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Oerhört välformulerat. Tack.
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Baobab-trädet i Östafrika (det är Tanzania jag har minnen av dem från). Stammen är så mäktig.
Lyssnar du också på podden 'Det politiska spelet' och suckade högt när de nu berättade att de ska bli "exklusiva" i SR-appen?
Kom ihåg att du kan fortsätta lyssna via valfri app tack vare SR-restored. 🥳
sr-restored.se
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Reminded me of the bionic eyes that became obsolete.
There is precedent here with regards to prosthetics that are discontinued and/or become very expensive to maintain and upgrade.
Relevant thread on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/disability...
Det nya normala.
"Centerpartiet i Värmland publicerade en AI-genererad karta där flera kommuner hade fel gränser. Dessutom fanns det felaktiga uppgifter om att kommuner inte har en lokal polisstation, trots att de har det."
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/cent...
A reminder that Proton Meet exists as an alternative to all the surveillance-infested online meeting rooms most companies use.
The free version allows 60-minute meetings with 50 participants. I 'm a Proton Workspace user and get 100 participants as part of my subscription.
meet.proton.me
"An LGBTQ+ student searching for terms like "gender identity" […] can trigger a monitoring alert that routes to a teacher, administrator, or parent, inadvertently revealing the student's sexual orientation or gender identity before they are ready to share it."
School AI Monitoring Outs Students; Federal Accountability for Bias Ends
"Kristin Woelfel, policy counsel for equity in civic technology at the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology, cited this as a concrete example of a technically neutral system producing targeted, identity-specific harm."
To be clear, a product for surveillance is never 'neutral'.
When you aren't looking for the next sexy, time-saving, alluring, status-boosting, approval-seeking thing you become much harder to manipulate and push around. You gain back power. Just being in the present, satisfied, and impressed by the living, breathing Earth, is resistance.
Same! 😁
@judithflanders.co.uk: I have em-dashes in my writing that are older than Sam Altman.
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ALL energy sources are growing continuously. Oil, coal and gas are setting new records. We're not replacing anything… we're just increasing everything.
Graph 1 shows how graph 2 is misleading. It makes it look like fossil fuel output is decreasing, even as it is still increasing.
↩ Replying to @gilduran.com
I can't find the e-book on Kobo, only the audio version. Do you happen to know why this is? I'm confident I've bought other Simon & Schuster books there. Keen to read this!
I'm in Sweden, if that perhaps is a reason. Hmm, the problem does indeed seem to be Sweden 🧐
”Instead, he took out two long knitting needles. Between them dangled a mound of pink yarn. He explained to me that he was making a winter hat for a niece. And for the first time that morning, I noticed a glint of pride and excitement in his eyes.”
Page 13 in this week’s @thecontinent.org, with a report on the migrant crossing from Morocco into Ceuta that actually includes voices from people who were part of that crossing.
www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
→ The article explains the growing social media rumors and false information that triggered the events, and the complicated relationship between Spain, Morocco and Algeria - extending to the EU, USA, and Israel.
→ Extreme right voices in the EU used all this as fodder for anti-immigrant sentiments. And I’m said to say Sweden’s own prime minister Kristersson was an example of one of those voices, authoring an opinion piece with many unfounded claims and further fearmongering. Far from a uniting voice.
→ Meanwhile, at least 70 people died in that crossing. In other media I’ve seen numbers as high as 88. Thousands were injured.
I wanted to share a recent @tgspodcast.bsky.social episode that really resonated with me. I made an effort to find the website and was really saddened to see poor use of "AI"-generated images as episode illustrations. Here, two confusing left hands. It truly detracts from the dignity of the audio.
Unordinary Interventions: How to Plant Seeds for a Better Future - The Great Simplification
I wanted to share a recent @tgspodcast.bsky.social episode that really resonated with me. I made an effort to find the website and was really saddened to see poor use of "AI"-generated images as episode illustrations. Here, two confusing left hands. It truly detracts from the dignity of the audio.
Unordinary Interventions: How to Plant Seeds for a Better Future - The Great Simplification
Artist @davidrevoy.com is struggling with growing accusations of using "AI" in his artwork. Meanwhile, "AI" has been (without permission) training on his decades of art and illustrations being published online.
Also, the algorithm on Instagram started labeling his comic as "Likely made with AI".
Seven words / phrases that were first used in print during my birth year (1974), and that resonate with me.
- agony aunt
- CT scan
- digitizing tablet
- memory card
- non-player character
- solar park
- telecommute
via Merriam-Webster time traveler
↩ Replying to @xirclebox.com
Got it. Interesting about DMs. I wonder if that happened when I moved to Eurosky.
↩ Replying to @xirclebox.com
Oh, that's lovely to hear. It's a small handbook and I'd be happy to send you one and you just reimburse me for the postage - I have a bunch in a box that I bring to workshops.
The physical copy is really only available to order in Sweden/Nordics.
You can DM me your address.
”If we never did anything, we wouldn’t be anybody.”
– The character Jenny in the film ’An Education’; screenplay by Nick Horby
This quote just struck me as truly powerful. Perhaps especially in a context where there is a tendency to outsource the doing to machines.