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The list of countries that are confirmed to be set to recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday and Monday, September 21st and 22nd. The United Kingdom France Canada (conditional, gradual) Australia Belgium (gradual) Portugal Luxembourg Malta Andorra San Marino
Gorgeous!
So, meine Lieben, hilft ja nix: ich werd in einigen Tagen 50 (genau genommen am 10.10.). Vor 10 Jahren waren wir weit, sehr weit unter der Armutsgrenze. Und ich wäre es auch heute noch, hätten 2017 nicbt manche Menschen begonnen, mich zu bestärken. Mir den Glauben an meine Fähigkeiten wieder zu 1/3
I have been a student/staff member whose first language doesn’t match the local language for most of my life. The thing is, a bad translation won’t help me, nor will a translation that I can’t trust.
I am not against translation software but I‘m against 1. it being uncritically used to just translate public facing websites instead of just paying translators cause the results are horseshit 2. AI based tools being shoved at me without alternative when are the best examples of enshittification
Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.
Im Prinzip weiß man ja immer vorher dass Warntag ist, und dann ist man doch jedes Mal überrascht
Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound
„Ooooh, I love Austria! It’s like Germany, but with irony.”
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
See also: people saying “ye olde”
For a bunch of supposedly smart people, academics are extremely bad at advocating for themselves, and extremely gullible when someone tells us that doing some task now will pay off later “on our cv”. We need to do better.
Tasmanische Beutelwölfe sind von einem ansteckenden Gesichtskrebs befallen, der durch Beißen übertragen wird. Will man auch nicht haben.
(Also, I have thought of it for all of ten minutes, so will most definitely regret some of my answers when I think of something else)
1. Zero (more specifically, positional number writing system) 2. Germ theory 3. Anesthesia 4. Understanding mental illness as illness 5. Chemical synthesis
Yes, hello, I am a cis white suburban mom, and I am a single-issue voter. That issue: EVERYONE IS PEOPLE, STOP FUCKING TRYING TO UNPEOPLE PEOPLE
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
Ein Horror, dass es nötig war. Gut, dass es funktioniert hat.
Look, it’s not that I am /against/ teleportation. It’s just, where and when would I prepare my presentations if not on the train ride to the event?
My postdoc needed a second pair of eyes to look at some calculations, and I suggested we schedule an afternoon where we lock ourselves in a room with a whiteboard and figure it out, and now she calls it “‘math prison”.
*you‘re But other than that, I don’t discuss with people who call trans women “male”
Obst ist was man in einen Obstsalat tun würde.
Introducing laws that cast trans people as sex offenders, so transphobes can then turn around and go: See? So many trans people are convicted sex offenders!
Aber zumindest änderts was an der Gegenwart, das ist auch was wert.
An der Stelle möchte ich den unbekannten Held*innen danken, die immer wieder die Ö-Pünktchen darauf malen. Unter allen Graffitis in Berlin mit meine Liebsten. 🥰
Die Richard-der-Dritte-Methode, um Kinder in Sicherheit zu bringen.
Yes, that’s true.
It was the reality for a lot of people even ten years ago. We were (and still are in a lot of instances) just incredibly privileged with our European passports.
It is such a great piece though! So it was then scheduled again for Last Night of the Proms a few years later, on 15 September 2001. Yep. Cancelled again.
“Short ride in a fast machine” by John Adams was scheduled to be performed at the 1997 Last Night of the Proms. But then the car crash that killed Princess Diana happened just before that, so the performance was cancelled, because the name of the piece seemed tactless given recent events [1/2]
Nope. Companies being thoughtful and responsible about AI use is the answer.
Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.
If you are really bad, not only will you go to hell, you’ll have to go there on the number 24 bus.
Ah yes. Finally an answer to the many many times I have sighingly thought “Gee, I wish my operating system was more ambient.”
Am I a ginormous nerd? No, of course not. Am I just listening to and really enjoying a three-part podcast on dictionary editing? Yes. Why do you ask? (Thank you @merriam-webster.com for bringing back Word Matters 🥰)
Me: How are you doing ahead of your viva? PhD student: Fine, until further notice.
Thank you for posting this clip and in particular for including the Aristotelian version as well. Little known, but it cracks me up every time!
Also, how could I post this without posting a link to one (of many) of my favourites m.youtube.com/watch?v=EGB9...
Don’t tell AI you’re doing crimes. But also, don’t tell it you are queer. Or worry you might be pregnant. Or support Palestinian civilians. An alarming number of things can end up being “a crime” in the US at the moment.
Tom Lehrer brought so much joy into my life. My condolences to all who loved him.
Aha, interessant, ich muss jetzt aber auch gleich los ein Sparkonto eröffnen
Und wenn doch, will die Ansage immer nie petzen, stellt aber sicher, dass man weiß was los ist: „Der Zug aus München ist verspätet wegen Verspätungen in einem NACHBARLAND.“ Es könnte jedes Nachbarland sein theoretisch, wo der Zug sich verspätet hat zwischen München und Salzburg.
#BookSky
Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score). “Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.
Does he care whether or not he’s allowed to?
Guess I’ll never find out.
