“I would say we will quickly lose even the social permission to actually take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens, if these tokens are not improving health outcomes, education outcomes, public sector efficiency, private sector competitiveness […]

I have been picking plastic on the beach this week. Every time I find a bottle cap with 'Please recycle me' written on it, the cap is writing side up. I think the sea may have a playful sense of #irony.

#hive mind : anyone use #shouroushplus #rubika #eiraa or another app on Message Exchange Bus #mxb? I am curious to know if - once you have the app and an account - it allows (presumably heavily surveiled) cross-border communication with #iran (as #wechat does with China).

Presumably the #danes are going to make a prior claim to #vinland at some point?

"Earlier on X, [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei said ..." Normally I relish a bit of irony, but this is just painful. But also, how can a country go for the #ironcurtain version of #digitalsovereignty and not have the technical and political competence to #selfhost a blog in order to make press […]

UK has awarded contracts for over 8GW of offshore wind power. Which is awesome. More of this please. I notice in the article "The awarded capacity will power the equivalent of almost 10 million homes." Or 3 large AI data centres. Which puts into perspective just how much energy these […]

Look, if you are interested in #digitalsovereignty it is important to realise that the #iran #internetblackout is not really that. It is not the sort of damaging loss of services we have seen recently with #crowdstrike or #cloudflare. The National Information Network of Iran or #iranianintranet […]

If you or someone you know can't afford an Internet connection, get in touch with the National Databank. They provide free SIMs for people who are eligible. https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/our-services/national-databank

I am only one But still I am one. I cannot do everything But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do. E. E. Hale 1822-1909

#patience on Channel 4 is great TV and Ella Maisy Purvis is a fantastic actor. But - and this has to be said - it is #neurodiversity porn. It is the representation of #autism as acceptable, even endearing, to others. It is taking an unrealistically cute, secure, and comfortable version of their […]

If anyone has a way of connecting with peopl ein #Iran right now, please download and send the the #Briar @briar#iran#briarPK. Briar is a #peertopeer secure #e2ee messaging app which can work without internet connectivity (using Bluetooth and local wireless networks). It is designed for exactly teh […]

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." — George Orwell

I succumbed to the temptation to continue my conversation with Gemini impersonating Sydney. Some reflections and a full transcript in this post. tl;dr - It refused to help crime but was happy to give practical advice on emotional manipulation techniques. Yuck. #ai #aiethics #aiharms […]

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy! If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from […]

I succumbed to the temptation to continue my conversation with Gemini impersonating Sydney. Some reflections and a full transcript in this post. tl;dr - It refused to help crime but was happy to give practical advice on emotional manipulation techniques. Yuck. #ai #aiethics #aiharms […]

"LLMs learn the same way a person does, it's not plagiarism" This is a popular self-justification in the art-plagiarist community. It's frustrating to read because it's philosophically incoherent but making the philosophical argument is annoyingly difficult, particularly if your interlocutor […]

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To all those saying "but if our government spoke out, there might be consequences", please remember that not speaking out also has consequences. The history of appeasement is not a reassuring one.

I was annoyed by a recent AI ethics paper claiming AI chatbots can 'gossip' and this is harmful in special ways. Of course they can't. tl;dr - if you don't look carefully at the context, especially the prompts, before interpreting the output of an LLM, you won't know what it is simulating (and […]

I was annoyed by a recent AI ethics paper claiming AI chatbots can 'gossip' and this is harmful in special ways. Of course they can't. tl;dr - if you don't look carefully at the context, especially the prompts, before interpreting the output of an LLM, you won't know what it is simulating (and […]

@futurebird Even unorganized groups can have central figures that connect together sets of people. There was a humorous, but technically correct, piece by Kieran Healy with an example from the time of the American Revolution. It was written to explain how governments use metadata to build org […]

OK, I'm starting early, but I want to make this *a thing* in #2026. So 🌟 for anyone one who knows what it is.

