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“Teaching” is just another word for running around, from A to B to A, and collecting things.* *Or, how to walk 10 km at Ruhr-Uni Bochum.
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On the radio, I hear the German research foundation #DFG defend its recent move to allow #AI in project reviews, just with local setups, just for language clarity – lots of reservations. I then listen to the most recent episode of Mél’s Data Fix podcast. An anonymous guest (🔥) talks about their daily chatbot use and how it is both useful (we need more concrete honesty) and addictive, sucking you in for follow-ups, offering more.
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Sowjetische #sf, “fremd und vertraut”. #KI Und ein Cover Game erster Güte. Funde aus dem Buchladen Peter Sodans, einer Magdeburger Institution
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Oh the Americans want to increase their war budget by a few bucks, just a mere increase of ~40 percent. Germany also proudly moved to the top 5 of #military spenders worldwide. But money’s scarce y’all. Can we have a moonshot beyond virtually shooting at the moon or burying souls for #AI assets?
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Oh, that one hits hard: 👐 Tech Won’t Save Us: Why #Iran is Attacking #DataCenters w/ Sam Biddle bsky.app/profile/t… Paris now offers a YouTube version of the pod, too, the data centerification goes up up, but that’s fine in this case, I guess
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Hey cool, flowers to myself: Starting this week, I will be Acting Professor at Ruhr-University #Bochum holding the chair of Anthropology of Knowledge. This will be for the summer term and lots of fun, esp. in teaching controversy mapping, reading extraction, and discussing post-socialist economies.
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Deutschlandfunk, CDU-Haushaltspolitiker. “Und dann geht es nur um das Ziel mehr Wachstum.” Der Staat nehme zu viele Steuern ein, da müsse man kürzen, Betriebe entlasten, Leistungsträger und so. Überall Kürzungen. Währenddessen bröckeln Infrastruktur und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
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The same week that #OpenAI announced the imminent shutdown of Sora, its splashiest showcase for #AI, #Meta announced the shutdown of its splashiest showcase for the metaverse. Brian the Merchant on the aesthetics and economics of things looking like shit. open.substack.com/pub/blood…