Turning on your lights and siren after losing a drag race is just poor sportsmanship.

The grave of Jules Verne features a statue of a man breaking out of the grave and reaching towards the sky. It's metal as hell.

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) https://isaiprofitable.com/

#MachineSociety

Cérémonie du thé : Le gouvernement annonce une prime carburant pour les gros buveurs

Dijkstra Plastics, teabag challenge
#energy #carburants #economy #tea #art

I took this photo years ago. It's still as creepy today as it was when I was driving down a rural road all by myself and looked to my right.
Wheat Man
#pareidolia #androidphotography #creepy

I'll be teaching a course in the fall on data communication.

One of the assignments I hope to put together is a lesson on how data is manipulated. I want to show how easy it is for climate change deniers, anti vaxxers, etc to crop data, stretch or flip an axis and suggest the opposite of what the data is actually showing. Still thinking through the assignment and I'm thinking of having them make an honest representation and one less so.

I think there's value to such a lesson given how much downright lying we have from not just randos but even political circles these days.

Was just going to use publicly available data sources but then I am thinking that there must be researchers here who have awesome data they wouldn't mind seeing put into visual form. If you do have data you'd be willing to let me use, please drop me a comment or PM and let me know how to access it. Thanks!

(P.S. would appreciate a share for wider reach)

#academicChatter

comprendre les expressions françaises : prendre un râteau

yukikawae

tags : appropriation culturelle, jardin japonais, calligraphie éphémère, #gardening #art #geometry #drawing #philosophy

All my attempts to communicate a vulnerability in #Signalapp have failed - I have not received any response to my multiple messages to them. Good people have tried to forward my concern to them (and I am thankful for your efforts and help), yet this has been to no avail.

I am disappointed in the lack of communication from Signal. I will be disclosing the full details of the issue later today (with end-user mitigations), after the six-month anniversary of the initial report.

Tiger Woods Completes 12-Step AA Program In 9

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#theonion
https://theonion.com/tiger-woods-completes-12-step-aa-program-in-9/

Today, @DAIR is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work.

https://labor.dair-institute.org

A lovely extremely non tech from my day job just naively pronounced copilot as “copylot” and I love it and cannot un hear it.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072

Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because

and •only because•

they send people to our sites. •Our• sites, our words, with our design, with our links, with our context and our aesthetics, shared the way we want to share them.

Google is announcing — unambiguously and with great fanfare — that they are now fully breaking that already-ragged contract. We should reciprocate.

1/2

RT: https://tldr.nettime.org/users/tante/statuses/116605858023186072

🚨 Canada’s Bill C-22 is here &  it’s the same surveillance bill from last year's failed C-2. 🚨

What does this mean?

❌ Your metadata would be stored by service providers for up to 12 months.

❌ The government would force these companies to build surveillance capabilities directly into their platforms.

Government calls it “lawful access” but we know that  forcing providers to enable access to encrypted data puts EVERYONE'S privacy & security at risk. 😡

Who called them fake plants and not fauxliage

So many tech bros are coming at me right now arguing that yes, in fact, Windows users or Facebook users don't deserve privacy.

Busting out the bold markdown for this: you're wrong.

Everyone deserves privacy.