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Lorenz
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I used to do sciency things, now I make databases go brrrr. @[email protected]
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swiftonsecurity.com
Think about popular depictions of artificial intelligence. Do any of them act with perfect grammar and refusal to tell the user no, while being dumb as shit? No, we have tied fluidity and linguistics and willingness to answer to intelligence directly.

And then LLMs came in and broke everything.
September 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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stephananpalagan.bsky.social
Meine Kolumne in dieser Woche handelt von den vielen Lügen, Unwahrheiten und Falschbehauptungen von Julia Klöckner, ihrer aktuellen Rolle bei dem Maskenskandal von Jens Spahn und warum sie mit alledem an Donald Trump erinnert. Viel Spaß bei der Lektüre.

www.stern.de/kultur/kolum...
Kolumne: Julia Klöckner auf den Spuren von Donald Trump
Julia Klöckner ist in den sozialen Medien sehr aktiv. Dass ihre Postings Lügen und Fehler verbreiten, scheint ihr egal zu sein. Genau wie dem US-Präsidenten.
www.stern.de
July 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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andypavlo.bsky.social
Shots fired by @firebolthq.bsky.social with their new on-prem executable (www.firebolt.io/blog/introdu...). They have dethroned the Umbra system by The Germans™ at ‪@tum.de in the ClickBench rankings: benchmark.clickhouse.com
ClickBench rankings as of June 2025.
June 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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ingwarpero.bsky.social
Die direkten Folgen eines der schlimmsten Umweltverbrechen der Welt, die Grundschleppnetz-Fischerei, hat der neue Film von David Attenborough erstmalig filmisch dokumentiert. So unfassbar, dass das in 🇩🇪 und der 🇪🇺 weiterhin völlig legal ist🤬
May 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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stephananpalagan.bsky.social
Dass vorgestern 18.000 Schulkinder in Duisburg wegen rechtsextremer Drohungen zu Hause bleiben mussten, habt Ihr mitbekommen? Nein? Dann haben unsere Leitmedien und politischen Verantwortungsträger, die sonst bei jeder kleinsten Kleinigkeit durchdrehen, alles richtig gemacht.
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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margaowski.bsky.social
»Hieße es "Schon wieder hat ein Katholik seine Frau umgebracht", da würde man zu Recht fragen, was ist denn das für eine merkwürdige Überschrift? "Schon wieder ein Syrer" erscheint hingegen völlig normal.”
March 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
4z2.de
Pic is missing the ring 🥲
ec.europa.eu European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Mar 6
A pivotal moment for Europe is here.

We are ready to mobilise up to €800 billion to help EU countries increase defence spending.

We'll present our proposals to all EU leaders at today's European Council meeting.

Europe is resolved to assume its responsibilities ↓

europa.eu/!T37kVf
A visual depicting the stars of the EU flag with two sets of yellow paint strokes applied to the sides, as if being painted by hands. The text "ReArm Europe" is centred below on a dark blue background. The European Commission's logo is in the bottom right corner.
March 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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ingwarpero.bsky.social
Was laut Union in 🇩🇪 finanzierbar ist:

- Pendlerpauschale: 6 Mrd €
- Dieselprivileg: 8 Mrd €
- Dienstwagenprivileg: 3 Mrd €
- Kerosinsteuerbefreiung: 8,3 Mrd €
- 0% MwSt. auf int. Flüge: 4 Mrd. €

und was nicht:

- Deutschlandticket: 3,4 Mrd. €
Artikel mit der Überschrift: Union: Deutschlandticket nicht mehr finanzierbar
February 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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guido-kuehn.bsky.social
Merz ist vollständig im orwellschen Neusprech angekommen. Merz jetzt: "Wir werden mit der AfD nicht zusammenarbeiten. Vorher nicht, nachher nicht, niemals.“ Sagt einer, der letzte Woche wahnhaft mit Ansage und Anlauf mit der AfD die Republik erpressen wollte und dessen Partei 1:1 wie die AfD klingt.
Illustration: Merz mit vorgehaltener Pistole auf eine nicht im Bild sichtbare Person zielend. Er sagt: Das ist doch keine Erpressung. Entweder Sie tun, was ich sage oder ich drücke ab. Es ist Ihre Entscheidung. Textzeile: Das Demokratieverständnis des Herrn Merz
February 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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swiftonsecurity.com
People quoting these AI summaries for fact checks drive me wild. I sussed out a core factual conflation it made between two areas of a technical standard last week. It's good I didn't trust it. Glad I grew up with Wikipedia being drilled as untrustworthy. Wikipedia has issues even when sourced!
jasonschreier.bsky.social Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Dec 28
I was excited to tell my kids that there's a sequel to Encanto, only to scroll down and learn that Google's AI just completely made this up
December 28, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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professorbutts.com
welcome to the cocktagon
December 22, 2024 at 3:11 AM
4z2.de
PC load letter explained 🤯 Now I need to rewatch Office Space again
October 1, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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funranium.bsky.social
Okay, story time. I was asked for the tale of my laser eye injury, so here you go. I'm fine. Customers were fine. No children were harmed. The only victims were me and Bob's career. www.funraniumlabs.com/2024/07/how-...
How I Got My Laser Eye Injury - Funranium Labs
It has been brought to my attention that I have never actually written this story down before, merely told it in person to many students for valuable lessons and for laughs over cocktails. It is a lit...
www.funraniumlabs.com
July 31, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent, according to a case study published last week.
Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds
In the months following return-to-office mandates, an increased number of senior employees departed Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX, often to work for competitors.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 12, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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ingwarpero.bsky.social
Paris schafft gerade 70.000 Parkplätze ab. So sieht das dann z.B. aus❤️
March 23, 2024 at 7:35 AM
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stephananpalagan.bsky.social
Die Ausländerbehörde in Erfurt hat Angst, dass sich ein hochmotivierter syrischer Flüchtling durch seine Ausbildung zu gut integriert und man ihn dadurch nicht mehr abschieben kann. Die Lösung: Die Ausländerbehörde entzieht ihm die Arbeitserlaubnis. Kein Witz, sondern Realität in diesem Land.
March 11, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
as I learnt listening into a call today, astronomers who work on Uranus universally pronounce it as 'ur-unus', presumably because they were tired of being the butt of the joke.

this call was about how they're probed Uranus 'deeper than anybody has gone before'
February 23, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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tiny.baby
man there's going to be a whole 5 year generation of tech with useless AI features built in that we'll just have to ignore for the next 10-15 like 3d tvs
December 29, 2023 at 3:30 AM
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edzitron.com
I'm back on @businessinsider.com with a new piece about how the Return-To-Office fight is getting dirty, with executives demanding workers return to the office based on nothing but vibes - and how the media is helping by championing extremely questionable anti-remote studies.
The fight over return-to-office is getting dirty
Bosses pushing return-to-office policies are relying on a few, questionable studies to back up the claim that remote work is less productive.
www.businessinsider.com
November 7, 2023 at 5:03 PM
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sarahtaber.bsky.social
Ok so a couple weeks back I got to go on the coolest ag field trip of all time

"What if you could turn abandoned oil rigs into seaweed farms to clean up the Gulf of Mexico?"
Photo of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, taken from water level (in a small boat). Blue sky with a few puffy white clouds in the background. Rig is mostly red & safety yellow, standing on a few steel legs painted red. Most of the rig is visibly sun-bleached and/or covered in barnacles, visibly aged & somewhat out of use but still sturdy.
September 21, 2023 at 3:45 PM