Benjamin Wittorf

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually

*The Chinese are rapidly winning every war they're not involved in. #SinoGlobalism #tradesurplus

*I wonder how long they can endure the temptation to immolate themselves. There's nobody more ethnonational. 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇹🇼

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Mit Direktlink einfacher: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800

Nr. 778: UNRECHT STELLT SICH NICHT LAUT VOR //

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got.

Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean?

Last line is especially ominous

Ja.

RSS is the forgotten but brilliant internet technology. If you are not using an RSS reader, try it out! Perfect for following blogs!

Anti-war writers from Goodman to Orwell to Arendt all found the same problem: mediated communication converts moral energy into the feeling of having responded. The LLM perfects this. You walk away feeling you understood something. You didn't.

Americas First War in Age of LLMs Exposes Myth of AI Alignment The military is turning to tools that relieve the burden of conscience and function like a moral sedative, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

The Trump administration’s escalating campaign in Iran marks the beginning of America’s first war in the age of large language models. These events make clear that those who work on AI safety must confront the limits of so-called “alignment to human values,” writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Der Torment Nexus · Bruchlinien Die gefährlichste Geschichte ist die, die sich als Tatsache tarnt.

Bonus-Text für meine Bluesky-Freund:innen → Der Torment Nexus

Die Ökonomie der simulierten Verantwortung · Bruchlinien Echte Probleme lassen sich nicht wegkaufen; wir müssen sie lösen.

Neuer Text: Die Ökonomie der simulierten Verantwortung → https://bruchlinien.de/feldnotizen/die-oekonomie-der-simulierten-verantwortung

an image promoting a substack article titled ‘25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right now’

i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)

open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

Verrate mir bitte sehr gerne, wie! Danke :)

Die unbequeme Antwort, dass ich fast das gesamte letzte Jahr hauptsächlich wenig anderes gemacht habe, als all diese Texte zu schreiben. Frag mich in einem halben Jahr gerne noch mal, ob ich die Kadenz noch aufrecht halten kann.

Ha, wie zeitgeist-ig – bei mir kommt nächste und übernächste Woche was dazu. Daher besonders schön zu lesen. Danke für den Link!

»Masern, Grippe, COVID-19, … – die meisten Infektionskrankheiten verbreiten sich über die Luft, die wir atmen. Wir akzeptieren einfach, dass sich jeder in Innenräumen ansteckt. Das muss nicht so sein. Raumluftfilterung sollte genauso selbstverständlich sein wie Wasserfilterung. Punkt.«

asymmetri/es

Zusammen mit @pbrx.bsky.social habe ich ein neues Ding am Start: einen Linkblog → asymmetri/es

I’d guess we live in segmented times where certain wordings signal significantly different frames, and people care less about policies and more about how you frame the policy.

Our call for entries for “Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemologies and Computation” is open through 16 March. Here’s a 🧵⬇️ #cfp #ml www.biblhertz.it/3773193/2602...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I wholly support this

Wenn Komplexität sich selbst im Wege steht · Black Cloud Works Komplexität beginnt nicht dort draußen im Chaos, sondern hier drinnen, in dem Versuch, es zu begreifen.

Neuer Text: Wenn Komplexität sich selbst im Wege steht → https://blackcloud.works/artikel/wenn-komplexitaet-sich-selbst-im-wege-steht

"I definitely left the oven on, have to go home to check."

I know all the terrible things that have been happening and are still happening. I'm going to keep posting my videos etc in the hopes this is a place to come for a few moments of quiet and calm for everyone.

PR 54: Protokoll der unlösbaren Parameter · Black Cloud Works Die Standardreaktion auf Unbekanntes in hochvernetzten Umgebungen ist der reflexartige Griff zur Suchmaschine. Das ist der Komfort des Glitch: die Illusion, dass … weiterlesen

Neuer Text: PR 54: Protokoll der unlösbaren Parameter → https://blackcloud.works/journal/pr-54-protokoll-der-unloesbaren-parameter

Nr. 847: GESUNDER MENSCHENVERSTAND ALLEINE REICHT NICHT AUS, UM KOMPLEXE PROBLEME ZU LÖSEN //

"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity. You won't be replaced by AI, nor a person using AI, because backfills aren't real.

Jack Dorsey is copying the 2023 leadership framework:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of AI productivity gains
- stock go up

The layoff victims were some of the most productive, AI-pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what it was about.

DOJ Examined Men in Epstein’s Orbit Accused of Sex Crimes. None Were Charged. Several women told investigators after Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death that they were sexually abused by his associates. The Justice Department has said the files include unverified allegations.

(GIFT ARTICLE) Multiple women alleged to prosecutors that they were sexually assaulted by high-profile associates of Jeffrey Epstein, according to the recently released Epstein files. None of the men was charged.

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Funktioniert! Und Danke für den indirekten Reminder, dass nach Invite auch anzugehen.