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Alex Plaum
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Tech & media. Pop & politics. Freelancer for @dw_innovation. @medialabbayern & SWR fellow. Formerly: O'Reilly Media. Toots in German & English. Private account […]

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Reposted by Alex Plaum
Big news: Deutsche Welle has launched DW Access, an Android app that delivers independent news where it's needed most: in regions under information lockdown.

Key features:

➡️ No app store needed (share via link, messenger, bluetooth)

➡️ Offline mode

➡️ Built-in VPN protection

➡️ Zero […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"So the bubble is bad (..). But (..) there will be things we can salvage from it: open source models, skilled programmers, cheap GPUs bought out of bankruptcy (...). It would be better if we created that stuff without burning the world’s economy to the ground and emitting a heptillion tons of […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Reposted by Alex Plaum
This is *amazing*.

At a New Zealand cybersecurity conference, attendees had a dashboard on air quality in the venue and could choose their risk level, room by room. Fascinating piece by @violetblue in @Wired […]

[Original post on mstdn.ca]
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reposted by Alex Plaum
New on our blog: @lxplm looks back on SERMAS, an R&D project that put together a socially savvy, modular toolkit/framework for AI, robotics, and XR innovation.

👇
https://innovation.dw.com/articles/review-sermas-ai-robotics-xr

#ai #xr #robotics #research #opensource
AI, Robotics, XR – and Social Acceptance: A Quick Review of the SERMAS project
Alexander Plaum looks back on an EU R&D; venture that not only relied on cutting-edge tech, but also on empirical social research – and eventually published a useful open source toolkit.
innovation.dw.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"Der von der früheren Regierung entsandte amtierende Generalkonsul war (...) mit Unterstützung des Auswärtigen Amtes abberufen worden. Seither wird die Einrichtung praktisch von einem Vertreter der Taliban geleitet. Er ist einer von zwei Taliban-Diplomaten, die (..) von der Bundesregierung […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Buy me a shiny new machine
That runs on lies and gasoline
And all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms
And disassembles my despair
It never took me anywhere
It never once bought me a drink
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
If you're into #gaming and #politics, this is an intriguing story about "a Simpsons-themed (!) #fortnite lobby where members of a gaming group gathered to practice what they would do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ice) agents came knocking at their doors in real life."

👇 […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reposted by Alex Plaum
New on our blog: A recap of the KID project (2020-2025), which focused on fighting disinfo with the help of AI (and other tech), coming up with novel verification tools, and creating practical media/information literacy resources.

Full article by Ruben Bouwmeester and @lxplm […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#correctiv hat 3000+ Social-Media-Posts von Julia #Klöckner analysiert.

Resultat: "Neben Hundebildern und unpolitischen Beiträgen teilt sie auffällig oft Inhalte von rechtspopulistischen Akteuren."

Überrascht mich tatsächlich gar nicht. Dennoch gut, dass die Sache mal mit #DDJ-Ansatz […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Alex Plaum
Sannuta Raghu's *News Atom* project offers a way to "codify journalism's epistemic signals in a machine-readable format."

@reutersinstitute provides a summary for both journalists and techies:

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-news-atom-metadata-blueprint-journalism-age-ai […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
#chatgpt #atlas is a highly problematic piece of software.

It can read and store basically everything. You don't know what it will or won't remember. Your browsing data is likely to be passed on to third parties. And the agent mode bears a lot of risk.

Lena / @Tutanota and lots of bloggers […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Reposted by Alex Plaum
The social web is rapidly flooding with fully synthetic AV content, also known as AI slop.

The videos are short and effective – and they can be quite dangerous.

In this report (which is not 8 or 16 seconds, but almost 9 minutes long), Silja Thoms and DW's Fact Check Team explain what the […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reposted by Alex Plaum
Social Media is tennis – and social networking is pickelball.

"The fediverse doesn't need to resurface the tired, worn-down tennis courts of the old internet. It needs to create something new. This ecosystem offers an entirely different kind of online experience. It's smaller, more local, more […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Hey ho. Das war doch eine prima Session beim #ardbarcamp!

Mein #programmtipp lautet schlicht & ergreifend: Schaut hin und wieder beim Blog von DW Innovation rein. 😀

👉 https://innovation.dw.com/articles

Und folgt dem entsprechenden Fedi-Account.

👉 @dw_innovation

#Öffiverse.
DW Innovation | Technology for journalism
A quick intro to our latest R&D; project, dedicated to AI-based knowledge acquisition, content evaluation, workflow automation – and creative exploration.
innovation.dw.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Die #haushaltssperre in den #usa ist ja schon ne heikle Kiste mit diversen negativen Auswirkungen. Tatsächlich gibt's aber auch Grund zur Freude: Alleine heute wurden 800+ Inlandsflüge gestrichen. Das ist doch aktiver #klimaschutz! 🤑 💺 🌎
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reposted by Alex Plaum
Please join me in a big round of applause for Jean-Baptiste Kempf from @videolan for his contributions to #softwarefreedom 👏

(Together with Raphael Barbieri I had the honour to hand over the European #SFSaward 2025 to him in the name of #lugbz and @fsfe . ) […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"Hä? Irgendetwas stimmt hier ganz und gar nicht!", stotterte der #SPD-Chef Lars #klingbeil (...). "Ich kann es mir momentan nur so erklären, dass dieser #mamdani die Wahl mithilfe von schwarzer Magie beeinflusst hat. Es ist nämlich unter normalen Umständen völlig unmöglich, im 21. Jahrhundert […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"#mamdani defeated a Republican, a fellow Democrat, and an army of billionaires when he emerged victorious in the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday."

Ein Listicle für die Geschichtsbücher.

Alleine Michael Bloomberg hat mehr als 13 Millionen $ rausgehauen, um Mamdani aufzuhalten.

Hat […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Sehr, sehr unangenehm. Bin mal gespannt, ob sich vernünftige Leute in der Partei durchsetzen könnten. Oder ob diese Anti-Imp-Freaks am Ende Erfolg haben.

Schade, dass dieser wichtige Artikel aktuell hinter einer Paywall ist.

Fürs Protokoll: Es geht hier nicht um (legitime) Kritik an der […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Reposted by Alex Plaum
Social Media, ohne die Datenkraken unnötig zu füttern? 🐙 Das ist möglich!
Am 06.11 spricht Sascha beim Bonner Politik-Forum über gemeinwohlorientierte Alternativen zu den Netzwerken von Meta oder ByteDance.

Neugierig? Dann schalte dich um 20:00 Uhr zur […]

[Original post on bonn.social]
November 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM