Impact Flows

Impact Flows. Consulting. Mindful impact for environment, community, and business.

[Impact Flows @impactflows]

The road to echo chambers is paved with good intentions,
and bending self for consensus or team compliance.

I wish the acceptance of diverse opinions was equally encouraged to diversity and inclusion.
#redteaming #resilience #leadership #impactflows

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[annammelegh @annammelegh]

@ai_for_success 1/ What really astounds me, is the pride we take in making the perfect tool for deception. Yes, the fact that an algorithm can produce an image who can fool everybody is intellectually stimulating, but one must indeed be a fool to think the damage caused by such a thing

[annammelegh @annammelegh]

@gtconway3d @LauraWalkerKC It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your ‘little men,’ your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. /2

[annammelegh @annammelegh]

@gtconway3d @LauraWalkerKC There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about—we were decent people—and kept us so busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the ‘national enemies,’ without and within, that
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[annammelegh @annammelegh]

@gtconway3d @LauraWalkerKC we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?"
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[annammelegh @annammelegh]

@gtconway3d @LauraWalkerKC https://t.co/tSPPVzzYKj
there is a book on this:
They Thought They Were Free. The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer

"Your friend the baker was right," said my colleague. "The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. /1

[annammelegh @annammelegh]

"I now realised there were some things in this country that I really didn’t like,” she said, declining to give her surname. “I wanted to have the feeling that I had done something about this”.

👏🏻
One should not underestimate apathy after 8 yrs of Orban-style governing. #Poland

[annammelegh @annammelegh]

Now we’re giving a voice to machines" reducing humans and diverse cultures to very stereotypical training data.

It's stereotypical how AI reduces the world to (Western-, and dominantly American-sourced) stereotypes and surface-level imitations. #ai #image #midjourney

[annammelegh @annammelegh]

A book review, with reminders from a 100yrs ago. #democracy #youknowit #whenyoulostit

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[annammelegh @annammelegh]

As autocratic intents collide, there are no left or right ideologies, just a desired end goal: power.

‘I think the world changes, and I find that I haven’t changed all that much.” - says a lifelong communist who fled HU in 1956 and now heads this far-right PR “think-tank”.

[Peter Sinclair @PeterWSinclair]

70,000 people trapped in a desert by extreme rain, running out of food, with rumors of disease spreading, and porta-johns overflowing - but determined to keep the party going, is such a great metaphor for our civilization right now.
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[annammelegh @annammelegh]

@neal_katyal @kalmantibs "70,000 people trapped in a desert by extreme rain, running out of food, with rumors of disease spreading, and porta-johns overflowing – but determined to keep the party going, is such a great metaphor for our civilization right now."

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[annammelegh @annammelegh]

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life." - Oscar Wilde #burningman

[Mrs.V. @MrsVinKinder]

@annammelegh Hello! 💙

I’m getting ready for another year in kindergarten. Would you please help with a RT? I have a couple of books and some other classroom supplies to help give my incoming kiddos an amazing first year of school!

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[annammelegh @annammelegh]

Imagine, companies pledging to make AI work for people, rather than being used to marginalize them to juice profits?

Do you think it would happen? #aiforgood #ethics

This historic writers’ strike matters for everyone – not just Hollywood | Hamilton Nolan https://t.co/7S65brKobz

[annammelegh @annammelegh]

Hungary under PM Orban is so successful that after disastrous price caps they enforce a "discounted" price on a "free" market. Thus claim victory,ailing pensioner base and those many peasant serfs will have something to eat.

Ghost of old socialism says privet tovarishch Orban.

[annammelegh @annammelegh]

AI for humanity is a catchy phrase. More often than not, it's also an illusion.

HR and HR technology folks should also read this as a cautionary tale on black boxes.

Algorithms are being used in welfare systems across Europe to hunt for fraud.

[annammelegh @annammelegh]

No Pinocchio faired well as a motivational speaker, we fail not recognizing that.

Gift link. https://t.co/U7j8SovJl5

[annammelegh @annammelegh]

@TheCajunLibert1 @snopes People, learn what critical thinking is; especially when false shit is circulated by goons for clicks.

this is catnip in order to make you accept corruption is overwhelming and give up on voting and holding those elected accountable.

#factcheck #toogoodtobetrue #misinfo

[annammelegh @annammelegh]

People, learn what critical thinking is; especially when shit is circulated on social media for clicks.

this is catnip in order to make you accept corruption is overwhelming and give up on voting and holding those elected accountable.

#factcheck #toogoodtobetrue #misinfo

[annammelegh @annammelegh]

US petrochemicals giant Dow Inc and the Singapore government said they were transforming old sneakers into playgrounds and running tracks. Reuters put that promise to the test by planting hidden trackers inside 11 pairs of donated shoes.

Most got exported instead.