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Super Talk von Meredith Whittaker und Udbhav Tiwari von Signal über die Gefahren und Probleme von "agentic AI", also Hilfsprogramme, die mittels "KI" Aufgaben erledigen sollen.

Spoiler: things are broken, eh klar.

media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-a

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Faire la morale, la morale chrétienne, être moralisateur, donneur de leçon : la morale a mauvaise presse.

Mais j’ai l’impression que quand on parle d’éthique, les gens entendent ou comprennent morale.

Alors que pour moi, la morale, c’est surplombant, inflexible, top-down, alors que l’éthique, c’est un chantier permanent, une réflexion, notamment sur ce qui est moral ou non, personnel et donc bottom-up.

Et l’intégrité, c’est être fidèle à son éthique.

Bref, pour vous :

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세상이 미쳐돌아갈수록, 미쳐버린 세상이 일상을 무한정 침식하게 놔두지 않는 것도 중요하다는 생각이 듬. 우리는 할 수 있는 데까지 선량하고 민주적으로 우리의 일상을 삽시다. 누릴 수 있는 것을 누리되 할 수 있는 노력을 다합시다. 절망하지 말고 살아냅시다. 그래야 소진과 냉소를 멀리하고 건강하게 투쟁할 수 있음.

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Heya! I just released XenoAtom.Terminal github.com/XenoAtom/XenoAtom.T, a modern replacement for System.Console for .NET CLI/TUI apps. 🎉

It keeps a familiar Console-like feel, but adds the terminal-native stuff System.Console doesn't cover well: ANSI/VT styling + markup, unified async input events (keys/resize/mouse/paste), restore-on-dispose scopes (raw/cbreak, alternate screen, hide cursor…), clipboard, a rich ReadLine editor, & testable backends, built on top of XenoAtom.Ansi ✨

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전재수 43.4% vs 박형준 32.3%… 오차범위 밖 격차 [6·3 지방선거 여론조사] 수정2026.01.04. 오후 7:10 차기 부산시장 여야 후보 지지도 다자 대결선 전 26.8-박 19.1% 민주-국힘 지지율 사실상 동률 부산교육감은 김석준 29% 우세 www.busan.com/view/busan/v...

전재수 43.4% vs 박형준 32.3%… 오차범위 밖...

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here's a thesis: joy is power. it threatens authority. therefore, authorities strive to control it.

it is telling to then see where joy and its instruments are expressly permitted, and where they are being suppressed.

there is a history to joy. the counterculture movement was suppressed precisely because it started out as joyful.

and it is understandable then why minority issues co-opted symbols of joy: the rainbow. the word "gay".

but this is just a thesis. i'm still building it.

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Im Silicon Valley werden tabakfreie Nikotinbeutel teilweise kostenfrei an die Mitarbeitenden abgegeben. Man hört immer mal wieder, dass Nikotin in der Tech Bro Szene als Wundermittel gepusht wird, das zu Höchstleistungen führt. Man stelle sich dies nun ein einer SciFi-Dystopie vor: Mitarbeitende schleppen sich träge zwischendurch zu einem Automaten, wo kostenlos eine süchtigmachende Aufputsch-Droge abgegeben wird. Zu stimmig dieses Bild. Zu stimmit.

golem.de/news/suchtmittelkonsu

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Dass Merz auf Arme, Linke, Minderheiten, Nicht-Deutsche, Nicht-Weiße losgeht, aber Reiche in Ruhe lässt und Trump mit Samthandschuhen zuwinkt, ist kein Wunder und auch kein Zeichen von Schwäche, sondern Absicht. Er ist extrem rechtskonservativ.

