Philipp Weitzel
@philwei.bsky.social
💻 Doctoral Candidate & Lecturer w/ Andreas Reckwitz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 💡 #practicetheory #AI #algorithms #affect #materialculture #temporality. 💬 Content My Own. 🌈 He/Him.
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Die Europäische Kommission arbeitet an Plänen für einen Kahlschlag bei ihren Regeln für die digitale Welt. Das belegen unter anderem Dokumente, die wir veröffentlicht haben. Im Europäischen Parlament und in der Zivilgesellschaft formiert sich dagegen massiver Widerstand.
Digitaler Omnibus: „Größter Rückschritt für digitale Grundrechte in der Geschichte der EU“
Die Europäische Kommission arbeitet an Plänen für einen Kahlschlag bei ihren Regeln für die digitale Welt. Das belegen unter anderem Dokumente, die wir veröffentlicht haben. Im Europäischen Parlament ...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Die Europäische Kommission arbeitet an Plänen für einen Kahlschlag bei ihren Regeln für die digitale Welt. Das belegen unter anderem Dokumente, die wir veröffentlicht haben. Im Europäischen Parlament und in der Zivilgesellschaft formiert sich dagegen massiver Widerstand.
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Update zum Endlos-Clusterfuck #Humboldtforum: der Bundesgerichtshof hat nun entschieden, dass Ehrhardt Bödeckers – ein Großspender der Berliner Schlossfassaden - tatsächlich Rechtsradikaler und Antisemit war und die Kritik daran u.a. durch Philipp Oswalt gerechtfertigt gewesen ist. 1/
October 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Update zum Endlos-Clusterfuck #Humboldtforum: der Bundesgerichtshof hat nun entschieden, dass Ehrhardt Bödeckers – ein Großspender der Berliner Schlossfassaden - tatsächlich Rechtsradikaler und Antisemit war und die Kritik daran u.a. durch Philipp Oswalt gerechtfertigt gewesen ist. 1/
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‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’
‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’
The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?
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October 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’
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How long until you ask chatGPT what you should do this weekend and it gives you a list of things to buy from Walmart?
Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT. The new integration will allow users to link their Walmart accounts, browse items ,and instantly check out — all within the chatbot.
You'll soon be able to shop Walmart from ChatGPT | TechCrunch
Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT. The new integration will allow users to link their Walmart accounts, browse items ,and instantly check out — all within the chatbot.
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October 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
How long until you ask chatGPT what you should do this weekend and it gives you a list of things to buy from Walmart?
Honored to join the @princeton.edu — @humboldtuni.bsky.social research project “#Socionarratology — Mapping a Field Between Literary Studies & Social Sciences.” A 2-year initiative exploring how literature & sociology intersect to shape knowledge & society.
October 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Honored to join the @princeton.edu — @humboldtuni.bsky.social research project “#Socionarratology — Mapping a Field Between Literary Studies & Social Sciences.” A 2-year initiative exploring how literature & sociology intersect to shape knowledge & society.
Excited to present @lancasteruni.bsky.social's #practicetheory & #power workshop! I'll explore #algorithm as practices for cracking open #blackbox myths. I propose to read #code as cultural texts and am looking forward to exciting exchanges and meeting fellow praxeologists. #sociology #phdlife
September 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Excited to present @lancasteruni.bsky.social's #practicetheory & #power workshop! I'll explore #algorithm as practices for cracking open #blackbox myths. I propose to read #code as cultural texts and am looking forward to exciting exchanges and meeting fellow praxeologists. #sociology #phdlife
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CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review’s #openaccess digital magazine is inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for our #ResearchInsights series.
Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.
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Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.
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August 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review’s #openaccess digital magazine is inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for our #ResearchInsights series.
Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.
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Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.
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Join us in the Royal Irish Academy and online for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors on Tuesday 23 September. Book your tickets now. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1804710
Select tickets – The future of AI and education – Royal Irish Academy
Join us for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors. About t...
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August 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Join us in the Royal Irish Academy and online for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors on Tuesday 23 September. Book your tickets now. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1804710
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Interesting work from Turing, adding to the growing evidence that significant performance gains — and possibly real-world utility — can still be gleaned from smaller and previous-generation foundation models
www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
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Why we still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AI
Lean, locally run models can unlock huge benefits for public sector and compute-constrained environments
www.turing.ac.uk
August 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Interesting work from Turing, adding to the growing evidence that significant performance gains — and possibly real-world utility — can still be gleaned from smaller and previous-generation foundation models
www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
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Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction - Benjamin N. Jacobsen, 2025
The last few years have seen the rollout of several generative AI applications. Yet, it is often claimed by commentators and social scientists that these have o...
