Eva
@wildwebgrove.bsky.social
Being human in digital spaces. Writes about the web, design, work and psychology.
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For the sake of simplifying my life I will no longer be using this account. If you want to follow me for professional reasons you can find me on LinkedIn, for personal and artistic endeavors you can follow @evaemiel.bsky.social ✨ Bye!
May 17, 2024 at 11:45 AM
For the sake of simplifying my life I will no longer be using this account. If you want to follow me for professional reasons you can find me on LinkedIn, for personal and artistic endeavors you can follow @evaemiel.bsky.social ✨ Bye!
For the sake of simplifying my life I will no longer be using this account. If you want to follow me for professional reasons you can find me on LinkedIn, for personal and artistic endeavors you can follow @evaemiel.bsky.social ✨ Bye!
May 17, 2024 at 11:45 AM
For the sake of simplifying my life I will no longer be using this account. If you want to follow me for professional reasons you can find me on LinkedIn, for personal and artistic endeavors you can follow @evaemiel.bsky.social ✨ Bye!
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The twist of the knife -
the mandatory embedding of AI in every product making the product not only unusable (see: Google search) but also an environmental disaster.
When there's no way to use the product without being complicit in that disaster, the choice is easy.
the mandatory embedding of AI in every product making the product not only unusable (see: Google search) but also an environmental disaster.
When there's no way to use the product without being complicit in that disaster, the choice is easy.
Current estimates say that every prompt you give a generative "AI" system— not each session, every PROMPT— is like pouring a 16 oz bottle of water onto the ground.
This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified
This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified
Annoyed by articles that go into great detail about what companies say they're doing with so-called "A.I." but do not ask what companies are doing about the technology's ecological impact.
May 5, 2024 at 4:57 PM
The twist of the knife -
the mandatory embedding of AI in every product making the product not only unusable (see: Google search) but also an environmental disaster.
When there's no way to use the product without being complicit in that disaster, the choice is easy.
the mandatory embedding of AI in every product making the product not only unusable (see: Google search) but also an environmental disaster.
When there's no way to use the product without being complicit in that disaster, the choice is easy.
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in any other year, this would have been the biggest tech policy news of the month, maybe the year www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24...
Net neutrality is about to make a comeback
The FCC will soon vote to restore net neutrality rules.
www.theverge.com
April 24, 2024 at 7:30 PM
in any other year, this would have been the biggest tech policy news of the month, maybe the year www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24...
Imagine needing support and to prove you're human or whatever you have to fill in 7 (!) of these things.
Can you guess which platform this is from?
Can you guess which platform this is from?
April 24, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Imagine needing support and to prove you're human or whatever you have to fill in 7 (!) of these things.
Can you guess which platform this is from?
Can you guess which platform this is from?
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what if instead of putting "AI" in everything, we built stuff with really good, accurate, intuitive search functions
signed, a woman simply trying to find one email
signed, a woman simply trying to find one email
April 23, 2024 at 9:58 PM
what if instead of putting "AI" in everything, we built stuff with really good, accurate, intuitive search functions
signed, a woman simply trying to find one email
signed, a woman simply trying to find one email
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“In recent months the hype around generative AI has created exciting new opportunities for people to mask workaday human labor under a shiny, PR-friendly veneer of fauxtomation.”
(Pretty sure it was Astra Taylor who coined the term, but article doesn’t give attribution)
(Pretty sure it was Astra Taylor who coined the term, but article doesn’t give attribution)
Is There a Human Hiding behind That Robot or AI?
When human labor is hidden under the veneer of a robot or AI tool, that’s “fauxtomation”
www.scientificamerican.com
April 23, 2024 at 12:21 PM
“In recent months the hype around generative AI has created exciting new opportunities for people to mask workaday human labor under a shiny, PR-friendly veneer of fauxtomation.”
(Pretty sure it was Astra Taylor who coined the term, but article doesn’t give attribution)
(Pretty sure it was Astra Taylor who coined the term, but article doesn’t give attribution)
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Good user experience is when you make people download an app and create an account before they can get the thing that they actually want. That way you can delight users with the smooth animations and refined typography of the app.
April 22, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Good user experience is when you make people download an app and create an account before they can get the thing that they actually want. That way you can delight users with the smooth animations and refined typography of the app.
It sure would be nice to sometimes get a window of time where we can discuss how to somewhat improve things instead of having to constantly warn people about whatever the (tech) bamboozle of the day is.
April 13, 2024 at 8:00 PM
It sure would be nice to sometimes get a window of time where we can discuss how to somewhat improve things instead of having to constantly warn people about whatever the (tech) bamboozle of the day is.
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The reason we need liberal arts education is so that engineers don’t say things like “we’ll just make sure the computer can look up the truth”
No big deal, just identify an authoritative source of truth for literally every possible question. Surely that can’t be hard.
April 12, 2024 at 7:09 PM
The reason we need liberal arts education is so that engineers don’t say things like “we’ll just make sure the computer can look up the truth”
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Was at a talk once where a speaker said that the fastest way to fix all of this without mass realignment of society was to simply pay exec bonuses only once a decade instead of annually and the further we get from that talk the more bang on the nose it seems
seeing more and more websites post about how all of their traffic is tanking because google is letting chum sites win the search war, and what they don't take goes to google's stolen generated "native" content, and it's just like, god, business people ruined everything so badly and were so stupid
April 8, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Was at a talk once where a speaker said that the fastest way to fix all of this without mass realignment of society was to simply pay exec bonuses only once a decade instead of annually and the further we get from that talk the more bang on the nose it seems
The whole Facebook link suppression issue once again highlights that we need to be careful not to fall into conspiracy thinking when the explanation "the system benefits from protecting the system" is often the most obvious and adequate explanation as to why bad things happen.
