Andreas Bischof

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

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.

Amid Trump attacks and weaponized sanctions, Europeans look to rely less on US tech | TechCrunch European governments are looking to move away from U.S. tech and reclaim their digital sovereignty at a time of unpredictability and volatility in the United States.

Amid Trump attacks and weaponized sanctions, Europeans look to rely less on US tech <and not just European govts. Many people are concerned about the implications of using US tech under an increasingly fascist US administration

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Rector Petra De Sutter gebruikte door AI ‘gehallucineerde’ citaten in openingsspeech De foute citaten werden op de UGent-website in oktober ‘opgekuist’ zonder enige uitleg.

UGent-rector Petra De Sutter gebruikte onbestaande citaten in haar speech bij de start van het academiejaar. Ze bevestigt aan Apache dat de fouten door AI veroorzaakt zijn. #technonchalance

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Why Musk is Culpable in Grok's Undressing Fiasco | TechPolicy.Press Grok’s functionality is not a black box, but the result of specific design decisions made by executives and engineers at xAI, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Don't blame Grok: We need to move beyond the idea that generative AI models are just data, models & prompts. That frame places AI companies as passive observers of their own products - but they're the sole deciders of how models are optimized & to what goals. From me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social:

«KI ist power-projection und zwar im militärischen, wie im psychoanalytischen Sinne des Projektionsbegriffs.»

So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

“why are women using ai less than men” bc our ideas have to actually be good

SLOPOCALYPSE NOW: www.artforum.com/features/yea...

Online reaction economies are largely driven by outrage, cringe & paranoia. As #AISlop is optimized to generate engagement, its emerging genres can probably be best distinguished by the ways they prompt specific affects & trigger certain reactions (including pseudo-forensic readings) #Sloptimization

OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.

OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets (from LibGen) - Ars Technica

All that money and they still couldn't afford to buy books. #ai #ethics

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🏆Gestern wurde der Wissen der Vielen – Forschungspreis für #CitizenScience im Rahmen der #PartWiss in Leipzig feierlich verliehen. Ausgezeichnet wurden stellvertretend für ihre Teams Dirk Knoche, Sven Bittenbinder & Melike Şahinol. www.mitforschen.org/forschungspr...

Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."

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Virtually every digital technology of this century has been designed to feed and flatter the worst parts of yourself

"[My job as Juniorprofessorin] was created in 2021 after attempts at closing the Department [...] failed. Its purpose was to stabilise the department’s situation and ideally to develop a plan for the future. But to this day, we don’t know if we will even have a future." #IchBinHanna

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Europe Isn’t Weak—It Just Pretends To Be. Here’s How to Fix That. | TechPolicy.Press Europe must reclaim digital sovereignty through three levers: politics, policing, and procurement, writes Johnny Ryan.

To begin reclaiming control of its future, Europe must chart a path toward digital sovereignty, argues Johnny Ryan, Director of Enforce at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. He says there are three key levers to achieve this: politics, policing, and procurement.

Ronald Reagan narrates a new anti-tariff ad from Canada The new commercial is part of a $75 million ad campaign by Ontario aimed at Republican voters.

Holy shit.

Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.

The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.

What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.

The words “blah blah blah” increase AI accuracy Who needs Chain of Thought when “blah blah blah” works?

Blah Blah Blah... apparently increases AI accuracy medium.com/the-generato...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

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Reminder of why the intersection of science defunding, elite dislocation, and AI-as-solve-it-all will possibly kill the research base as we know it:

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S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m

This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️

We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Generating a 5 second video is the energy equivalent of running a microwave for an HOUR

So this came out a year ago 🕸️. Yet, it is still around - both as a printed book and in digital #openaccess! 👉 doi.org/10.7551/mitp.... We just had a great author meets critics session on it at #shot2025 with @modomodo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Petrick, @ccmmody.bsky.social & Thomas Haigh. #histsci 📚💙

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions: Style Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data. #academicsky"

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

CfP: Soziologie im Zeitalter generativer KI – Forschung über und mit KI. Beiträge (theoretisch, methodologisch, empirisch) bis 30.11.2025. Mehr Infos & Einreichung: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
@berlinerjournal.bsky.social #CfP #Soziologie #KI #LLMs

Musk, Thiel, Altman: Fortschrittsentwürfe von gestern Marskolonien, fliegende Autos, ewiges Leben: Die futuristisch klingenden Projekte von Musk, Thiel oder Altman sind nur aufgewärmte Fortschrittsentwürfe von gestern. Was ihnen fehlt: die Fähigkeit, die...

„Sie wünschen sich keine Zukunft, die anders ist, sondern eine, die man berechnen und beherrschen kann. Sie wollen die Gesellschaft nicht verändern, sondern nur Individuen optimieren. Sie kolonisieren die Weite offener Möglichkeitsräume mit den Bauplänen des Bestehenden.“
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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

A key question for the AI industry will be whether energy consumers see data centres as just infrastructure for their digital lives or an unnecessary indulgence for new AI