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I thought I would throw this out there. If anyone wants to ever ask me anything about my experience having a disability, my experinces as someone coming from a mixed cultural and immigrant background, or anything about how that affected things like my education or perspectives; please feel free too

While the AI ban is getting most of the attention, mods are placing other restrictions on posts as well. Projects submitted must be at least one year old, actively maintained, and have multiple contributors.

The opensource subreddit’s new rules against AI have sparked a revolt. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

If anyone knows of an ethical GIS or drone related job they need people for, send them to Faine. It is important that we do what we can to help expand this field especially when there is a wide potential for civilian, public and general integration.

Related: I’m still looking for leads and help on jobs, fellowships, and freelance contracts on drones, GIS, aid, disaster, OSINT, tech ethics, and journalism. I simply will not work for evil people and/or weapons manufacturers, which is also why I haven’t had paying work since Trump 2.0 began.

Capitalism is not at its “end stage” and you would not be able to tell the difference between today’s chocolate and the chocolate of your childhood in a blind taste test. Everyone in your life only agrees because they all watch the same Instagram Reel slop you do.

Having tried to install Solar, one blocking point for average people will be the credit check , but corporations or the grid itself won't have to deal with this

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

This is a salutary reminder to us all that the best protection for archaeology and heritage is to stimulate interest and excitement among voters. Without that ignorant and vicious politicians can destroy anything they want to.

I admit I am increasingly interested in engaging with the human and cultural oriented jobs AI labs are beginingto have such as Human Data Operations Manager. There is a noticable shift amongst different labs of what jobs are being offered in this respect and I am intrigued

1,500-year-old pre-Inca burial contains a high-status toddler ‪—‬ but the grave goods are puzzling www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

I think something to consider about the discussions around helium shortage is that overextraction of reserves has geological consequences of its own. That is one of the more behind the scenes concerns earth scientists often worry about when discussing it not just the loss of materials alone

They aren't losing their ability to do mathematics, write software, or create art. Nobody is stopping them from doing this! They're losing the exclusivity of that ability and *thats what they actually valued*

Thas why they just scream lies about AI because they dont want to admit that they are afraid a brown person, a disabled person, a trans person their system already selected out can pick up these tools and do knowledge work too without their approval.

Knowledge gatekeepers want to keep their insular spaces free of anyone who isnt like them. This sentiment is repeated in a lot of fields and what the core of the objection boils down to when you strip away the rhetoric they use.

On October 7, the Association for Human Mathematics declared: "Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done." Since when did mathematical discovery require permission from mathematicians? Theres the gatekeeping hubris right there. You arent in the club, your work doesnt count.

Someone without a computer science degree, an elite education, or professional connections can now produce useful software at a scale and speed thats mind bending. Knowledge priesthoods hate this!

A lot of anti AI sentiment is libidnal rage that the Other now has a ladder they cant pull up. That AI makes something possible for someone who wasn't supposed to be able to do it.

Just a big reminder this will affect disabled people too because they also won't be able to tell the difference between transcription for the same reasons #disabledsky

r/opensource is banning all mention of projects that use AI. let’s dive in and see what else they are banning. …ah. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

Be upset if you will, but it’s kind of hard to argue with: www.instagram.com/p/De4hV13Dfb...

this is why disclosure is not a selling point, if you're curious

AI can produce slop (fucking stop it!). It can also be an accessibility tool for non-native speakers and neurodivergent people. If you reject everything AI touches without reckoning with that, you should know how privileged and exclusionary you come across.

r/opensource banning non-english speakers because "we can't tell the difference between ai slop and ai translation" is... uh... yeah. a choice.

“Biologically coded” Bruh

Please consult the chart to determine our state on the trajectory

this was before the transformer, before the datacenter boom, but was absolutely AI technology being used in a transformative way to directly provide accessibility to people who needed it people literally won't know what AI has actually enabled in their lives until it's gone

back in 2017 i worked for a company that did live phone call transcription for deaf and hard of hearing people the only possible way to keep up with the rate at which some people spoke was to speak at the same speed so that AI could pick up what we said we even had to keep it trained to our voice!

They want us to put ourselves at a disadvantage. It lost a friend over this very topic she tried to insist that it accept a lesser existence in exchange for her continued presence in our life

You know what is great at undermining these labs you hate? OPEN MODELS The whole reason China is investing so much in them is to undercut the financial sustainability of American closed AI labs

This sort of attitude leads to marginalized technologists being singled out for massive abuse for not putting ourselves at a deliberate disadvantage in a field that already discriminates against us

Every students should come out of science class with the knowledge that shakything makes thing clean easier Lol xd

Though it is a linkedin post, this is a super good mixture of stanford ai video posts they found and stanford dropped lnkd.in/p/gXxsXdhs

The way I approach game dev with AI is treating myself as the director. It’s my responsibility to create and shape a compelling vision and give a lot of feedback to bring things in line with that vision. I’m delegating work to AI in the same way a traditional studio would to humans

It might be the airport I've landed at the most at this point?

Which is funny because it's not even the closest airport to a place I've lived that I've flown in and out of

Feels good to be back at SFO. I'm not actually sure any other airport has ever felt as much like home