Christian Willmes

@cwillmes
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Geographer with specialization in Geoinformatics. Works as PostDoc at University of Cologne. Current Projects: https://campusgis2.uni-koeln.de/ and https://virtueller-campus.uni-koeln.de/. Cologne, Germany.

Ladybird open source browser developers have had enough. They're giving up on pull requests.

"For decades, code contributions have been how open source projects learned who to trust. People would show up, do the work, take responsibility for their changes, and stick around. Over time, trust emerged from the work itself.

AI tools have changed the economics of this very quickly... a pull request no longer tells us as much as it used to about the person submitting it."

https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/

Changing How We Develop Ladybird - Ladybird

Ladybird is changing how code enters the project as we prepare to ship a browser to real users.

KI-Slop: Googler lästern intern über KI-Tools - Golem.de

Google setzt voll auf KI, wie auch die I/O 2026 gezeigt hat. Bei den Mitarbeitern sind die KI-Tools Ziel zahlreicher Memes.

Golem.de

Moin #Fediverse - Da ist das gute Stueck 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/spacex-boersengang-der-groesste-bankraub-geschichte/

Der groesste Scam des Elon #Musk & all die, die ueber Indexfonds fuer ihre Altersvorsorge sparen, die werden unter Umstaenden damit auch Anteilseigner:in von #SpaceX

Der Firma, die bei $19 Mrd Umsatz 5 Mrd Verluste macht, aber eine Bewertung von $1.75 Bio anstrebt.

Die Firma, die AI-Rechenzentren im All bauen will & erklaert, dass dies vielleicht nicht wirtschaftlich ist!

Freue mich, wenn ihr diese Recherche boostet.

Danke 🙏

SpaceX Boersengang – Der groesste Bankraub Geschichte

Diesen Monat geht SpaceX an die Boerse und es wird wohl der groesste Boersengang der Geschichte! Aber nicht nur das..., denn wenn alles glatt laeuft, dass wird dadurch Elon Musk zum ersten Billionaer ueberhaupt. Was aber noch viel gruseliger ist: Millionen Amerikaner werden SpaceX-Aktionaere – ohne eine einzige Aktie aktiv zu

MeTacheles

The scale of the New Glenn explosion is a reminder of the staggering amount of energy locked up within a rocket, and the extreme engineering it takes to release that energy in a precisely controlled way.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/29/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-explodes-during-prelaunch-testing-at-cape-canaveral/ #space #technology

„Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn't leave you diminished on the other side.“

Insightful read on the use of LLMs for both #PhD students and their supervisors: https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/. Linguists can simply replace astrophysics with #linguistics.

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

So macht man das! Gewinne nIcht in die Taschen der Aktionäre oder Eigentümer, sondern den Arbeitnehmer*innen des Unternehmens ausszahlen. ✊ https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/samsung-einigung-gewerkschaft-streik-100.html
Samsung-Gewerkschaft nimmt Einigung auf Rekordboni an

Der historische Arbeitskampf beim Elektronikkonzern Samsung ist endgültig abgewendet: Die 48.000 Beschäftigten werden nicht streiken. Denn die Mehrheit stimmte für das Angebot der Geschäftsführung.

tagesschau.de

Viele sagen, Wasserstoff ist tot. Dabei läuft der Markt gerade wieder an.

Nur ohne den deutschen Mittelstand.

https://www.cleantech.ing/p/wasserstoff-l-uft-an-nur-ohne-den-deutschen-mittelstand

"While technologies such as the fatbike, smart salt shakers, cutlery, or apps with unnecessary blockchain components might be carefully crafted from high-quality materials, they are conceptually shoddy or treacherous. In calling bullshit on technologies, we are critiquing technologies and, perhaps more importantly, critiquing the craftsmanship of the makers of the technology."
Fatbikes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "On Technological Bullshit" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-026-10425-2
On Technological Bullshit - Topoi

The concept of “bullshit” (Frankfurt H (1986) On Bullshit. Raritan.) is a well-established philosophical tool for criticizing speech that lacks a serious relationship to truth conditions or evidence. While the concept has been employed primarily to evaluate discourse, we argue in this paper that bullshit is also relevant to the assessment of technology. We introduce the concept of technological bullshit as a means of critically reflecting on artifacts and their societal construction. As a case in point for the analysis of technological bullshit, we focus on a two-wheeler that has caused some recent controversy in the field of urban mobility: the fatbike. We illustrate the identification and analysis of technological bullshit by offering a case study on the pragmatics of fatbikes, i.e., how they are made, used, and talked about. Based on this, and some additional examples, we finally characterize different forms of technological bullshit and conclude with a note on how technological bullshit can be used as a form of critique.

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