AI is not magic. Global data workers who are chronically underpaid & mistreated power AI's development.

In #MakeTechWork, Adrienne Williams and Krystal Kauffman explain how to advance equity for data workers.

https://designobserver.com/dotwenty/2023/timnit-gebru/40661

Looking back at temperatures over the last 3 months - find your location. Remarkable extent of warmth.

🟥 Warmer than average
🟦 Colder than average

Data information at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/. Code for the raw data at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/sources_v4/.

"Man wird das Gefühl nicht los, dass die Fokussierung auf spekulative, entfernte Zukünfte vor allem einen Zweck erfüllt: von den vielschichtigen, schwierig zu lösenden Gegenwartsproblemen abzulenken"

@ANosthoff und @fmaschewski über das "Doomsday-Marketing" der KI-Industrie, die Finanz- und Diskurs­macht rechter Tech-Bros und die ganz realen sozioökonomischen und gesellschaftlichen Risiken:
https://www.republik.ch/2023/10/11/apokalypse-als-businessmodell

I almost never write or talk about my religion, because it’s my internal creed & not part of some public brand. But today I’m breaking that tradition. I will not be silent.

My one request: If you’re going to comment on the piece, please actually read (or listen to) ALL of it. https://www.levernews.com/lever-time-the-fog-of-war-in-israel-and-palestine/

Last month observed highly anomalous temperatures across nearly all of #Antarctica - departures exceeding 5°C above/below the 1981-2010 reference period...

Data from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means?tab=overview