What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ -

the Guardian

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison

The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to reali...

hugely important point: #AI is creating a flavourless, limited information monoculture

RE:

Mastodon 🐘

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (@rysiek@mstdn.social)

Mozilla is the browser vendor equivalent of centrist political parties. > We can do whatever the fsck we want because who you gonna vote for, the ...

excellent comparison View quoted note →

Why Solarpunk is already happening in #Africa -

Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa

Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past

"But here’s the meta-point: This is the template for building infrastructure in the 21st century." amazingly hopeful stuff; do read. (v slashdot) #renewables

Ryanair tries forcing app downloads by eliminating paper boarding passes -

Ars Technica

Ryanair tries forcing app downloads by eliminating paper boarding passes

Ryanair CEO admits "there’ll be some teething problems."

#ryanair being ryanair

#Mamdani’s Win Shows That Believing In Something Beats Performative Hatred -

Techdirt

Mamdani’s Win Shows That Believing In Something Beats Performative Hatred

Last week, I wrote about how the Trump administration has replaced any sort of concept of governance with governance-by-trolling—a government opt...

"There’s one more element to Mamdani’s success that’s worth highlighting: joy." another @npub14j85...pjuf special

Backlash after #NewZealand government scraps rules on incorporating #Māori culture in classrooms -

the Guardian

Backlash after New Zealand government scraps rules on incorporating Māori culture in classrooms

Minister says obligations for school boards to ‘give effect’ to the treaty are unfair while critics argue the move will sideline Indigenous edu...

extraordinary and racist backtracking

An #AI slop farm stole my #identity -

AlgorithmWatch

An AI slop farm stole my identity - AlgorithmWatch

AI slop is everywhere. By one estimate, roughly one in five articles referenced on Google Discover is automatically generated. It's less known...

fascinating and troubling tale... #journalism

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European #opensource alternative -

Euractiv

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv

The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

every time this happens, it makes it easier for others to do the same

How #NGOs die — Europe's playbook for dismantling democracy -

EUobserver

EUobserver

Influential. Investigative. Independent. EUobserver is a online non-profit news outlet reporting on the European Union.

this is terrible: the #EU has lost its mind

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is #Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? -

the Guardian

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?

In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone f...