Laser
@stefanlaser.bsky.social
I am an academic ✒ on 🚯🚆🐮💾. #sts #sociology #ecology #waste #energy
Plus, Fujifilm #photography
I post POSSE style: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Many things Asia, VN.
https://social.tchncs.de/@stefanlaser
https://stefanlaser.net
Plus, Fujifilm #photography
I post POSSE style: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Many things Asia, VN.
https://social.tchncs.de/@stefanlaser
https://stefanlaser.net
A distressing story about how #car battery #recycling (not of the electric car ones!) poisons workers and people across the planet, and companies have known this for 3 decades.
Lead, the ignored matter.
www.nytimes.com/interacti…
Lead, the ignored matter.
www.nytimes.com/interacti…
Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A distressing story about how #car battery #recycling (not of the electric car ones!) poisons workers and people across the planet, and companies have known this for 3 decades.
Lead, the ignored matter.
www.nytimes.com/interacti…
Lead, the ignored matter.
www.nytimes.com/interacti…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The chat interface was a marketing bet. Selling #AI as if it is not auto complete. It still is.
"#ChatGPT shifted the user’s relationship to text, moving the prompt from a ‘piece of writing for the model to finish’ to a ‘question calling for an answer’."
mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-was-…
"#ChatGPT shifted the user’s relationship to text, moving the prompt from a ‘piece of writing for the model to finish’ to a ‘question calling for an answer’."
mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-was-…
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gathering more users in less time than any product launch in history. But that specific
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The chat interface was a marketing bet. Selling #AI as if it is not auto complete. It still is.
"#ChatGPT shifted the user’s relationship to text, moving the prompt from a ‘piece of writing for the model to finish’ to a ‘question calling for an answer’."
mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-was-…
"#ChatGPT shifted the user’s relationship to text, moving the prompt from a ‘piece of writing for the model to finish’ to a ‘question calling for an answer’."
mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-was-…
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And HERE WE GO.
Kolumbien trommelt Staaten zusammen für eine Belem Declaration on fossil fuels.
Gemeinsam fordern sie, dass das WIE des Ausstiegs in die Abschlusserklärung kommt.
Außerdem schmieden sie eine Koalition der Willigen
Kolumbien trommelt Staaten zusammen für eine Belem Declaration on fossil fuels.
Gemeinsam fordern sie, dass das WIE des Ausstiegs in die Abschlusserklärung kommt.
Außerdem schmieden sie eine Koalition der Willigen
Die brasilianische Konferenzführung hat aber bereits ein informelles Plenum für 10 Uhr angekündigt. Wir sind gespannt, was dort passieren wird. Vorher will Kolumbien sich noch in einer Pressekonferenz äußern.
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
And HERE WE GO.
Kolumbien trommelt Staaten zusammen für eine Belem Declaration on fossil fuels.
Gemeinsam fordern sie, dass das WIE des Ausstiegs in die Abschlusserklärung kommt.
Außerdem schmieden sie eine Koalition der Willigen
Kolumbien trommelt Staaten zusammen für eine Belem Declaration on fossil fuels.
Gemeinsam fordern sie, dass das WIE des Ausstiegs in die Abschlusserklärung kommt.
Außerdem schmieden sie eine Koalition der Willigen
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@heikekluever.bsky.social in der heutigen SZ zur Brandmauer. Die Empirie spricht eine klare Sprache: Wenn die extreme Rechte mitregiert, wird sie größer und entzaubert sich nicht. Alles andere ist Wunschdenken und gefährliche politische Folklore.
📣 New op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung: What the data say about the “Brandmauer”
I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies
➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election)
tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2
I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies
➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election)
tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2
Demokratie: Wenn die Rechte mitregiert, wird sie nicht geschwächt – im Gegenteil
Eine Untersuchung von 57 Ländern zeigt: Wenn die Rechte in Verantwortung kommt, gewinnt sie dazu. Daraus lässt sich für Deutschland lernen.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 AM
@heikekluever.bsky.social in der heutigen SZ zur Brandmauer. Die Empirie spricht eine klare Sprache: Wenn die extreme Rechte mitregiert, wird sie größer und entzaubert sich nicht. Alles andere ist Wunschdenken und gefährliche politische Folklore.
