Raphael Wimmer
Raphael Wimmer
@raphaelwimmer.bsky.social
Tinkering with atoms, bits, and pixels at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Yak shaver and award-winning procrastinator. Also on https://hci.social/@RaphaelWimmer and Twitter
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For more than a decade, it has felt to defenders of free society that we are peddling fruitlessly against the powerful current of authoritarianism. That current grew firmer, more dominant, as it swept in new nations from the shores of democracy and carried the world further toward illiberal abyss.
1. BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro is refusing to concede Brazil's presidential election and says he will seek to have the election annulled after losing to President Lula.
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We're excited to share our new climate change indicators tool, with interactive real-time visualizations and data. We hope to expand it, so please let us know what you'd like to see! ➡️ Global Indicators: www.climatecentral.org/tools/climat... ▶️ Local climate: www.climatecentral.org/climate-local
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Hauptsache Verbrenner Erde steuert laut UN auf 2,8 Grad Erwärmung zu bild.de/news/schlech...
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I do not do much on social media right now. Making an exception. I talked to a lot of reporters during the pandemic. I don't think any of them would be surprised or offended if I say Helen was the best 1/n
We are going to miss you very much, Helen. https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/helen-branswell-stat-reporter-obituary/
Aaaaand the original (?) post has been deleted just now, too. (Not sure whether there is any correlation to me asking them nicely for a source.) www.threads.com/@livingftw/p...
Some objective evidence that at least MAGA engagement on Facebook did not change after Yandex' data centers were damaged. bsky.app/profile/jooh...
It occurs to me that since I have unique data on the right-wing ecosystem on Facebook, I can actually tell you with data, not vibes, if there actually has been a 50% decrease (the original claim) in bot activity on here supporting MAGA, or even any kind of substantial effect at all. There isn't.
Getting closer to the original source. Mr. Schlingheider apologizes for sharing the image which he found in a post by a different Threads user. Kudos for being so transparent. Translation in alt text. www.threads.com/share/D3QU1z...
Here is the original(?) post, posted yesterday at 12:59 PM. It has yet another caption "explaining" what the graph shows: "AfD posts since the Russian data centers were hit." When asked for a source, the original poster replied "gut feeling". www.threads.com/@livingftw/p...
Pangram - a generally reliable tool for checking for AI writing recently gained an image classifier that purportedly can detect AI-generated images. I haven't evaluated how well it works yet. However, FWIW, it also classifies the image as AI-generated: bsky.app/profile/sqlg...
Pangram says yes www.pangram.com/history/imag...
Addendum: The original poster and several others argue that engagement with AfD posts (German far right party with RUS ties) has dropped sharply. Here's an (AI-supported, i.e.., treat with care) analysis that shows no drop: bsky.app/profile/mike...
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There is some kernel of truth to this graph. Indeed, the bot traffic from Yandex' network has dropped to zero according to Cloudflare. However, Cloudflare does not count "disinformation bots" but all automated requests. radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238...
The title says: "Daily activity over the course of three months". The y axis is labelled "activity per day". Interestingly, the most current data point in the plot is for Oct. 15th - three days from now. Did Nostradamus draw it? (Thanks @lichtblauq.bsky.social / @musenginst.bsky.social )
The earliest The same image had been posted two hours earlier, at 15:08 UTC by a German Threads user who is affiliated with the Green party in Germany. At the moment, the post has been reposted 1.2K times on Threads. www.threads.com/@robin_schli...
The image seems to have gone viral first on X, then elsewhere, after Czech MEP Tomáš Zdechovský posted it with the comment "If confirmed , this is telling" at 17:02 UTC today: x.com/TomasZdechov... He has provided no source. The title of the plot and the axis labels are in German.
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So it was the US State Department all along! Maybe Shellenberger should be emailing them about censorship instead of conference participants. #disinfo26 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
@kagi.com Umm, I guess that's not what I want when using Kagi instead of Google...
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TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...
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Falls es wen interessiert: Ich tröte drüben auf Mastodon ein bisschen über die Mensch und Computer '26 ( #MuC2026 ), die gerade in Duisburg stattfindet. hci.social/@RaphaelWimm...
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„Wenn ich mir eine Maßnahme wünschen würde zur psychischen Gesundheit und wie man Kinder und Jugendliche unterstützt, dann wäre es Armutsbekämpfung.“ – Hörenswertes Gespräch mit @jschmitzleipzig.bsky.social (55min) #kindergrundsicherung
Social Media, Armut, Schule. Wie es Kindern und Jugendlichen aktuell in Deutschland psychisch geht und welche Hausaufgaben Politik und Gesellschaft haben - darüber habe ich mit NDR Synapsen im neuen Wissenschafts-Podcast gesprochen. www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...
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July 2026 was the warmest month for average temperatures on record across the contiguous U.S., even surpassing the Dust Bowl. This was especially due to an increase in those dangerously high overnight temps. 📣 REGISTER for our next briefing to learn more: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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So, seit Jahren erzählen Meteorologen und Klimaforscher, dass eine Anpassung nur vorübergehend funktioniert. Und jetzt habt Ihr es, es funktioniert jetzt schon nicht, was glaubt Ihr wohl wie in den nächsten Jahren wird? s u r p r i se ! #Klimaignoranz ist dumm www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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Ein Thema, mit dem meine Kolleg:innen und ich uns an der @uniregensburg.bsky.social seit ca. zehn Jahren beschäftigen, ist die Latenz bei der Interaktion mit dem Computer: Wo entstehen Verzögerungen, und wie wirken sie sich auf Effizienz, Fehlerrate und Zufriedenheit der Nutzenden aus? → <🧵>
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Moin. Es ist mir eine Ehre, diese Woche auf @realscientists.de ein bisschen über Forschung und Lehre (und alles, was sonst noch dranhängt) schreiben zu dürfen. Schaut gerne vorbei :) bsky.app/profile/did:...
[Admin] Mit Medieninformatik an die Schnittstelle zwischen Mensch und Computer! Begrüßt unseren neuen Kurator raphaelwimmer.bsky.social! realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2026/07/mit-...
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We are hiring and looking for a creator and developer of interactive news apps. German language required. Please share and dm me, if you have any questions. jobs.spiegelgruppe.de/Vacancies/13...
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