Marietta

@lemarietta
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Citizen Participation | Urban Studies | Government Digital. SPURS / Hubert H. Humphrey research fellow at @MITdusp.

Really strong start of #FOSDEM by @RichiH 🔥 The main room is filled to the brim.

Find Richard's slides and a video recording here: https://github.com/RichiH/talks/tree/main/2026/01-FOSDEM/2026-01-31--FOSDEM_2025-Opening_keynote

Chrome can now automatically summarize news articles with AI, no extensions needed: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/15/23833045/google-artificial-intelligence-summary-chrome-sge
Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI

Google’s latest generative AI tool is an experiment in Chrome called “SGE while browsing” that uses generative AI to create summaries and lists of key points in articles as you read, available starting today in Android and iOS.

The Verge

"The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived.

The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable.

Humanity has unleashed destruction. This must not inspire despair, but action."

— United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

Beautiful storytelling about the war in Ukraine. A short film about the 11th special brigade of army aviation. It will break your heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDjDbgjE2A
CHERUBS. The First Novel.

Документальний проєкт ВАРТА представляє першу короткометражну новелу ХЕРУВИМИПерша серія «ХЕРУВИМИ» про героїв 11-ї окремої бригади армійської авіації «Херсо...

YouTube
My impression is that most people stayed on the birdsite, and even though there are a lot more people here than there were before, now I have to regularly check two platforms.

Great new profile of @timnitGebru in the Guardian.

“I’m not worried about machines taking over the world; I’m worried about groupthink, insularity and arrogance in the AI community.”

Was how she put it all the way back in 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/22/there-was-all-sorts-of-toxic-behaviour-timnit-gebru-on-her-sacking-by-google-ais-dangers-and-big-techs-biases?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases

The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI. But after decades working with technology companies, she knows all too much about discrimination

The Guardian
CO2.js is an open-source JavaScript library that enables developers to estimate the carbon emissions produced by transferring bytes of data on the internet
https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/curious-about-driving-the-transition-to-a-fossil-free-internet-heres-how-co2-js-can-help/
Curious about driving the transition to a fossil-free internet? Here’s how CO2.js can help.

This article will explain the concepts behind CO2.js, it’s uses, and when other tools might be better options to consider.

The Green Web Foundation
I'm curious, are there any Art of Hosting folks here on the fediverse?
Unpopular opinion, how come a tv show that popularizes road rage with SUVs is the thing to watch on TV?
DAIR-Tube

PeerTube: an ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.