You are not stuck.

You are unstructured.

No system for your time.
No system for your money.
No system for your decisions.

So everything feels harder than it should.

Chaos will always feel like resistance.

But it is not resistance.
It is misalignment.

Build structure.

And watch how much of your “problems” disappear without force.

#Structure #Discipline #Systems #BuildBetterEveryDay

The "AI can replace most knowledge workers" narrative seems to ignore that many businesses are still using COBOL, Windows XP, and other things that arguably "should" have been replaced by now.

Yes, we've seen high-profile mass layoffs in favor of AI (and some reversing of those decisions), but those of us who worked on fixing code to mitigate Y2K problems know that business systems en masse don't turn on a dime for anything.

#ai #technology #systems

🧬 A quiet pattern in biology…

An amoeba eats by wrapping food in a membrane — forming a temporary internal compartment.

Sometimes, what gets engulfed doesn’t get digested… it stays.

That’s how symbiosis begins — the boundary is retained, and both persist.

And now we’re seeing viruses that don’t just enter cells —
they build their own compartments inside them.

Three different processes.

One underlying pattern:
Create a boundary inside a system… and the system changes.

From digestion
→ to cooperation
→ to control

Biology keeps reusing the same trick at different scales.

Maybe complexity doesn’t just evolve by adding new parts…

👉 maybe it evolves by adding new boundaries

#biology #evolution #systems #science #complexity

Most people are waiting for clarity before they act.

That is backwards.

Clarity is a result of action.

You move.
You test.
You adjust.

And the path sharpens.

Waiting feels safe.
But it is just delay with better branding.

Start before you are ready.

Refine as you go.

#Discipline #Action #Systems #BuildBetterEveryDay

AI Cafe #3: Their Machines, their Rules? - Legality, Rights and Accountability in Algorithmic Society // with Kristina Tica, Raphael Albert & Joaquín Santuber

servus clubraum, Thursday, March 26 at 06:00 PM GMT+1

AI Cafe #3
Their Machines, their Rules? - Legality, Rights and Accountability in Algorithmic Society
with Kristina Tica, Raphael Albert & Joaquín Santuber

This third appointment in the series of the AI Cafés looks at algorithms, machine learning and AI and their impact on personal data, as well as the responsibility over automatic decision making processes. The participants will address AI Act and Digital Omnibus, current attempts of european institutions to regulate the industry around AI and yet leave enough room for economic activity. Raphael Albert will discuss how generative models interfere with our fundamental right to digital privacy and whether the current legal framework on data protection provides sufficient protection against such interference. Kristina Tica and Joaquín Santuber will provide insights into understanding the concept of Human Oversight, as introduced in Article 14 of the EU AI Act. The critique of this act focuses on the ambiguity and limitations of human decision-making and agency in overseeing, controlling, and intervening in high-risk AI systems, which can affect fundamental rights. Her approach comes from media arts, where along Joaquín Santuber, they developed an interactive artwork HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT: THE OPS ROOM.

About
Kristina Tica is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, with most recent practice centred on the artistic and theoretical exploration of the aesthetics and ethics of machine learning applications in visual computational processes. Currently pursuing her practical and theoretical PhD research at the intersection of critical AI, computational image and its aesth-ethics, media theory and law, between the Department of Media Theory at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) Vienna and the Metaverse Lab [LIFT_C] at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. https://ticakristina.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ticakristina

Raphael Albert is a digital privacy professional, advocate, and activist based in Linz, Austria. Coming from a background in law and economics, he began working on privacy-related issues in 2018. Since then, he has worked in different settings and filled different roles. Of his many roles, he had always liked those the most which allowed him to share what he has learned about protecting our digital privacy with others. To focus on sharing knowledge and outreach, he started PRIVACY MINDED in 2023.

Joaquín Santuber is a lawyer and obtained his PhD in Design and IT-Systems from the Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Germany on the topic of designing for digital justice. As a research group lead of Metaverse Lab at the LIFT_C, JKU Linz, he works with art-based and design approaches to legality in digital environments, as well as critical approaches to public and judicial innovation.

*The AI Café is part of the cooperation “Critical digitization for art and culture / Theater Phoenix x servus.at”, which is realized within the project "KI im Theater Phönix"  funded through the program "KI in der Kunst und Kultur". During the project, database-supported, automated, and algorithmic processes in theater operations are being explored. The project combines a critical examination of AI systems with their actual application in daily workflows. Part of the project, “AI Café” – a public event series in which different experiences and approaches to AI in cultural production are collected and discussed.

Cover image © Daniela Zampieri / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

https://kulturkarte.servus.at/event/ai-cafe-3-their-machines-their-rules-legality-rights-and-accountability-in-algorithmic-society-with-kristina-tica-raphael-albert-and-joaquin-santuber

I'm at @ottawasystems tonight, listening to someone give a great overview of SpiderMonkey and all the components that go into it, along with what TC39 is and how it works. Great overview and I definitely learned some things.

#ottawa #systems