2025-12-12 13:00:32
"How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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"How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation
Zhenyu Zhao, Hongyi Jing, Xiawei Liu, Jiageng Mao, Abha Jha, Hanwen Yang, Rong Xue, Sergey Zakharor, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08807
One thing we keep getting wrong: Privacy is a *human* right. Not a corporate right. Not a government right.
Corporations and governments, tools that – in theory at least – exist to serve the people, must be transparent and accountable.
Instead, today, we have the opposite: We give corporations and governments privacy and expect absolute transparency from everyday people. That’s broth for fascism.
A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (Sam Knight/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/how-what…
From Translink
From Expo 86 to Everyday Essential: SkyTrain Marks 40 Years
For four decades, Metro Vancouver’s driverless trains have helped shape where people live, how they move, and how the region grows
https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496
Roads can become more dangerous on hot days—especially for pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists #environment
🎨 How art reveals the values that sustain lasting peace
#art …
"This project started as a search problem and ended as something more. The most important result isn’t which neighbourhood tops the rankings - it’s the realisation that platforms now quietly structure survival in everyday urban markets. London’s restaurant scene is no longer organised by taste alone. It is organised by visibility that compounds, rent that rises when discovery arrives, and algorithms that allocate attention long before consumers ever show up. What looks like “choice” is increasingly the downstream effect of ranking systems."
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates
Increasingly the victims of the administration's campaign of terror are people just trying to survive when their daily life is upended by the presence of masked federal agents.
Those agents are ambushing immigrants after court appearances,
crashing into drivers while trying to escape protestors,
or abducting children if they seemingly impede the arrest of their own parents by dint of simply existing;
The people in the cities in which this is happening are just t…
Everyday Greatness
Cuts through the defining noise that distracts people in today's society, and reassures audiences that just rolling your sleeves up and doing what needs to be done without a fuss is a life to be proud of...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com…
⚗️ Algorithms reveal how propane becomes propylene for everyday products
#chemistry
"In the age of virality, our devices offer up individual case studies, allowing us to congregate around them virtually. Although this is useful in helping us understand what happens when a person is plucked from their home, it takes our attention away from the larger story—more than half a million people deported, millions more at risk—and focuses us instead on a tiny part of it."
Are science exhibitions for everyone? Accessibility aspects of the CERN Science Gateway exhibitions
Tamara Caldas Cifuentes, Jemma Harris, Patricia Verheyden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08584
Everyday Plastics Could Be Fueling Obesity, Infertility, and Asthma
https://scitechdaily.com/everyday-plastics-could-be-fueling-obesity-infertility-and-asthma/
PLEXUS Hand: Lightweight Four-Motor Prosthetic Hand Enabling Precision-Lateral Dexterous Manipulation
Yuki Kuroda, Tomoya Takahashi, Cristian C Beltran-Hernandez, Masashi Hamaya, Kazutoshi Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09209
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Wednesday:
🎵 Bitter Everyday
#Wednesday
https://wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/track/bitter-everyday
https://open.spotify.com/track/11uUGMzqRWf3fdOAMMyaFZ
If your are on Firefox and your are tired of the narrow ass scrollbar go to settings and enable "Always show scrollbars" then in about:config set widget.non-native-theme.enabled to true then set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override to 15-40.
You can thank https://www.dedoimedo.com/computer…
Did you know it's possible for two lines to appear to diverge in a 2D perspective view, but actually converge in 3D? Kind of the opposite of parallel lines in 3D converging in 2D.
I discovered this while trying to implement a clipping algorithm. At first I didn't believe it was possible, it felt so foreign to everyday experience. It actually happens whenever two lines converge behind the center of projection, but we rarely see that IRL.
(Image rendered from pov of came…
Moody Urbanity - Relations III 🧶
情绪化城市 - 关系 III 🧶
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Global study reveals widespread burning of plastic for heating and cooking #environment
Since I rely on and use @… pretty much everyday as my preferred email provider, I donated €10, and will turn it to a monthly donation.
Support the projects, organizations, or initiatives you depend on the most. For me, that’s https://…
On another unspecified social media, I joined a photography challenge called '52 flickers'. I'm supposed to take and post one photograph per week for the entirety of 2026. No archives, no backups, no spares, no descriptions - just a photo of any topic taken on a given week.
I typically shun this kind of challenges for millions of reasons, but since I take photos almost everyday, I decided to give it a shot. But to make it more interesting for myself, I decided not to use the most frequent categories of photos, i.e. reportage or stock.
Adding a thread here for backup purposes. Always tagging as [#]52flickers2026.
Here goes 👇
#photography #52flickers2026
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Wizzard:
🎵 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
#Wizzard
#Christmas)
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sly & The Family Stone:
🎵 Everyday People
#NowPlaying #Sly #TheFamilyStone
https://itsjimmythegent.bandcamp.com/track/sly-the-family-stone-everyday-people-jimmy-the-gents-back2thabronx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZVZBc5xvMyV3WzWktn8i7
Financial well-being has an outsize imprint on older Americans’ quality of life
-- affecting their physical health, social life and even cognitive skills.
Low-income seniors are more likely to experience mental confusion,
spend less time pursuing hobbies,
and face difficulties with everyday tasks such as climbing stairs and grocery shopping,
compared with their more affluent counterparts
I realise now GPU tech is way too powerful to be sold at a bargain to normy gamers, hence the enormous price ramp up. Think about the high tech inventions that came DOWN from the space programs into our everyday lives. AI capable hardware came UP from the gaming space, and is now used in crime, research, financing, national security, and the military. Which is alarming for an off-the-shelf technology that is within the reach of every sicko grokking in Muskland.
Just so you can guess where the "AI" thing is headed, look at this listing from a local community college
"AI made simple for everyday life"
... And look at what comes next:
"Flaggers certification"
The exciting thing (for bosses) is the idea that knowledge workers will be as interchangeable (and precarious) as DOT flaggers
#YouDeserveAUnion
#TIL about CYBATHLON #cybathlon
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Wednesday:
🎵 Bitter Everyday
#Wednesday
https://wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/track/bitter-everyday
https://open.spotify.com/track/11uUGMzqRWf3fdOAMMyaFZ
Care about everyday people the way the French government cares about gemstones and jewelry.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgkk1mkg0po
Sweden just invested $12M in solar cells that work indoors.
Exeger's Powerfoyle technology could eliminate disposable batteries in everyday electronics by harvesting energy from indoor and outdoor light. The flexible solar cells reduce dependence on critical raw materials while offering high conductivity.
This funding will help scale production and move us closer to a battery-free future for consumer devices.
My wife refuses to acknowledge that it's #NoKnitNovember and has instead taken up a challenge to knit everyday in November. She's totally missing the spirit of the month.
Event: Dec. 6 Book Response on Living Islam
Join us for an evening of conversation inspired by Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith, the acclaimed book byProfessor Ali S. Asani, which invites readers to explore the many ways Muslims around the world understand and experience their faith through culture, art, and everyday life. The discussion, moderated by Alisha Kurji and featuring Dr. Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University) and…
DoorDash is a marquee sponsor of SFBike's Winterfest this year 😢 I bought a ticket anyway. It's bleak out here trying to fund nonprofits under capitalism. Hate the game, not the player. https://sfbike.org/winterfest/
Runbelievable Podcast
Runbelievable is the podcast where everyday runners share their not-so-everyday stories...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/runbelievable/
Everyday, Frank the #Squirrel comes to my doorstep, asking for food. He scratches at the door, peering through the glass.
I open the door & give him a walnut & he takes it from my hand & then jumps on the fence & eats it. He comes back when he's done.
It's as much fun as walking my dog, Waldo.
"New uses for everyday spaces: South Korea turns parking lots into solar power hubs"
#SouthKorea #SolarPower #Energy
German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines.
