Elektrine lite

← Feed

Florian Weber

fnwbr@chaos.social

<p>Working on medienhaus/ and at the Berlin University of the Arts • Sociology &amp; Technology Studies at TU Berlin</p><p>Formerly Social Sciences at Humboldt University &amp; Computer Sciences at HTW Berlin</p><p>GitHub says my code made it to Mars • Toots may contain traces of German</p>

Posts

  • View post

    is the meltdown beginning today? seems like microsoft can&amp;#39;t afford this anymore :&amp;#39;) https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/

  • View post

    mamdani doing the right thing, part #553: asking john wilson to do communication for the NYC mayor&amp;#39;s office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oohRn36CWhs

  • View post

    RE: https://mastodon.sboots.ca/@sboots/116455260699481526 looks like the kids are alright: &amp;quot;There’s that NBC News poll showing AI with worse favorability than ICE and only a little bit above the war in Iran and the Democrats generally&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;31 percent of those Gen Z respondents said they feel angry about AI, up from 22 percent last year.&amp;quot; big recommendation for reading or listening to that piece by patel

  • View post

    RE: https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/116619970254097408 same ✌️

  • View post

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social And if you don&#39;t trust Goldman Sachs, maybe you believe 6000 executives from the US, UK, Germany and Australia a little bit more. From the study: &gt; &quot;Third, the impact of AI on firm employment and productivity has been small so far. On average, more than 90% of business managers across the four countries estimate no impact of AI on their employment over the past three years. 89% report no impact of AI on their labor productivity over the last three years.&...

  • View post

    @jalefkowit this stuff is so eerie, i don’t know if i wanna cry or laugh

  • View post

    RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116403741047910451 🫠

  • View post

    Der Akademische Senat der @HumboldtUni hat soeben mit 12 Ja- zu 9 Nein-Stimmen entschieden, dem neu verhandelten Hochschulvertrag mit dem Land Berlin zuzustimmen. Obwohl mehrere juristisch unabhängige Gutachten bestätigt haben, dass eine Klage zur Einhaltung der existierenden Verträge sehr gute Aussichten auf Erfolg hätte. Der Graben verläuft zwischen Professorium auf der einen, und allen wissenschaftlichen/technischen Mitarbeitenden und Studierenden auf der anderen Seite. #highered #hochschule

  • View post

    i’d looove to be able to read the #signal engineering chat room right now :’)))

  • View post

    @GossiTheDog A really really great reflection on that very paper by @jenniferplusplus 🗒️ https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/115990878133999416

  • View post

    RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116072967306047224 That&amp;#39;s the exact type of pipeline #OpenAI, #Google &amp;amp; Co. want us to build all of our transportation, health, energy, and legal infrastructures on. 🤡 &amp;gt; But as we dug deeper, the real problem emerged: no one on the team could explain why certain design decisions had been made or how different parts of the system were supposed to work together. The code might have been messy, but the bigger issue was that the theo...

  • View post

    RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116080234650116127 Most underrated and under-taught fact when it comes to IT-related degrees at universities:

  • View post

    So @1password seems to think that now’s a good time to increase prices by 20%. What’s happening and did no one on their team tell them to read the room with Scott Galloway, Rutger Bregmann, or @pluralistic? Thank you for making the decision for me, #1Password. Another US-based subscription cancelled.