AMLO: Wie die sozialistische Kybernetik der DDR half, den Marxismus-Leninismus zu verlernen.

Es ist weniger wahrscheinlich, dass ML als Mittel zur Unterstützung und des Empowerments von Minderheiten, der gefährdeten Ökologie sowie zur Abschaffung von prekarisierter Arbeit weiterentwickelt wird, zumal letztere gegenwärtig im Dienste genau dieser algorithmisierten Kontrolle steht.

A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner and his guard reunite as equals 13 years later.

Relevant: #CloseGuantanamo.

JavaScript Playground for Text Manipulation.

Online code editor for quickly transforming text from one form into another with the help of JavaScript.

“This blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem.”

No, really. Despite the timing of this article, this is not an April Fool’s joke.

There’s Not a Lot of Self-Reflection in Silicon Valley.

Usually in a tech company, you’re working so hard and running so fast that there’s not a ton of time for reflection. For example, many people set stretch goals or 50/50 goals. Goals you set for yourself that you have a 50% chance of achieving. You hope that by stretching yourself, you will actually achieve 75% of them. So, you’re always in a sprint, trying to do more with less. And when you’re sprinting toward a goal, you don’t have time to question the ecosystem. An important takeaway is that Silicon Valley requires lots of young employees because if you don’t have the stamina to be working nonstop, full time as overtime, you’re not going to cut it. And in performance reviews, you’re competing against your colleagues, so the pressure is always there to do more. It’s relentless.

From the Philosophy of the Open to the Ideology of the User-Friendly.

(…) what concerns me is that ‘user-friendly’ now takes the shape of keeping users steadfastly unaware and uninformed about how their computers, their reading/writing interfaces, work let alone how they shape and determine their access to knowledge and their ability to produce knowledge. As Wendy Chun points out, the user-friendly system is one in which users are, on the one hand, given the ability to “map, to zoom in and out, to manipulate, and to act” but the result is a “seemingly sovereign individual” who is mostly a devoted consumer of ready-made software and ready-made information whose framing and underlying mechanisms we are not privy to.

Don’t be Google.

Von wegen Automatisierung: Wie Googles KI mit prekärer, menschlicher Arbeit gebaut wird.

Jedes Mal, wenn Sie in der Lage sind, automatische Closed Captions für ein YouTube-Video einzuschalten, oder während einer Google Meet-Telefonkonferenz, den Ton des Gesprochenen in Echtzeit nahtlos in Text umwandeln können, wobei die sogenannte künstliche Intelligenz zum Einsatz kommt, hoffe ich, dass Sie an die Menschen denken, die für weit unter einem existenzsichernden Lohn gearbeitet haben, um diese Technologie möglich zu machen.

Utopia – Fluid responsive design (via www.smashingmagazine.com).

The gender of dementia.

I once saw a man who scored 3 out of 30 on his cognitive screening test, with a wife and daughter who initially denied that there were any problems with his memory. This man spent his days walking his dog around his local streets (or perhaps the dog was walking him); his wife did everything else for him. His role in the family was to be served by women, so the family had simply continued to serve him. I see whole families who have rearranged their lives around a man with advanced dementia, ensuring that he’s constantly supported, helping him wash and eat, without ever seeking a formal diagnosis.

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