marcoz

@marcoz@vis.social
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51 Following
20 Posts
Engineer with background in energy, environment and risk.
Firm believer in facts and science.
Continuous learner in R, python and Power BI.
Netzfund
1984 / 2025
@justinling
That's 'kind of' what they claim to be doing, but I'm not really convinced that will work.
@racheltobac
Not sure whether they falsely assume Switzerland to be part of the EU or are just too lazy, but I can't see the option.
@adfichter , do you know more?
@justinling
Hard challenge by the Zurich Film Festival - they insist on showing the film even after having received lots of critique.

I wanted to consolidate a few thoughts on google, misinformation, large language models, enshittification, and the fate of the web as we know it.

It started when Carl Zimmer shared this remarkable example of Google being fooled by machine-generated bullshit online.

If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose

It’s time to tax vehicles for weighing too much—even if they’re electric.

Slate

@adamjkucharski

Why would anyone want to move from a platform owned and controlled by a fascitoid as*** to the platform owned by another data hungry billionaire control freak that does not even allow you to choose WHAT you see and IN WHICH ORDER?
So, my approach is to use Mastodon, while staying on the bird site as long as my preferred content providers are there. Should they move to Threads instead of Mastodon, hopefully interoperability will fill the gap.

@berlinbridge
Tell your security colleagues to come over or at least cross-post ...
@tonyvisualizes
And 590/600 will be ads 💩