The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @texttheater ever

June 5th, 2021

histoftech It really bothers me that I see this same specious, sloppy thinking making the rounds in CS/ML/AI once again, even as the stakes get ever higher & the outcomes become ever clearer. Even when so many brilliant people are actively sounding the alarm & working against it…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 11:21 PM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

histoftech This myth of technological neutrality—the idea you can design a technology that, say, concentrates power & then claim that outcome was “just one of many” as it proceeds to heighten power differences and oppress people when deployed…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 11:21 PM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

histoftech I literally had to make a comparison between a cheese grater & an atomic bomb once to disprove the idea that technologies are neutral & “it’s all just how you use them,” bc one guy would not even accept that certain technologies can do certain things & tend *to do those things*

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 11:20 PM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

techniktagebuch 20. September 2020 - Beleidigt schweigend ins Gespräch vertieft tmblr.co/ZydXMoaGYja5am…

via Tumblr (retweeted on 8:24 PM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

EvpokPadding My conclusion from parsing Wikipedia is that people should stop writing in Wikipedia, there are enough sentence already

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 3:53 PM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

AmreiBahr Mir liegen nicht allein die Tätigkeiten am Herzen (von denen ich immer weniger tun kann, u.a. weil ich mich stattdessen um die Sicherung meiner beruflichen Zukunft bemühen muss), sondern auch die Menschen. Werde ich Kontakt halten können, wenn ich rausfliege? (3/4)

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 3:51 PM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

derJamesJackson Thunderbird Bismarck ready for blastoff pic.twitter.com/YtpIHD5HQ0

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 3:51 PM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

promipony Ihr könnt über Boomer sagen was ihr wollt, aber wenigstens haben sie ihr Handy auf laut und gehen auch ran.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 1:36 PM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

Wer hat Apotheken erlaubt samstags um 14 Uhr zu schließen

via Twitter for Android

@acn128 @Nachtvogel @derwahremawa @komoot Hier ist Ihr Navi, fahrense mal rechts ran. Und dann unterhalten wir uns mal schön über das Befolgen von Anweisungen.

via Twitter for Android in reply to texttheater

emilymbender Reading @Abebab 's brilliant essay "Algorithmic injustice: a relational ethics approach" and reflecting on how relational understandings could improve not just the knowledge we produce but also the communities we do that production in.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… pic.twitter.com/5Amig9zWFS

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 1:14 AM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

LeonDerczynski Even the most frivolous queries have been picked up by big, energy-eating, polluting language models, and the output of those stochastic parrots is fed back, without quality control, to the world. It's nasty and misguided but lauded as a huge step forward pic.twitter.com/Xelejas4PI

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 1:04 AM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

the_maki Leute, die Kritik an einem Zustand mit "Das ist nur eine reine Neiddebatte" abtun, sind ja nur neidisch auf Leute, die richtige Argumente haben.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:18 AM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

hartmast Gute Nachrichten für Mitarbeitende der @HHU_de - Der -Publikationsfonds ist nun endlich für alle Fakultäten geöffnet! 🔓 😃 ulb.hhu.de/forschen-lehre…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 12:18 AM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)

ScHuehnerkrisp Hoch die Hände – Pedalsolo!

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:07 AM, Jun 5th, 2021 via Twitter for Android)