Dr. Jens Foell

Jesus Christ, that poor child

I'm just glad Trump wasn't awake to hear this, otherwise he might have gotten some bad ideas.

Happy Twin Pines Mall / Lone Pine Mall Day to all who observe

Jens, you are aware that the storyline ‚scientist wins a strange game about ancient Mesopotamia‘ usually evolves into the awakening of at least one ancient god or goddess, right?

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Every year, Research!America does a poll that asks, "Can you name a living scientist?" In January 2026, 76% of respondents said "no." Of those who said "yes," 5% named a scientist who was, in fact, dead. www.researchamerica.org/blog/can-you...

Why do some colleagues from psych, cog neuro, etc., accept AI nonsense that all or almost all our science will be automated? I'm a bit flabbergasted. Yes, of course we'll need observations, always. But to say theory and modelling practice can be automated by AI is preposterous. Some basic points...

ME: “I don’t know why this upsets you so much, it’s a simple observation: The word should not be referring to a rug, but instead to a domesticated animal that resides in your personal vehicle.” OWNER OF A CARPET STORE: “Please leave now.”

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

“You can see everything” finally has a release date for Germany (it’s December 3rd). Looking forward to checking this one out asap

This is the energy we need right now. No more half-assed “muh it’s just a tool” bullshit.

Senator, I’m going to make sure this happens.

No more European business deals with Elon Musk. Not in the face of Armageddon.

This post reminded me that I've been wanting to order this one -- so I just did! Love me some well-researched fun science facts!

In the bedrock of my soul I know he started out thinking the press pool was a literal pool and has been seething with disappointment since he discovered the mistake

[flirty] “So, is there a *Missus* Bob Dobalina?“

Eva Roytburg with an interesting update on AI economics. Looks like this might not be the full-on bubble burst yet, but at least a farewell to the notion of continuous exponential growth.

As a psychologist who's at least looked into the Unabomber story once (literature research for a book chapter), my assessment of the new Unabomber movie on Netflix is a resounding "eh"

I'm out on account of not being in the US (and almost exclusively doing writing), but if someone wants to take my place here, that would be appreciated

So the US has limited Starlink use for Ukraine even tho Ukraine did not attack Russian oil refineries as they asked? What the hell esle do they want from us? To surrender?

"Today's AI summit brings together businesses, governments and civil society together" Minister Peter Burke TD (fact: there are no civil society representatives, not in the list of speakers) #AISummitIE

If I had a nickel for every time that a famous 80s pop culture IP showed an alternate 1985 in which Nixon is still president I‘d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s still weird it happened twice.

In Oppenheimer, researchers discuss the virtue of continuing work on the bomb even though Germany was on the brink of surrender. One of them says “Hitler has blown out his brains in the bunker.” However, at that time, the location and mode of Hitler’s demise was only known to a few Russian soldiers.

Man in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well.

In every meeting nowadays there is a random guy from middle management proposing AI usage. Do they care about moral implications? No. Are they afraid to fall behind “the others”? Yes. Do they have any concrete use case in mind? Of course not. Do they accept the limits of AI? “What limitations?”

Every time I rant about generative AI on Instagram, someone will call me delusional. He'll say that AI has already changed every aspect of life for the better and there's no going back. And then I will ask him what his job is, and every single time the answer will be "software developer"

Actually, I’d recommend this transcript generally. It has some funny moments in it.

Currently, a diagram is making the rounds that is claimed to show a significant reduction in Russian disinformation bot activity after Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers. There is no evidence that this plot shows real data. I suspect that this image is AI-generated.

Started watching Ted Lasso with my 11-year-old and when Roy Kent first appeared she said he looked odd, like he was CGI and she SWEARS she hadn’t seen the online memes about this before. So whatever those weird meme people saw, apparently she’s seeing the same thing 😵‍💫

“Why won’t you do anything about those cockroaches in your house?” “Can’t help it. They’re here to stay.” “Ow! Why did you throw your toaster at me?!“ “Not me. Toaster’s gone rogue.”

Has anyone noticed before that the train stop Berlin Gesundbrunnen translates to “Berlin Wellwell”

Apart from everything else, broadcasting the shooting of a terrorist live across the world will absolutely, undoubtedly, inspire future terrorist acts. If you don't believe so, just try to think for a second about what a terrorist is actually trying to achieve.

A country doesn’t just come back from this.

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

If you’re not opposed to unsubtle satire (and I don’t judge if you are), “Digger” is definitely worth your time. I can’t quite wrap my head around all those very negative reviews.

The Guile‘s Hair novelty popcorn bucket is coming to a theater near me with the release of the new Street Fighter movie. This is the Lord testing my resolve.

AI is here to stay* *please note that this statement contains a 95% margin of error

Can’t make a rancid, odorous omelet that nobody remembers ordering without breaking a few eggs

Already announced it on Instagram and had to bring it to Blue sky as well: My upcoming LLM AIbert Einstein 10.0 will wipe them all off the map /s