A beautiful #email informing that they will update their privacy #policy for the 100th time?
Thank you #Meta for your amazing #Ai and for completely ignoring peoples #privacy over and over again 😂
Please please go ahead use all our #data as you want:
"...on the legal basis called legitimate interests for using your information to develop and improve AI at Meta."
So, now the lead candidate of the #FDP to the #EuropeanElections is using "#autistic" as an insult. Can't #German right wing politicians spend a week without saying anything fascist?
On Saturday, I was invited by a #German friend to come over for an asparagus dinner.
For those who don't know, Germans go absolutely WILD for asparagus around this time of year.
I was a bit nervous. as I never liked asparagus, so in the 8 years of living here, I just never joined in #spargelzeit. So this would be the first time I tried them here.
Well, I've been missing out, it was super delicious, and I wonder what was wrong with all the other asparagus meals I had before.
If you are into languages, you are probably familiar with those conversations with your multilingual friends: you take arbitrary elements from the languages you both speak, and randomly squeeze them together into sentences.
That is any regular Monday for the Swiss. Schwyzdüütsch, a.k.a. #Swiss German is a colorful amalgamation of German, French and Italian.
I just found out one actually useful use case for #LLM (a.k.a. “AI”).
There is thousands of tonnes of documents from #german#nazi#regime detailing basically everything what happened, who was involved and who participated what and said what.
Feed ALL of that to an LLM and ask it “how can we avoid this happening ever again”. I have a pretty good guess my self but some people aren’t that convinced. Perhaps this is The Key. #history#sciense#neverAgain
Why the f*** would #Putin try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel #Kant?
It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on #Germany / #German pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that #Russia thinks supports recent #Russian behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).
Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: #philosophy war.
One of the fun things about German is how confusing it is. To make a word plural, you add -n/-en, umlaut + -er, umlaut or do nothing. So a lot of beginners will take der Vogel ( a bird ) and add an n but also an umlaut. Vögeln. This is however incorrect. It has the same meaning as ficken or bumsen. It means to fuck.
The true plural is die Vögel. Birds and the bees I guess.
We totally randomly met two #bicycle riders this morning near our home, apparently they're traveling around #Greece & #Albania with bicycles. They are a #German & #Italian couple. We invited them at my mom's home and we all had lunch together. Apparently they are #PhD candidates in #Austria, one in #chemistry and the other one in #biology. Very interesting young people. It was a good day today.
if it is the defense support for #ukraine or the question if #russia#china spying is a "bad thing", the electorate of the #german#green party reliably takes the lead, while #farright#afd puts its tail between its legs (to stay with the image)