Mastodawn

Det här är livsfarligt. Journalister på Finlands största tidning Helsingin Sanomat litade på en felaktig AI-sammanfattning av pressmeddelandet från Försvarsministeriet och publicerade en nyhet där det framgick att man skulle ha skjutit ner ryska drönare i Kouvola. Detta trots att drönarna inte var ryska och inte hade skjutits ner.
Ska man verkligen använda ett verktyg som hittar på falska nyheter?

https://www.hs.fi/paakirjoitukset/art-2000011912865.html

#journalistik #ai

Helsingin Sanomat julkaisi virheellistä tietoa drooneista – Taustalla tekoälyvirhe

HS julkaisi sunnuntaina Kouvolan drooneista virheellisen tiedon, jonka taustalla oli tekoälytyökalu, kirjoittaa HS:n vastaava päätoimittaja Erja Yläjärvi.

Helsingin Sanomat

Aslak Raanes 2h ago

Søren Have 2h ago

“Member States should refrain from taking measures that may increase fuel consumption”

… meaning: Don’t. Lower. Fuel. Taxes.

#dkpol #dkgreen #dktrp https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-urges-europeans-to-travel-less-to-avoid-spiraling-energy-costs/

Brussels says Europeans should consider traveling less to avoid energy shortages

It reflects growing fears in Europe that the Iran war is sparking an all-out global economic crisis.

POLITICO

Aslak Raanes 2h ago

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Ken McLeod 2h ago

@joe I much prefer the macOS software installer for fortified wine connoisseurs. That's right: MacPorts.

Aslak Raanes 3h ago

Niléane 3h ago

Big news!
I'm launching a tiny Mac app 🥺🔍🤏

It's called TinyStart, and it's a lightweight Launcher and Emoji picker for macOS!

Unlike Spotlight, TinyStart is super fast at showing results and launching apps. It never becomes overcrowded with search results you don't need, and it lets you open URLs, perform web searches with custom search engines, and quickly open folders in Finder.

Oh and yes, I think the Emoji picker is pretty good too. It's everything the default macOS Emoji picker isn't: it's fast, it lets you insert Emojis in any text field, it isn't picky about keywords, and it learns your favorite Emojis over time.

Get TinyStart at https://tinystart.app: it's €5, you pay for it once and future updates are free!

also I made a lil' video to show you what it looks like:

Aslak Raanes 3h ago

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Christine Lemmer-Webber 3h ago

"Over 1.5 million GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot's coding agent" https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/

Microsoft rolled it back and used the most weasel'y wording language imagineable to say they did so https://twitter.com/martinwoodward/status/2038612131084464521

> We've disabled it already. Basically it was giving product tips which was kinda ok on Copilot originated PR's but then when we added the ability to have Copilot work on _any_ PR by mentioning it the behaviour became icky. Disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback.

"product tips" lmao

Aslak Raanes 3h ago

Tara Tarakiyee 2d ago

Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about what happens when a Black feminist theorist's words get borrowed, stripped of context, and made to do work they were never meant to do.

https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/ #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy

On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse

🖼️Cover Photo: Train at the Nairobi terminus of the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. It runs parallel to the Uganda Railway that was completed in 1901. The first fare-paying passengers boarded the "Madaraka Express" on Madaraka Day (1 June 2017), the 54th anniversary of Kenya's attainment of self-rule from Great

Do Flamingos Know They're Pink

Aslak Raanes 3h ago