Klaus Pforr

The CDU once again implementing policies of the Greens, after campaigning against them.

Great example from Malte here 👇🏻

microgpt Musings of a Computer Scientist.

A complete GPT — dataset, tokenizer, autograd engine, transformer architecture, Adam optimizer, training loop, inference — in 200 lines of pure Python, zero dependencies:
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A work of art by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy.bsky.social) | h/t F.Geiecke

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Die historisch korrekte Lösung

Cool monk, wearing shades while playing GURPS.

Jetzt bitte keine linke Schmutzkampagne gegen den über alle Zweifel erhabenen Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer.

„Angemessene Würdigung kaum noch möglich“: Kulturstaatsminister Weimer sagt Verleihung von Buchhandlungspreis ab Zuletzt waren drei Buchhandlungen von der Kandidatenliste für den Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis gestrichen worden – ein Politikum. Eine Preisverleihung gibt es nun nicht.

🇩🇪's minister federal minister for cultural affairs cancelled a big prize ceremony for book shops, after having ruined it himself.

He never intended all this, but the damage is done. He may now also want to cancel the events that benefit his own private business.

www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/nach-...

Strictly speaking, a postdoc is just a doc who posts

Reviewer 2 is in cahoots with the evil villain

When you are being mean to me as a reviewer this is who you are being mean to

the methods section is supposed to be this bad, here the hero travels through the abyss

why, everybody loves a good tragic hero story. Who needs robustness checks when you can have a Hero's journey

2 two-year postdocs on children’s political socialization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥

Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk
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AI Slop, the movie

Results point to general education effects on subjective experiences of exclusion not limited to immigrant-origin population.

Beyond the ‘integration paradox’: educational attainment similarly predicts gender discrimination among women and ethnic discrimination among Minorities Abstract Highly educated individuals of immigrant origins perceive more ethnic discrimination than their less educated counterparts—a now well-established finding referred to as the ‘integration paradox’. In this paper, we study whether this purported paradox captures general educational effects on the lived experiences of historically disadvantaged populations going beyond the scope of integration among immigrants. We compare the educational gradient of perceptions of ethno-racial discrimination among ethnic minorities with the educational gradient of perceptions of gender discrimination among women. We also study intersectional dimensions in the experiences of minority women and those reporting multiple grounds for discrimination. Analyses based on representative data from two cross-sectional surveys in France - Trajectoires et Origines 1 and 2—involving over 35,000 respondents show that highly educated individuals, including both ethnic minorities and women, are more likely to report discrimination. Individuals who report discrimination on one ground are also more likely to report it on another ground. Our results suggest that the so-called integration paradox reflects more general educational effects on subjective experiences of exclusion that are not unique to immigrant-origin populations.

interesting paper by @chlolv.bsky.social, Drouhout, van der Linden, and @frankvantubergen.bsky.social on the "integration paradox", i.e. more integrated migrants reporting more discrimination. academic.oup.com/esr/article/...

Fertility postponement is not a universal correlate of fertility decline - N-IUSSP Worldwide, the path leading to delayed fertility is more complex than it may appear at first sight. Thomas Spoorenberg and Vegard Skirbekk offer a few keys to better interpret current ... Read more

A pattern that surprised me when I first heard about it (from @ruben.the100.ci): in high fertility contexts, a large share of kids is born to older mothers -- it takes time to have lots of kids!

Not sure how I feel about "very late fertility (ages 35+)" 😭

www.niussp.org/fertility-an...

Im Innenausschuss des Europäischen Parlaments haben die Konservativen gerade gemeinsam mit den Rechtsextremen eine neue Abschiebeverordnung auf den Weg gebracht. Bald werden dann auch in Deutschland die Gesetze für Abschiebungen gelten, die Christdemokraten gemeinsam mit AfD & Co beschlossen haben.

German far-right MP 'could be absolutely controlled by Russia' AfD party member Markus Frohnmaier says documents suggesting this and seen by the BBC are fake.

Gentle reminder that the #AfD guy who wanted to be minister-president of the Länd but wasn't actually on the ballot and spent the final phase of the campaign across the pond kissing MAGA backsides is 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 one of the most pro-Russian voices in the party (and never sued the BBC over the 'asset' claim)

Several people have objected to treating LLM generated language translation as acceptable. I'm interested in this, because to me this is a reasonable use case. With these tools (built into everything) I am able to read work and converse with people I would otherwise just never know.

56 Mandate für Grüne, 56 Mandate für CDU: Unionspolitiker bringen Teilung der Amtszeit des Ministerpräsidenten ins Spiel Nach dem Wahldrama in Baden-Württemberg stehen plötzlich ungewöhnliche Optionen auf dem Tisch. Aus der Union kommen Vorschläge, die Macht zu teilen.

Ihr habt sie doch nicht alle

Falls noch wer einen Leihwagen braucht 🤭

Which jobs make a meaningful contribution to the world? Together maybe we can suss out the bullshit. Your vote counts.

A simple survey rates the meaningfulness of the 200 most common American jobs. Inspired by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @ @notalawyer.bsky.social's discussion. Results and voting available at the link.

the wednesday moderation shift could need a little help, if you want to get a feeling for the submission throughput

DIW Berlin: Kindern soziale Medien zu verbieten, ist zu einfach Jugendliche vor Social-Media-Gefahren zu schützen, ist richtig. Doch sie auszusperren, ist Symbolpolitik. Europa muss endlich spürbare Plattformregulierung durchsetzen. Die Forderung nach einem Social...

Wer Jugendlichen bis 16 Jahren den Zugang zu sozialen Medien pauschal verwehren will, mache es sich zu einfach, finden @mfratzscher.bsky.social und @christianhunkler.bsky.social. Stattdessen plädieren die beiden dafür, die Anbieter in die Pflicht zu nehmen. /via @zeit.de www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

My two posts on AI in academia provoked a lot of people this week, and some of it was unnecessary. I'm sorry for the tone and provocation. But I stand by the substance.

Here are all my 20 theses. I'd genuinely like to know which ones folks *empirically* disagree or agree with.

🚨 Job alert! 🚨

We’re #hiring a #PhD candidate at NIDI (The Hague).

Together with @frankvantubergen.bsky.social and @glorenz.bsky.social, I will supervise a project on the connection of different dimensions of social cohesion in ethnically diverse schools.

Deadline 1 April 2026.

More information:

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»Ich rasiere mir eine Glatze, wenn wir den Einzug in den Landtag verpassen. Alles weg. Radikal.« FDP-Generalsekretärin Nicole Büttner über die anstehende Wahl in Baden-Württemberg

Na dann mal los

As always: the upside-down U