I saw my first raccoon today, please congratulate me.
I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵
Air France cabin announcer not waiting for the mic to be off before he says “ça m’énerve, ça” is a whole mood today
For security reasons, can we just cut out the middle man and nobody does anything?
„We‘ve sent you a Security Code“ [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - Code! „Your code has expired.”
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉
Die Wörterbuch-Definition von „es geschafft haben“ 😍
„People who are negatively affected by white dudebro tech have surprisingly negative attitudes about the tech that’s negatively affecting them.”
Many students realize that “AI” use in academia leads to deskilling. Here is some of what they say themselves: www.voxweb.nl/en/they-are-...
Counterpoint: A tasteful butt cape should really be part of everyone’s capsule wardrobe. How else would you effortlessly take your look from day to evening?
Frittenwerk Codename quasi Horoskop
Auch a bissi die Frage, ob wir mehr Tourismus-Werbung brauchen.
Two rich families \\ In Italy \\ Have been fighting for a long time \\ And are still at it.
For me, it was this: „For a moment, nothing happened. Then after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
Yup! "I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing."
A great and thoughtful voice has gone. My condolences to all who loved them.
Or eight 25-year-olds, for that matter 😅
It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
More power to the Great Republic of Ice Cream!
Eh, und er tut mir auch sehr Leid, der Arme. 🎻
web.archive.org/web/20240630...
Naja, a bissi reich ist er bestimmt trotzdem, so verglichen mit den meisten von uns.
Korrektur: irgendeinem Udo im Internet. Sorry
Den „verschiedenen Gruppen“ einfach einmal zuhören, ohne immer sofort zu denken, es geht um Dich? Selber drüber nachdenken, statt eine Erklärung verlangen? Frauen und Minderheiten einmal so zur Seite springen, wie Du irgendeinem Uwe im Internet zur Seite springst:
And when I say “students”, I mean a lot of my colleagues also, to be fair
That’s what I keep telling my students: a language machine, not a fact machine. They look at me and nod, and then turn around and use it for their work with gay abandon.
Sure. Take the side of the soulless lying machine. I am sure it will be your friend.
What really broke me is how it said, about the first essay: “It lingers.” Oh really? Did it linger for all of the three seconds it took you to produce the answer? Do you still think about it sometimes, out of nowhere, while you’re making breakfast or out on a walk? Is that what happens, ChatGPT?
Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Und manchmal ein sehr wütendes dreijähriges Kind. Aber stimmt, der Unterschied ist nicht immer leicht zu erkennen.
Are all muppets the same species just with wildly different phenotypes like dogs or are there a lot of different species of muppet
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
Seiten und Apps, die mir einen Bestätigungscode schicken: Schickt in gleich. Sonst warte ich ein paar Minuten und mache dann was anderes, und denke erst morgen wieder dran, und dann ist der Code mittlerweile da, aber fix abgelaufen. Und dann gehts wieder los.
Was machen eigentlich Wiener 14-jährige statt der Wienwoche? Habts Ihr Provinzwoche?
Das ist übrigens genau das was ich meine, wenn ich bei Vorträgen frage was man glaubt wer zwischen einem selbst und einem Unrechtsstaat stehen wird? Es sind die Leute um einen herum: die Nachbar_innen, die Freund_innen, die Gemeinschaft. Das ist die Quelle des Widerstands.
Transylvania! The plot thickens!
Also, the way „trans“ is used in the sentences like it’s some kind of demonic possession. The entire post would make more sense if it was spelled “trance”
Bedeutet der Hashtag #ussteel etwas bestimmtes oder soll das bedeuten, dass die erfolgreiche Produktion von täuschend echten Robo-Bidens immerhin für die Qualität der amerikanischen Stahlindustrie spricht?
* and immigrants, and people with disabilities and LGBTQ people and poor people, the list goes on …
And also, it’s quite clear from following the US discourse that “DEI” is really just dogwhistle for “women and people of colour*“ That’s who they want to root out of public life.
Not overrated enough!
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.
Nice!
My brain is upside down today
Someone out there reading this and already working on the new bestselling book “The 1500s Shropshire Diet”
if your research is in biomedical sciences with a focus on regeneration, repair, and bioengineering, talk to me tu-dresden.de/cmcb/die-ein... @tudresden.bsky.social and the @cmcb-tud.bsky.social offer an excellent, open and collaborative research environment, fabulous nature and culture!
Are you a US-based scientist and thinking of moving abroad? Talk to potential host unis - there are a number of attractive measures in place, eg the ERC advance grants that offer 2.5 mio € for 5 years, plus 2 mio € if you are coming from outwith the EU. erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/...
Shape of liquid?
I am not religious, but some specific people make me wish there was a hell.
Never underestimate the long arm of the T. rex lobby.
Bei uns auf der Arbeit hat sich echt einmal ein junger Mensch mit noch wenig Berufserfahrung beworben, und im Lebenslauf stand: „Karlspreis der Stadt Aachen“. Tatsächlich ging dieser Preis 1986 an die Bevölkerung von Luxemburg, es war also ned amal gelogen.
typical corrupt science
