Joschka Meier

Hui, da hat jemand aber wirklich voll in die Dramakiste gegriffen!

"die nordische Tiefe und die nordische Helle" - aus was ist dieser schwurblige Schmarrn?

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

We remember.

Super niche #earlymodern query: has anyone ever worked with account books that are records of salaries received by specific individuals?

I've a prioress and her steward both making these payments. The individual verifies receipt and then signs. The book is a running tally of these disbursements.

You should stay far away from Swiss German in that case!
We unfortunately try to cute-ify everything: A mighty dam holding back water? Nah, that's a Dämmli or Wehrli. How about just stuff (Sache)? Well, those are Sächeli of course.
See that garbage can over there? That's not a Ghüder, but a Ghüderli

The picture shows a male and a female great crested newt floating in water near the surface above a leaf-strewn pond bottom.

First sighting of great crested newts (Triturus cristatus) this year!
These cuties have settled into a pond nearby

Und dann als Chaser:
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Und wieder stellt sich die Frage: Wieso gibt's Zeug wie Impostorsyndrome, wenn's dann eh nie die richtigen erwischt?

Exhibit A:

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Zumindest teilweise ists weil die Folgen von 'Vibecoding' spürbar werden, denk ich.
Hatte in letzter Zeit häufiger Probleme mit Bluesky (nicht geöffnet, geladet, abgestürzt etc)...und dann gesehen, wie hoher bsky-Itler viral ging mit dem Take, dass er eh nur noch Vibecoden würde weil beschde etc

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

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Half of Americans back abolishing ICE amid Trump crackdown, poll finds YouGov poll shows 50% support as Kristi Noem defends ‘terrorist’ claim and shutdown drags on

Repeat after me; “abolish ICE” is the mainstream position.

Dazwischen telefoniere ich an diesem Tag noch mit dem Schriftsteller Daniel Kehlmann. Er ist wütend, dass man einen Extremisten wie Curtis Yarvin einlädt, wo man ihm vor zwei Jahren verboten hat, einen linken Intellektuellen für einen Auftritt im Schloss einzuladen. Kehlmann schreibt eine Mail nach Elmau, die er mir weiterleitet: "Ich habe gerade das Programm für die Philosophentagung in Elmau gesehen, und ich kann nicht fassen, daß Curtis Yarvin eingeladen ist. Einen Tag vorher hält er übrigens in Wien einen Vortrag im Hauptquartier der Hitlerjugend, mit einer Einführung von Martin Sellner, dem Anführer der Identitären Neonazibewegung." Es ist schon dunkel, als Krastev am Telefon mit seiner leisen, traurigen Stimme seufzt: "Ich habe kein Social Media." Wenn er Yarvin jetzt auslade, dann mache er doch genau, was diese Leute erwarteten. "Und sie sind nicht mehr irgendwelche verrückten Außenseiter. Sie sitzen in der Regierung, wir müssen uns mit ihnen auseinandersetzen."

"Ich habe kein Social Media", sagt Ivan Krastev über Curtis Yarvin. Das erlebe ich in letzter Zeit sehr oft: Leute können neue und extrem rechte Akteure überhaupt nicht einschätzen, weil sie gar nicht wahrnehmen, was die in ihren Plattformformaten treiben. ABER...

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Krastev wird regelmäßig als Experte befragt - und weiß nicht, wer Curtis Yarvin ist, oder was der glaubt. Das bedeutet auch, dass er einen erheblichen Teil der MAGA Koalition, mit direktem Zugang zur Führungsriege, nicht kennt, und nicht richtig einordnen kann.

It’s unreal people are ok with it.

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a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

At a skill training/workshop-thingy at my university the 'expert' in charge looked at my slides full of historical pictures...
...and told me I should try telling ChatGPT to generate pictures for me "y'know it's more efficient and you could tell it to make it look nicer"

I mean...yeah, that was also my reaction when I heard that.
Refrained from saying anything because that shows such a lack of basic technological literacy that, well, I wouldn't even really know where to start.
"Have you heard about R? Or maybe Excel? Anything?"
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Though there're also a lot of people (inc. historians) who use GenAI/LLMs for all kinds of purposes, because they either don't know how these services function or that there are better alternatives available.
Example: Heard someone talk about how it was possible to make *graphs* with GenAI 🫠

Oh yeah, that one factoid floating around a while ago about how GenAI would replace like 100% of historians was a prime example of that: The people behind that had no idea what historical research is, or, indeed, the point of history & historians in general.

This is a basic and crucial point for any discussion of LLMs’ use in teaching research or writing. Whether it can ape us, fool us, or get facts right or wrong is, in the end, irrelevant. The LLM is not the thinker we are trying to encourage; the LLM is not the writer that we are trying to improve.

i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat

but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it

This is a good response.

2026 nuclear family meme— featuring Fritzi as Neurodivergent Aunt, Sluggo as Sluggo, Nancy as Daughter, Nancy Jr as Woke Dog

Well, apparently not enough according to the GenAI-Boosters!
I also thought that the purpose of research was the creation of new knowledge, but considering how many people seem to think that letting a glorified chatbot do all that...

Oh sure! I mean, it can't actually read anything in any case, but I was still a bit surprised by how quickly & obviously it abandoned the attempt to make an article-pastiche (i. e. copy-paste the original and mix it up a bit).

it's kinda fitting that it made that mistake, because I included that section after encountering a handful of men who reacted to the paper that the article is based on, by basically claiming that any women working must have surely been due to an absence of big burly men.
GenAI ❤️ Patriarchy I guess!

Same here, kind of fascinating to see how & where that stochastic parrot tried & failed.
E.g. it claimed that I had explained something (women doing heavy manual labour in the Alps) with 'a lack of men' - but I dedicated a whole section to hammering the point home that was not at all the case