Happy International Museum Day. To celebrate here is a photo of the famous dinosaur gallery at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. The Giraffatitan still holds the record (I think) for the tallest reconstructed dinosaur skeleton exhibit in the world.

Let's celebrate museums!
What's your favourite?

#InternationalMuseumDay #EverythingDinosaur #Dinosaurs #Fossils

I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. A researcher made up a disease and published two evidently fake preprints about it (including sentences such as “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”), which were almost immediately picked up by LLMs and documented in their output. Worse, actual – supposedly serious – medical papers also started citing the preprints, demonstrating that academics relying on LLMs to do their work is a genuine problem! Not that I had my doubts but, if anyone did, this seems like the perfect demonstration of the problem. Article immediately added to the syllabus of the class I am co-teaching with Iris Ferrazzo on LLMs for Romance Studies/Humanities!

#LLM #GenAI #academia #research #ResearchIntegrity #humanities

Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development

@sovtechfund's investment will be used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE's core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services.

http://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde

https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/kde

#investment #sovereigntechfund #development #DigitalSovereignty

SZ meldet: Verfassungsschutz hat ein Produkt von ChapsVision aus Frankreich statt Palantir für den Einsatz in der Terrorismusbekämpfung und Spionageabwehr gekauft.

(possibly paywalled) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/verfassungsschutz-cybersicherheit-palantir-alternative-li.3482432

Aaron Swartz joined the RSS working group when he was 13. At 15 he became a foundational member of Creative Commons. He was working on precursors to markdown at 16.

We should not be locking young people out of our communities and keeping them away from digital tools that can open doors for them, expand their knowledge, sharpen their skills, and help them grow into well-rounded adults.

Hätte von mir sein können.. #mdrza #fahrrad #bike #bochum #verkehrswende

https://www.waz.de/lokales/bochum/article411947267/mit-dem-rad-zur-arbeit-bochumer-faehrt-bei-wind-und-wetter-und-ohne-motor.html

Happy time_t 1777777777 to all who celebrate.

# date +'%F %r %Z = %s'
2026-05-02 08:09:37 PM PDT = 1777777777

https://jwz.org/b/yk62