Remember Gathertown? 🚶♂️🧟♂️
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Remember Gathertown? 🚶♂️🧟♂️
Delightful 💩: dana boyd, Lee Vinsel & Cory Doctorow on #Enshittification
It feels odd that Cory assumes that platform things were good for a start. Still insightful.
athenaeum.vt.domains/peoplesan…
It feels odd that Cory assumes that platform things were good for a start. Still insightful.
athenaeum.vt.domains/peoplesan…
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Delightful 💩: dana boyd, Lee Vinsel & Cory Doctorow on #Enshittification
It feels odd that Cory assumes that platform things were good for a start. Still insightful.
athenaeum.vt.domains/peoplesan…
It feels odd that Cory assumes that platform things were good for a start. Still insightful.
athenaeum.vt.domains/peoplesan…
Out now, Call for Case Participation (CfCP?) and CfP for “Before Ruins” in Bochum.
Together with students, I will organise a case on vacant houses. Or, in the words of a recent controversy:
“#Leerstand im #Stadtbild”
stsing.org/before-ru…
Together with students, I will organise a case on vacant houses. Or, in the words of a recent controversy:
“#Leerstand im #Stadtbild”
stsing.org/before-ru…
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Out now, Call for Case Participation (CfCP?) and CfP for “Before Ruins” in Bochum.
Together with students, I will organise a case on vacant houses. Or, in the words of a recent controversy:
“#Leerstand im #Stadtbild”
stsing.org/before-ru…
Together with students, I will organise a case on vacant houses. Or, in the words of a recent controversy:
“#Leerstand im #Stadtbild”
stsing.org/before-ru…
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Ein guter Grund, großen und zentralisierten Plattformen, die unterm Strich irgendwann mal Geld verdienen müssen, zu misstrauen.
PS: mastodon ist noch immer die eigentliche Alternative
PS: mastodon ist noch immer die eigentliche Alternative
I can understand, why @bsky.app won't comment on the details of suspending the account of Sarah Kendzior. But it doesn't inspire a lot of trust in the overall decision processes, when there's basically no official information at all what caused the suspension.
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Ein guter Grund, großen und zentralisierten Plattformen, die unterm Strich irgendwann mal Geld verdienen müssen, zu misstrauen.
PS: mastodon ist noch immer die eigentliche Alternative
PS: mastodon ist noch immer die eigentliche Alternative
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Jetzt ist der Beweis öffentlich: Die CDU hat einen Abwahlantrag gegen die Oberbürgermeisterin von Niesky eingebracht. Dazu hat sie die Unterschriften von AFD und einen bekannten Neonazi eingesammelt. Deutlicher kann eine Kooperation mit gesicherten Rechtsextremisten nicht sein. 1/3
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Jetzt ist der Beweis öffentlich: Die CDU hat einen Abwahlantrag gegen die Oberbürgermeisterin von Niesky eingebracht. Dazu hat sie die Unterschriften von AFD und einen bekannten Neonazi eingesammelt. Deutlicher kann eine Kooperation mit gesicherten Rechtsextremisten nicht sein. 1/3
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Paper gets 2 positive reviews & 1 very critical one
Authors work very very hard on R&R
Journal sends it back to critical reviewer (only) and 1 new reviewer
Critical reviewer is quite positive about revision
New reviewer is negative
Editor sits on reviews for 1 month, then rejects
Authors sad
Authors work very very hard on R&R
Journal sends it back to critical reviewer (only) and 1 new reviewer
Critical reviewer is quite positive about revision
New reviewer is negative
Editor sits on reviews for 1 month, then rejects
Authors sad
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Paper gets 2 positive reviews & 1 very critical one
Authors work very very hard on R&R
Journal sends it back to critical reviewer (only) and 1 new reviewer
Critical reviewer is quite positive about revision
New reviewer is negative
Editor sits on reviews for 1 month, then rejects
Authors sad
Authors work very very hard on R&R
Journal sends it back to critical reviewer (only) and 1 new reviewer