Time for #hivemind : I have been using #standardnotes for years and feel it is time to check out some alternatives to see whether I should go on paying for it. I don't mind paying, just want to make sure I am paying for the tool that works best for me (and Standard Notes feels expensive) […]

OK, I'm starting early, but I want to make this *a thing* in #2026. So 🌟 for anyone one who knows what it is.

A few years ago I read an article which said someone had submitted their tax return on Christmas Day. #challengeaccepted and today, #challengecompleted Yeah, I had to be that guy.

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]

Have I misunderstood the #australia #socialmediaban? If it is *accounts* not *access* which is age-gated, surely platforms can just change their apps to carry on working without the user logging in to the account? They can easily reidentify users by device fingerprinting so 90% of functionality […]

Am I the only one to see the #irony here? By inviting readers to share via social media, you encourage the habit of getting news via social media, rather than directly from the source, and thus create the conditions for the spread of #misinformation […] [Original post on dair-community.social]

Today's mood #climateemergency #capitalism #fascism #aihype

There is so much that is truly terrible about this as a piece of journalism, but I am going to set that aside to focus on the latest, utterly mind-bending, move in the project of forcing AI on an unwilling world: it is like a highly infectious virus. i. e. Some sort of natural phenomenon […]

Today someone I know slightly was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and sent to a high security facility. Their crime was disrupting traffic - they and others climbed a gantry on the M25, the major orbital round London, to drop banners protesting at government inaction in climate change. If a […]

I am generally a fan of #HIGNFY but tonight's episode felt nasty and left a bad taste. Mainly because of the 'romantic poetry' question, but also a few other points where the joke was based or an assumption of racial or cultural superiority. The saving grace - literally I guess - was Richard […]

"Oops, I've deleted the Internet again." #cloudflare

I attended the #techuk #digitalethicssummit yesterday and had a few thoughts. tl;dr - for 'leaders', AI adoption has become a moral project #ai #aiethics #hegemony #growth https://listed.to/@24601/67774/digital-ethics-summit-2025-trust-risk-and-blame

I attended the #techuk #digitalethicssummit yesterday and had a few thoughts. tl;dr - for 'leaders', AI adoption has become a moral project #ai #aiethics #hegemony #growth https://listed.to/@24601/67774/digital-ethics-summit-2025-trust-risk-and-blame

https://microsoft.ai/news/towards-humanist-superintelligence/ I *wanted* to like this because I agree that the future of #ai, what will be left when the #aibubble bursts, is problem-oriented and domain-specific. BUT a manifesto for Humanist Superintelligence ought to have had some input from […]

tl;dr - the only effective digital sovereignty is digital socialism https://listed.to/@24601/67437/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-socialism

tl;dr - the only effective digital sovereignty is digital socialism https://listed.to/@24601/67437/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-socialism

There is much in this to be alarmed about if you use #whatsapp, but what shocked me most was that Nitin Gupta, VP of engineering at WhatsApp described the data scraped as "publicly available". It was name, phone number, and profile image/text. So now we know #meta regard that as *not private […]

Has anyone looked at doing large scale newsletter type distribution over signal (not admin-only groups)? I know @thecontinent does it, but I'm not sure if they're using a third party client or what.

RE: #cloudflare today

Maybe #cloudflare should have a fediverse account. That way people can still reach them when cloudflare is down.

I was renewing an #insurance policy this morning and they said they no longer accept @protonprivacy emails addresses because 'they are associated with fraud'. WTAF? They used my #protonmail address happily for 3 years. Where has this change come from? Is this #bigtech selling #cybersec products […]

"underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education" It is only a *challenge* against the background belief that there is a future where genAI in education is a good thing for anyone other than the bullshitters selling the technology. Governments, universities, schools around […]

For me it's even worse, because i not only got that in the 90's, i also grew up in the 70's during the oil crisis. Speed limits were lowered to 55 mph to save gas, fuel efficiency standards were first introduced, President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed […] [Original post on chaosfem.tw]

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