@theguardian.com your app has become close to unusable on my android tablet. Pages only appear when you scroll, and then only in one direction!
Tim Kindberg
Tim Kindberg
@timkindberg.bsky.social
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Interella - a new future fairy tale Once upon a future time – and a time of techno-tyranny it will be – a girl called Interella will ask her father, “What is school?” timkindberg.substack.com/p/interella #fairytale #futurefairytale
Please join me for a talk and discussion about Nature Vs AI. Is Nature better than AI at distinguishing what's true from what's false? In person at the Pervasive Media Studio (@pmstudiouk.bsky.social) or online. Friday 20th June at 1pm UK time www.watershed.co.uk/studio/event...
The baby room - an AI thought experiment. In which I critique not only LLMs but the epistemology of digital systems more generally. Your critiques of my critique are welcome medium.com/@timkindberg...
1.5C -> 2C global heating causes >> proportionate harm. See thread for source.
From 1.5C to 2C of global warming is an increase by 33.3 percent. Many people assume that the negative impacts of this would also increase by only 33.3 percent. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The increase is non-linear. This is one of the biggest missing pieces in public climate literacy.
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Heidi Alexander’s appointment as transport secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history - great stat from @georgeeaton.bsky.social
'Two-thirds of American men aged 18-23 agree with the statement “no one really knows me”.' - And many turn to podcasts instead of human company. Ones that turn them towards Trump www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Oh. We should all enjoy the relative lack of techbro billionaire crypto AI EA bollocks for the short time it's going to last...
1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).
If like Rebecca Solnit you think technology corporations have sapped our mental energy like vampires now, wait until you see 2087 - Vampires of Avonmouth vampiresofavonmouth.com www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
@bsky.app do you realise that one can't update a profile banner image with a .heic stored on an android phone (i.e. one previously taken and stored on the phone)?
“Ministers need to push back against any use of artificial intelligence in the criminal justice, prison and welfare systems that could lead to people being discriminated against, unfairly targeted and other miscarriages of justice." By Palantir, in particular www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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