Harvest in Weinviertel is near.

NSFW

This week’s song is from dissy & Mirabelle Rose. The hook is nicer than the album cover.

YouTube:

Instagram shows the proof, that they used a Shure SM 7 B - and it sounds good.

I must confess, however, that there is a significant cultural gap here that causes some problems in understanding Dissy and this genre. Could, for example,somebody, please, explain to me, what the masked guy with green hoodie and headband in the background is doing here? Gymnastics? Playing an instrument? Both?

Mirabelle Rose is easier to understand.

Retrospect

Paracelsus Medical University (PMU)

I was kindly invited to give a keynote at the Science Get Together of PMU and was very impressed by the many research perspectives seen on more than 100 posters - and also by the modern campus. Meeting vice-rector Kofler, rector Sperl, head of research management Dorothea Kölblinger and many others from the team, was an honour. Rector Sperl is also a member of the board of OEAWI so that we will certainly meet again.

© PMU, https://www.flickr.com/photos/paracelsusuniversitaet/54623495343/in/album-72177720327233248/

I started the day with a (too short, too slow) morning run on Mönchsberg

where storm damages after the recent heavy thunderstorms were quite visible.

The presentation gave me reasons to do some research about a very sad case of a teenager-suidice potentially triggered by an AI-chatbot (see below for more on this) and about job perspectives for radiologists.

Media

Dr. Armin Wolf has an interesting blog-entry about his attempts to get hate speech away from X, quoting, inter alia, me on Dorf.TV.

I am happy to announce that I will havce an #arsboni interview with Armin Wolf’s lawyer, Dr. Philipp Längle, on the matter soon.

My photo of Dr. Andy Kaltenbrunner’s award ceremony with the minister (see Weekly 27/2025) made it - with credits! :-) - into extradienst and Salzburger Nachrichten.

#arsboni

Messenger Surveillance

I did a long interview with Erich Moechel in the #arsboni #laundry.

The talk is a very strong indicator that the software to be bought will not comply with the necessary legal requirements. The draft passed, however, the Parliamentary Committee of the Interior on July 2nd.

German Consitutional Court

Prof. Dr. Alexander Thiele spent some time in explaining his view on Germany’s Constitutionmal Court.

I was quite impressed by the care and consideration he showed in - very discrete -criticism. Over all, he has a lot of sympathy for the court and explains his reasons for this very well.

Some of the aspects discussed - such as the court’s tendency to stay within the political center by all means - are quite obvious at the moment as candidates are discussed such as my former Hannover-colleague Prof. Dr. Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf who is nothing less than an extremist.

LLP

The LLP provided a nice overview on legal implications of summer internships.

Prospect

AIRoV – The Austrian Symposium on AI and Vision

I will be in Klagenfurt at the beginning of the week, with a keynote on Tuesday morning on “Europe as Standard Setter? Regulatory Approaches to Data, Cloud, AI and all the other Glitter”.

Registration still possible, (presumably) no stream.

#arsboni

The laundry is, probably, one of the coolest places in Austria at the moment as it has a constant temperature of 18 degrees there. This is one of the reasons why I will produce not less than three #arsboni #laundry editions next week, all with very interesting topics and guests - one on radio piratery in Austria, one on lack of terror prevention and terror victim support and one on a successful PHD-project. More to come soon.

LLM

If you want to know more about all the topics I struggle with, and collaborate more closely, in the heart of Vienna, here’s an offer - with singing birds in the background:

Via https://www.postgraduatecenter.at/weiterbildungsprogramme/recht/informations-und-medienrecht/, Deadline: 31/08/2025.

Look and Feel

Character.ai

As I have heard and said a lot about a teenage-suicide alegedly triggered by a chatbot

I started to play around with Character.ai, the platform in the center of this case, and, in particular, with one of their chatbots dealing with legal matters called “Law Expert”. Talking with “Law expert” about the case is a frustrating lesson in hallucination, censorship and nonsense. I can’t copy the dialogue here which is unfortunate, yet typical, but an excerpt might show the issue.

Wild but Heart – Markus Kupferblum has breakfast with Peter Reichl

Markus Kupferblum held another (see Weekly 06/2025) breakfast session in Porgy & Bess on Sunday morning. This time, he spoke with Prof. Dr. Peter Reichl, head of the research group on cooperative systems at UNIVIE.

It was an inspriring session in which I learned, inter alia, more about Giuditta Pasta - an opera superstar of her time -, Curt Herzstark - an Austrian engineer - and the calculator “Curta” he had invented and had to work on in KZ Buchenwald.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta#/media/File:Curta_-_National_Museum_of_Computing.jpg

Zeit für Kost

I spent some more lazy Sunday hours at an event hosted by the Museum of Applied Art (MAK):

Nice food, (alcohol-free) wine-like drinks, chilled music and the possibility to picnic under the trees made a nice afternoon - despite the heat.

I had never been in the venue - Geymüllerschlössel in Pötzleinsdorf - before but learned there that it’s an important exampe of Austrian Biedermeier architecture.

Musk

I am currently listening to

and it’s worth the time (most of the time, some parts are rather boring biographical details) (see also Weekly 22/2024 on the matter). The whistleblower Lukasz Krupski is an interesting character.

One of the details I learned was that Jira security settings played an important role in giving the whistleblower access to restricted files. That’s interesting, also because Jira is used by UNIVIE as well. Unfortunately there’s too little information given on what, precisely, was misconfigured here.

Another aspect is that it’s astonishing how little autopilote malfunctions presumably involved in hundreds of accidents and very well known to the top management are discussed in public - in particular in comparison with Dieselgate. There is an interesting parallel with another Musk owned company - Twitter/X - and their unwillingness to share relevant data. Just like in the case of Armin Wolf with

Twitter/X it appears - according to the book - that also Tesla is systematically and strategically not sharing any accident-related data - in particular in autopilote-related cases with a fatal outcome (!) - with state authorities, victims and their relatives or experts. Their claim is that no relevant data is available which is rather unlikely.

It will be very interesting to see whether the European Data Act and or the new product liability directive will change anything here (I wouldn’t be too optimistic). There are third party hosted databaseses on the internet documenting “Tesla Deaths”, with currently 58 alleged auto-pilote related deaths.

Unfortunately, the book has really lots of relevant and well documented content, but sometimes also looks somehow biased in a kind of David versus Goliath-attitude - which makes it difficult to judge on the objectivity and provability of some of the (sometimes rather personal) stories told.

Daisy

can wiggle her ears faster than a camera shutter operates.

© Felix Forgó

Have a wonderful week!

Kind regards

Nikolaus (Forgó)