Mastodawn

I have held on to my Harry Potter books for a long time, trying to separate the art from the artist, because I came to them during a rather messy period in my life, and they represent a lot of memories.

But after what happened in Kansas today, I really just feel like I want to douse them in gasoline and set fire to them.

Cybermatron Feb 24

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Windy city Feb 24

@neil Neil is absolutely spot on and we need to talk about the politics of this. Telling people to "just self-host" to escape surveillance capitalism is the exact same tactic as telling people to "calculate your carbon footprint" to stop climate change.

It individualizes a systemic, corporate failure.
Privacy and digital safety shouldn't be luxury goods reserved for cis-white-male engineers with unmetered fiber connections, rack-mount servers along with free time and financial stability to pull it off. When our response to the collapse of digital rights is "run your own infrastructure," we are engaging in digital redlining. The solution to predatory data brokering isn't forcing single mothers working two jobs to learn Kubernetes; the solution is ruthlessly regulating the data brokers out of existence.

Cybermatron Feb 19

Ulrich Kelber Feb 19

Eine #Klarnamenpflicht im Internet, wie sie #Merz nun wieder einmal fordert, gefährdet die Demokratie. In der analogen Welt können Menschen in Deutschland z.B. auf eine Demo gegen ein Terrorregime (Iran, Russland) gehen, ohne sich und ihre dort noch lebenden Familien zu gefährden.

Mit Klarnamenpflicht könnten sich Frauen, LGBTQ+-Personen und andere nicht mehr frei und sicher an Debatten beteiligen, ohne nicht Angst haben zu müssen, dass dann Nazis oder Stalker vor ihrer Tür stehen.

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Cybermatron Feb 19

marnanel Feb 18

May Lent bring you as much patience as whoever is working Bedford council's social media

https://www.facebook.com/BedfordBoroughCouncil/posts/pfbid0aJ7obzLNb3ka4QJGExKWqSKr4iCgMthG5poqCU3Cw5UMkYpxbPEjmVvGkhKLBsPpl

Cybermatron Feb 16

Natasha

🇪🇺Feb 16

By Sophie Labelle 💜

(👉 but transphobes will transphobe anyway ofc)

Cybermatron Jan 24

Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀Jan 24

Cybermatron Dec 30

Nicole Göbel Dec 30, 2024

Wie man Menschen das Böllern abgewöhnt 😂

Cybermatron Dec 24

Bastian Allgeier Dec 24

Prediction for 2026: There will still be more than enough people and organizations that will not jump on the fascism bandwagon and more than enough people who urgently need allies against it. There will be even more silence. Because of fear, because of despair. And it will be even more important to keep breaking that silence, to show and to understand that we are not alone. When times are getting darker, we need to bring brighter torches.

Cybermatron Dec 11

I do a “reflective GenAI” exercise as a formative assessment on one of my courses, where students are to feed an essay question to a GenAI system of their choice and then evaluate its quality and accuracy, and I swear these systems are getting dumber. Last year, I was still quite impressed by their ability to structure and to include at least some valid academic references(albeit truncated).

This year about 80% of all footnotes were hallucinations.

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Cybermatron Dec 11

Can this ”Martin Bieker” person, who apparently co-writes academic articles with all the Good and the Great in Data Protection Law and whom I can’t find on Google Scholar, LinkedIn or my University Library database please step forward and identify himself? One GenAI generated essay cited him twice in 1500 words. I want to meet the man!