Critical reviewer is quite positive about revision
New reviewer is negative
Editor sits on reviews for 1 month, then rejects
Authors sad
Yet another storm troubles #Vietnam, or as Mike puts it,
"the typhoon season is actually supposed to be over, but such is #climatechange"
open.substack.com/pub/thevi…
"the typhoon season is actually supposed to be over, but such is #climatechange"
open.substack.com/pub/thevi…
Typhoon Kalmaegi Slams the South-Central Coast
And the Long Thành debate continues
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Yet another storm troubles #Vietnam, or as Mike puts it,
"the typhoon season is actually supposed to be over, but such is #climatechange"
open.substack.com/pub/thevi…
"the typhoon season is actually supposed to be over, but such is #climatechange"
open.substack.com/pub/thevi…
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«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
A tiny side-project that I can hopefully pull through: reverse engineering an audio box for kids that works with proprietary “tokens.” Like a cassette player but rigid af. Use and dispose. #hackerspace #netz39
First stop, getting info about chips and pins. A cheap USB microcontroller it is
First stop, getting info about chips and pins. A cheap USB microcontroller it is
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A tiny side-project that I can hopefully pull through: reverse engineering an audio box for kids that works with proprietary “tokens.” Like a cassette player but rigid af. Use and dispose. #hackerspace #netz39
First stop, getting info about chips and pins. A cheap USB microcontroller it is
First stop, getting info about chips and pins. A cheap USB microcontroller it is
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Die Einführung des EU Emissionshandels #ETS-2 wird um 1 Jahr verschoben. Ein Big Deal? Ja!
Es ist auch ein gutes Beispiel für jene Blockade- und Eskalationskaskaden, die wir in dem neuen #KlimawendeAusblick2025 beschreiben.
Was meinen wir damit?
Ein 🧵
www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-...
Es ist auch ein gutes Beispiel für jene Blockade- und Eskalationskaskaden, die wir in dem neuen #KlimawendeAusblick2025 beschreiben.
Was meinen wir damit?
Ein 🧵
www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-...
Klimawende Ausblick 2025
www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Die Einführung des EU Emissionshandels #ETS-2 wird um 1 Jahr verschoben. Ein Big Deal? Ja!
Es ist auch ein gutes Beispiel für jene Blockade- und Eskalationskaskaden, die wir in dem neuen #KlimawendeAusblick2025 beschreiben.
Was meinen wir damit?
Ein 🧵
www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-...
Es ist auch ein gutes Beispiel für jene Blockade- und Eskalationskaskaden, die wir in dem neuen #KlimawendeAusblick2025 beschreiben.
Was meinen wir damit?
Ein 🧵
www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-...
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Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.
www.techdirt.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?
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Über das Erdbeben von Lissabon erzählte Walter Benjamin eine seiner Rundfunkgeschichte für Kinder.
"Das Erdbeben aber, das Lissabon am 1. November 1755 vernichtet hat, war nicht nur ein Unheil wie tausend andere, sondern in vielem einzigartig und merkwürdig." 🧵
"Das Erdbeben aber, das Lissabon am 1. November 1755 vernichtet hat, war nicht nur ein Unheil wie tausend andere, sondern in vielem einzigartig und merkwürdig." 🧵
November 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Über das Erdbeben von Lissabon erzählte Walter Benjamin eine seiner Rundfunkgeschichte für Kinder.
"Das Erdbeben aber, das Lissabon am 1. November 1755 vernichtet hat, war nicht nur ein Unheil wie tausend andere, sondern in vielem einzigartig und merkwürdig." 🧵
"Das Erdbeben aber, das Lissabon am 1. November 1755 vernichtet hat, war nicht nur ein Unheil wie tausend andere, sondern in vielem einzigartig und merkwürdig." 🧵
At some point, it actually needs to be enough to end world hunger, says GamersNexus in a stellar video on the circular #AI investments.