April 8, 2024 at 8:44 AM
The whole Facebook link suppression issue once again highlights that we need to be careful not to fall into conspiracy thinking when the explanation "the system benefits from protecting the system" is often the most obvious and adequate explanation as to why bad things happen.
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People are disbelieving this, but it's absolutely a plausible explanation of a thing that happens all the time. Here's what I guarantee happened:
Meta says “a bug” caused them to rapidly, throughout the entire Meta network, block every website that contained a link to an article about their suppression of climate change ads and posts.
That’s one hell of a specific bug.
That’s one hell of a specific bug.
WTF? Meta Cancels LGF #blogpost
April 7, 2024 at 7:55 PM
People are disbelieving this, but it's absolutely a plausible explanation of a thing that happens all the time. Here's what I guarantee happened:
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This is why CEOs love ChatGPT. It promises to be a reliable, trustworthy expert they can consult to look smart and make good decisions.
But they don't know enough to know it's all bullshit.
But they don't know enough to know it's all bullshit.
The further you get from the trenches the less you know what you're actually talking about it's a structural problem in this complex society that doesn't get talked about enough
tbh it feels as if "being in the c suite" is an anti-credential at this point. like it makes ppl self-righteous, meaner, dumber, more destructive
April 5, 2024 at 2:24 PM
This is why CEOs love ChatGPT. It promises to be a reliable, trustworthy expert they can consult to look smart and make good decisions.
But they don't know enough to know it's all bullshit.
But they don't know enough to know it's all bullshit.
That whole "the thinking happens when you write" is some kind of confusing magic trick. The process is like stuffing random thoughts in a top hat and pulling out a bunny, but you could've sworn you put in a pigeon.
April 5, 2024 at 1:59 PM
That whole "the thinking happens when you write" is some kind of confusing magic trick. The process is like stuffing random thoughts in a top hat and pulling out a bunny, but you could've sworn you put in a pigeon.
Someone should make a cute little PSA that using AI generated images for your social media/blog posts is super obvious and lame actually.
March 26, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Someone should make a cute little PSA that using AI generated images for your social media/blog posts is super obvious and lame actually.
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I’ve been musing how everything that once looked like technology has been taken over by people blinded by anti-systems systems thinking. They can create highly intricate closed systems but are unable to conceptualize how those systems are embedded in and influence larger systems via feedback
For a while now Google has sought to keep users on Google rather than clicking links off it, and now they're planning to AI-turbocharge this. But surely if all the sites it draws data from stop getting clicks, become unviable and disappear, the whole thing's fucked? www.theverge.com/2024/3/19/24...
Google has a new head of Search — and she’s all in on AI
The AI folks are starting to take over the Search team at Google.
www.theverge.com
March 21, 2024 at 1:38 AM
I’ve been musing how everything that once looked like technology has been taken over by people blinded by anti-systems systems thinking. They can create highly intricate closed systems but are unable to conceptualize how those systems are embedded in and influence larger systems via feedback
For anyone struggling with hypervigilance I really recommend watching this video. It's what I learned in therapy and here it all is for free!
(also, if you think this sounds 'too easy', let me tell you: it isn't)
(also, if you think this sounds 'too easy', let me tell you: it isn't)
The Essential Skill to Regulate Your Nervous System - Relaxed Vigilance vs. Hypervigilance 21/30
This is Day 21 from my online course Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Buy the full course here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskillsThis ...
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March 21, 2024 at 12:35 PM
For anyone struggling with hypervigilance I really recommend watching this video. It's what I learned in therapy and here it all is for free!
(also, if you think this sounds 'too easy', let me tell you: it isn't)
(also, if you think this sounds 'too easy', let me tell you: it isn't)
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“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.” — @boriscrito.bsky.social
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
March 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.” — @boriscrito.bsky.social
One of the funniest things when reading advice in how to be more consistent in your efforts is that the first step is always: do X things every day.
Which...you know...is the actual problem for so many people.
Which...you know...is the actual problem for so many people.
March 15, 2024 at 8:49 AM
One of the funniest things when reading advice in how to be more consistent in your efforts is that the first step is always: do X things every day.
Which...you know...is the actual problem for so many people.
Which...you know...is the actual problem for so many people.
The big web companies are eating themselves trying to become the only player in town to give you access to the internet, while quality information is drowned out by AI crap that plays the algorithms like a fiddle.
Recommended reading:
Recommended reading:
Are We Watching The Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected t...
www.wheresyoured.at
March 12, 2024 at 9:04 AM
The big web companies are eating themselves trying to become the only player in town to give you access to the internet, while quality information is drowned out by AI crap that plays the algorithms like a fiddle.
Recommended reading:
Recommended reading:
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The internet’s promise was always a libertarian fantasy, but there were still benefits to be had for most people.
As commercial pressures escalated, those benefits were slowly eroded and the drawbacks grew. Now generative AI could kill them altogether.
As commercial pressures escalated, those benefits were slowly eroded and the drawbacks grew. Now generative AI could kill them altogether.
The digital revolution has failed
The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.
disconnect.blog
March 8, 2024 at 3:34 PM
The internet’s promise was always a libertarian fantasy, but there were still benefits to be had for most people.
As commercial pressures escalated, those benefits were slowly eroded and the drawbacks grew. Now generative AI could kill them altogether.
As commercial pressures escalated, those benefits were slowly eroded and the drawbacks grew. Now generative AI could kill them altogether.