AI is a marketing term that refers to data/compute intensive systems only a few companies can produce. It's not intelligent, it's not a sci-fi threat: these are sides of the same hype coin. Overstating AI capabilities--for good or evil--is the best marketing these corps have.

YA READY TO PARTY? 🚜 🇭🇷 #EUROVISION #Eurovision2023

There are no more borders in the European Union. However, you will always know where the Netherlands begins.

The metaverse is not just dead, it never existed. A recent report shows that the biggest metaverse platform, Horizon Worlds from Meta, had just 38 daily users, and made a comical $470.00 in total revenue. Metaverse was valued at $13 trillion in 2021. thenation.com/article/cultur…

Next time someone asks me about concrete harms of biases in AI models, I'll send them this 💀

A thread about the strike and Dropout production: 👇✊

Stackspin, our open source cloud collaboration platform, got a ✨new dashboard✨ and lots of other super useful and secure updates: stackspin.net/releases/2-7-r…

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Congratulations to Jude Whiley for 1st place and to Natalie Bevilacqua for 3rd place, I'm looking forward to reading their work. And congratulations to me for 2nd place! Thanks to The Moth Magazine and Otessa Mosfegh for making it all happen.

Men worry about how hot a girl is, women worry about how dangerous a guy is. Introducing FriendOrFoeAI.

The European Commission official, mandatory fonts are not open? But why?! wikis.ec.europa.eu/display/visual… (no mention of what license it uses, but you do have to fill in an acceptance form if you're a contractor, because of course you do smh)

not even Kang the Conqueror can read my DMs

I can't get over how cool Tailscale is. Scary simple. And open source! and supports third party FOSS implementations! tailscale.com/opensource/

Lo so è grottesco parlà dei cazzi miei mentre si consuma una tragedia epocale, ma siccome è una settimana che chiunque conciona su di me e mi deve insegnà a campà, e io me le tengo tutte, queste sono 24 pagine fatte ieri per fissare qualche punto internazionale.it/reportage/zero…

Many of us may not find the emotional energy to contain a “YES, AND” approach, especially not now. But we must uplift those who can. We need “YES, AND” leaders, and indeed we should demand “YES, AND” policies. by mushon.bsky.social (Zer Aviv) ❤️ medium.com/@mushon/your-e…

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🚨Serbia: civil society threatened by spyware Together with our partners SHARE Foundation, Access Now and The Citizen Lab, Amnesty International can reveal evidence that sophisticated spyware is being used to target civil society in Serbia👇 securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2023/11…

"Signal is a nonprofit because a for-profit structure leads to a scenario where one of my board members goes to Davos, talks to some guy, comes back excitedly telling me we need an AI strategy for profit." Meredith Whittaker 🔥🔥🔥 wired.com/story/meredith…