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July 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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We say that we “decide” to get married, to have children, to live in particular cities or embark on particular careers, and in a sense this is true. But how do we actually make those choices?
The Art of Decision-Making
Your life choices aren’t just about what you want to do; they’re about who you want to be.
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July 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
We say that we “decide” to get married, to have children, to live in particular cities or embark on particular careers, and in a sense this is true. But how do we actually make those choices?
The way we write shapes our thinking. We process the world through the composition of text [...]. It’s possible that the ability to write original and interesting sentences will become only more important in a future where everyone has access to the same A.I. assistants. share.google/JhKEPrOpqext...
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.
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July 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The way we write shapes our thinking. We process the world through the composition of text [...]. It’s possible that the ability to write original and interesting sentences will become only more important in a future where everyone has access to the same A.I. assistants. share.google/JhKEPrOpqext...
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The first paper is a short reflection by @alexcampolo.bsky.social titled 'State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture', which explores how benchmarks produce certain temporal values and expectations link.springer.com/article/10.1...
State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture - Digital Society
This commentary situates the epistemic values of machine learning’s culture of benchmarking and evaluation within larger temporal structures. Beyond questions of validity, whether model comparisons ar...
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May 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The first paper is a short reflection by @alexcampolo.bsky.social titled 'State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture', which explores how benchmarks produce certain temporal values and expectations link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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"To put it most provocatively, we’ve moved from a moment of masochism to one of sadism." Read Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's "Our Cruel Crude Techne?" on the CI blog.
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Our Cruel Crude Techne?
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Our moment seems marked by cruelty: from best-selling books warning Christians against “toxic empathy” towards immigrant families to online trolls who gleefully torture their v…
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May 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"To put it most provocatively, we’ve moved from a moment of masochism to one of sadism." Read Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's "Our Cruel Crude Techne?" on the CI blog.
critinq.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/o...
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Wolfram Weimer, Gründer des für ausgewogene Berichterstattung bekannten Magazins Cicero soll Kultusminister werden. Damit hat Merz sich für eine Eskalation im rechten Kulturkampf entschieden. Weimer ist nämlich ein Hardliner. & zwar schon lange /x
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Wolfram Weimer wird neuer Kulturstaatsminister
Der ehemalige Focus-Chefredakteur und Verleger Wolfram Weimer soll neuer Kulturstaatsminister werden. Dass sich der Medienunternehmer für Kultur interessiert, war bislang nicht bekannt.
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April 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Wolfram Weimer, Gründer des für ausgewogene Berichterstattung bekannten Magazins Cicero soll Kultusminister werden. Damit hat Merz sich für eine Eskalation im rechten Kulturkampf entschieden. Weimer ist nämlich ein Hardliner. & zwar schon lange /x
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Desire, pleasure, control — A deep dive into the contradictions we live every day: "Neoliberalism represents a stage in social formation that is no more liberal than a Hail Mary pass in football is a form of prayer." 👉 hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
Captives of Desire
Neoliberalism rejected the assessment that the absence of constraints on desire undermined systemic viability.
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April 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Desire, pleasure, control — A deep dive into the contradictions we live every day: "Neoliberalism represents a stage in social formation that is no more liberal than a Hail Mary pass in football is a form of prayer." 👉 hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
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Sneak preview of the program for our exciting @algosoc.org conference The Future of Public Values next week in Amsterdam.
Featuring @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Tamar Sharon, @natalihelberger.bsky.social @ppverbeek.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social and MANY MANY more 👏🏼
Featuring @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Tamar Sharon, @natalihelberger.bsky.social @ppverbeek.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social and MANY MANY more 👏🏼
April 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Sneak preview of the program for our exciting @algosoc.org conference The Future of Public Values next week in Amsterdam.
