Guido Wolf Reichert ⚛️ @gwr@qoto.org
- Website
- https://bsl-support.de
- GitHub
- https://github.com/bslMS
- Support me
- https://ko-fi.com/guidowolfreichert
- Location
- Kiel, Germany
Management consultant interested in modelling & simulation and Bayesian approaches. Main author of the free Business Simulation Library (BSL)
“There is a need to stop global warming, dismantle nuclear armament, prevent further resource wars, stop the rise of inequality between individuals and nations, and fight authoritarianism, particularly when it comes disguised as democracy or as socialism.”
–Mario Bunge in Political Philosophy (2008)
Joined Nov 2022
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Looking at the amount of money spent to win elections and at the result of polling the public (“reinstate Trump anyone?”) “on the spur of the moment” (vox populi, vox dei?) I would like to remind us all that there still is a forgotten, but classic alternative out there, which according to Aristotle is the only, truly democratic one:
Is Cory Doctorow right in doubting that any platform that launches as a single-company project will resist the pull toward enclosure? Even if Bluesky’s protocol is nominally open, the question is:
• Who funds the servers?
• Who decides on moderation?
• Who controls the namespace/identity registry?
If these stay centralized, then you’ve just created another Twitter clone with a veneer of openness. The danger is that early adopters get lured in, and only later find themselves just as locked in.
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Rechtsstaat 2025:
EU bestraft Google nicht - aus Angst vor Trump

Die Europäische Union hat eine bereits vorbereitete Kartellstrafe gegen Google überraschend auf Eis gelegt. Hintergrund ist wohl die Sorge vor einer Reaktion aus dem Weißen Haus. Für den Rechtsstaat ist das eine Bankrotterklärung.
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Aus Platzmangel: Nürnberger Tiergarten will Besucher einschläfern https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/07/platzmangel-besucher.html
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George Wendt’s Norm Made Every ‘Cheers’ Entrance Feel Fresh
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/arts/television/george-wendt-norm-cheers.html
If it is public money, it should be public code as well! I support @fsfe's call for more #publiccode: https://publiccode.eu/en/
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Union will das #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen
In den Koalitionsverhandlungen drängen CDU und CSU darauf, das Recht auf staatliche Informationen abzuschaffen. Angetrieben wird das Vorhaben von Philipp Amthor – der wegen seiner umstrittenen Nebentätigkeiten bei Augustus Intelligence selbst unter IFG-Anfragen zu leiden hatte.
https://fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklusiv/2025/03/union-will-informationsfreiheitsgesetz-abschaffen/
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https://weact.campact.de/petitions/deepfakes-verbieten Es rollt ein Tsunami aus Fälschungen auf uns zu, der es immer schwerer macht, zwischen Wahrheit und Lüge zu unterscheiden. Deshalb sollten wir das Fälschen von Menschen verbieten. Dein Gesicht und deine Stimme gehören dir! Hilf mit, das Thema während den Koalitionsverhandlungen präsent zu machen und unterschreibe unsere Petition gegen das Fälschen von Menschen.
#DeepFakes #KI
Ich finde Mitläufer und Denunzianten einfach widerlich –Nazis sowieso.
https://www.bpb.de/mediathek/video/693/ich-staune-ueber-das-kurze-gedaechtnis/
Maybe in my #systemdynamics bubble someone can answer this question regarding #elasticity in a continuous-time dynamical systems context (i.e., it is a factor scaling fractional rates)?
Why is this (very natural) momentum-related formulation not more widespread in models?
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Elon wollte seine Spuren in der Welt hinterlassen – hat geklappt!
Weiterlesen: https://www.mimikama.org/dont-buy-a-tesla-faktencheck/
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A BILL
To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to
acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as ‘‘Red, White, and Blueland’’.
https://buddycarter.house.gov/uploadedfiles/redwhitebluelandact.pdf
“There is a need to stop global warming, dismantle nuclear armament, prevent further resource wars, stop the rise of inequality between individuals and nations, and fight authoritarianism, particularly when it comes disguised as democracy or as socialism.”
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315126692/political-philosophy-mario-bunge
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Mobbing in der Schule fängt nicht an, wenn ein Schüler auf dem Boden liegt und von anderen getreten wird.
Es fängt an:
• wenn ein Schüler sagt: „Boah, nee. Mit der Komischen will ich nicht in einer Mannschaft sein“
• die Sportlehrkraft es mitbekommt
• und NICHTS unternimmt
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Weil Kirchen ihn ständig kritisieren: Söder beschließt Kruzifix-Verbot in bayerischen Behörden und Schulen https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/02/kruzifix-verbot-bayern.html
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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
https://thebullshitmachines.com
This is not a computer science course.
It’s a humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
Neither instructor nor students need a technical background. Our instructor guide provides a choice of activities for each lesson that will easily fill an hour-long class.
The entire course is available freely online. Our 18 online lessons each take 5-10 minutes; each illuminates one core principle. They are suitable for self-study, but have been tailored for teaching in a flipped classroom.
The course is a sequel of sorts to our course (and book) Calling Bullshit. We hope that like its predecessor, it will be widely adopted worldwide.
Large language models are both powerful tools, and mindless—even dangerous—bullshit machines. We want students to explore how to resolve this dialectic.
- Website
- https://bsl-support.de
- GitHub
- https://github.com/bslMS
- Support me
- https://ko-fi.com/guidowolfreichert
- Location
- Kiel, Germany
Management consultant interested in modelling & simulation and Bayesian approaches. Main author of the free Business Simulation Library (BSL)
“There is a need to stop global warming, dismantle nuclear armament, prevent further resource wars, stop the rise of inequality between individuals and nations, and fight authoritarianism, particularly when it comes disguised as democracy or as socialism.”
–Mario Bunge in Political Philosophy (2008)
Joined Nov 2022
