Looks like a lot of fun 😊
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Looks like a lot of fun 😊
Go work with Ted. You will learn something.
It is with profound sadness that the MetaBrainz Board of Directors announces the unexpected passing of our Founder and Executive Director, Rob Kaye.
Robert’s vision and leadership shaped MeB and left a lasting mark on the music industry and open source movement.
blog.metabrainz.org/2026/02/24/r...
"Leute, wenn ich Putin wäre, ich würde uns doch nicht mit Panzern angreifen, wenn es Facebook gibt. Ich kann doch einfach meine Partei in Deutschland an die Macht bringen und dann muss ich niemanden angreifen."
Das und andere 100% stimmige Argumente von Frau Weisband @afelia.bsky.social bei #Illner
Ich hatte immer gewarnt: "Wenn der Faschismus kommt, wird es nicht wie im Film sein. Es werden nicht unbedingt riesige Banner entrollt".
Ich hatte Unrecht.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
I do like the taxonomy. One thing I wonder: A lot of these models are trained on non curated content available on the public internet. Wouldn't it make sense to also look at what can be done by targeted poisoning of that data?
So beautiful!
Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79...
Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided.
Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!
Do you feel like culture and society are going down the drain?
An optimistic counterpoint: Video essay on why we are on the verge of a new renaissance
youtu.be/73vTEfx5gVg?...
This is quite amazing. Much has been said about the early anticipation of AI with Jorge Luis Borges "Library of Babel", but that shortstory actually had a precursor with Kurd Laßwitz' german shortstory about the "Universal Library". projekt-gutenberg.org/authors/kurd...
It's shockingly cheap to dismantle surveillance systems. You can poison them in your free time.
youtu.be/AJf4SNuDnoI?...
Eine Studie hat dokumentiert, dass Elon Musk auf Twitter/X den Algorithmus manipuliert hat, um die AfD vor der BTW 2025 zu stärken.
Für alle Parteien, Politiker*innen und Institutionen zeigt das noch einmal ganz deutlich, was schon seit langem immer wieder gesagt wird:
1/3 grans-united.org/docs/open-le...
Klimakatastrophe, Artenzerstörung, Faschismus, Feudalismus, Diktaturen, Kriegsverbrechen, Arbeitslager, Folter, Raubbau, Menschenhass, Völkermord, Sklaverei, Rassismus, Misogynie und a pro pos: Nach Auffassung des katholischen Chefs sind das größte Problem für den Frieden selbstbestimmte Frauen.
www.wsj.com/tech/europe-...
There is a real innovation opportunity here. Over-priced bloatware, cloud services and slop engines are ripe for replacement. EU has talent and core infrastructure to do it.
bsky.app/profile/afel... ... A caricature, from a different time
I am looking for a graduate-level intern for next summer to work with my team on large-scale security systems.
If you do large-scale data, formal methods, distributed systems, computer security or anything related, ping me. Or just apply before mid-March.
hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobsathpe/jo...
Also I do hear Devs complain about slop. I also do hear them complain when books they wrote are used for training. I also hear them complain when AI is trained on all sorts of source code with unclear license provenance - and then used for code that before was written in clean room settings.
Code that's publicly available often is not directly monetized. Think Mozilla's Open Source archetypes.
Developers may not complain, but their employers do have all sorts of barriers in place that prevent commercially important code to find it's way into models.
Never too old to learn new tricks. Well done from you.
This reads like a very exciting and successful year! 🎉
We’re looking back on a successful and exciting year! From local events in Berlin to a (nearly) 24-hour global broadcast, 2025 was all about bringing communities together.
We’ve put together a full recap: plainschwarz.com/2025-reflect...
👏👀 A sea of crystal clear takeaways from @afelia.bsky.social on emotions in politics:
"There is an important lesson for Western democracies learned from right-wing populists: politics is not just about rationality, it is also emotion. And we should not allow the right wing to monopolize emotions".
Wohoo!
Will a recording of the talk be posted later? The summary sounds really interesting.
Mein herzliches Beileid und viel Kraft für die bevorstehende Zeit!
In der neuen Folge Wind und Wurzeln erkunde ich, was im Sillicon Valley über KI befürchtet wird - und was aktuell in Wirklichkeit zu befürchten ist. Über die Umverteilungsmaschine: wind-und-wurzeln.podigee.io/6-neue-episode