Featuring @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Tamar Sharon, @natalihelberger.bsky.social @ppverbeek.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social and MANY MANY more 👏🏼
Featuring @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Tamar Sharon, @natalihelberger.bsky.social @ppverbeek.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social and MANY MANY more 👏🏼
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Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-than-human Worlds by Katherine Reilly, Gillian Russell and Rachel Horst in Somatechnics www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-than-human Worlds | Somatechnics
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March 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-than-human Worlds by Katherine Reilly, Gillian Russell and Rachel Horst in Somatechnics www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
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Der Bundesrat will, dass die Polizei bundesweit Palantir als Software einsetzt. Das Unternehmen gehört dem rechten Milliardär und Strippenzieher Peter Thiel. Diesem Feind der Demokratie Geld und Daten in den Rachen zu werfen, ist unverantwortlich. Ein Kommentar.
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Palantir: Wer jetzt bei Peter Thiel Software kauft, hat wirklich nichts verstanden
Der Bundesrat will, dass die Polizei bundesweit Palantir als Software einsetzt. Das Unternehmen gehört dem rechten Milliardär und Strippenzieher Peter Thiel. Diesem Feind der Demokratie Geld und Daten...
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March 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Der Bundesrat will, dass die Polizei bundesweit Palantir als Software einsetzt. Das Unternehmen gehört dem rechten Milliardär und Strippenzieher Peter Thiel. Diesem Feind der Demokratie Geld und Daten in den Rachen zu werfen, ist unverantwortlich. Ein Kommentar.
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#KI -Bildgeneratoren dienen nicht nur der Desinformation, sondern der optimierten #Affekt -Bewirtschaftung: Sie stilisieren „echte Emotionen“ zu lesbaren Bildern. Sie sind #Nostalgiemaschinen & Klischeeverstärker. #mustread bei @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social
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Echte Emotionen. Generative KI und rechte Weltbilder
Die radikale Rechte liebt generative KI. Trump wie Musk teilen massenhaft KI-generierte Bilder auf ihren Plattformen, und auch die AfD hat schon lange den Nutzen von Midjourney & Co. für ihren Wahlkam...
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March 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
#KI -Bildgeneratoren dienen nicht nur der Desinformation, sondern der optimierten #Affekt -Bewirtschaftung: Sie stilisieren „echte Emotionen“ zu lesbaren Bildern. Sie sind #Nostalgiemaschinen & Klischeeverstärker. #mustread bei @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social
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🗯️ Warum treffen manche Gruppen bessere Entscheidungen als andere? 🗯️ Mit dieser Frage setzt sich eine neue, in der Fachzeitschrift Scientific Reports veröffentlichte Studie von Forschenden des Exzellenzclusters @scioi.bsky.social auseinander.
Weiterlesen 🔗 www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachri...
Weiterlesen 🔗 www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachri...
March 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🗯️ Warum treffen manche Gruppen bessere Entscheidungen als andere? 🗯️ Mit dieser Frage setzt sich eine neue, in der Fachzeitschrift Scientific Reports veröffentlichte Studie von Forschenden des Exzellenzclusters @scioi.bsky.social auseinander.
Weiterlesen 🔗 www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachri...
Weiterlesen 🔗 www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachri...
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Be sure to check out the many new, excellent contributions to COUNTER-N on more-than-binary computing (by Juan Pablo García Sossa), relational computing (by Nicola Bozzi) and metabolic futuring (by Jamie Allen): counter-n.net
February 12, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Be sure to check out the many new, excellent contributions to COUNTER-N on more-than-binary computing (by Juan Pablo García Sossa), relational computing (by Nicola Bozzi) and metabolic futuring (by Jamie Allen): counter-n.net
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"Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social centers ice to critically study racialization, land dispossession, and Indigenous knowledge production about icy places, both historically and in the modern moment of climate change. Read the intro for free now! #Environment
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March 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social centers ice to critically study racialization, land dispossession, and Indigenous knowledge production about icy places, both historically and in the modern moment of climate change. Read the intro for free now! #Environment
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Weiß nicht, was einem größere Sorgen machen sollte: Die weltfremde Rede eines US-Präsidenten, der sich für seinen Staatsstreich feiern lässt oder das infantile Gejohle und Gekreische seiner ihm hörigen republikanischen Abgeordneten. Ein williger Hofstaat, der seine eigene Entmachtung feiert.
March 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Weiß nicht, was einem größere Sorgen machen sollte: Die weltfremde Rede eines US-Präsidenten, der sich für seinen Staatsstreich feiern lässt oder das infantile Gejohle und Gekreische seiner ihm hörigen republikanischen Abgeordneten. Ein williger Hofstaat, der seine eigene Entmachtung feiert.