Jochen F. Mayer

I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

CFP: Populäre Musik und Nachkriegszeiten. Zwischen kultureller Selbstvergewisserung, Unterhaltung und Verdrängung (1945–1960)

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160924

Freiburg im Breisgau, 27.11.2026-28.11.2026, Laura Marie Steinhaus M.A. / Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Fischer, Zentrum für …

@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social has presented the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust category) to People without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust by @ankahajkova.bsky.social! This award “represents the best of Jewish literature.”
#NationalJewishBookAwards

We also need to know whether AI was used to select the target. WaPo is reporting Anthropic and Palantir tech were used to identify 1000 targets in Iran 24 hours. Who vetted those targets? Who pays for errors? It's possible they weren't involved in this strike but this we need to know.

I saw on r/nursing this week that a nurse reported a colleague for wearing meta glasses to work. That has a billion HIPAA and other legal violations written ALL over it and that person should be fired

Heimat. Häkeln. Hetze. Undercover unter rechtsextremen Frauen. - hier anschauen Karaoke, Outfit-Inspo, „Remigration“: Die AfD-nahe Frauengruppe Lukreta verknüpft scheinbar harmlosen Lifestyle-Content mit politischen Botschaften der extremen Rechten. team.recherche zeigt, wie viel...

Heimat. Häkeln. Hetze. Auf Instagram verknüpft die AfD-nahe Frauengruppe Lukreta scheinbar harmlosen Lifestyle-Content mit rechtsextremen Botschaften. Eine neue Doku zeigt, wie nah sie an demokratischen Institutionen agieren. Mit unserer Kollegin Kira Ayyadi. Jetzt in der ARD Mediathek:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State SECRETARY RUBIO:  Thank you very much.  We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world.  When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...

Erinnerungspolitische Bezüge in Rubios Rede werden mit Gaulands "Vogelschiss" verglichen. Doch Rubio geht weiter: Europa liegt bei ihm völlig unvermittelt "in ruins", der NS spielt in seiner Geschichtspolitik nicht mal mehr eine Vogelschiss-Rolle, er bleibt ganz außen vor.

"For five centuries,
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"Dass er in seinen Werken auch immer wieder ihre Lebenserfahrungen und Erinnerungen aufgegriffen hat und sie im Hintergrund seines Denkens bleibend präsent waren, hat sie berührt und zu eigenem Sprechen und Schreiben ermuntert."

The Economic Costs of Brexit on the UK | Econofact Brexit has had a substantial economic impact on the United Kingdom, with adverse effects on investment, productivity, employment, and growth.

New economic research: "We estimate that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time."

One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions. Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders. This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement. Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.

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Instead of taking this at face value, think of it as a *hit list* of targets that billionaires would like to eradicate.

Translators, historians, broadcasters, political scientists...

...now do you get the picture?

Investigators wrangled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’ It’s not yet clear how the FBI collected the video. Experts said in some cases it’s possible to collect data from the complex infrastructure that has enabled cloud-based cameras.

This has a lot of implications well beyond this case. Many people put these devices in/outside their homes to see who is at the door or watch their pets becuase they think it’s livestream only and not recorded.

If companies like Google and Ring have magic backend data, we need to know about it.

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin

Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe "They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."

"Trump for Europeans conjures up the pre-war era when what we now call populism but then was called fascism engulfed country after country and led to a continent-wide catastrophe that killed millions of people."

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Homestory meets Lifestyle Interview für Chrupalla in der Zeit, später bei Miosga dann die Frage ob Trump ein Vorbild für Deutschland ist. Medienversagen und mutwillige Normalisierung von Rechtsextremismus. Es ist nicht zu fassen.

DIE ZEIT und andere deutsche Leitmedien sind noch immer auf X als „Gegengewicht zur aggressiven, wenig produktiven Diskussionskultur und der Zunahme von Desinformation.“
Ein Tweet der ZEIT erreicht im Schnitt etwas mehr als 1 Promille (!) ihrer Follower.
netzpolitik.org/2026/medien-...

Lange hieß es, Soziolog*innen, Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftler*innen würden am Ende nur noch Taxi fahren können.

Jetzt wissen wir, die Entwertung dieser Fächer hatte oft andere, ideologische Gründe. Wir sind ein zentraler Bestandteil der Erhaltung einer Demokratie.

Goethe Podcast: Entdeckungsreise durch Goethes naturwissenschaftliches Kabinett Podcast-Tour durch Goethes Sammlung in Weimar: Von der prähistorischen Ameise im Bernstein bis zu Experimenten der Farbenlehre - 5000 Objekte erzählen Geschichte.

#Goethe war nicht nur Dichterfürst, sondern auch begeisterter Sammler. Mehr als 5.000 Stücke umfasst seine naturwissenschaftliche Sammlung. In der neuen Folge des Goethe Podcast werfen @anhaeuser.bsky.social und Thomas Schmuck einen Blick darauf:

Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.

Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

1/4 Leonid Schneider macht öffentlich, dass einem Berliner Professor neben Vorwürfen sexueller Übergriffigkeit auch Plagiate zur Last gelegt werden. Brisant ist dabei:

Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.

Excellent @nytimes.com opinion piece offering both pragmatic and morally compelling reasons why Spain has chosen a different path than many other Western societies in addressing immigration and migration countering the despicable #maga narrative : www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

" If there is an aggressor and a victim, a liar and an honest person, a corrupt individual and an honourable one, then your task is to describe all that clearly and forcefully. I’m sick of those who believe that being a journalist means reporting both sides’ versions, without filters..."

It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances.

What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.

On 1 May 1517, xenophobic mobs, riled up by preachers who were in turn pressured by wealthy broker John Lincoln, rioted in London. They claimed that foreigners were stealing their jobs and welfare. Thomas More, then under-sheriff of London, tried to stop the mob with an empassioned speech.

“The era of hiding behind servers is over”
Bring it on!

„Wir werden die Wahllokale von ICE umstellen lassen.“

Im November wird es in den USA keine freien Wahlen geben – Punkt.