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festal, 8 days ago to random

Good starting point for any analysis of the impact of AI. From @brianmerchant recent newsletter:

"So the very first thing to understand is that, regardless of how this is framed in the media or McKinsey reports or internal memos, “AI” or “a robot” is never, ever going to take your job. It can’t. It’s not sentient, or capable of making decisions. Generative AI is not going to kill your job — but your manager might."

festal, 9 days ago to random

It feels like big tech has basically given up and has retreated to indulging in escapist fantasies: space colonization, blockchain, AGI, the network state, metaverse, "hacking death", etc.

None of this solves any problems, or, even works as advertised.

leitmedium, 10 days ago to Signal German

Meredith Whittaker, Präsidentin der gemeinnützigen Signal-Stiftung, die hinter dem Messenger #Signal steht, hat angekündigt, dass Signal im Falle der Umsetzung der geplanten Chatkontrollen sich aus dem Europäischen Markt zurückziehen wird.

> »Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees. This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice. It's surveillance wine in safety bottles. To be clear--we will stay to the end. We stand with the people in Europe & their right to privacy, whatever the Commission does. But we won't comply with any mandate to undermine our privacy guarantees. And noncompliance would result in our being barred from the market.«

Das würde wohl vor allem bedeuten, dass die App nicht mehr über App Stores zur Verfügung steht und theoretisch noch manuell installiert werden kann, aber letztlich wäre es wohl das Aus von Signal in Europa. (Hatte die letzten zwei Worte ursprünglich vergessen).

Quelle:
https://mastodon.world/
Bericht dazu:
https://www.golem.de/news/ueberwachung-statt-sicherheit-wenn-die-chatkontrolle-kommt-wuerde-signal-gehen-2406-185659.html

clive, 10 days ago to random

Pointillist bubble-wrap paintings

amazing what you can do with paint

bubble wrap

and a hypodermic needle

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tante, 13 days ago to random German

Ihr kennt ja immer alles. Ideen, wo man sich für ne Finanzierung zum Schreiben eines Buches bewerben kann (Sachbuch)?

festal, 15 days ago to random

Wow. We barely started to talk about how bad private jet travel really is, and the US congress has already acted to protect the wealthy from public scrutiny.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/congress-has-made-fully-obscuring-aircraft-ownership-information-a-reality

tante, 23 days ago to random

"Google’s AI search has arrived, uninvited, to my browser, and I cannot make it leave. It isn’t just that it serves me crap whenever I enter a question into my search bar, but that I have to wait for all the crap I don't want in the first place."

(Original title: I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search)

https://aftermath.site/google-ai-search-god-no-why

festal, 27 days ago to random

#Zürich

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