Mastodawn

Sy May 25, 2023

Julian Oliver May 25, 2023

Worth mentioning that folk often assume climate change is the primary culprit of terrestrial extinction. While atmospheric warming is indeed a new stressor on the block, it is habitat loss & land change that is doing the most harm to the wild. And it so happens the primary driver of habitat loss is animal agriculture & its feedcrops (Living Planet Report, 2022).

In other words, the 6th Extinction event on our home planet cannot be averted wiithout changing what we eat, and how we produce it.

Sy Apr 11, 2023

Cling to what you won’t

And you will have it
I promise you

By and by your laying waste
Becomes a habit
And while you’re at it
It follows you

Spring ahead and hope to hell
A fool’ll chase it
You always do

Try and hide your saving grace
The silver bracelet
She gave to you

Drink to what you’ve lost
And paths mistaken
When you were free

If sorrow is what wisdom costs
Whose the fool?
Who was she?

Blink away a tear and bless
The heart you’ve broken

Cold and dry, a bitter taste
Has awoken
A memory
softly spoken
something sweet

Sy Mar 18, 2023

Dan Gillmor Mar 17, 2023

This superb article by @maria connects generative AI's tendency to make stuff up and present it as facts with Big Publishing's vile efforts to shut down libraries it can't control. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/internet-archive-publishers-lawsuit-chatbot/

Read it, please, to understand how dangerous the publishers' lawsuit against the invaluable Internet Archive really is.

(Perhaps unsurprisingly, Big Journalism has mostly ignored what's at stake.)

Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie

Or that they haven’t already started to pollute Google searches. And if publishers win their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, verifying facts and quotes will get a lot harder.

The Nation

Sy Feb 24, 2023