Michael Puntschuh

What do you mean, Catharticus didn't win Vidbir?

Mir helfen dieser Tage Star Trek Parodien wie @annoyedobrien.bsky.social @coachgowron.com @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social und @rikergoogling.bsky.social, außerdem @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social @workchronicles.bsky.social @foxes-in-love.bsky.social @koelner-dom.bsky.social @terriblemapshq.bsky.social

A large coalition for a cosmopolitan, pro-European and democratic Czech Republic 🇨🇿 sent a strong signal yesterday in Prague, including support for President @prezidentpavel.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy. At the forefront: #PulseOfEurope 🇪🇺!

#DemocracyVsAutocracy
#StandWithUkraine
#EUTheBlueForce

Black-and-white photo of the Auschwitz-Birkenau entrance gate in winter, with the words “Arbeit macht frei” above the open gates. In the bottom left, gold text reads “International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026,” and the EU flag appears in the bottom right.

Today, we remember all the victims murdered during the Holocaust, and we stand with those who survived.

We also mark the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

This dark memory must be passed to future generations.

Never again.

PM der GdP bebildert mit einem blutenden Polizisten.

GdP Sachsen nutzt KI generierte Bilder für eigene Narrative (Bild via @boschpolforsch.bsky.social). Es ist das erste Mal, dass ich solche Bilder von seriösen Stellen sehe, die Ereignisse so darstellen, dass sie besser ins eigene Bild passen. Das ist nicht gut, der DGB darf hier nicht schweigen!

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened:

Wie ich bei Konferenzen sitze, wenn wieder jemand erzählt, was er ChatGPT gefragt hat

Even though Trump is actively working on making our world into the upside-down, I agree that we shouldn't use the same words to describe his incoherent ramblings as we would use for a new season of Stranger Things

🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them:

"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."

"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)

Trump og hans regjering forakter åpenlyst Europa. Om vi smisker, forakter de oss mer. Om vi protesterer vekker vi deres vrede. Men vi har ikke annet valg enn å påføre dem kostnader for denne oppførselen. Det slutter ikke før noen stopper Trump.

What's the point you're trying to make?

Headline of NRK article: Trump on Nobel Peace Prize - Norway controls it

Is this really the story, NRK? We can't fall into the trap of talking about who controls or doesn't control the Nobel Peace Prize - irrelevant and a distraction
The only interesting thing here is that he thinks since he's trying to control everything in the US, everyone else does that as well

To defend Greenland and itself from Trump, the EU and its leaders must stop its deregulation packages.

EU omnibus packages serve US and not European interests.

It’s a self defeating conduct - I wrote today in the @financialtimes.com

Jens Spahn, chairman of the CDU/CSU in German parliament on a possible US invasion of Greenland: “When you look at Greenland's location on the globe, the questions raised by the US are understandable.”
Utter madness.

Trump will likely try to make Denmark choose between NATO and Greenland, and wider Europe between Greenland and Ukraine.

But luckily Trump has also demonstrated that under his leadership, any US security guarantee won’t be worth much. So the choice should be simple.

Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/

Hmm, true, that makes my explanation less likely.
And you're right, I've seen as well that trains got turned around to avoid a delay on the return journey. And there was reporting that DB is canceling delayed trains to improve their statistics (because canceled trains are not counted as delayed)

If a train is coming from Germany and entering the Swiss rail network too late, the Swiss rail actually themselves block the train from entering the network to avoid it creating disruptions in their network. So not a decision of DB. Maybe similar with Dutch rail?

Publication cover: Berendt, B., Danos, V., Hartmann, D., Langer, F., Lassiter, T., Mönig, J. M., Mysegades, C., Puntschuh, M., & Zech, H. (2025). Harmonised Standards and Conformity Assessments in the AI Act. Weizenbaum Institute.

Adopted in 2024, the #EU #AIAct is a milestone in AI regulation. This position paper welcomes its ambition, but warns that technical standardisation and conformity assessments risk over-reliance on private governance; weakening democratic oversight & rights t1p.de/9gpee

“Memorization” = theft, plagiarism at scale

In my Bluesky app, I can now see from which of my other feeds the posts originate from in my "discover" feed (see screenshot). This is going in the direction of algorithmic transparency for the user-side that we have been talking about in the past:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Übrigens setzt sich @hateaid.org auch gegen genau diese Form digitaler Gewalt ein und hilft Betroffenen. Es ist kein Wunder, dass sie der Broligarchy ein Dorn im Auge ist.

Styremedlem Tom Fredrik Blenning og daglig leder Michael Puntschuh

I dag er vi på Stortinget for å levere vårt innspill til høringen om trygg oppvekst i digital samfunn: Vi advarer mot brede tekniske inngrep som f.eks. aldersverifisering. Vi bør heller løse de grunnleggende problemene som overvåkingsøkonomien

Firefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure. Maybe even improve extension interfaces and then deliver whatever "AI" nonsense they want through extensions. Would make it so easy to stop having to talk about kill switches and how "hard" those are […]

fuck outta here

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X By Reuters January 2, 20267:40 PM GMT+1Updated 1 hour ago Illustration shows xAI and Grok logos xAI and Grok logos are seen in this illustration taken, February 16, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab Jan 2 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this. Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok's public media tab filled with images that users said had been altered when they uploaded photos and prompted the bot to alter them. "There are isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing," Grok said in a post on X. "xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely." "As noted, we've identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them — CSAM is illegal and prohibited," Grok said, referring to Child Sexual Abuse Material. Grok gave no further details. When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies". In a separate reply to a user on X on Thursday, Grok said most cases could be prevented through advanced filters and monitoring although it said "no system is 100% foolproof," adding that xAI was prioritising improvements and reviewing details shared by users.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)

#1: Reuters

“What a century, uh?” “Captain, it’s just one quarter”

Darüber hatte ich hier auch schon vor 2 Monaten geschrieben: „Stellt Euch vor, ihr datet als 16jährige jemanden, der Euer Verhalten mit Musks KI-Girl vergleicht & zu verstehen gibt, dass mit Euch etwas nicht in Ordnung ist wenn ihr weniger „gefügig“ seid. Horror!“

Gilt nicht nur für Liebe, sondern auch Freudschaft: "Aber sobald es unbequem wird, wenn Feminismus nicht mehr dafür herhalten kann, andere zu konfrontieren, sondern sie ihr eigenes Handeln damit konfrontieren müssten, ziehen sie sich zurück in die alten Muster: Dominanz, Anspruch, Empfindlichkeit."