@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-02-28 06:45:52
Filing: Applied Materials discloses "multiple subpoenas" as recently as February from US agencies, including the SEC, about the company's Chinese business (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2024-04-26 13:55:17
As developers we pay Apple 30% to have a great App Store platform that they keep free of garbage...
...after being told what the garbage is by journalists.
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-fo…
@leodurruti@puntarella.party2024-03-26 19:44:18
@cheryanne@aus.social2024-03-27 03:00:18
That's A Wrap! What's Next?
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@sfmatheson@fediscience.org2024-03-27 17:06:56
RIP Daniel #Kahneman. Thoughts from last year:
"...*Thinking, Fast and Slow* was a life-changer for me. As soon as I read it in 2013, I urged colleagues to read it, even convening a book club."
"I can *feel* the move in my mind from the constant important work of System 1 to the deliberative work of System 2. Knowing how often my intuition has been a hindrance to my understanding of the world, I welcome the feeling of going to the place where the adult is in charge."
https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/scientific-thinking-as-antidote-to.html
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2024-03-26 04:42:43
I've been reading "On Green” (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, “On Attunement” with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on “AGI”, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmed”, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purpose” but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-03-26 17:20:27
Sources: NBC News plans to drop Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor following on-air revolt from NBC/MSNBC talent; McDaniel is seeking legal representation (Dylan Byers/@dylanbyers)
https://twitter.com/dylanbyers/status/1772672463790547271
@cheryanne@aus.social2024-03-27 03:00:18
That's A Wrap! What's Next?
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-03-28 02:25:55
GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts that call for violence against trans people and describe trans and gender nonconforming people as "satanic" and more (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/27…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-03-26 17:20:27
Sources: NBC News plans to drop Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor following on-air revolt from NBC/MSNBC talent; McDaniel is seeking legal representation (Dylan Byers/@dylanbyers)
https://twitter.com/dylanbyers/status/1772672463790547271