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Social metabolism | Energy | Inequality | Sustainable Healthcare @pik-potsdam.bsky.social | Politics | Curiosities | OpenScience | Reproducibility | #rstats. spore.social/@pepepe The purpose of a system is what it does. Opinions my own.
Ich habe endlich Zeit gefunden, den Text "Donald J. Trump und der neue Cäsarismus" (www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...) in die @blaetter.bsky.social zu lesen und: es hat sich gelohnt.
Der Text von @fargonaut.bsky.social ist ein Must-Read für alle #AntifaÖkonom:innen, denn er bietet... 🧵 /1
One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.
10.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 2476 🔁 534 💬 73 📌 50
photo of paulina borsook
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
Zusammen für Gaza - Demo am 27.9. in Berlin
www.zusammen-fuer-gaza.de
Ai First! =/
06.09.2025 12:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out.
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
Falls du in Potsdam bist, lohnt ein Ausflug zu uns auf den Telegrafenberg =)
03.06.2025 21:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive science as a multidisciplinary field, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) as one of its contributing fields. One conception of Al in this context is as a provider of computational tools (frameworks, concepts, formalisms, models, proofs, simulations, etc.) that support theory building in cognitive science. The contemporary field of Al, however, has taken the theoretical possibility of explaining human cognition as a form of computation to imply the practical feasibility of realising human(-like or -level) cognition in factual computational systems; and, the field frames this realisation as a short-term inevitability. Yet, as we formally prove herein, creating systems with human(-like or -level) cognition is intrinsically computationally intractable.
🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
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#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy
Israel is perpetrating a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza, committing illegal acts with the “specific intent” of wiping out Palestinians, Amnesty International has said.
youtu.be/OOCxGiJkRXk
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07.05.2025 11:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's here.
Pit in stomach feeling.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Can find no mention of this in any German news?
01.04.2025 08:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I wish I could unfollow anyone not skeeting about Gaza and Palestine right now. There is a for-real genocide going on RIGHT NOW and people are still skeeting about sandwiches and art and USians having protest signs. It makes me want to throw up.
20.03.2025 18:55 — 👍 54 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Es ist offiziell: Ich habe ein #Berufsverbot bekommen (Auszüge⬇️).
Weil ich eine marxistische Analyse der #Klimakrise vertrete. Ich stehe dazu: Die Wirtschaft muss demokratisiert werden, damit nicht einige wenige Superreiche für ihre Profite den Planeten zugrunde richten können.
Headline "US democracy has died"
The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won.
What now? A 🧵.
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The United States has declared economic war on some of its closest allies and Silicon Valley is itching to use the power of the state to defend its interests at all costs.
It’s time for an alliance not just to combat US belligerence, but to build a different vision for tech.
Research done at @pik-potsdam.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social
14.01.2025 12:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New construction driven by population growth primarily impacts dense urban centers like Berlin, Leipzig, and Munich, where housing sizes are already among the smallest. In contrast, many rural areas have significant unused housing stock.
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Image shows that the GHG emissions for three scenarios (baseline, material efficiency, lifetime extension) are all higher than the path determined by German climate targets.
Even with optimistic material efficiency improvements, Germany is on track to miss its emission reduction targets. Reducing floor space per capita would be most effective to limit emissions, but no policies currently support this shift.
14.01.2025 12:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Image shows regional construction patterns in Germany’s NUTS3 regions (counties and cities) overall, and divided into stock addition due to growing populations and stock replentishment replacing demolished buildings. Construction demand is concentrated in large urban centers like Belrin, Munich and Leipzig.
This spatial resolution enabled us to assess whether there are enough houses in the places where people will actually need them. National scenarios are blind to this, likely leading to misestimations of Circular Economy potentials.
14.01.2025 12:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0His really cool dynamic MFA study ("live (a) little: GHG emissions from residential building materials for all 400 counties and cities of Germany until 2050") explores scenarios for each city and county in Germany based on current housing stock and population trends.
14.01.2025 12:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Without reversing the trend of increasing floor space per capita in Germany, climate targets for housing and construction will not be met.
Congrats @napiontek.bsky.social on his first paper =)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Here it is: I think it's some of the most important writing I have ever done.
What We Are Up Against.
Exposing the secret history of the making of the climate crisis should change everything about how we act to stop it.
link.medium.com/T6eZSPLevKb
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Handarbeit für heute erfolgreich erledigt. Danke an alle! #b1412 #FrankfurterAllee
14.12.2024 15:39 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The tech industry makes our lives hell, but at least you can help name the worst billionaire of the year. Cast your ballot! 🗳️
09.12.2024 14:43 — 👍 100 🔁 26 💬 12 📌 1No need to change your mind, I think.
www.thenation.com/authors/tim-...
Trump und Orbàn und ihre klimaleugnerischen Freunde lobbyieren nun auch bei uns:
Wir bei @correctiv.org decken ein Netzwerk auf:
Geschaffen, um Klimapolitik zu bremsen & weiter Öl & Gas zu verbrennen.
Auch finanziert aus den USA.
Verbunden mit FDP und CDU. 🧵
correctiv.org/aktuelles/kl...
Research led by @camillebelmin.bsky.social (welcome =) @iiasa.ac.at and @pik-potsdam.bsky.social
03.12.2024 12:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0And maybe preemptively, because debates touching on population often get weird quickly, linking directly to this recent post by @davidrvetter.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/davi...
