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This would be a discussion about politics and education in NL, in Dutch (related to the elections). But not everybody who works in academia speaks Dutch, tho kost likely those who don't cannot vote but this way they could stay "informed."

Thx! I am defo not an AI enthusiast (see our position paper here bsky.app/profile/oliv...). I've heard some ppl (not from any community) argue for its use in certain cases cause it's better than nothing and it would help certain communities. I would like to hear from the communities themselves.

Dit soort passages gaan zonder kanttekening mee in het frame dat zorg een commerciële activiteit is ipv een publieke voorziening.

Probleemloos wordt de eigen blik voor lief genomen bij NOS. Giselle van Cann verwoordde deze naïviteit als geen ander: 'alles dat relevant is, is nieuws voor ons'

I'm talking about a debate organised by activists, so money is an issue.

Q: AI translation is heralded as great cause it can help with inclusivity but ofc it's far from good, takes job of translators, ÷ feeds the hype. On live interpreting events, some argue against but others say it's better than nothing. How does the community feel about this?
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So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

In some cases, witnesses described other IPS personnel being present during attacks by the IRF. They stood idly by and did nothing to protect the victims, their presence essentially lending legitimacy to the actions. The presence of IPS officers and the participation of dozens of IPS guards in the assaults indicates that these were not isolated incidents or the work of a rogue guard. On 9 November 2023, at around 2:00 P.M., a force of 20 masked officers from the IRF and DU arrived with a dog. They opened the cell door and attacked Some of the us with batons. Two of them grabbed me forces filmed and hit me in the back with batons. One of us with cell them grabbed my head while I was on the phones and floor and hit me in the face with a baton. cameras. I My face and right eye started bleeding. I heard the told them in Hebrew, "I'm going to die," and officer tell one of them said that he wanted me to die. the others in Others told me to shut up. Hebrew: "We're After they beat us up for about 10 minutes, they tied our hands behind our backs with loresee wins zip ties. They fastened them so tight that I felt them cutting into my hands. The beating continued, and members of the forces stepped on my chest and head. There were also two officers in the cell, and one of them ordered them to beat us. The members of the forces laughed among themselves. They took some clothes away from inmates. They dragged some of us on the floor and forced others to kiss one of the officer's shoes. I saw them grab some inmates by the testicles, and the inmates screamed and cried. The officers also pressed their batons against

Keter Welcome to Hell the genitals of some inmates. The stream of insults didn't stop: "motherfuckers," "sons None of us could move, of bitches," "dogs," "ISIS." Some of the forces not even to filmed us with cell phones and cameras. I go to the heard the officer tell the others in Hebrew: bathroom. "We're livestreaming for Ben Gvir." We were all The attack lasted a long time, more than half dizzy and lost an hour of nonstop beating. It looked like they balance. wanted to cause as much damage as possible. My right eye When it was over, I felt I was going to pass swelled up, out. Afterwards, we lay on the floor for hours. and I was None of us could move, not even to go to the afraid I'd lose bathroom. We were all dizzy and lost balance. my sight. We My right eye swelled up, and I was afraid I'd were in a very lose my sight. We were in a very bad state. One bad state. prisoner said in tears that they'd raped him One prisoner with a stick. said in tears that they'd After that incident, we lived in constant fear. raped him Also, we were shocked by the screams of with a stick. inmates being beaten in other cells. We were afraid all the time, day and night, that the forces would attack us again. From the testimony of Firas Hassan 50, a father of four and resident of Hindaza in Bethlehem District, who was held in the Negev Prison (Ketziot) | Full testimony

Those who are so inclined to immediately dismiss all the seemingly grandiose reports of torture and abuse in the Israeli prison system should read this report from B'Tselem entitled: "Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps"

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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like why is my skyline filled with shit like “LLMs could be conscious! do we even know what consciousnesses is?” when communities filled with PEOPLE are being destroyed so that techbros can have the fantasy of enslaving machines? cause that’s what they are fucking talking about

Un tlacuache con la barriga llena por haber comido muchos panes dulces, acostado sobre una caja con panes dulces

Yo después de tacos al pastor, champiqueso y nopalitos asados en Por Siempre Vegana.

It's a chutzpah that some scientists (mostly betas) say/think us humanities scholars are making stuff up cause they confuse speculation & interpretation (which is grounded in archives & domain knowledge) with not being rigorous. Especially since they claim to be enamoured with "hard data."

This. I find it baffling that there are studies and polls based on fabricated data instead of human respondents. Imagine if a historian would do that with archives!

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Trots op mijn stad. Vandaag hangt er aan de Wilhelminabrug in Deventer dit sterke en confronterende spandoek van bijna 50 meter: ‘Wat deed jij toen een volk werd uitgeroeid?’

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

If the Guardian hadn't put itself in the pocket of Big AI, a more accurate headline might be "AI not able to definitively confirm identity of man named by his own family as perpetrator"...

My friend just used the phrase, “When the world was normal bad.”

Is Mafalda in charge of this account?

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Estamos adoptando la ia en nuestras universidades sin un análisis serio al respecto? Corremos detrás del hype sin pensar en sus consecuencias y siendo víctimas de la estrategia comercial de grandes empresas?

@olivia.science et al. plantean distintos puntos 👇

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Nederlandse TU's werken samen met Israëlische bedrijven die leveren aan de IDF | Investico Onderzoeksjournalisten Nog steeds werken TU’s samen met bedrijven uit het Israëlische militair-industrieel complex. Volgens deskundigen zouden hun kennis en technologie direct op het slagveld van Gaza kunnen belanden.

Nieuw Onderzoek | Twee van de vijftien projecten zijn recentelijk nog van start gegaan, terwijl de omvang van het Israëlische geweld in Gaza al volledig duidelijk was. Een project moet kleinere chips ontwikkelen, relevant voor bijvoorbeeld drones en geavanceerde AI-systemen

We already have medbeds for that

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I'm sure their motivations for shoehorning it into every product imaginable are purely noble and have nothing to do with trying to inflate the perceived value of the technology before the bubble bursts, right? A little surreptitious user data scraping is just icing on the cake.

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