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Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. Email: tante@tante.cc | License CC BY-SA-4.0 tfr

"Ein-Mann-Gegenkultur" (SPIEGEL)

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2025-01-01 19:02:27

A lot of the time if a structure or event is not what you need it to be, it got where it is for a reason. A lot of the time the structure will fight to keep itself intact.

2024-12-26 21:23:15

People always tell me it's weird that I don't know my blood type. Just never had a use for that information. But in conversation I get the impression that everyone does. Weird.

2024-12-26 12:45:13

For 2025 I think we should just ignore every "AI did this thing" report that does not explicitly state the resource cost (energy/CO2 for training and inference, hardware requirements/e-waste). We just cannot afford burning the planet for technological parlor tricks.

2024-12-16 07:21:14

As part of my job I write a lot of grant applications.
The EU is just asking people in current EU projects for feedback on their (admittedly garbage, massively complex) process. Here's a screenshot from the questionaire:
The EU grant application process is a shit show demanding you to fill in all kinds of bullshit documents often at a level of specificity that nobody can really give in good conscience at the point of project application. But what would "AI tools" do?
Help generate the garbage text. Okay so who does this help?
- the applicants are handing in even more text they've hardly read nor understood potentially tanking their application
- the reviewers have to wade through a lot of text that nobody has written, that doesn't mean anything and that by definition does not help evaluating proposals.
The fucking brainrot runs so deep.
JUST FUCKING SIMPLIFY THE APPLICATION PROCESS AND FORMS FOR FUCKS SAKE.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/113/661/291/595/312/792/original/f35f95e2f7a7317f.png

2024-11-17 17:48:33

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@npub16rr…y7pc do you draw directly on the lino or do you draw on paper or digitally and then copy it over?

2024-11-04 08:29:31

With Universities now rolling out "Vice Chancellor of AI" roles I wonder who's left to keep the #AI industry in check and who's supposed to build a new scientific system after the current crop of academics have outsourced their thinking and writing to stochastic parrots?
Should especially Universities have a different standard? The assumption that students "will use AI in their jobs" and therefore they should get to acquire the actual skills themselves is such a bleak case of epistemic injustice.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/first-pro-vice-chancellor-artificial-intelligence-appointed