Tech and Society
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Tech and Society
The Twitter exodus is going to a digital realm, new to many, called the Fediverse - a “federated universe” of healthy connections — THE ALTERNATIVE
The Alternativethealternative.org.uk
we went from “work hard on something you love” to just “work hard” to “work to keep pace with the machine”
I often use the analogy of “AI for social good” being like creating a tank first and THEN being like oh let’s see how we can use this tank for “social good.”
Then why not create something other than a tank in the first place?
Scientists follow the state’s endless in warfare.
@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)twitter.com
the reason tech doesn’t excite me as much these days is because the two big bottlenecks in life are: 1) A lack of courage 2) A lack of a supportive environment (so friends and family) and those seem to be people problems, not technology problems
The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonate with, and if we’re lucky, some part of the world might too.
Social Media optimism
One of my big surprises of Silicon Valley was finding out how nice & well intentioned many of the execs of “evil big tech” were. Shocking because I expected them to be evil. Heartbreaking because they weren’t.It meant big tech do bad not cuz of who runs them, but because of the systematic forces they’re beholden to, ie business model & shareholder... See more