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Reading Onora O'neill's Reith lecture on Trust. As we increasingly are subjected to black box algorithms, I'm doing a bit of a refresh on literature and thinking about trust, transparency and judgement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1rm02PMKq8 #trust #ethics #technology #sts

The President’s Lecture: Onora O’Neill, Trust and Accountably in a Digital Age

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Zara B 2d ago

How exciting... still mysteries to be discovered in the archives... lost page of Archimedes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhvAmYLtvd0

Un chercheur du CNRS retrouve une page perdue d’Archimède… dans un musée français !

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Zara B 5d ago

Hello people working in Technology/STS/Politics/Policy does anyone have any info or links to people working in algoritmic governance? I'm thinking specifically of the Dutch Benefits scandal, Almost finished building a cool tool, keen to collaborate with people who are working in Tactical technology to opensource it etc... #governance #ai #audit #decision #sovereign

Zara B Mar 11

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Eugen Rochko Mar 10

Technology is not inevitable. We've decided not to have asbestos in our walls, lead in our pipes, or carginogenic chemicals in our food. (If you're going to argue that it's not everywhere, where would you rather live?) We could just not do LLMs. It's allowed.

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Zara B Mar 11

@cmconseils fern gully, millenial avatar?

Zara B Mar 11

Cyrielle Chatelain Mar 11

Oui, on peut se passer de Microsoft.

Contrairement à l’éducation nationale, la Direction générale des fiances publiques va passer de Windows vers Linux.

73 000 postes de la gendarmerie fonctionne déjà une version adaptée d'Ubuntu (Linux).

https://www.generation-nt.com/actualites/fisc-choisit-linux-abandonne-windows-2072130

L'administration fiscale dit non à Microsoft et choisit Linux !

GNT est le portail Hi-Tech français consacré aux nouvelles technologies (internet, logiciel, matériel, mobilité, entreprise) et au jeu vidéo PC et consoles.

Génération NT

Zara B Mar 2

Enjoying #smallprophets - Mackenzie Crook knows how to communicate the slow magic of the mundane and people, strangely normal and normally strange. #england #tv

Zara B Feb 27

Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad Feb 27

❓Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!

➡️We have published a report about enshittification, on how and why digital products and services keep getting worse - and how we can turn the trend (hint: open tech, enforcement, public policy++)

Obviously @pluralistic is a big inspiration and help in this work.

More than 80 groups in Europe and the US has joined in a call to action.

More here: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

Enjoy this short film!

Zara B Feb 24

Corey S Powell Feb 24

During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab.

https://news.agu.org/press-release/thunderstorms-conjure-ghostly-coronae-in-treetops-observed-outdoors-for-the-first-time/ #science #nature

Zara B Feb 21

Devine Lu Linvega Oct 27, 2023

We transcribed the Computing And Sustainability talk from Strange Loop, with all the slides and links to the mentioned materials.
https://100r.co/site/computing_and_sustainability.html

The President’s Lecture: Onora O’Neill, Trust and Accountably in a Digital Age

Un chercheur du CNRS retrouve une page perdue d’Archimède… dans un musée français !

L'administration fiscale dit non à Microsoft et choisit Linux !

100R — computing and sustainability