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Delightful 💩: dana boyd, Lee Vinsel & Cory Doctorow on #Enshittification It feels odd that Cory assumes that platform things were good for a start. Still insightful. athenaeum.vt.domains/peoplesan…
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Out now, Call for Case Participation (CfCP?) and CfP for “Before Ruins” in Bochum. Together with students, I will organise a case on vacant houses. Or, in the words of a recent controversy: “#Leerstand im #Stadtbild” stsing.org/before-ru…
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Yet another storm troubles #Vietnam, or as Mike puts it, the typhoon season is actually supposed to be over, but such is #climatechange open.substack.com/pub/thevi…
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A tiny side-project that I can hopefully pull through: reverse engineering an audio box for kids that works with proprietary “tokens.” Like a cassette player but rigid af. Use and dispose. #hackerspace #netz39 First stop, getting info about chips and pins. A cheap USB microcontroller it is
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At some point, it actually needs to be enough to end world hunger, says GamersNexus in a stellar video on the circular #AI investments. Ridiculous amounts, from #OpenAI to #Nvidia via #Intel and #AMD and whatnot, driving stock prices, like printing money. www.youtube.com/watch
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not on my list of expected developments: Ex-Intel boss Gelsinger now leads a #Christian #AI company We’re not trying to take a theological position: we’re building a technology platform. 🧐 www.theguardian.com/technolog…
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Auch der Zentralverband der Deutschen Geflügelwirtschaft geht bislang davon aus, dass die Weihnachtsgans sicher auf den Tisch kommen wird. Sie landen ja förmlich auf unseren Tischen! ✊ #Vogelgrippe www.zeit.de/wissen/20…
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How’s #IchBinHanna resisting #AI? “Our working conditions are student learning conditions”, thus: Militating against the transformation of not just the classroom but the university by ‘disruptive technologies’ is a crucial front. defector.com/higher-ed…