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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…
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“Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity”, rich essays that guide us through the #AI trouble: on running machines within #planetaryboundaries, regulation, refusal, reframing of the hype, and making alternative futures. libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/public_vi…
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Ad #Stadtbild in der taz 👏 Wenn wir uns städtische Probleme anschauen, dann geht es um ganz andere Fragen – um fehlende Wohnungen, um Bildungschancen, um Infrastruktur und Zugang zu Ressourcen in der Stadt. Das hat mit Migration nicht so viel zu tun, sondern mit sozialer Schicht und Bildung.
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I like to play around as an anonymous commenter in online newspaper columns. If you point out the biases of #AI systems, the comment gets deleted because it is considered too polemical. The comment was addressing an article about AI in public service and the use in refugee applications 🫣