Mastodawn

I‘m just reviewing a couple of papers and it seems that nowadays everybody is using „carefully designed prompts“ 😳

🥨 Bayerischer Microsoft-Deal wackelt:

Der bayerische Digitalminister fordert angesichts der veränderten geopolitischen Lage eine Neubewertung des geplanten Milliardendeals der bayerischen Staatsregierung mit Microsoft.

Gemeinsam mit anderen IT-Unternehmen, Organisationen und Experten aus Bayern fordern wir als Teil der Heinlein Gruppe schon lange ein Umdenken: https://www.heinlein.group/offener-brief-freistaat-bayern-will-milliarde-fuer-microsoft-ausgeben/

Die Chance für eine souveräne Zukunft ohne Abhängigkeiten von Digitalimporten muss jetzt genutzt werden!

Frank Krüger Jan 14

Harald Klinke Jan 13

Future art historians will need strong hybrid skills—critical theory plus computational methods—to research, curate, and preserve digital and data-driven visual culture.

The University of St Andrews is offering a fully funded PhD scholarship in Digital Art History and Digital-born Art, open to UK, EU, and international students (deadline: 30 March 2026).

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQB884/scholarship-for-doctoral-research-in-digital-art-history-and-digital-born-art
#DigitalArtHistory #PhDOpportunity #DigitalHumanities

Scholarship for Doctoral Research in Digital Art History and Digital-born Art at University of St Andrews

Apply for a Scholarship for Doctoral Research in Digital Art History and Digital-born Art. Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

Jobs.ac.uk

Frank Krüger Jan 13

I just received my copy of #aicon by @emilymbender and @alex. I'm really looking forward to going through this book.

Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna, (2025). The AI con: How to fight big tech’s hype and create the future we want

Frank Krüger Dec 30

Torsten Roeder Dec 15

What You Hack Is What You Mean: My #TEI talk at #39C3 will elaborate on how to turn literature, research, and even hacker lore into machine-readable, remixable, and sustainable data by using the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/event/detail/what-you-hack-is-what-you-mean-35-years-of-wiring-sense-into-text #DigitalHumanities #XML

Frank Krüger Dec 2

John Carlos Baez Dec 2

The largest fundamental science agency in Europe will save €1.4 million annually by breaking free from Clavariate Analytics' commercial databases of references and citations.

Starting January 1st 2026, the CNRS will stop subscribing from the Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

"We have worked for free to lock ourselves collectively into a paid system", one head of the CNRS explains - but no more! 🎉

https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

CNRS

Frank Krüger Nov 5

LibreOffice Oct 28

Join the #LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on scripting support, preferably full-time, remote: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/27/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-paid-developer-focusing-on-scripting-support-preferably-full-time-remote-m-f-d/

Frank Krüger Oct 28

Denny Vrandečić Oct 12

Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year

By Diego Delso, CC-BY-SA

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024/Results/All

Frank Krüger Sep 28

Torsten Roeder Sep 28

How many details do you need to identify the motif on a pixelated image? The game "Vystery" challenges you to un-pixelate an image and guess its motif in as few moves as possible. There is a new image every day! Read more: https://pixel.hypotheses.org/3904 #pixel #game

Frank Krüger Sep 28

Emeritus Prof Christopher May Sep 27

Our modern life in a cartoon....

#technology

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