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Biete gern Hilfe an am ersten diesen Sonntag

Schreibt mich ruhig an betreffend Hilfe beim persönlichen di.day/
Habe jahrelang bei @kleindatenverein bzw @DigitalcourageBSDigitalcourage Braunschweig mitgemacht und Leute beraten daher ist mein Interesse daran groß + habe schon ein paar Jahre Erfahrung ohne Amazon, WhatsApp, Gmail und so

Empfehlung:
kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke/
bzw:
digitalcourage.de/digitale-sel

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一つはっきり言えるのは、この人は屑っぽいことを言うチャンスを逃さないということである。

「まずは政府として情報収集をしっかりやっていただき、アメリカとよくコミュニケーションをとっていただいた上で、どういう立場なのか、何らかの考え方を示すことをまず待ちたい」

国民・玉木代表「『力による現状変更は許さない』だけでは統治しきれない事態に」 トランプ政権のベネズエラ大規模攻撃受け|FNNプライムオンライン share.google/o8tL6xSmgxRSAFsFB

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This chart shows the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. As you can see, AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed the site. It is only a matter of time before the site shuts down completely. The golden age of independent news, blogs, forums, and specialized sites like Stack Overflow is over. Whether this is good or bad, only time will tell. Personally, I think we are now restricting all internet traffic to just a few Gen AI apps data.stackexchange.com/stackov

This result shows s the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. THE SQL query is https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph:
```
SELECT
    DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(CreationDate), MONTH(CreationDate), 1) AS [Month],
    COUNT(*) AS [Questions]
FROM Posts
WHERE 
    PostTypeId = 1
GROUP BY 
    DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(CreationDate), MONTH(CreationDate), 1)
ORDER BY 
    [Month] ASC
```

The graph shows the number of questions asked on StackOverflow over time, from the site's launch in 2009 until now, the start of 2026.
Initially there is a steady increase until 2014, when the number hits an all-time peak at over 200 000 questions. Then begins a slow decline. This might be correlated with StackOverflow's change of moderator policies at the time.
In early 2020 there is a sudden steep increase, which coincides with the start of the Covid-lockdown, but shortly afterwards the decline continues, faster than before. This might be related to the fact that in mid-2021, StackOverflow was sold to a private equity investor.
In late-2022 begins a very steep decline, which is when ChatGPT (and Google AI summary later on) came out. Since then the decline has continued and today the number of questions asked is almost 0.  (Thanks https://mastodon.social/@lethe@digitalcourage.social for additional alt text)
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Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

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Seit fast einer Woche auf Mastodon und mir wurde gerade erst so richtig bewusst, wie toll es eigentlich ist, dass meine Timeline wirklich mir gehört und nicht von einem angelernten Nutzungsprofil kuratiert wird.

Ich hab mich dabei erwischt, bei Interaktionen schon automatisch an mögliche Auswirkungen auf meinen "Algorithmus" zu denken.

Was für eine Erleichterung!
So als wäre ich aus einem Albtraum aufgewacht.

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Remember, when something in the news upsets you, you are *not obligated* to spend the next hour hunched over your phone reading live updates and social media hot takes.

You *can* stay informed without succumbing to this urge -- an urge deliberately conditioned into us for decades by the 24-hour news cycle and exploitative for-profit social media.

Step away from your screens, let your psyche absorb the blow, and read about it in a newspaper tomorrow morning if you like. You have permission!

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theres 360 degrees in a circle and 365 days in a year. these numbers aren’t the same. but they’re so close. it would be so satisfying if each day meant moving one degree in our orbit of the sun. but no, it’s off by five. aaaaargh! surely i can’t be the only one who is annoyed by this, right?

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高市首相は周りに馬車馬のように働いていただき、ワークライフバランスという言葉を捨て、働いて働いて働いて働いて働いて、参りますと豪語し世間と政界ははしゃいでいるが、国民は働いて働いて働いて働いて馬車馬のように働いて税金を搾り取られて、こんな状態だっていうのに有ろう事か労働に殺されている国民だっているんですけど

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„Wir sind zu oft und zu schnell krankgeschrieben in Deutschland“

(Söder)

Wenn dem wirklich so ist, sollte man die Ursachen untersuchen. Nicht auskuriert? Chronischer Stress? Umwelt? Was sorgt dafür, dass Menschen sich krank fühlen? Zu wenig Zeit der Arztschaft zu schauen? Schwurbel? (Offene Frage)

Was vorgeschlagen wird: Lohnfortzahlung kürzen. Halbkrank arbeiten geht auch!!!1!!

So spielt man den Rest auch noch kaputt im Hamsterrad.

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