The issue with people “letting AI do the reading for them” is that a society that does not read is a society that can’t think critically. It can be easily manipulated by authoritarians. When we don’t read we are less informed, more dependent on tech tools, and more compliant.
"algorithms, trained on historical data, quietly limit our futures, with the same thinking" that left the world rife with a number of problems without precedent.
How will we deal with these? "Our new digital mirrors point backward.” Shannon Vallor.
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I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
47 years ago, Bing Crosby, in his final Christmas special, teamed up with David Bowie in one of the most wholesome and beautiful duets of all time.
Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy.
The fact that the tech industry has released an ‘innovation’ with unclear benefits that is so energy-intense that it delays the retirement from coal at a time when we urgently need to phase out fossil fuels, leaves me speechless.
Great work, @SashaMTL!
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It's important to remind people of the true meaning of Christmas;
ghosts terrorising rich people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees more.