, 10587 Berlin)
chaos.social
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Für alle spontanen unter euch, heute spricht Kean Birch bei uns an der TU Berlin über Tech-Bros und Oligarchien! Kommt gerne vorbei. 🤗 https://chaos.social/@fnwbr/115695153331506231
📅 Today at @tuberlin:
Kean Birch @keanbirch will talk on “The Rise of a Tech Oligarchy?”
The event will take place on Wednesday, December 10th, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, in room FH 919 at TU Berlin’s Institute for Sociology
(Fraunhoferstraße 33, 10587 Berlin)
Kean Birch @keanbirch will talk on “The Rise of a Tech Oligarchy?”
The event will take place on Wednesday, December 10th, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, in room FH 919 at TU Berlin’s Institute for Sociology
(Fraunhoferstraße 33, 10587 Berlin)
December 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
📅 Today at @tuberlin:
Kean Birch @keanbirch will talk on “The Rise of a Tech Oligarchy?”
The event will take place on Wednesday, December 10th, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, in room FH 919 at TU Berlin’s Institute for Sociology
(Fraunhoferstraße 33, 10587 Berlin)
Kean Birch @keanbirch will talk on “The Rise of a Tech Oligarchy?”
The event will take place on Wednesday, December 10th, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, in room FH 919 at TU Berlin’s Institute for Sociology
(Fraunhoferstraße 33, 10587 Berlin)
Spreading the word! 🎉
https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115615814797156067
https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115615814797156067
Niki Tonsky (@nikitonsky@mastodon.online)
How to get hired in 2025 https://tonsky.me/blog/hiring-ai/
mastodon.online
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Spreading the word! 🎉
https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115615814797156067
https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115615814797156067
“Free coffee with the #claude app”
Really?! They’re really trying out every little angle to get people to use this bullshit.
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115321711802620363
Really?! They’re really trying out every little angle to get people to use this bullshit.
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115321711802620363
JA Westenberg (@Daojoan@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image I know local hxc bands celebrating 200 Spotify plays with better merch.
mastodon.social
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Free coffee with the #claude app”
Really?! They’re really trying out every little angle to get people to use this bullshit.
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115321711802620363
Really?! They’re really trying out every little angle to get people to use this bullshit.
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115321711802620363
@simon highlighted this 💸 quote re #ai slop:
> As AI tools become more accessible, workers are increasingly able to quickly produce polished output [often] unhelpful, incomplete, or missing crucial context. The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream […]
> As AI tools become more accessible, workers are increasingly able to quickly produce polished output [often] unhelpful, incomplete, or missing crucial context. The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream […]
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chaos.social
September 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
[uspol]
CNN reports: «Jon Stewart normally only hosts “The Daily Show” on Monday nights nowadays, but tonight he is returning to his longtime desk for one Thursday edition, Comedy Central announced this afternoon. [He] will presumably have a lot to say about ABC’s decision to bench Jimmy Kimmel […]
CNN reports: «Jon Stewart normally only hosts “The Daily Show” on Monday nights nowadays, but tonight he is returning to his longtime desk for one Thursday edition, Comedy Central announced this afternoon. [He] will presumably have a lot to say about ABC’s decision to bench Jimmy Kimmel […]
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chaos.social
September 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
[uspol]
CNN reports: «Jon Stewart normally only hosts “The Daily Show” on Monday nights nowadays, but tonight he is returning to his longtime desk for one Thursday edition, Comedy Central announced this afternoon. [He] will presumably have a lot to say about ABC’s decision to bench Jimmy Kimmel […]
CNN reports: «Jon Stewart normally only hosts “The Daily Show” on Monday nights nowadays, but tonight he is returning to his longtime desk for one Thursday edition, Comedy Central announced this afternoon. [He] will presumably have a lot to say about ABC’s decision to bench Jimmy Kimmel […]
Der Akademische Senat der @HumboldtUni hat soeben mit 12 Ja- zu 9 Nein-Stimmen entschieden, dem neu verhandelten Hochschulvertrag mit dem Land Berlin zuzustimmen. Obwohl mehrere juristisch unabhängige Gutachten bestätigt haben, dass eine Klage zur Einhaltung der existierenden Verträge sehr gute […]
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chaos.social
September 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Der Akademische Senat der @HumboldtUni hat soeben mit 12 Ja- zu 9 Nein-Stimmen entschieden, dem neu verhandelten Hochschulvertrag mit dem Land Berlin zuzustimmen. Obwohl mehrere juristisch unabhängige Gutachten bestätigt haben, dass eine Klage zur Einhaltung der existierenden Verträge sehr gute […]
Oh the irony... 🥲
#github announces a new tool to detect generated #ai slop in your issues and comments using LLMs.
via https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-05-github-actions-ai-labeler-and-moderator-with-the-github-models-inference-api/
#github announces a new tool to detect generated #ai slop in your issues and comments using LLMs.
via https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-05-github-actions-ai-labeler-and-moderator-with-the-github-models-inference-api/
September 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Oh the irony... 🥲
#github announces a new tool to detect generated #ai slop in your issues and comments using LLMs.
via https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-05-github-actions-ai-labeler-and-moderator-with-the-github-models-inference-api/
#github announces a new tool to detect generated #ai slop in your issues and comments using LLMs.
via https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-05-github-actions-ai-labeler-and-moderator-with-the-github-models-inference-api/
We have really arrived at a point in time, where the whole #ai hype is being used by high courts as an alibi for not containing monopolistic & anti-competitive behavior. 🤯
> This court […] has no expertise in the business […] or the engineering of GenAl technologies. And, unlike the typical […]
> This court […] has no expertise in the business […] or the engineering of GenAl technologies. And, unlike the typical […]
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chaos.social
September 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
We have really arrived at a point in time, where the whole #ai hype is being used by high courts as an alibi for not containing monopolistic & anti-competitive behavior. 🤯
> This court […] has no expertise in the business […] or the engineering of GenAl technologies. And, unlike the typical […]
> This court […] has no expertise in the business […] or the engineering of GenAl technologies. And, unlike the typical […]
Lese gerade Ole Nymoens “Warum ich niemals für mein Land kämpfen würde” und vor dem Hintergrund von #wehrpflicht und Kriegstüchtigkeit sind da wieder einige richtig gute 💸 quotes drin:
«Zu dieser Freiheit [gehört für die FDP], dass die einen mit 200km/h über die Autobahn brettern, während die […]
«Zu dieser Freiheit [gehört für die FDP], dass die einen mit 200km/h über die Autobahn brettern, während die […]
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chaos.social
September 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Lese gerade Ole Nymoens “Warum ich niemals für mein Land kämpfen würde” und vor dem Hintergrund von #wehrpflicht und Kriegstüchtigkeit sind da wieder einige richtig gute 💸 quotes drin:
«Zu dieser Freiheit [gehört für die FDP], dass die einen mit 200km/h über die Autobahn brettern, während die […]
«Zu dieser Freiheit [gehört für die FDP], dass die einen mit 200km/h über die Autobahn brettern, während die […]
bro is being out here receiving hundreds of replies that he potentially theoretically maybe might be wrong; yet he’s doubling down in the comments with the same energy as his profile picture 😭 https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443
Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror@infosec.exchange)
Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" https://blog.codinghorror.com/breaking-the-webs-cookie-jar/
infosec.exchange
August 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
bro is being out here receiving hundreds of replies that he potentially theoretically maybe might be wrong; yet he’s doubling down in the comments with the same energy as his profile picture 😭 https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443