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Bielefeld University, Germany
Joined March 2018
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Following recent changes at Twitter, the X.Org Foundation is moving to Mastodon. Please follow us at floss.social/@XorgFoundation for the latest in the Linux graphics world and the freedesktop.org community.
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If you missed watching the livestream of this year's German #BigBrotherAwards ceremony, don't worry – you can watch them whenever you're ready: bigbrotherawards.de/en/strea… #bba23
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Can you receive a lifetime achievement award twice? You can if you are @Microsoft: They force people to continually transmit data, and therefore to allow themselves to be spied upon, as a regular part of their digital activities. bigbrotherawards.de/en/2023/… #bba23 #BigBrotherAwards
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Today is the day! #BigBrotherAwards #bba23 Livestreams start 18:00 CEST: – German original: bigbrotherawards.de – English live translation: bigbrotherawards.de/en
Find out who the top privacy offenders are: 🏆On Friday, 28 April, join the #BigBrothersAwards in Germany. 📺The "Oscars for data leeches" organised by EDRi member @digitalcourage will also provide a livestream option in both German & English ➡️ bigbrotherawards.de/en/2023
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Find out who the top privacy offenders are: 🏆On Friday, 28 April, join the #BigBrothersAwards in Germany. 📺The "Oscars for data leeches" organised by EDRi member @digitalcourage will also provide a livestream option in both German & English ➡️ bigbrotherawards.de/en/2023
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Eine "Slow AI"-Bewegung hält @djleufer für sinnvoll, also eine bedächtigere Entwicklung von KI-Modellen. Er verweist im @breitband-Interview auf die Arbeit von @timnitGebru & @emilymbender, die seit Jahren vor Schwächen & Risiken warnen. deutschlandfunkkultur.de/zwa…
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I think I am officially completely done with Frontiers journals
This systematic review and meta analysis on mask harms has gone viral recently as it purports to show negative impacts of masking on various pathological factors It is, unfortunately, filled with serious errors and issues 1/n
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Die Anglistin Jennifer Henke sagte im ARD-Fernsehen, es gebe keine Begründung dafür, Stellen nach einer Doktorarbeit zu befristen. Promovierte seien voll ausgebildete Wissenschaftler und in der Lage, eigenständig Forschung zu betreiben. #WissZeitVG #IchBinHanna
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… that “shooting stars in particular lack strength of character”. In the article, Daniel Leising - member of @MawiNetwork - attests universities a lack of mechanisms to prevent unethical behavior. Moreover, politicians seem unaware of the circumstances in academia. 2/2
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In the german newspaper @faznet , @IsaHoffinger writes about power structures in academia that promote sexual harassment and assaults. Hoffinger sees parallels to sexual violence or cheating in sport and points out … 1/2 #metoo
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MSFT lays off its responsible AI team The thing that strikes me most about this story from @ZoeSchiffer and @CaseyNewton is the way in which the MSFT execs describe the urgency to move "AI models into the hands of customers" platformer.news/p/microsoft-… >>
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So @elonmusk is now forcing you to eat his shitposts. He didn't spend billions for your attention to then have others steal it from him, you know? Would you like to clean your feed from his cruft? Easy. Just #BlockElon #BlockElonMusk Worked for me 👌 theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600…
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We cannot accept the decision that the village of Lützerath is to be sacrificed to the open-cast lignite mine Garzweiler II. This red line must not be crossed: Lützerath must not be evicted, the coal underneath must not be used. scientistrebellion.com/open-…
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Scientists for civil disobedience and against the eviction of #Luetzerath Here's our open letter with @SciReb_Germany calling to stop the eviction of this village that is blocking the expansion of one of Europe's biggest lignite mines. Please sign, spread, support, come. 🧵
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Last night (CET) our academic search engine BASE suffered an outage that lasted for several hours. We were able able to identify and address the cause of this failure, and BASE is running well again. #BASE #BASEsearch
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