But it offered a glimpse of how far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas,
in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media.
“It’s frightening, honestly,”
said Katherine Kondor, a researcher with the Norwegian Center fo…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Arrested Development:
🎵 People Everyday
#ArrestedDevelopment
https://ericfaria.bandcamp.com/track/arrested-development-people-everyday-eric-faria-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6JvodgYcsthsORxPsEYUoe
Urbanity - Urbana Decay ❤️🩹
城市化 - 城市的衰败 ❤️🩹
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
"…official White House reaction…was 'Who cares?' But guess what? They clearly cared, a lot. You could see that…with the increasingly insane rhetoric and warnings about 'antifa' — a tiny, unorganized sliver of young rock-throwing radicals who were nowhere in sight Saturday — that aimed to neutralize the reality that millions of everyday Americans are sick of seeing a masked secret police snatch people off the streets."
Upgraded my old ThinkPad X220 with a 1TB SSD drive now. Running Debian with Cinnamon desktop. It's fast enough for everyday work even with the just 8GB of RAM. I might upgrade that to 16GB. Most annoying bit is the dead battery and the small screen. I might eventually get a new battery so the thing won't turn off at every wiggle of the power cable. But apart from that, still a perfectly fine machine. It's from around 2011 ...
AI deepfakes are now part of our everyday online life—from fake posts w/ high-profile figures to cloned voices that sound like someone you know.
Even if AI makes these scams look more convincing, the tactics behind them haven’t changed: create pressure so you act before you think.
That’s where #digitalmindfulness comes in.
A short pause can make all the difference.
Folks, you know Joy, my partner at Gaza Verified who is herself enduring Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza while trying to help her fellow Palestinians. Well, she’s gone and done the sort of thing Joy does, which is to use the money she had saved from her donations to pay for her aunt’s cancer surgery. She’s one of the most selfless people I know and I’d be very grateful if you could help with her fundraiser so she can afford to buy everyday necessities for her family.
This is her fund…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Parlor Greens:
🎵 Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday
#ParlorGreens
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oSpQ3cgDSgr4UandAH11l
Bravewords
Gathers true stories of everyday people with extraordinary honesty...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods
"Study shows people have misconceptions about the environmental impact of everyday food"
#Environment #Food
Nice article about the importance of connecting data, harmony without orchestration of millions of small flexible energy actions, inspired by a post of mine.
https://nemlog.substack.com/p/sustainability-will-not-be-commanded
I get the outrage, and the injustice of those sanctions, but 'Amazon', Uber, better off without those.
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life – The Irish Times
https://www.irishti…
so far, so amazingly good. the Dell 5290 has a close keyboard but with a nice haptic response and despite less RAM and similar bogomips to my old ZaReason, everything media has been smooth as glass in #Debian13 - never thought I would say so, but if you are new to pondering Linux for that machine that can't do Win11, for everyday use or science lab stuff unfettered by clouds, I wouldn't go near Ubuntu, you'll be just fine in Debian.
Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease #health
Smart fridge, smart stove, smart dishwasher, smart washer/dryer or other household appliances... HELL NO! I don't want or need internet connected appliances. If those servers goes offline, if an 'upgrade' glitches or I say no to an update what happens to the basic functionality? What data are they capturing and selling?
h…
Schotty Brings "Compete Everyday" To Life | Players Lounge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9d5CpmcJLQ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Parlor Greens:
🎵 Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday
#ParlorGreens
https://parlorgreens.bandcamp.com/album/auld-lang-syne-everyday-will-be-like-a-holiday
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oSpQ3cgDSgr4UandAH11l
"If you don't have a foundation to base your actions and reactions on, someone else will provide one and dictate how you should be in the world."
- William Mulligan, "The Everyday Stoic", Penguin Random House UK, 2024, p. 42
#Page42
Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
城市化 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
From The Conversation
Canada’s long history with public service media offers a useful model for thinking about how AI could serve the public.
