More leisure, better health outcomes, less inequality, less carbon emissions, all of which with broadly similar productivity: The EU can be proud of its development model, and the Trumpists (and European conservatives that echo them) should keep it down a bit

That's what really worries me. Not the cost of model training, but the lock-in that will start to happen when your personal assistant has a memory that lives in iCloud, or in your Google account, and sure you can go open source if you don't mind losing your whole second brain.

Els llibres no es poden traduir amb un clic! Per més que la caterva tecnològica ens ho vulgui fer creure.

Se trata de articular, desde el conflicto, saberes experimentales y tecnológicos, evitando que el conocimiento técnico se encierre en élites o instituciones que lo convierten en una herramienta de dominación. 🧠⚙️🚫

New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences

Ya existimos, somos los farmacéuticos. "Consulte a su farmacéutico" y todo eso.

Mónica NOOOOOOOOOO

When you think of money as "other people's labor", which it basically is, a lot of social institutions become very strange. For example, did you know that you can inherit millions of hours of other people's labor? Why.

“We must understand that we build our own narratives. If we don’t, the far right will monopolize the narratives, create myths, and we will spend our lives fact-checking while they write history.” “Therein lies the great opportunity of AI: It’s not an oracle, but a bridge to the unknown.”

Remember back during COVID, when there was a sudden influx of people applying for unemployment benefits? The New Jersey system crashed ... ... and governor blamed it on old COBOL systems Nope He was wrong the COBOL ran *fine* It was the newer web-site code that croaked 5/9

This piece reminds us of the real, practical value of media archaeology, which some have dismissed as a nostalgia-driven enterprise. It shows us the systems that could have been, that should’ve been, that embody different values, but which were sometimes out-marketed + monetized. More examples: …

Nuestros estudiantes no sólo aprenden sobre modelos de lenguaje, sino también sobre cómo usarlos de forma independiente y avanzando hacia mayor soberanía. Gracias siempre @nwolovick.bsky.social y CCAD UNC! supercomputo.unc.edu.ar/2025/01/03/c...

qué bueno conversar, repensar, sentir que entendemos un poco más, un poco mejor. Gracias por la invitación, y espero que está conversación de pie a muchas otras, no sólo nuestras :-D

Mañana voy a estar hablando de datos y privacidad en este foro en el Centro Cultural Córdoba. Todos invitados.