@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-07-14 17:40:06
"AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other f…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-15 16:40:43
2/2 I continued blogging Alberniweather and on FB and Twitter but I gradually removed my personal self from Facebook and eventually during the Pandemic, I decided the Facebook environment was just too toxic even for weather stuff and I shut down my page and left Facebook completely.
The impact on traffic to Alberniweather.ca and its prominence in the community was, and still is, significant.
I have diehard followers, many who have become friends over the years, I still get the odd call from media, or even the public about random weather things.
I have good connections with a few folks at Environment Canada (though their staff have become thinner and more transient :(
and major events still get spikes of local traffic but I since about 2022, and after I removed myself from Twitter that year, I don’t blog nearly as much. I would do a few posts in a week, and then go months without posting. I just got out of the habit I guess.
But I am still interested in the weather. I still feel like Alberniweather is a useful service for people in my community. I still feel a willing obligation to inform people about the weather and I believe I am trusted to do so by the public and local leaders. I’ve never made any money at it, I sold ad space on the website for a few years but it wasn’t worth the hassle and I didn’t feel comfortable taking the money when I was councillor. I have had some generous spontaneous donations at times.
But mainly I do it because it’s interesting, and I hope it is useful for people especially when people are looking for information during a major event.
The highest traffic I have ever had on Alberniweather pre-FB exit was the local Dog Mountain forest fire in 2015.
post-FB exit: the #underwoodfire
People want easy access to reliable local, trusted, information.
Large media orgs have mostly given up on this.
I am grateful we still have an active local newspaper and radio and that both trust me and I trust them.
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@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-15 00:41:43
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today.
There are tiny t-shirts and signs.
AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
https://bsky.app/profile/tolcser…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-07-15 03:05:27
«AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it»
The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-09-14 17:33:43
Imma be rich! Thanks Elon!
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-15 14:34:03
Housing, food and energy security are “more important now than ever with climate change,”
Haíɫzaqv Hereditary Chief λšλíya sila, Frank Brown, says.
“Housing is a human right.
It’s imperative we make some progress around ensuring people have adequate housing and that it’s appropriate for the threats that are coming.”
https://
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-07-15 15:57:56
«Users have reuploaded 5,000 models used to generate nonconsensual sexual content of real people to Hugging Face after they were banned from Civitai. […] Hugging Face did not respond to multiple requests for comment. It also did not respond to specific questions about how and if it plans to moderate these model»
I wish the people that tried to tell me that Hugging Face are the good guys can now see them for what they are…
https://www.404media.co/hugging-face-is-hosting-5-000-nonconsensual-ai-models-of-real-people/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-15 23:31:20
As unrest and military troops overtake Los Angeles, terrifying scenes are also unfolding in smaller communities around the country.
They, too, are being invaded by what resembles a secret police force, often indistinguishable from random thugs.
https://www.washington…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-15 15:13:14
Yesterday Trump told us that his plan was to remove 21m people from the United States,
or 6% of our current population and at least 5% of our total current workforce.
“All of them have to go home.”
A few points about this insane post:
Best estimates are that the total undocumented population in the US is between 12m and 15m.
The figure that Trump and his regime keeps using
- 21m came in under Biden
- is made up and false.
Here’s the latest Pe…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-15 17:03:23
At least a half-dozen existing student-loan repayment programs will be extinguished,
including the most affordable option,
the Biden-era plan known as SAVE.
The nearly eight million people in that plan will soon need to figure out their next-best option.
The system is being restructured at a crucial moment in the ongoing student loan saga.
Only 44 percent of the nearly 35 million borrowers who should be making payments actually are, according to calculations b…
