I'm committed to being anonymous. Because I feel that in today's digital universe where anyone can be anyone--or anything, transmitting the personal is unnecessary, even dangerous. Ideas and facts, tho, exist independently--who sends them doesn't really matter. It is the ideas, the facts, that have value (or perhaps no value at all~!) that count--or don't.
Please factcheck **EVERYTHING** before you adopt something into your mind as a truth.
Anyway, that's how it is. Thanks for reading.
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RE: https://mastodon.scot/@andrewducker/116611982336471563
I know why they're doing this, I agree with their objectives (curing invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases), but even so I am adamantly of the opinion that for-profit research using this methodology should be illegal. Moral intuition calls them corpse molestors even though it's for a good and socially useful goal.
„These messages, repeated across boardrooms, keynotes, and manifestos, have been consistent: AI is happening, AI cannot be stopped, and anyone who thinks otherwise is naive at best and dangerous at worst.
Challenging this inevitability is the animating premise behind the AI Resist List, which launched yesterday as a collaboratively built, publicly accessible database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry from across the world.“
@petramolnar:
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-world-is-already-resisting-ai-now-there-is-a-list-to-prove-it/
In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.
While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.
Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.
This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.
If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.
"There's a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it," writes Samantha Michaels for @motherjonesmag. Her story explains why, and what community members are doing about it.
I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this.
The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg, so the Cabinet meetings will be held in their native lsnguage.
Imposing the #EnglishLanguage was a key component of the imperial project of Britishness. But the tide has turned. 💚 🏴
Google CEO tries to tell University students to love AI. They tell him to BOO off.
It is good to see kids are saying no and fighting back. Do you know why? Because the future of bots, AI and robots doesn't offer any jobs to these young kids. They know greedy AI companies want to get rid of working class. It is simple as that.
For those who wish to read instead of the clip. See BBC page: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pqd54qneo
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