@bsdphk @tante agreed, that's my term of choice as well.

I've already reduced my personal footprint.

I don't do business with billionaires. I deleted my accounts with all the social media sites, shut down my AWS instances, and moved my Kiwisaver out of all US equities.

How much impact has any of this had on CO2 levels in the atmosphere?

Sweet […]

Cartes Une carte libre et gratuite, alternative Web aux maps Google et Apple, pour trouver un commerce, un lieu, visiter une ville, calculer un trajet à pieds, en vélo, en transport en commun, en train.

https://cartes.app/ keeps on suprising me with better and better updates

First OSS maps app that has 10/10 satellite maps _and_ 3D buildings! Still not as nice as Apple Maps with it’s super fancy building models but so close now!

How many girls are riding their bikes to school is a better measure of a country's success than GDP. Tells you about so much more, about education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...

#KiaTikaKiaPono

Erinnert sich noch jemand an das "Schöne Wochenende"-Ticket?

Zuerst (1995) kostete es 15 Mark und bis zu fünf Personen konnten damit das ganze Wochenende Regionalzüge im ganzen Land benutzen.

Das war ein Riesenerfolg, deshalb kostete es schnell das Doppelte, dann galt es nur noch an einem Tag […]

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI Defunct startups are pawning off their former employees conversations for up to $100,000, according to a new report.

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI
Defunct startups are pawning off their former employees conversations for up to $100,000, according to a new report.
gizmodo.com/failed-compa... Nothing online is sacred. Everything's for sale.

Reminder if you support us to sign and share if you can! ✍🏻

> Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

We're coming up to a year since I sent this letter to my executive board and I will resend it on or close to the year mark with even more international and […]

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116421159289416290

If this doesn't cement the need for a 90% top income tax rate and a wealth tax, I don't know what to tell you. It's going to be ugly when that bubble bursts and people figure out they can't eat GPUs.

Trying to remember some bits of the French I learned in school and half the time, I can only come up with Danish words 🥴 Looks like my brain has only three language slots 🤷

I buy peppermint tea from Aldi. It's not very convenient because every single individual tea bag is wrapped in paper for some reason but I can at least just go and buy them from a shop with cash normally. At least until 2024, when they started wrapping each? individual?? teabag???? in […]

The concept of a rotating villain is so funny to me. The best example is the U.S. House of Representatives where one Democrat sacrifices themselves to vote in line with the Republican party, so that all other Democrats can claim they were trying their best to do the right thing, yet in reality […]

"I was teleported to a wafflehouse"

is the new hot idiom for just being totally out of your mind.

"He was doing fine, until he started talking about art history and then the whole conversation got teleported to a wafflehouse"

On the resistance side, we need to figure out ways to talk to people who think that this is an acceptable way to conduct themselves in public understand that:

1. they should believe in their own abilities more
2. if they want a feather in their resumé cap, there's no credit or glory in getting […]

If you are an enthusiast yourself who is interested in a sustainable open source culture, you should consider maybe dedicating some time to help a no-AI project you like fend off such people. Allowing this kind of direct abuse to take place with no pushback from your faction kinda tars you all […]

Folks: if you write a supposedly anonymous review for my paper, and suggest to cite n > 1 additional papers which happen to have one specific author in common, then your review is no longer anonymous 🙄

#academia #writing

SPAR Dear Customers, If you use our cornettos for a Madonna impression you must then purchase them. Thank you.

Reasonable.

"It feels incumbent upon me to write something about last week’s big news in which the company formerly known as Facebook decided to shut down its Metaverse project on which it has, according to various reports, spent eighty billion dollars,' says Neal Stephenson […]

ZOHRAN: “I ran on taxing the rich — Today, we’re taxing the rich… the first ever pied-a-terre tax for second homes worth $5 Million+… $500 MILLION from the richest of the rich to fund child care, etc…💰”

Promises kept.

I understand that "No chocolate from 2050" is a climate change headline that gets the media's attention but if the AMOC collapses, "Your children and grandchildren will starve like it's the middle ages" is much more precise

fake one.com website served via #truthSocial links

i m not sure i had seen this before -
the links service on #truthSocial

https://links.truthsocial.com/

being used for #phishing campaigns,

with (rather good) complete copies of danish web/#dns service https://one.com , encouraging me to renew my #domains […]

[Original post on social.itu.dk]

PSA: There's a scammy platform PitchHut scraping GitHub and making public project pages for folks' projects purporting to be affiliated with them and soliciting contributors, presumably using LLM slop. They spam you with opt-out instructions that would easily be overlooked as spam. 🤬

Who would have imagined that between the US and Iran, it’s the latter that is winning the meme war?

"Thanks for not mentioning that you selfhost all of your services in front of my parents. I know that took restraint."

RE: wisskomm.social/@uni_regensburg/11640246...

Meine Universität, wie sie genau das Gegenteil von dem macht, was man von einer modernen Universität heutzutatge erwarten würde.

VetternwirtschAfD

Your semi-regular reminder that I'm collecting weird #hci papers at https://floe.butterbrot.org/matrix/rants/weird/

Found a nice new one from #chi2026 ("Outfoxed") via @nbhansen, keep the weirdness coming - suggestions always welcome! 😁 (still missing something for 2024/25, BTW)

New publication in JoVI: Greetings From. . . A Workshop to Visualise Unexpected Stories of a Place Through Data Postcards

by Sofia Cretaio, Chiara L. Remondino

journals.aau.dk/index.php/jovi/article/v...

Introduction Greetings from. . . is an exploratory format in which data […]

Julian Reichelt empört sich darüber, dass in Ungarn Magyar jetzt im ungarischen ÖR die Nachrichtensendungen streicht, weil diese von Orbán zur reinen Staatspropaganda umgebaut wurden. Während er in Deutschland die Abschaffung vom ÖRR fordert, weil das angeblich Staatspropaganda sei (ist es nicht).

Ich bin froh und dankbar, dass ich mit meinem Steuergeld auch als Rad- und Zugfahrer dazu beitragen kann, dass die Besitzer von Sportwagen und SUVs weiterhin günstig ohne Tempolimit über die Autobahn heizen können.