Mastodawn

⠠⠵ avuko 10h ago

Just sharing this song.

Because it is the time of the year, it is a song from my youth, and its beautiful and meaningful.

https://youtu.be/OLHxxBTl71I

Joni Mitchell — River

#JoniMitchell #SongInMyHead

Joni Mitchell - River (Official Music Video)

YouTube

⠠⠵ avuko 10h ago

The Ableism Isn't Subtle

Let's be absolutely clear about what's happening here: AI detection tools are encoding neurotypical communication patterns as the definition of "human" and flagging anything that deviates as suspicious. This is textbook ableism – taking the dominant neurotype as the baseline and treating neurodivergence as aberrant.

https://blog.ewancroft.uk/3m6njxcynds2n

By https://bsky.app/profile/ewancroft.uk

#AI #ableism #neurodiversity #AIDetection

An Autistic Silver Bullet - Ewan’s Blog

No, I’m not AI. I just write like that.

⠠⠵ avuko 16h ago

Primo Natura 17h ago

"Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover"

#Cambodia #Environment #Oceans

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/seafloor-survey-in-cambodia-finds-simple-anti-trawling-blocks-help-seagrass-recover/

Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover

A recent study provides the first detailed map of Cambodia’s coastal seafloor habitats and finds that simple, low-cost anti-trawling structures are helping seagrass meadows recover and support small-scale fishers in the Kep Marine Fisheries Management Area in the Gulf of Thailand. The study was published in Frontiers in Marine Science by researchers from Marine Conservation […]

Conservation news

⠠⠵ avuko 20h ago

The one thing AI is proving us, is that even when we use up all the energy and water and compute and storage and RAM in the world, feeding this giant machine every datapoint we’ve ever made, a computer will never have even a single moment of consciousness, let alone show the hint of a glimmer of the faintest spark of intelligence.

A single paramecium cell does better in all regards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramecium

Because consciousness is not a computation just like a body is not a machine.

A shame we have to destroy the world to proof this simple fact, but a good realisation nonetheless.

#genAI #AI #LLM #OpenAi #ArtificalIntelligence

Paramecium - Wikipedia

⠠⠵ avuko 2d ago

LibreWolf 6d ago

As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.

⠠⠵ avuko 3d ago

Colin M 4d ago

Going to start referring to people bringing ai “art” etc where it’s not wanted, as Sloperatives.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/merriam-websters-word-of-the-year-for-2025-is-ais-slop

Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2025 is AI 'slop'

"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

PBS News

⠠⠵ avuko 3d ago

Digitale Overheid (geautomatiseerd account)3d ago

Onderzoeksrapport over cyberlandschap van gemeenten

Er is een onderzoeksrapport gepubliceerd over het cyberlandschap binnen gemeentegrenzen. Dit rapport is samen met een brief aan de Tweede Kamer aangeboden. Het schetst een beeld van de uitdagingen voor gemeenten op gebied van digitale veiligheid. En laat zien hoe verantwoordelijkheden en rollen binnen gemeenten zijn verdeeld.

Wat zijn de opgaven?

De analyse maakt duidelijk dat digitale incidenten zich anders ontwikkelen dan fysieke incidenten. Het gaat sneller, grensoverschrijdend en is minder zichtbaar. Het rapport ordent de complexe opgaven rondom digitale veiligheid in 4 aandachtsgebieden voor gemeenten:

de interne digitale veiligheid;

ontwrichting binnen gemeentegrenzen als gevolg van een cyberincident;

cybercrime en gedigitaliseerde criminaliteit;

online aangejaagde openbare-ordeverstoringen.

Overzicht

Het onderzoek geeft hiermee een overzicht van waar gemeenten mee te maken hebben als het gaat om digitale veiligheid. Dit maakt het mogelijk om gerichter te kijken naar waar de digitale veiligheid van gemeenten beter kan. Bijvoorbeeld waar extra bijsturing op nodig is. De inzichten uit het rapport vormen een basis voor de verdere gezamenlijke aanpak richting een digitaal veilig lokaal bestuur.

Hoe nu verder?

Samen met het rapport is een brief aan de Tweede Kamer verstuurd. Daarin staat uitgewerkt welke acties er vanuit het Rijk en de gemeenten op dit moment al lopen. Ook staat erin beschreven wat de inzet is voor de komende tijd.

Bekijk het rapport en de Kamerbrief via de website van de Rijksoverheid.

Dit is een automatisch geplaatst bericht. Vragen of opmerkingen kun je richten aan @DigitaleOverheid@social.overheid.nl

#cybersecurity #digitaleVeiligheid

⠠⠵ avuko 4d ago

Chuck Darwin 5d ago

"Round- tripping" money has become the coin of the realm in the AI boom.

In September, AI chip king Nvidia announced it would invest
$100 billion in OpenAI, the start-up behind the wildly popular ChatGPT.

OpenAI promptly unveiled massive investments in SoftBank and Oracle, which are building gargantuan data centers that run on, you guessed it, Nvidia chips.

In other words, Nvidia helped to finance the purchase of its own products by investing, directly and indirectly, in its customers
— a perfectly legal, if concerning, round trip of capital.
 The concern is that demand for AI’s new products might never catch up with the capacity the industry is building.

That’s essentially what brought low so many internet companies a generation ago.

In some dot-com-era cases, individuals authorized payments and counter-payments intended to bid up the value of two companies
-- not to conduct legitimate business.

Executives, notably some who worked for and with the former media giant AOL Time Warner Inc., got into serious legal trouble over this.

There was simply too much capital chasing too few good start-ups
— and not enough customers to keep them all afloat.
 
What typically happens at this stage of a speculative boom over a justifiably exciting technology is that
some investors begin to fret,
which is inevitably followed by
"stay-the-course, this-time-is-different" tut-tutting
from market professionals whose livelihoods are predicated on the party continuing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/08/ai-boom-investment-circular-dot-com-bubble/

‘Circularity’ is a flashing warning for the AI boom

Wall Street’s buzzword for investors was known as “round-tripping” during the dot-com years.

The Washington Post

⠠⠵ avuko 4d ago

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱4d ago

ok folks, here's your assignment: when this #solarpunk show comes to Netflix on Wed (Dec 17th), WATCH IT... or at least turn on Netflix and let it run in background.

GET THOSE VIEWS, baby! Let's signal to Netflix we want more of this!

https://solarpunkstories.substack.com/p/the-most-solarpunk-tv-show-youve