Unfortunately, I'm being laid off at Intel. If you know or hear something about job opportunities, I would be very interested to hear about them.

Mir wurde heute erklärt, wir gut #KI (konkret #Copilot) dabei helfen könnte, Tabellen auszuwerten.

Boy, are we doomed.

**#OpenAccess Manager (all genders) gesucht**

In meinem Team an der #TUWien ist eine Stelle frei! Wenn du Lust hast, mit uns an der Schnittstelle von #Wissenschaft & #Publishing zu arbeiten, dann bewirb dich: https://jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/254479

Was dich erwartet: Ein engagiertes Team, Aufgaben mit Sinn und Wirkung und ein inspirierendes Arbeitsumfeld mitten in Wien.

Ich freue mich über jede Weiterleitung, Empfehlung, Nachfrage oder Bewerbung!

#JobOpportunity #Wien #Vienna #OpenScience #Bibliothek

Imagine the following situation: your company receives a ZIP file with an invoice, and you're the person responsible for checking if all the details are correct, before sending it off to the payment department. You open the archive, and there's a single PDF inside. You view it, and all the details match—your company's details, seller's company's details, items and total amount are what's expected, and even the bank account number is the same as on previous invoices from this company. As everything looks good, you forward the ZIP with the invoice to the payment team, and move onto reviewing other incoming invoices.

A few days later you receive the same invoice again, but you already have it in the system. Just in case you reach out to the payment department whether it's been paid, and they confirm it has—great, no action required.

Another month passes by, and you get a "payment due" reminder. What's this? You remember it being paid already, so what gives. You ask the payment team, they again confirm the invoice was settled. You phone the seller about this, but they say they received nothing. So you head down the hall to the payment department, you open the invoice on your laptop, and start going through the details with them. But what's this? The destination account number and amount in the wire transfer and the invoice don't match! The payment team manager's face gets a bit red—seems like it was their mistake? But no! They show you the invoice, and the amount and account number match the actual payment... but it doesn't match what you see on your screen! How can this be?

Both of you re-download the ZIP archive from the email you've forwarded and open the PDF inside. And there it is—you see two different invoices. What in the world is happening?

Immediately you report it up the chain, and your boss's boss gets a pair of IT forensics consultants on the job. They investigate, and later you learn that your company has been scammed with a pair of different invoices hidden inside a schizophrenic ZIP file. This means that you—on your work laptop running a certain software stack—saw and approved the correct invoice. But the payment team—running a different software stack—saw the fake invoice inside the ZIP, which they thought was what you had approved. Even later on you find out that the seller's company has been partially compromised and a lot of their customers got fake invoices. But that's water under the bridge at that point, and the money your company transferred is long gone.

Technical details → https://hackarcana.com/article/yet-another-zip-trick

They stole all your codes, art, books, videos, and everything else out there. This solution doesn't fix anything. It might help newspaper sites where they write fresh news or detailed reports. But that will only be for the top 100 news sites. The rest of the artists and writers are doomed already because there is no law in place. I can't wait to retire, which is a few years away, and never have to look back again. But, it is the next generation of people who are going to struggle a lot :(

Ach sehr schön, das @Weizenbaum_Institut streamt die Veranstaltung heute abend mit @alex zum Buch "The AI Con" von ihr und @emilymbender

Intensive Empfehlung:

https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltungen/detailseite/the-ai-con-how-to-fight-big-techs-hype-and-create-the-future-we-want/

Das #Rechenwerk in #Halle braucht mal einen kleinen Gefallen: Wir haben da eine #Robotron K1840 stehen, ein #VAX 11/780 Nachbau.

Uns fehlt eine seltene Platine um den Rechner starten zu können.

Wir haben einen Händler in den USA ausfindig machen können, der die benötigte Platine hat, sie aber nicht auf dem Postweg nach Deutschland versenden kann.

Wir brauchen nun eine Person, die für uns die Platine mal bei passender Gelegenheit mit nach Deutschland bringt.

Interfaces are for people. The fewer people can use an interface, *the less it is an interface*. There is no more important measure of interface quality than accessibility. https://front-end.social/@heydon/114754750942586329

A friend asked my opinion on an op-ed in the New York Times today, written by a scholar whose work was much cited by the majority in Friday’s birthright citizenship case. I’m not naming the scholar or linking to the op-ed because, as I told my friend, I think the scholar is disingenuous - his defense of the opinion cannot be taken seriously. All this just by way of background …. 1/

Jemand Lust, sich mit automatisierter #Sacherschließung, #MachineLearning und #NLP Methoden und #Annif zu beschäftigen und mit dem @fidromanistik und mir zusammenzuarbeiten? Hier eine Gelegenheit mit 0,75% E13 (leider befristet, I'm sorry):

https://openbiblio.social/@fidromanistik/114740241054397290

#DigitalHumanities #bibliojobs

I had a great conversation with @baratunde on Life with Machines about the millions of data workers worldwide who produce the data that fuels AI. We dug into the scale of this labor, its deeply human costs, and the possibilities for something better.

Watch it here https://youtu.be/4NSWFy11E8Q?feature=shared

🚨 Attention Berlin!

Next Monday, June 30th, I am thrilled to welcome @alex to the @Weizenbaum_Institut for a conversation about her book, THE AI CON (co-authored with Prof. Emily M. Bender).

Don't miss it! Register here to attend: https://tickets.weizenbaum-institut.de/sgvbf/

we have got to stop talking about open source software this way man. someone who published work with an explicit label on it saying "this comes with absolutely no warranty" and is not being compensated is not part of a "supply chain" https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/114723318068853623

Stellenausschreibung: Teamleitung Bibliotheksmanagementsystem (E13)

In der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg ist schnellstmöglich folgende Stelle zu besetzen: Teamleitung Bibliotheksmanagementsystem Die Stelle ist: unbefristet Vollzeit/Teilzeit Stellennummer: J000034547 Die Ausschreibung richtet sich an: Alle Interessierten Entgelt-/Besoldungsgruppe: EGr. 13 TV-L Bewerbungsschluss: 29.06.2025 Ausführliche Informationen zur Bewerbung entnehmen Sie bitte diesem…

https://blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de/?p=40449

Heute aus unserer Reihe
Wir suchen Verstärkung - Stellenausschreibungen der VZG:

Das FOLIO-Team der VZG freut sich über neue Kolleg*innen - bei Fragen könnt ihr uns gerne auch auf der BiblioCon 2025 am Stand AG Verbund (D05) ansprechen.

Alle Stellen der VZG sind hier zu finden: https://karriere.niedersachsen.de/dienststellen/verbundzentrale-des-gbv-2.html

Wade and found wanting: Two fishermen set off at dawn in handmade dugout canoes on Lake Dembel, one of Ethiopia’s Central Rift Valley lakes under threat from pesticide pollution from nearby farms.

Photo: Marco Simoncelli/AFP