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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 12h

Liebe Leute, bitte, bitte bestellt eure Bücher beim lokalen Buchhändler. Herr Bezos wartet nur darauf, dass unsere kleinteilige, vielfältige Einzelhandelsstruktur kaputt geht.

Zahl der Buchhandlungen binnen fünf Jahren um ein Viertel gesunken

Schnell mal zum Buchladen um die Ecke - das wird immer schwieriger. Obwohl die Branche mehr Umsatz macht, gibt es immer weniger Geschäfte. Das Statistikamt nennt auch mögliche Gründe für den Rückgang.

www.tagesschau.de

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 11h

2025 isn't over yet but it's unlikely that Twitter will see a resurgence of research discussions.

Year X/Twitter Research Mentions
2022 28,197,471
2023 24,446,548
2024 17,634,330
2025 9,375,463

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 9h

Of course I agree with the parallel between shitposting and 'AI' enshitification.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 13h

Boo!

Happy looking ghost annotation at the top right of a printer page.

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 9h

Technically, 'AI' doesn't cause anything; it's still people and companies. But unhinged data grabbing and datafication, which form the backdrop here and are fueled by the current hype, do cause what I have tried to describe.

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 12h

A chance to study some Coptic quips from Jesus with a fantastic and careful teacher!

Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · 12h

Come learn Coptic! In partnership with the Religion Department, I developed a two-part introduction to Coptic via close study of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas. Come learn about ancient languages and sayings of Jesus!

Part 1: Starts Oct. 27 | Part 2: Jan. 5

www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...

Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas (Level 1)

www.religiondepartment.com

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 12h

If information is submerged in a disproportionate mass of sloppified 'data', I would describe what's happening in the total volume (store) as atrophying. I have described a different case of 'AI'-induced information loss here:
doi.org/10.58079/14ptq

Leaving Academia.edu: ‘AI’, Coercion, and Information Loss

[Update: The following text was first published under the title ‘Leaving Academia.edu: “AI” and Information Loss’ on 19 September 2025 and updated on 26 September 2025. The updates are marked and appe...

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Istituto Storico Germanico | German Historical Institute Rome @dhiroma.bsky.social · 14h

How can ancient Jewish wisdom literature reshape our understanding of identity, religion and language in the Mediterranean? With David Torollo & Miriam Goldstein.

28 Oct 2025, 5-6 pm CET online
Register: t1p.de/entanglement...

#medievalsky
#medievalmediterranean
@maxweberstiftung.de @dhi-paris.fr

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 16h

Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · 16h

Google baut großes KI-Rechenzentrum in Indien#Google#KI#Rechenzentrum

Google baut großes KI-Rechenzentrum in Indien

Der US-Konzern Google will in Indien sein größtes Rechenzentrum für KI außerhalb der USA bauen.

www.tagesschau.de

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 18h

When I hear people say they've used GenAI for anything, my face now automatically reacts as if they'd just aggressively farted at me

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 17h

Politik währenddessen:
www.csu-landtag.de/image/daten/....

Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 18h

Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 18h

"we should not assume that technological revolutions are productivity revolutions. The rate of productivity growth has been in sharp decline since 2003, and today sits where it stood before the widespread adoption of the personal computer"

www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press

People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

www.techpolicy.press

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 18h

On bias in translation: The German Wikipedia page on the Ipuwer Papyrus contains a partial (!) translation that was taken directly from an Adventist website. The following section basically presents the papyrus as a historical sources for the Plagues of Egypt from Exodus.
#Egyptology
#BibleStudy

Papyrus Leiden I 344 – Wikipedia

de.wikipedia.org

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 19h

One effect of 'AI' is that it actually atrophies our stores of information and knowledge. Explain to me how this is progress 🫠

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20h

A new search engine is actually needed that works and combs out ai nonsense by default

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love how much of the stuff on the internet is essentially jsut. gone forever. unsearchable means unfindable means, in essence, gone

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20h

A new search engine is actually needed that works and combs out ai nonsense by default

　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 1d

love how much of the stuff on the internet is essentially jsut. gone forever. unsearchable means unfindable means, in essence, gone

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 1d

Old Uyghur word of the day
/ičgäk/
"vampire" (/ič-/ drink)

as in Zieme, "Ein uigur. Sündenbekenntnis," in FUB, 253, lines 15-16

/ät yedäči,
kan ičdäči,
kadır kašlıg,
tumlıg yüzlüg,
yavlak yäk ičgäklär(-dä)/

"flesh-eating & blood-drinking, feral-browed & frozen-faced, evil vampire-demons"

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 1d

One week from today: book launch for The Pearlsong (in-person and Zoom). Details below!

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 1d

Für manche ist HO entscheidend, um anderen wichtigen Verpflichtungen wie Care-Arbeit nachkommen zu können. Es ist ein großer Fortschritt besonders der akademischen Arbeitskultur, das zu ermöglichen und auch zu erkennen, dass es ermöglichbar ist.

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Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures @jacculturelmu.bsky.social · 1d

We congratulate our member Anna Busa on the publication of her book:

Anna Busa, The Art of Compilation: Midrash Pirqa de-Rabbenu ha-Qadosh in Popular Anthologies from the Cairo Genizah, Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 17 (Leiden: Brill, 2025)

brill.com/display/titl...

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 1d

Kristin Eichhorn @drkeichhorn.bsky.social · 1d

Den Beitrag hier: hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de/ki-generiert....

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KI-generierte Texte sind überall: Was dies für die Lehre bedeutet

Kristin Eichhorn erklärt in diesem Gastbeitrag, dass wir ein Bewusstsein brauchen, mehr und mehr von KI-generierten Texten umgeben zu sein.

hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de

Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 1d

Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 1d

How the AI Boom Is Costing You More at Home
->CNN | #ai | More from Lil' Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

How the AI Boom Is Costing You More at Home

Oct 12, 2025 As the appetite for artificial intelligence rises, so does the need for power-hungry data centers. While residents who live near them complain of the noise and pollution, data suggests they could spike utility bills far and wide...

www.cnn.com

Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, meinte *unterreflektiert - eine gewisse Reflexion gibt es natürlich schon, aber kritische Stimmen werden wenig gehört bzw. ist der Ansatz oft "so und so nutzt man das, aber kritisch sein muss man auch".

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

We need to stop using Scholar yesterday.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d

I weep.

Google Scholar Homepage with an AI assistant

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 1d

Kann sein, aber ich fürchte, wir sind dann jetzt bei einem stark unreflektierten Stand stehen geblieben ...

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