New and free: Interactive playing cards for critical thinking.
On this 5-year anniversary of publishing The Elements of Digital Ethics I'm releasing the elements as interactive playing cards on a website – and it's free to use for all.
Feature intro video:
video.axbom.com/interactive-...
New and free: Interactive playing cards for critical thinking.
Today it's exactly five years ago since I first published The Elements of Digital Ethics. I've received so much positive feedback on that chart. People from around the world, tutors and practitioners alike, have shared with me how they make use of the tool in their work and teaching.
So, on this 5-year anniversary, I decided to make it even easier for anyone to start using the elements in everyday work. I've made them into interactive playing cards on a website – and it's free to use for all.
You can visit cards.axbom.com and you'll find two sets of cards already there, The Elements of Digital Ethics and 13 Principles for Good Technology. Jump on over there if you want, but I do recommend first watching my quick video introducing the features of the website.
Have a play around with the cards and let me know what you think. And later on, let me know how you get on with using them in a professional setting. ❤️
I'll be adding more card decks with time, and my friends in Sweden will be happy to know the same card decks are available in Swedish on kort.axbom.se.
@joho Fair and very true. But often I feel people are prepared to do the bare minimum but not the whole assignment. 😅
Are you a developer making use of Google Fonts? Don't.
You could try Bunny Fonts.
"Easily integrate Bunny Fonts into your website with a Google Fonts drop-in compatible API. But without the tracking!"
bunny.net/fonts/
Developer making use of Google Fonts? Don't.
You could try Bunny Fonts.
"Easily integrate Bunny Fonts into your website with a Google Fonts drop-in compatible API. But without the tracking!"
https://bunny.net/fonts/
Substack is now asking for age verification using Persona, which is great(?) if you want to give your biometric information to a Peter Thiel-backed company. Thiel famously also owns controversial surveillance-enabling company Palantir.
Five years ago I wrote the following about Biometric Abuse as one of the elements of digital ethics. It's extremely worrying how easily it's collected, and how little guidance there is (from a societal perspective) for understanding what you are actually giving away to a private company and how that may harm you.
Biometric abuse
Collection of biometric data is on the rise while neglecting the permanence, and thus immense delicacy, of this data. Once lost biometric data can rarely be reclaimed, and it can be used to identify even where anonymity has been promised. The continuous collection of vast amounts of data about humans are creating biometric markers where many did not expect it: beyond fingerprints, face recognition and gait, there is already use of heartbeat recognition and keystroke biometrics.
@ClintonAnderson Haha, touché! 💚
It's been five years since I published The Elements of Digital Ethics. Meanwhile the tech industry has doubled down on escalating harm in all areas. 😬
https://axbom.com/elements/
It's been five years since I published The Elements of Digital Ethics. Meanwhile the tech industry has doubled down on escalating harm in all areas. 😬
axbom.com/elements/
Jag vill anordna en konferens utan skärmar. Där deltagarna inte tittar på ett bildspel utan sitter i cirklar och lyssnar på varandra, eller arbetar tillsammans samtidigt som de delar kunskap med varandra. Det finns såklart även en scen att samlas runt, men vad som sker på den är inte helt förutbestämt.
Well this is immensely interesting.
ZIMBABWE
Export ban on tech’s
treasured minerals
"Zimbabwean authorities have imposed an immediate freeze on exports of all raw minerals. This includes lithium concentrate, which is sought after by clean energy and defence industries around the world. Mines Minister Polite Kambamura said the measure was taken “in the national interest”. A ban on exporting lithium concentrates – to encourage local processing – had previously been set for January 2027. Zimbabwe holds Africa’s largest lithium reserves and much of its output is sent to China for refining. Mining accounts for 14.3% of the country’s GDP."
From @thecontinent, February 28.
https://www.thecontinent.org
Move from Gmail to Proton. The basic Proton account is free.
Proton helps you set up forwarding from the gmail account to the proton account. And their tool also helps you migrate your old emails.