Ridiculous amounts, from #OpenAI to #Nvidia via #Intel and #AMD and whatnot, driving stock prices, like printing money.
www.youtube.com/watch
Ridiculous amounts, from #OpenAI to #Nvidia via #Intel and #AMD and whatnot, driving stock prices, like printing money.
www.youtube.com/watch
WTF Is Going On?
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Come and join us for the RUSTlab Lectures this winter term. With four fantastic guests, we'll hear about new materialist perspectives on AI, digital platforms for collaborative ethnography, game-making for a world we can live in, and the energy future... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=3008
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Come and join us for the RUSTlab Lectures this winter term. With four fantastic guests, we'll hear about new materialist perspectives on AI, digital platforms for collaborative ethnography, game-making for a world we can live in, and the energy future... https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/?p=3008
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Frictionless brain activity
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Frictionless brain activity
not on my list of expected developments: Ex-Intel boss Gelsinger now leads a #Christian #AI company
"We’re not trying to take a theological position: we’re building a technology platform. 🧐"
www.theguardian.com/technolog…
"We’re not trying to take a theological position: we’re building a technology platform. 🧐"
www.theguardian.com/technolog…
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
not on my list of expected developments: Ex-Intel boss Gelsinger now leads a #Christian #AI company
"We’re not trying to take a theological position: we’re building a technology platform. 🧐"
www.theguardian.com/technolog…
"We’re not trying to take a theological position: we’re building a technology platform. 🧐"
www.theguardian.com/technolog…
"Auch der Zentralverband der Deutschen Geflügelwirtschaft geht bislang davon aus, dass die Weihnachtsgans sicher auf den Tisch kommen wird."
Sie landen ja förmlich auf unseren Tischen!
✊ #Vogelgrippe
www.zeit.de/wissen/20…
Sie landen ja förmlich auf unseren Tischen!
✊ #Vogelgrippe
www.zeit.de/wissen/20…
Vogelgrippe: Wenn tote Kraniche vom Himmel fallen
Die Vogelgrippe wütet in Deutschland. Wissenschaftler warnen vor dem schlimmsten Ausbruch seit Jahren. Die Behörden schauen zu, wie Freiwillige tote Wildvögel einsammeln.
www.zeit.de
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"Auch der Zentralverband der Deutschen Geflügelwirtschaft geht bislang davon aus, dass die Weihnachtsgans sicher auf den Tisch kommen wird."
Sie landen ja förmlich auf unseren Tischen!
✊ #Vogelgrippe
www.zeit.de/wissen/20…
Sie landen ja förmlich auf unseren Tischen!
✊ #Vogelgrippe
www.zeit.de/wissen/20…
How’s #IchBinHanna resisting #AI? “Our working conditions are student learning conditions”, thus:
"Militating against the transformation of not just the classroom but the university by ‘disruptive technologies’ is a crucial front."
defector.com/higher-ed…
"Militating against the transformation of not just the classroom but the university by ‘disruptive technologies’ is a crucial front."
defector.com/higher-ed…
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into the early fall semester. I don’t mean the fear that AI-based cheating is going to destroy education as we know…
defector.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
How’s #IchBinHanna resisting #AI? “Our working conditions are student learning conditions”, thus:
"Militating against the transformation of not just the classroom but the university by ‘disruptive technologies’ is a crucial front."
defector.com/higher-ed…
"Militating against the transformation of not just the classroom but the university by ‘disruptive technologies’ is a crucial front."
defector.com/higher-ed…
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"Enshittification" factually depends on platforms being at the start. "good to their users" and when it started Black people IMMEDIATELY said
these platforms were never good to us
and COLLECTIVELY
Media , Tech , Journalism< Philanthropy
said
"shut up we don't care"
these platforms were never good to us
and COLLECTIVELY
Media , Tech , Journalism< Philanthropy
said
"shut up we don't care"
October 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"Enshittification" factually depends on platforms being at the start. "good to their users" and when it started Black people IMMEDIATELY said
these platforms were never good to us
and COLLECTIVELY
Media , Tech , Journalism< Philanthropy
said
"shut up we don't care"
these platforms were never good to us
and COLLECTIVELY
Media , Tech , Journalism< Philanthropy
said
"shut up we don't care"