Forest spring wildflower. A pop of light pink to brighten the evening.

#BloomScrolling #wildflowers

Anthony Howe is a kinetic sculptor who creates wind-driven sculptures resembling pulsing, alien creatures and vortices.

This one is in downtown Montreal.

It's National Library Week. We still care about your privacy at the library. The Library Freedom Project has a great set of resources to help you do things like:

- strip AI from your Gmail
- avoid digital scams
- understand Big Data
- reduce harm from doxxing
- using Signal as safely as possible

They're written in plain English and try to help you do things better acknowledging that there's no such thing as perfect privacy.

https://libraryfreedom.org/resources/

Knowingly using a piece of software that *BY DESIGN* fabricates text is not "hallucination" - it is fraud. I'd be prosecuted if I sat down and invented references for submissions in a court case. I'd lose my job as an academic if I did the same for a paper. Someone explain why automating fraud has somehow made it completely fine and consequence-free?

The very tiny remaining few of us who still give a crap about "not lying" need to fight to bring back real consequences for fraud, fabrication

Your doctor or therapist might be using AI recording to transcribe your patient notes. Two privacy experts have nine good reasons why you should decline and opt-out.

Some words by me: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/why-your-doctors-ai-recorder-can-be-bad-for-your-health-and-privacy/