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davidho.bsky.social
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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parismarx.com
As we talk about Microsoft and Amazon pulling back on data center projects, don’t ignore what’s happening in China, where “projects are failing, energy is being wasted, and data centers have become ‘distressed assets’ whose investors are keen to unload them at below-market rates.”
China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.
The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends.
www.technologyreview.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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pedalibre.bsky.social
Hoy es #1deMayo, una jornada para reivindicar avances y felicitar a todas las personas que, con su trabajo, hacen un mundo mejor
💪👏👏
#1Mayo2025
#DiaDelTrabajador
#DíaInternacionalDelTrabajo
May 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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jacquelyngill.bsky.social
“…The viral outrage disseminated on social media actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.”
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
March 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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rewhan.bsky.social
Always and forever,

Fuck Google.
uBlock Origin was turned off, because Google is shit from an ass that feeds almost exclusively off the parasitic internet advertising industry even as the bottom completely drops out of its profitability.
February 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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datasociety.bsky.social
A new paper finds that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use — which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.” www.404media.co/microsoft-st...
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
www.404media.co
February 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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tante.cc
"my gut feeling is that we need 0 innovation to tackle at least 90% of the problems that challenge our societies, us as individuals and mankind as a whole. We just need to grow up and start doing the actual work."

Innovation is a distraction
February 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
This multi-year, multi-country analysis shows that right-wing populist politicians spread more online misinfo than their mainstream counterparts and explains how “the rise of political misinformation is associated to the recent wave of radical-right populism.”

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of a paper in the International Journal of Press/Politics. Title: When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries. Authors: Petter Törnberg and Juliana Chueri. Abstract: The spread of misinformation has emerged as a global concern. Academic attention has recently shifted to emphasize the role of political elites as drivers of misinformation. Yet, little is known of the relationship between party politics and the spread of misinformation—in part due to a dearth of cross-national empirical data needed for comparative study. This article examines which parties are more likely to spread misinformation, by drawing on a comprehensive database of 32M tweets from parliamentarians in 26 countries, spanning 6years and several election periods. The dataset is combined with external databases such as Parlgov and V-Dem, linking the spread of misinformation to detailed information about political parties and cabinets, thus enabling a comparative politics approach to misinformation. Using multilevel analysis with random country intercepts, we find that radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Populism, left- wing populism, and right-wing politics are not linked to the spread of misinformation. These results suggest that political misinformation should be understood as part and parcel of the current wave of radical right populism, and its opposition to liberal democratic institution.
January 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
I keep warning you that generative "AI" is a threat to the processes of making & certifying knowledge & consensus reality, thus leading us to the verge of an epistemic & heuristic collapse of just catastrophic proportions but y'all keep slathering it on yourselves like it's butter & you're corncobs
December 26, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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bitsoffreedom.bsky.social
Onder het mom van de bescherming van de nationale veiligheid langdurig gegevens bewaren? 🙅‍♀️ In 2022 wisten we na een klacht de gegevens van vele burgers te bevrijden uit de handen van de geheime diensten!

Ter ere van onze 25ste verjaardag zetten we de hoogtepunten op een rij: 25.bitsoffreedom.nl! 🎉
Midden boven het jaartal '2022'. Groot daaronder de tekst: "We weten de gegevens van miljoenen burgers te bevrijden uit de handen van de geheime diensten." Met daaronder weer een afbeelding van een krantenknipsel wat zegt: "AIVD en MIVD moeten na klacht van Bits of Freedom vijf bulkdatasets vernietigen"
December 23, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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uglygame.bsky.social
This is such a profoundly unserious response to a genuine threat to democracy. The Labour party's persistent refusal to accept that we live in an era where the stakes are higher than its performance at the next general election amounts to negligence.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK
Government fears moves to curb any potential cash from the tech titan could backfire and play into Reform UK’s hands
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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danhf.bsky.social
In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.
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‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM