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andreasbischof.bsky.social
Sociologist with interest in Technology & Culture. Here for critical content on digital tech and data in people’s lifeworlds. Oh, and fun. Website: https://andreasbischof.net Current projects: https://mytuc.org/pwsh Writings: https://mytuc.org/ppwn
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Irmgard Braun-Lübcke, die Witwe von Walter Lübcke, zu Merz Aussagen: "Die Aussage von Friedrich Merz am Samstag beim gemeinsamen Wahlkampfabschluss der CSU und CDU in München hat meine Familie und mich sehr befremdet und ich möchte sie so nicht stehen lassen.“ www.hna.de/kassel/witwe...

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

„Für mich ist der zentrale Wert für eine Politik, die gegen Populismus bestehen möchte, der Anstand. Wir können uns nicht aus Beschuldigung, Diffamierung und Lüge rauspöbeln, das Original bleibt immer stärker.“ marieclaire.de/life/kunst-k...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Das hier ist aus dem Szenario einer AfD-Regierungsbeteiligung, das ich vor 8 Monaten in meinem Buch "Machtübernahme" skizziert habe, S. 29. Und ich fürchte, ich habe mich geirrt – es wird ein CDU-Minister sein, kein AfD-Minister.

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New open access book! The Hashtag Hustle: Law and Policy Perspectives on Working in the Influencer Economy www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

submitted 2 days ago • 148 comments

Morgen 14h Online-Netzwerktreffen (Innovationswerkstatt future.lab TU Wien) zu *New European Bauhaus. Nachhaltigkeit, Ästhetik und Inklusion für die urbane Transformation*, ich bin Co-Host, Christian Peer moderiert, Gäste: Lukas Fürst, Anna Henkes (UIV): tuwien.zoom.us/j/63998806295

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Hey, I'm giving a zoom talk on my book, Citizen Scholar, at University of Wisconsin Sociology's Politics, Culture, and Society Workshop, tomorrow at 1:30pm Eastern US time. @uwsoc.bsky.social It's open to the public at: uwmadison.zoom.us/j/9571632480...

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I know I’m too old to still be struck by this but I am just endlessly struck by the way white supremacy takes up Black and Brown aesthetics — his whole getup is so pathetically desperate, to be something he will never be

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

submitted 6 days ago • 110 comments

discovered that Little Caesar’s has an Apple Watch app and it’s just this image that you can’t interact with in any way

submitted 5 days ago • 121 comments

Seit Jahresanfang waren 1,8 Millionen Menschen gegen den Rechtsruck auf der Straße. Am Wochenende sind erneut über 100 Demonstrationen geplant. Auswertung mit @ansanews.bsky.social : taz.de/Demonstratio...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Zeitungsinterviews finde ich meistens ziemlich uninteressant. Dieses hier mit Barbara Blaha vom Wiener Momentum Institut hingegen finde ich deutlich zu kurz. In der @taz.de vom Wochenende und sehr lesenswert!

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"So ein herrlicher Tag, und ich soll gehen. Aber was liegt an unserem Leben, wenn wir es damit schaffen, Tausende von Menschen aufzurütteln und wachzurütteln" (Sophie Scholl) Heute vor 82 Jahren wurden Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl und Christoph Probst von den Nazis ermordet.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Social media platforms TikTok and X ('For you') show evidence of substantial far-right bias in Germany ahead of Sunday's elections. Study published by Global Witness and w/ important points about lack of transparency and data access in the article. #DSA #CommSky #AfD techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

How should we make sense of the #MuskDOGE assault on US federal government, and what might resistance look like? Here's the take of myself and @ulises-mejias.bsky.social, just published by @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/data-colonia...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The “run it like a start up” grift is a more extreme version of the “run it like a business” trend for infrastructure. We had decades of people trying to run things like businesses they never should have—public goods, like schools, universities, and hospitals. That, plus technophilia, got us here.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Those predicting dramatic short-term economic impacts of AI seem to think that because AI is so powerful, disruptive, and general purpose, it will be adopted rapidly. But wait a second. The more advanced, general-purpose and disruptive a technology is, the more headwinds its adoption faces. 🧵

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“Eliciting impacted communities’ input can support true innovation by directing technology development to the problems identified on the ground — rather than those imposed from the top down,” AIMLab Project Director Meg Young writes. www.techpolicy.press/participator...

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The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

My advisor, @profgabriele.com , pointed out that this tweet is more or less the perfect summation of what my dissertation is getting it. The terminally online, hateful and irony poisoned language-game of 4-Chan has become the language of politics in the most blatant and obvious way possible.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

AI is the ultimate externality. ‘We’ can be optimized, our tasks automated, our work more efficient. Great things can happen! Yet the energy use is catastrophic for the climate and those vulnerable to it… ‘We’ are just barely displaced, in time or space, from these effects. Still delusional.

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Stimmt genau… 👍🏻

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 11 days ago • 411 comments

Would you like to work at Max Planck Society tenured? A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - pls consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. mpg.de/lise-meitner-e… #LiseMeitnerGroups

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Kein Wahlkampf war so kurz wie dieser, keiner kam mir je so lang vor. Nie kam mir Deutschland so klein vor. Nie hatte ich so viele Sorgen, dass das Angebot nicht den Anforderungen entspricht. Selten wurde über so vieles nicht gesprochen.

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 13 days ago • 795 comments

Musk geht gegen das Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) vor. Betroffen sind Mitarbeitende, die u.a. für Big Tech Finanzprodukte zuständig sind. Dabei gibt es offensichtliche Interessenskonflikte. X will ins Peer-to-Peer-Payment Business einsteigen & würde unter die Aufsicht des CFPB fallen.

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Georgia was about to retire coal plants. Then came the data centers. Utilities nationwide are falling back on fossil fuels to meet huge energy demand. Written by @ejreports.bsky.social . grist.org/energy/georg... #Georgia #Coal #Energy #Climate #Data

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In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

The Californian Ideology Exposure-Industry Boomerang: ″This early dependence of Silicon Valley on the nation-­state and indeed the U.S. military has, for the most part, been forgotten, written out of the region’s history as an inconvenient and dissonant fact—­″

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Volker Wissing einfach vom Saulus zum Paulus der 🇩🇪 Politik. Bemerkenswert was passiert, wenn man sich von der FDP lossagt.

submitted 14 days ago • 107 comments

The new experimental collection "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, addresses formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century. Read the intro for free now! https://buff.ly/4jU7Nwk

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Wenn in dieser Woche etwas lesen, dann das: @blaetter.bsky.social über den autoritären, faschistischen Angriff auf Wissenschaft, Forschung und Lehre - tagesaktuell auch in Deutschland anschaulich zu beobachten. Gesehen bei @alexanderleistner.bsky.social. www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2024...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Wissenschaftsfreiheit verteidigen! Am 05. Februar 2025 hat die Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien unter dem #Wissenschaftsfreiheit ein Statement veröffentlicht. Als Fakultät für Philologie unterstützen wir dieses Statement uneingeschränkt. Zum Statement: www.fg-gender.de/ang...

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A new paper finds that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use — which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.” www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

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Leseempfehlung zum Internationalen Tag der Frauen und Mädchen in der Wissenschaft (längerer Post bei Instagram)! www.instagram.com/p/DF7g1anIfHF/

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

schon krass wie schnell das ging. politischer journalismus ist komplett durch tech-journalismus ersetzt worden. wer wissen will, was sache ist, schaut nicht mehr bei nytimes oder wapo rein, sondern muss the verge, wired, 404media oder techdirt lesen. alle anderen haben den plot verloren.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

"Dieser Faschismus sieht nicht genauso aus wie seine hist. Vorbilder. Sein Kennzeichen wird sein, dass er Datenanalyse- und KI-Technologie ausnutzen wird, um den Rechtsstaat auszuschalten und durch einen schlanken, auf Automatisierung und Präemption basierenden Apparat zu ersetzen." 👇👇👇👇👇👇

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

This is hilarious 😂 they're helping "smaller orgs enhance safety" because this coalition is composed of the big organizations that have it down. You can't make this up.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

„A lot of people will ask: How can they do this, how can they do this? And I’m like: They don’t care for you. They don’t think about you. You’re nothing.“ Super Ezra-Klein-Folge mit der Tech-Jpurnalistin Kara Swisher, die seit Ewigkeiten über Musk u Co berichtet. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments