I increasingly think that accepting the "digital souvereignity" narrative was a pyrrhic victory for European and non-European NGOs. It might have lead to a bit of money here and there but it also plays super into the cards of right-wing thinking.
Any #mastodon devs here who know where .well-known/nodeinfo gets their response from? (Our server has a wrong response which confuses a few clients)
(Issue is that `nodeinfo_schema_url`in
Microsoft is one of the main companies pushing #AI assistants into business and education contexts.
Let's ask Microsoft Research for the consequences:
"Moreover, while GenAI can improve worker efficiency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving."
So Microsoft research agrees (and shows in a study) that usage of GenAI assistants have a significant negative impact on cognitive skills, especially when it comes to critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
How does anyone think that this should have a place in schools or universities, areas where the development of critical thinking and problem-solving abilities are the core task?
People ask why we are not removing the changing mat in our apartment with our son not having needed it for a year or so.
Well. I would. It's just occupied.
) session made me realize that while giving the talk I kinda missed a core thought that should have been in there so I put it into writing.
"The Open Source Torment Nexus"
Just as a small step to stop normalizing current fascists:
Do not ever - even ironically - title anything "Make X Y again". Don't give further power to those memes and (TBH inherently conservative) modes of thinking about the world.
I cannot imagine how it must feel to live in the US right now.
Like things aren't crumbling, they're destroyed with a level of malice, aggression, inhumanity and lack of respect for people's lives that it's incomprehensible.
"my gut feeling is that we need 0 innovation to tackle at least 90% of the problems that challenge our societies, us as individuals and mankind as a whole. We just need to grow up and start doing the actual work."
(Original title: Innovation is a distraction)
