🌴 Public Holiday reading: “The reason people say something like this is because it immediately invites solutionism. “It matters how you use it” is an intellectual half-gesture.” #ai #ethics #politics #a11y
Frank Elavsky
Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools a...
Best kept secret: the IBM accessibility checker, blows other #a11y testing tools out of the water ✅ open source and well maintained ✅ Free and ad free ✅ multiple rulesets ✅ export results to excel https://www.ibm.com/able/toolkit/tools/#develop
AI, “unlike a therapist, does not have the person’s best interests in mind, or a moral grounding or compass in what a ‘good story’ looks like,” she says. “A good therapist would not encourage a client to make sense of difficulties in their life by encouraging them to believe they have supernatural powers. Instead, they try to steer clients away from unhealthy narratives, and toward healthier ones. ChatGPT has no such constraints or concerns.” #ai #psychosis
AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
👉🏽 “At the heart of all Trump administration policies is ‘soft eugenics’ thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then only the strong will survive” #eugenics #USA
the Guardian
Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed
At the heart of all Trump administration policies is ‘soft eugenics’ thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then onl...
🤨 “Amazon is selling books marketed at people seeking techniques to manage their ADHD that claim to offer expert advice yet appear to be authored by a chatbot such as ChatGPT.” #ADHD #AI #books
the Guardian
‘Dangerous nonsense’: AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon
Experts say online retailer has ethical responsibility to guard against chatbot-generated work on sensitive topics
De Niro said: “I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is … I love all my children.” #solidarity
the Guardian
Robert De Niro supports daughter Airyn as she comes out as trans: ‘I don’t know what the big deal is’
After her announcement of her transition, the actor said: ‘I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter’
“There are two parallel image channels that dominate our daily visual consumption. In one, there are real pictures and footage of the world as it is: politics, sport, news and entertainment. In the other is AI slop, low-quality content with minimal human input.” #ai #slop
the Guardian
With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik
A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy, says Guardian columnist Ne...
🎉 Off to State of the Browser #SOTB tomorrow the #WebStandards conference organized by @Dave Letorey and @London Web Standards team. Excited to learn from @Sara Joy :happy_pepper: and @Manuel Matuzović amongst others. #accessibility #HTML #CSS If you are attending come say 👋
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted #climate #fema #data #politics
the Guardian
Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
🧘 Find your Guru at #CSUN2025 and sit with them #a11y