The way that you delete your Threads account is that you also delete your Instagram account. Quite unclear whether these two services will split or get even more integrated in the future…
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/
Tagged: Akkoma
Trying to figure out if my phone has made me forget more things than it has helped me remember…
Hold that thought, I just got a message.
@iamlayer8 @vincent @emilymbender
+1 for Pocket Casts. I also use filters to group different podcasts. This also means I can have two different filters with the same podcast in them.
https://blog.pocketcasts.com/2019/09/24/filters/
How harmful does something need to be for people to stop using it? How much do you yourself need to benefit to choose to ignore the harm done to others?
These are not always easy questions, but I think its beneficial to your own (and others'!) wellbeing to reflect on them…
https://axbom.com/ignoring-harm/
This is a great walkthrough of the ways generative AI is stealing (and storing!) content. And placing clear efforts on stealing (removing watermarks for example).
Long read, 3 parts. Entertaining and maddening. Lots of reference links.
With the ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI it’s good to boost awareness.
https://johancb.substack.com/p/sam-altman-and-the-sorcerers-stone
#DigitalEthics #AiEthics
Some tasks that are being handed over to automation should arguably never have been tasks in the first place. Or should at least be revised regularly. But instead of questioning and reinventing tasks, many will now be automated to run perpetually. And with no human involved, why would someone then question its validity?
I believe this is part of the non-intuitive aspect of AI and automation, that it will actually in many instances resist change rather than encourage it.
People will forget why that machine is running and worry that cutting its power will break something.
When, in fact, it might *free* something.
https://axbom.com/automation-change/
#AiEthics #DigitalEthics
Your regular reminder that tech should work FOR YOU, sure, but *also* not against those who are already underserved.
En del svårsmälta sommarprat hittills...
Av de fem jag lyssnat på hittills gillar jag Jessie Sommarströms mest, tätt följd av Axel Gordh Humlesjö - som var något av det svåraste jag lyssnat på.
Jag gör en ansats att lyssna på alla och betygsätta för mig själv. Hjälper mig att förstå vad jag värderar. Och kanske vågar jag utforska varför.
#sommar #SommariP1
FYI. If you have a micro.blog account you can import your Twitter archive there, giving you online access to all your tweets (videos not included).
https://help.micro.blog/t/importing-tweets/1677
@m I've been using Raindrop for a few years now. Absolutely love it.
It's also how I share my digital ethics links on a public page:
https://raindrop.io/axbom/digital-ethics-6334413
@m
Exactly. I know this is a sensitive topic in the design industry, but as I’ve always coded I know and appreciate the huge benefits of something that behaves like the final product.
And I don’t think all designers should be able to do this (but to at least understand the material they are working with), but my feeling is that the deep feature set of FIgma is becoming more akin to coding than designing. Which can be alright if it creates value that is not better achieved another way, it’s just a different type of profession. And I’m an old geezer trying to make sense of the world. 😅
@esbenrahbek Tack Esben!
@simeon This is fair. I think I'm mostly concerned about how much effort is put into high fidelity. I often do rough sketches with a pen, move stuff around, test, get feedback. Combinations of paper, digital whiteboards and Keynote (quirky I know, but also extremely fast). Then I head to HTML :)
I feel the learning curve for all of Figma's features is similar to the learning curve of learning HTML and CSS, but I do acknowledge there are collaboration benefits.
I know my process is far from "standard" 😅
As I'm reading about the ever-increasing complexity and feature-set of Figma I can't help but wonder if it wouldn't be easier if designers just learned HTML and CSS. There seems to be an awful lot of work going into creating the likeness of something (a web page) without it being that thing.
I am likely too grumpy about this.
Updated the "If a hammer was like AI"-poster with a better font and some tweaks to topic texts to make them less ambiguous.
The font is Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font designed for greater legibility and readability for low vision readers
PDF and PNG images available:
https://axbom.com/hammer-ai
#AIEthics #DigitalEthics
@steveportigal Oh wow I had no idea they were shutting down.
@ikt
Yeah, sorry about that. I honestly have a hard time writing about stuff like this but I feel like it will only be worse if it's ignored and/or not talked about.
Just published: Deepfake porn using any person on Instagram
When we can no longer control where our face appears, what happens to our perception of identity? The technology is constantly getting better in its deceptive quality, is more widely available and at ever lower costs. The porn industry is growing in all directions. As it stands, today everyone is a potential porn star against their own will.
https://axbom.com/deepfake-porn/
#AiEthics #DigitalEthics
@hperrin
Unibox is kinda like this. I used it for a while and really liked it. Can’t remember now why I stopped using it.
https://www.uniboxapp.com/
@Lyude
@fasterandworse
Thank you! I've honestly been bad at recognising this and bringing attention to it. So much taken for granted all the time.