↪ Replying to @Cennydd
@Cennydd Inspirational. Thank you for this @Cennydd.
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As there was a lot of confusion today about whether the first #Teletubbies sun baby had her own baby or not, go here for the full story 🌞
Big hug!
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I love being a nerd and the fact that I can feel blessed writing in a notebook that looks like this.
Pictured: My Stranger Things notebook made to look like VHS cassette tape.
↪ Replying to @JesperBylund
@JesperBylund Well, I guess that’s part of it. But public interest can probably be managed in many ways and public ownership can be mismanaged, so it’s also transparency and discourse and education and co-creation with vulnerable groups.
@JesperBylund Honestly, the big point here is that I had not envisioned the huge infrastructural changes required by 5G. That distance covered by tower signals will be tiny compared to 4G.
New Twitter bio.
”Making tech safe and compassionate through reflective reasoning, human-considerate design, coaching and teaching.”
↪ Replying to @ruchowdh
@ruchowdh 😬 You make a plusgood point. Duckspeak and doublethink is strong here.
↪ Replying to @JesperBylund
@JesperBylund The infrastructural clutter that it brings can mean a huge backlash unless we address these issues with more transparency, including issues of energy efficiency, open access networks and risks of perpetuating inequities, i.e. who benefits first and who is set aside.
↪ Replying to @z_rose
@z_rose This reminds me of how I’ve historically heard Sweden be a good testing ground for corporate experiments (because of low population size), partly explaining why we are ahead in tech. Need to pursue that idea more.
2019 was the year everything was so fake we needed a new word for really, really fake.
#digitalethics #newspeak
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”Newspeak is to be spoken in staccato rhythm, using short-syllable words that are easy to pronounce, which generates speech that is physically automatic and intellectually unconscious, thereby diminishing the possibility of critical thought occurring to the speaker.” [Wikipedia]
And yes I’m aware Deepfake was coined in 2017. Newspeak was coined in 1949 though 🤪 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake
Ethical AI use crucial to winning consumer trust, study shows.
My take: This, however, requires that people truly understand what is going on. Availability of information does not necessarily imply behavior change. Climate crisis anyone?
#digitalethics scitecheuropa.eu/ethical-ai-use…
China’s government has given location-tracking watches to 17,000 children.
”Seventeen thousand students at 60 elementary schools in Guangzhou received fancy new gadgets for their wrists last week...”
#digitalethics technologyreview.com/f/613978/china…
”we must keep in mind that these advances are, in the end, only tools [and] only as good or as bad as the people programming, designing and using them. Without proper consideration for the consequences of their use, we risk something closer to a dystopia.” charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2019/07/16/wha…
5G ”will need a dense network of cellular base stations, much smaller and more numerous — perhaps 20 times as many as is required for 4G communications”
Do we know what we’re doing here? x.com/hypervisible/s…
”...barriers to internet access and quality of service in developing regions means unless there is an effort to develop the ICT infrastructures in those countries with low rates of connectivity, 5G could simply exacerbate existing digital inequalities.”
webfoundation.org/2019/04/5g-is-…
↪ Replying to @danbarker
@danbarker @lucyinglis The pin in this map shows the Alert settlement. 817 kilometres from the North pole.
↪ Replying to @MikeFernandezCA
@MikeFernandezCA @john_lam Well this was a terrifying tweet...
Anil giving great advice. x.com/anildash/statu…
Arctic heatwave in Alert, Canada, the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth. Temperatures have reached a record 21°C, far exceeding the region’s average July temperature highs of 6°C. Arctic heating up 3x faster than other parts of the planet. weforum.org/agenda/2019/07…
Can’t shake how aptly named that settlement is...
If you need a visual of where Alert is on a map, this is a good satellite photo. Alert is 817 km from the North Pole.
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