Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet
Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
TYSON YUNKAPORTA on Inviolable Lore /362 — FOR THE WILD
Tuning into a magic that flows from the universe, not from an individualized self, Tyson Yunkaporta offers lucid insight into the current state of the world in this week’s episode. In maddening times of dissonance and disconnection, Tyson speaks to the need for the Right Story, for LORE. As he dives
Let’s say there is a divide happening in front-end development. I feel it, but it's not just in my bones. Based on an awful lot of written developer
Robin himself gave himself the job title, Adult Boy That Cares Too Much About Accessibility and CSS and Component Design but Doesn’t Care One Bit About GraphQL or Rails or Redux but I Feel Really Bad About Not Caring About This Other Stuff Though.
Lesbians, Labels, and LLMs :: The future of the word lesbian in digital spaces (full series)
Watch all 3 parts of our 2024 Lesbian Visibility Week Series ⚡️ Lesbians, Labels, and LLMs :: The future of the word lesbian in digital spacesFor more inform...
POV: Humility is seemingly in short supply in the design industry. What’s really behind this?
We speak to an established designer hoping to kickstart a new movement inviting more openness, transparency and vulnerability from his peers. Can it succeed?
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Global study maps most detailed tree of life yet for flowering plants
After the first flower bloomed on the Earth, flowering plants evolved a staggering diversity and now make up about 90% of all plant life. Charles Darwin called this rapid domination an “abominable mystery.” A study published today, April 24, in the journal Nature and led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, unveiled the most comprehensive […]
In September 2021 I boarded a train to Cambridge to join Carbon13’s second Climate Tech cohort. Carbon13 is a venture builder whose stated mission is to create high-growth startups that each have t…
The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification. At a time when these technologies seem to be consolidating, it is pertinent to map their connections with human activities and more than human territories. What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?
How to Design Climate-Forward AI Companies | Designer Fund
How might we design the systems surrounding the usage and development of AI to have a lesser (or even positive) environmental impact? Read on for tips on how founders and designers can build more sustainable and socially forward AI companies.
You might be asking: If we’re building AI to help people work more productively and otherwise prosper, aren’t we doing enough good in the world?
The answer is, unfortunately: no.
Generative AI and Creative Learning: Concerns, Opportunities, and Choices
As each new wave of technology ripples through society, we need to decide if and how to integrate the technology into our learning environments. That was true with personal computers, then with the internet, and now with generative AI technologies. For each new technology . . .
LAION-5B is an open-source foundation dataset used to train AI models such as Stable Diffusion. It contains 5.8 billion image and text pairs—a size too large to make sense of. In this visual investigation, we follow the construction of the dataset to better understand its contents, implications and entanglements.