Isabel Drost-Fromm

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

Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent its powers from being abused for political purposes.

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!

YouTube video by Adam Walker - Close Reading Poetry 7 Signs of the New Renaissance

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...

YouTube video by Addie LaMarr Data Poisoning: The Fatal Flaw in Mass Surveillance

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.

Europe Prepares for a Nightmare Scenario: The U.S. Blocking Access to Tech Trump’s threats have injected new urgency into European efforts to reduce its reliance on American technology.

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.

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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...

(68) Psychologische Dimensionen hybrider Kriegsführung und demokratische Widerstandskraft. Mit Marina Weisband

👏👀 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!

Wie schützen wir die Demokratie vor Tech Bros und KI? Chatbots und KI begegnen uns überall. Sie kannibalisieren Kunst, Musik und Journalismus. Die Gewinne landen bei sehr wenigen Technologie-Unternehmen. Auf diese Weise ist KI eine Umverteilungsmaschine ...

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

We have updated this list to include more than 500 packages and 700+ affected versions, as well as a technical analysis of the attack. socket.dev/blog/shai-hu....

cc: @campuscodi.risky.biz @typescript.fm @bleepingcomputer.com @theregister.com

AI art sneaks in when your heart is closed to folk art, to children’s art, to your own art. I know what it feels like to say “I couldn’t draw this, so it’s okay to have a computer do it” - but what part of yourself are you choosing to abandon because it’s not “good” enough?

Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.