Prof. Heinz Oberhummer (19.5.1941-24.11.2015): Physiker, Wissenschaftsvermittler, Gründer der Science Buster, Humanist, Gründungspräsident der Gesellschaft für kritisches Denken (aka Skeptiker Wien), Alpakawolleverkäufer. In stillem Gedenken an ihn zu seinem 10. Todestag. 🖤

Don't forget this Christmas: RNGesus died for your catastrophic dice rolls.

And just like that, the age of photographic evidence is over. 1826-2025. Update your epistemology accordingly.

made some progress on an idea that had been stuck in the drawer for roo long with #gemimi3 this weekend. #retrogames

I've seen nervous Germans on Bloomberg before but ARX Robotics' Marc A. Wietfeld being terrified of peace in Ukraine because he couldn't sell his drones as easily anymore really takes the cake. If this company was traded publicly, I'd short it today xD

So, there’s a $1.5 billion judgement against Anthropic for including 480,000 books in training their AIs. Five of my books are among them. Word is, there might be $1,500 payout per book, according to my agent Max Brockman. I wrote him the following:

If any payment comes to me, please send it back to Anthropic with my thanks for including my books in their AIs.  The judgement website offers a way to opt out of the payment, but I found it cumbersome, so I didn’t.  (I’m principled but too lazy to be highly principled.)

Ist das biologische #Geschlecht ein Spektrum? 🚹🌈🚺 Dr. Ilse Jacobsen, Professorin für Mikrobielle Immunologie an der Uni Jena und Mitglied im Wissenschaftsrat der #GWUP, erklärte die Basics auf der #SkepKon 2025: 📺 youtu.be/Z98OOIffuVg

Roughly 164k BTC will be mined this year while estimates suggest several hundred thousand BTC vanish through lost keys and forgotten wallets. Bitcoin is getting scarcer far faster than the block reward schedule suggests.

Zum Glück treibt man nicht nur in D so einen Unfug. 🤦‍♂️

Hier geht's zur Abstimmung zum Antisemit des Jahres 2025: stopantisemitism.org/asoty2025top10/ David Irving oder Gottfried Küssel sind nicht nominiert, dafür die drei Damen im Bild. #AntisemitDesJahres2025

downdetector.com is down again. die #Cloudflare get yet another intern? xD #cloudflaredown

Your Brain on ChatGPT media.mit.edu/projects/your-…

EU makes more from fines on US tech, than tax from ALL of public European tech in 2024 EU fined US tech companies €3.8B meanwhile public internet tech companies paid only €3.2B in income tax

"Der Deutsche Astrologenverband hatte die Jahresberichte der GWUP in den vergangenen Jahren immer wieder kritisiert und als nicht differenziert bezeichnet." 🤡🤡🤡

Cisco has officially recovered from the 2000 dot-com crash.

nobody is talking about the hidden camera controls in nano banana pro. digging through the api docs, i found parameters that aren't in the main ui. you can control focal length and aperture values with mathematical precision if you use the json input mode. most users are stuck

WHY GEN Z HAVE LOST ALL HOPE! The “DoorDash lifestyle” isn’t laziness - it’s the result of structural changes older generations never lived through! 1. Money doesn’t feel real anymore - For Gen Z, spending isn’t “$30 gone.” - It’s just another tap in a constant stream of

📰 Großes Medien-Echo für die "Medien"-Analyse der #GWUP: Zahlreiche Zeitungen berichten über unseren Prognosen-Check zum Jahresende. Zeit, SZ, Tagesspiegel, Stern ... beleuchten das Versagen von Wahrsagern, das unsere Auswertung deutlich dokumentiert. linkedin.com/posts/gwup%2Eo…