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arneberger.bsky.social
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction • Co-Design, Smart Things, More than Human Design • Luddite • Mountainbiker • Changing the world does not come from above or from outside. → http://arneberger.de
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these ai bros hate artists, and they hate you too.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

submitted 2 days ago • 336 comments

Boy do I have the right measurement instrument for you.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

"reimagine the actions and tools needed to protect the human and more-than-human worlds" in this More-Than-Human Rights (MOTH) course 20-25 July in London mothrights.org/program/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I love this! And I am presently collecting examples (like this) of LLM/"AI" refusal by scholars in the humanities. Please hit me up with your favorites.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

submitted 12 days ago • 249 comments

yeah! what is it about them? 🤔

submitted 14 days ago • 46 comments

It is #LongCOVID Awareness Day. At least 10% of people will experience symptoms for many months, even years after COVID. These can be debilitating & impact everyday things we all take for granted. We hear you! Our lab is studying the causes behind LC. We hope to find better diagnostics & treatments.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Here are some nice mushrooms

submitted 14 days ago • 469 comments

“If we were to see immune damage manifesting at a population level, it would look like what we’re seeing today: big waves of common illnesses. Unusual spikes of uncommon illnesses. Course reversal for previously declining & eliminated illnesses. An unexplained, global wave of sickness”

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Hilarious responses

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I am thrilled to report that there are at least six hidden surveillance cameras in the vacation home I booked. It seems I paid 2000€ so that someone has footage of me sleeping. The 29 different bunches of plastic flowers should have been a warning.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

💡⁉️ what are your best reviewing resources for HCI (or generic)? Any papers, blog posts, checklists, guidelines?

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

"The foundational knowledge that used to come from struggling through problems is just… missing,"

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

"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 33 days ago • 8 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 35 days ago • 169 comments

People can't even come up with original hate speech now?

submitted 39 days ago • 11 comments

My humanity is somebody else's edge case

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

It’s honestly what you’d get if you were to cross a Marin County wine mom with Pol Pot

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

*This is tempting me to write a new novel, although, where the heck would one publish and distribute a peculiar cultural artifact like that under contemporary circumstances

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

submitted 48 days ago • 53 comments

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

submitted 47 days ago • 84 comments

If you are attending @tei-conf.bsky.social, don’t miss our pictorial presentation! Challenging Sensor-based Personal Informatics: A Triadic Framework for Designing Open-ended Self-tracking Devices The framework is based on the thesis work of Romain Toebosch, co-authored w/ @arneberger.bsky.social

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Not disputing the role of tech, but since 2016, the pandemic is definitely a factor, long before AI became a phenomenon, many of us who were teaching noticed students' memory and cognition impacted by COVID. Of course we are all pretending that it isn't, because the pandemic is "over", apparently.

submitted 49 days ago • 14 comments

The right claims to loathe technocracy—but it has empowered Elon Musk to remake the government in the name of efficiency, writes Franklin Foer.

submitted 50 days ago • 28 comments

if they are so rich why aren’t they happy?

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

by the time the public realises the havoc these charlatans are causing, it'll probably be too late to do anything about it (if anyone is capable or powerful enough to do anything at all) futurism.com/openai-signs...

submitted 53 days ago • 7 comments

A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...

submitted 52 days ago • 20 comments

Statt ein paar hundert Millionen Euro bei den Ärmsten zu kürzen (#Bürgergeld) könnte sich die Bundesregierung auch mehr Mühe geben, sich Dutzende Milliarden da zu holen, wo sie verloren gehen: Bei Steuerhinterziehern und anderen Betrügern. Wichtige Zusammenstellung der SZ-Kolleg*innen.

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

»weaponizing bureaucracy for a good reason«

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

submitted 57 days ago • 131 comments

“In order for my company HumanBurger to finally become profitable we may need to put an end to most civil rights and renegotiate a few basic rules of human civilization, but I personally think it would be worth it.”

submitted 61 days ago • 20 comments

They call it “research” for a reason. You search and re-search. Effects can be small when you are on the bleeding edge or you are inventing new ways of looking at things. And you also must prove your hypothesis wrong with ideally absolute certainty which requires competence and robust results.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment