⚠️ ALL IS NOT LOST ⚠️

The news cycle is tremendously disheartening. Wildfires, the spread of climate disinformation in real time, genocides, the rise of the far right, removing fact checking and supports that protect vulnerable communities - it’s heavy.

We have a formidable amount of obstacles in our way.

But don’t lose sight of the fact that it isn’t too late.

Every fraction of action matters - and it’s not over yet.

#ClimateAction

I have never considered the design of #DB 's official #ICE and #IC network map convincing. This was my motivation to create my own 🇩🇪 long-distance rail map a few years ago. It focuses more on systematic connections and their frequencies for better understanding rather than just showing every line.

The 2024 map is finally online 🥳
https://larstransportmaps.com/germany-2024/

Boost appreciated.

Official Map: https://assets.static-bahn.de/dam/jcr:a2ed983a-36e1-4533-a4ee-8b85daf684c2/231127_Liniennetz%20ICE%20IC%202024.pdf

WOPR [“WarGames” (1983)]: “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”

OpenAI GPT-4 [2023]: “Yee-haw! Nuke ‘em till they glow!”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2415488-ai-chatbots-tend-to-choose-violence-and-nuclear-strikes-in-wargames/

#LLMs #AI #chatbots #GlobalThermoclearWar #war

When I use generative "AI" it invariably contains mistakes. That's just reality at the moment.

So when I see company after company adding AI to every product in sight, I now assume that all of those products are "creating" flawed results, by design.

This is crazy. (Google search is, maybe not coincidentally, crappier than ever.)

We need a whole genre of products that don't contain AI. Maybe they, too, are irredeemably flawed, but at least we'll know the mistakes aren't a design decision.