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Kritische Analyse der österreichischen #Altersverifikation, mi sarkastischen Untertönen:
"Da eine externe Altersüberprüfung stattfindet, die mit Steuergeld aus Österreich finanziert wird, können sich die Konzerne den beträchtlichen Aufwand dafür sparen. Zudem können sie in Sachen Jugendschutz nicht mehr juristisch belangt werden."
"Die Zahl der bei Youtube,…

Seit dem 2. August müssen KI-Inhalte gekennzeichnet werden. Wer hält sich dran? Die AfD hat dafür extra ein KI-Tool gebaut, das Fake News verbreitet - ohne Kennzeichnung. Über Fakes von Ceuta bis TimeToDivideGermany. #KI #Fakes

OK, I've written two new (related) blog posts, one of which is horribly scary. I could be wrong, I hope I am.
#HeatWave
#ThereIsNoEconomyOnADeadPlanet

Extreme Heat
It's a fortnight since I posted my analysis of the Met Office's mid-century temperature projection, and I've been thinking more about it. Apart from immediate human deaths, what are the other consequences of an 'everyone dies' event?

Just finished "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge. A fascinating and epic science fiction novel with fascinating ideas about technology and also future societies. As I'm delving into a lot of sci fi looking for social imagination it's a good find in some ways but disappointing in others. The Qeng Ho culture is interesting, but their society is uninspiring; Vinge's rosy view of "trade" is not one I completely share, and their hierarchies and wealth accumulation are less compatible with their freedoms in my imagination than in Vinge's. That said, his perspective on the possibilities of galactic-scale civilization and the idea of the "age of failed dreams" are fascinating, especially right now, and his detailed ideas about programming, AI, automaton, and "Focus" are extremely relevant right now. Ultimately I didn't love some parts of the dénouement, and there's a lot of "great man theory of history" going on, including (only somewhat ameliorated) a focus on men over women. Vinge's damsels in distress have a lot more agency than usual for the role, but with the exception of Victory Sr. and Jr., the damsels are very much in distress, and Victory Sr. gets overshadowed a lot by Underhill.
It definitely helps one expand their imagination of what long-term and large-scale human existence could look like, which is great and no easy feat, and both the technologies that are written in and those written out are extremely convincing. The only thing I didn't find compelling was the transposition of capitalism onto such space and time scales. It's a very standard feature of sci fi from the last few decades, and I'm sure most readers don't question it, but I've become someone who can no longer imagine "capitalism across the stars" without questioning how realistic it is that its self-destructive tendencies could possibly last even a few more centuries, let alone succeed at interstellar travel.
One last extremely fascinating thing: how closely the strengths and weaknesses of Focus track with the strengths and weaknesses of modern generative AI. That, and the way that the "age of failed dreams" idea can help people imagine beyond generative AI in a positive way.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

from my link log —
A Mandelbrot set renderer written in BSD make.
https://github.com/b-aaz/bmake-extravaganza
saved 2026-07-06 https://

The smoke just keeps getting worse. Last reading was 54.8 ug/m^3 PM2.5 which is an AQI of 149 (I had to go back and edit this post several times as I was writing it because the number kept climbing).

Heute beginnt die Tour de France. In 14 Tagen sind erneut extreme Temperaturen in Frankreich vorhergesagt - bei allen meterologischen Unsicherheiten:
Ob es sinnvoll ist, bei über 40°C Spitzensport zu betreiben, ist zweifelhaft. Aber auch die Zuschauer müssten geschützt werden, die stundenlang in praller Sonne bei Hitze stehen.
Ich kann mir jedoch kaum vorstellen, dass auf Etappen verzichtet wird.

Europa erwärmt sich besonders schnell und muss laut Klimaforscher Stefan Rahmstorf häufiger mit #Extremwetter rechnen.
#Hitze, #Dürren,

Klimaforscher Rahmstorf: Emissionen müssen auf null sinken
Europa ist der Kontinent, der sich am schnellsten erwärmt. Wer den diesjährigen Sommer bereits als extrem empfand, den werden die Erwartungen nicht beruhigen.

Nooit begrepen waarom de gasputten in Groningen compleet onbruikbaar zouden moeten worden gemaakt, in extreme situaties kunnen extra bevingen door gaswinning aanvaardbaar zijn als dat het platleggen van de gehele industrie en nederlandse samenleving door gebrek aan gas kan voorkomen?
Maar iedereen mag het me oneens zijn natuurlijk. 🙂

'Deel Groningse gasputten moet openblijven voor noodsituaties'
De Nederlandse gasvoorraad is kleiner dan beoogd. Dat maakt Nederland kwetsbaarder tijdens mogelijke storingen of strenge winters. Sommige deskundigen stellen voor om een deel van het Groningse gasveld te heropenen in het geval van een noodsituatie. Wat vind jij daarvan?

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
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- Data-driven Head Motion Generation through Natural Gaze-Head Coordination
Xiaohan Liu, Yilin Wen, Yusuke Sugano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25810
- TRIBE: Predicting Team Performance via Communication Behavior Ensembles
Ali Jalal-Kamali, Nikolos Gurney, David V. Pynadath, Fred Morstatter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06926 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/117070249873784432
- Comprendia: AI-Augmented Code Comprehension
Costain Nachuma, Minhaz F. Zibran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10290 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/117081500356613109
- Neural implants and human safety: single-fault detection for DC-coupled recording front ends
Dimitris Antoniadis, Timothy Constandinou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10361 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/117081505896378998
- A Neural Network Based Teleoperation for Remote Controlled Vehicles
Ning Ding, Azim Eskandarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10367 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/117081440193257425
- Leveraging Human Reading Behavior for Keyphrase Extraction: A Webcam-based Eye-tracking Corpus
Chengzhi Zhang, Xinyi Yan, Wenqi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10688 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/117081592176417112
- Your LLM, Your Style: Behavioral Mode Axes for LLM Behavioral Control
Haoze Liu, Run Liu, Haiying Xu, Jiahui Han, Siyuan Fang, Siyu Yan, Huiqi Deng, Guanchu Wang, Na Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10703 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/117081615179660277
- The GENEA Challenge 2026: A Large-Scale Disentangled Evaluation of Speech-Driven Gesture Generati...
Nagy, Garc\'ia, Voss, Tsakov, Kucherenko, Yoon, Henter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10839 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/117081628353061346
- Auditable AI-Assisted Research Writing: An Engineering Discipline with Pre-Registered Process Obs...
Yang Zhou, Chengqun Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10858
- R4DSG: Relative 4D Scene Graph Memory for Object-Centric Question Answering in Long Egocentric Video
Ke Ma, Yamin Mao, Weiming Li, Shuai Tan, Yijie Zhong, Hao Chen, Haofen Wang, Meng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11017 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/117081647623530374
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