1frn0 @1frn0@post.lurk.org

I've used this reflection metaphor before and I think it's spot on. So-called "Artificial Iintelligence" is the result of collective (often unpaid) labor. It's a machine built by many people. The tendency to think of it as some sentient being is pure ideology

#fediverse, we really need to talk about #chatcontrol, the EU's next mass surveillance system. Long Thread below, with hints to skip over parts of if it's too long for you. Sources are in [brackets] & linked at the end. I tried to simplify a bit to keep the thread accessible for people without deep technical knowledge. I've packed a LOT of content into this thread - if you have trouble undestanding, it's probably my fault. Ask and I'll clarify! Please boost for awareness.

@thegibson I also think this is the most important part of the article:

Timnit Gebru, a prominent AI ethicist Google fired in 2020 (though the search giant claims she resigned), said the discussion over AI sentience risks “derailing” more important ethical conversations surrounding the use of artificial intelligence. “Instead of discussing the harms of these companies, the sexism, racism, AI colonialism, centralization of power, white man’s burden (building the good “AGI” [artificial general intelligence] to save us while what they do is exploit), spent the whole weekend discussing sentience,” she tweeted. “Derailing mission accomplished.”

Wrote a haiku today.

Summer heat flickers
Flowers bloom in asphalt cracks
Beautiful decay.

New libre #fonts #foundry, probably Valence students? #Peignot #Hershey 👀 Thx #stephvilayphiou
http://fonderiz.fr
#typography

Summarized my observations of a user interface design trend producing buttons that have users do work to reconfigure themselves instead of buttons triggering actions to reconfigure the system:

"Button Pushes You"

https://despens.systems/2022/05/button-pushes-you/

Modding Fridays is an online community of people interested to learn together about the maintenance, repurposing, and reappropriation of supposedly obsolete consumer electronics, for fun and profit. We see our interest as part of a broader conversation on post-digital culture, #permacomputing and repair culture.
https://moddingfridays.bleu255.com/Main_Page

#Google does not fund research groups if they'd work on software licensed under #AGPL.

Use the AGPL to incentivize people not to get funded by Google.

Some strange reversals have happened in interface design in the last few years. For instance, many of the buttons displayed on screen don't change the state of an application, but change the state of the user. Typical examples are of such buttons are labeled with "get started", "explore", or "see more", "launch experience", etc... These are basically links to other parts of an application and do not activate or change anything significant in the computer or for other users. They're more about making the user repeat a mantra, or change their attitude before they can access the next piece of information. Always reminds me of Mouchette's "Kill That Cat"

Autodesk & Coal Mining
http://autodesk.earth/

How does one deal with a (the) manager that insist your team sits in a specific spot (open landscape battery cages), and throws a tantrum when the entire team books a project room (regularly, like every obligatory office day) to work together unhindered, but plays out that tantrum towards the scrummaster and expects her to convince the team to return to the cages?

For context, my scrummaster is also a close friend and I was the one booking the project room. She now feels she's between hammer and anvil. Manager has not said anything to me in person.. officially I don't even know he threw a tantrum.

Any advice/boosts welcome \m/

Hé les 🇧🇪 et particulièrement les 🐓 (wallons) de : une proposition de loi d'origine citoyenne est soumis à signature, qui vise à mettre en place des critères clairs et permanent de régularisation des sans-papiers.

C'est le minimum d'humanité qu'on doit accorder à ceux qui vivent à nos côtés, mais sans droits. Non?

Ça se passe là: https://dekamer.mijnopinie.belgium.be/initiatives/i-603%20

Et on peut trouver plus d'info sur https://inmyname.be

Merci de re-pouetter si vous avez des Belges parmi vos contacts.

#introduction Hi ! I'm @Lime and I made this account to post jungle/dnb/hardcore tracks made on Amiga to share my love for these genres and this platform !

Starting off with 'Too Fast' by Celsius ⚡⚡⚡⚡

*reticulating splines*