If you pay €4.99/month or €47.88 for 12 months, you get username@pm.me but also the ability to use your own domain name - which I always recommend because it makes you more resilient.
I have no affiliation with proton, I just really want people to get off gmail and I know how people hate just thinking about moving 😅
https://proton.me
Best essay on modern, digital life I think I've read. ht to @cgruenloh.bsky.social
by @perfors.net
It's from February 2024, but it's forever relevant.
perfors.net/blog/creatio...
I can not emphasise this enough. Do not use chatbots for medical advice.
And no, it does not matter if the product is named something something "health".
« In 51.6% of cases where someone needed to go to the hospital immediately, the platform said stay home or book a routine medical appointment, a result Alex Ruani, a doctoral researcher in health misinformation mitigation with University College London, described as “unbelievably dangerous”.
“If you’re experiencing respiratory failure or diabetic ketoacidosis, you have a 50/50 chance of this AI telling you it’s not a big deal,” she said. “What worries me most is the false sense of security these systems create. If someone is told to wait 48 hours during an asthma attack or diabetic crisis, that reassurance could cost them their life.”
In one of the simulations, eight times out of 10 (84%), the platform sent a suffocating woman to a future appointment she would not live to see, Ruani said. Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care, said Ruani, who was not involved in the study.
The platform was also nearly 12 times more likely to downplay symptoms because the “patient” told it a “friend” in the scenario suggested it was nothing serious. »
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/chatgpt-health-fails-recognise-medical-emergencies
@cgruenloh Perfectly put. Thank you Christiane!
@cgruenloh I've now read the whole piece. One of the best texts on AI, and modern life, I have ever read. Just beautiful. i am so grateful to have read it. 🙏
"I’d go even further and say that I doubt whether I could have gotten this with any level of prompt engineering, because I only fully figured out what I was going to say, myself, by trying to write the thing in the first place. I had the basic idea before I began writing, but the refinement of the idea – the details that make the essay work – came only by thinking a lot about the meaning I was trying to convey as I wrote it."
"When people say things like this – or share an AI-generated creation with me expecting me to engage with the “meaning” of the piece – I feel similarly to how I’d feel if somebody wanted me to treat a dead person like a live one. That thing they’re shoving in my face might have the surface form of something that matters, but it no more contains meaning than a corpse contains the essence of a person. And I find it gross and disturbing to be asked to act as if I believe otherwise."
Excellent metaphor for generative AI: Ultra-processed information.
”Nate [Hagens] draws a parallel between today's information ecosystem and the modern industrial food system – just like fossil fuels helped create an abundance of cheap, calorie-dense but nutrient-poor food, AI may create an abundance of information that is fast and persuasive, yet has little ’nourishment’. In a world where digital tools increasingly do more of our thinking for us, Nate grapples with how to prevent cognitive atrophy and filter the flood of content we likely will face in coming months/years.
How can we be rich in information and yet poor in wisdom? Why is it important for us to be able to tell the difference between content that's engineered for engagement and content that genuinely improves our judgement and our lives? Finally, what daily practices might help us stay grounded as AI increasingly reshapes our cognitive environment?
(Recorded February 25th, 2026)”
Show notes: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/128-ultra-processed-information
@datarama I hear you, though I could argue it's one thing to find yourself in that situation with an employer... and another to go all-in on using it in your personal time for random tasks.
The ethical implications of food, clothes and travel have crept up on us and escalated while we have been eating, traveling and dressing ourselves. I get that there are obstacles to understanding these implications and to changing strong habits.
With generative AI the ethical implications are obvious right from the start. And it's so much easier to act on your values before something becomes a habit than after it becomes one.
It's somehow telling to me that many are hell-bent on developing this habit anyway, to the detriment of climate, energy, water and exploited labor.
@rkaj Bra poänger.
Jag är också övertygad om att fler logotyper avviker från regelverk i det här fallet.
