@mrgunn • Name tags for everyone (inspired by @nickgraynews) • Created small groups of ~4 people • Inserted people in groups when they arrived • Conversation prompts • Rotated groups every ~20 minutes so everyone got to meet a dozen people by the end of the event

McLuhan argued that, pushed to its limits, a medium flips or reverses its characteristics. Internet scale pushes information into disinformation, connection into loneliness, and desire into apathy.

First ever image of another multi-planet solar system with the star like Sun captured by ESO Telescope. https://t.co/wcMVKHcg2n

„Es geht nicht darum, dass es einzelne Menschen schön haben, sondern es geht darum, dass ALLE gut leben können.“ @Natascha_Strobl bei @TiloJung

71% of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and this sounds like a lot of water. But only 0.12% of Earth's total volume is liquid water. Look at this chart. The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles and has a volume of about 1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers km³). The blue sphere over Kentucky represents... See more

Intelligence is moving from human-scale to machine-scale. AI will be to the mind what the automobile was to the city… https://t.co/NcBspApI1t

The message of the medium we call AI is the obfuscation of responsibility and relationship.

The language of "tasks" enables white-collar Taylorism. We should push back.

When AI people talk about labour, they tend to frame jobs as sets of tasks, rather than sets of responsibilities.

My house plants became healthier and died less often once I stopped tracking their watering, stopped trying to use moisture meters or other tools, and learned to pick up on their vibes instead. Many such cases.