A publicly funded AI system could draw on public-domain materials, government datasets and openly licensed cultural content. It could be offered as an open-source system, making it widely available to researchers, developers and everyday users alike.
Everyday, Fat Putin demonstrates his priorities are, first & foremost, his greed, his ego & his vanity - the American people, be damned.
And today, his mouthpiece actually said it.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a23utge5gk6ckgm3ypx…
Feral By Design
A podcast stealing nature's smartest strategies for our everyday chaos...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/feral-by-design/
Folks, Joy carries out the verification calls for Gaza Verified everyday as a volunteer.
Please help support her work and help her take care of her family in Gaza by donating to her fundraiser.
https://www.chuffed.org/project/evacuate-joy
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Arrested Development:
🎵 People Everyday
#ArrestedDevelopment
https://ericfaria.bandcamp.com/track/arrested-development-people-everyday-eric-faria-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1nSUJWYRqsafI8Bh1X0ypp
Urban Texture 🧩
城市质地 🧩
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Buddy Holly:
🎵 Everyday
#BuddyHolly
https://thecompletebuddyholly.bandcamp.com/track/everyday-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/6uCH1T681nNI92QXuU2lma
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Matt Wilde:
🎵 Everyday Words
#MattWilde
https://open.spotify.com/track/3hxax15bX4YjgMEDhcDGYc
"Coffee waste helps make lower carbon concrete"
#Coffee #Concrete
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11…
Italics in use for accentuating everyday words in a book review :sigh:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
William Bell:
🎵 Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday
#WilliamBell
https://izayawinstone.bandcamp.com/track/william-bell-everyday-will-be-like-a-holiday-izaya-winstone-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/3URBNLmakSDo30JR1WeSCo
Pivot Club
Sarah Davidson has intimate, and at times hilarious conversations with both household names and everyday heroes who took the plunge and sharing the messy, honest truth about reinventing yourself...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/pivot-
Earlier this month, the House Oversight Committee released a flotilla of Epstein emails
—more than 20,000 in total.
What if you were able to just… read them like emails?
That’s the simple premise behind “Jmail,”
a re-skinning of the documents programmed to look and feel like an everyday Gmail account
https://jmail.world/
Moody Urbanity - Urban surrealism 👒
情绪化城市 - 都市超现实主义 👒
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Osmosis Jones:
🎵 Everyday Is A Gunshot
#OsmosisJones
https://clubsoundpacks.bandcamp.com/track/osmosis-jones-everyday-is-a-gunshot-original-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1gnDMQs479vdRBysPU8yyB
You can support the Palestinian people without supporting Hamas. You can support the Ukrainian people, oppose Russia, and oppose American imperialism at the same time.
Do you see the common thread?
You can support the everyday people being oppressed without taking the side of any oppressor.
In the wake of President Trump’s return to the White House,
independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders spent months crisscrossing the nation rallying huge crowds in red and blue states during his Fighting Oligarchy tour.
His new book,
“Fight Oligarchy,” is an extension of those rallies and also serves as a blueprint for how everyday Americans can push back against the deep-pocketed forces shaping politics today.
But at 84 years old, the two-time presidential candidate …
Dear USians,
How about you don’t call a Middle Eastern guy “white” and go on to tell him he’s “no better than any other oppressor we encounter” simply for trying to warn his Palestinian friends to not take any unnecessary risks and to be careful on Mastodon?
Also, apparently Divya has blocked me for this, which sucks because it has made it impossible for me to keep boosting her fundraiser, which you should, of course, still follow and support (link below).
I’m not going to …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fishbone:
🎵 Everyday Sunshine
#Fishbone
https://fishbone.bandcamp.com/track/everyday-sunshine
https://open.spotify.com/track/1QJQwHjaamdmdmoaN47NCD
Moody Urbanity - Life Details ⚜️
情绪化城市 - 生活细节 ⚜️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Wikipedia's been around since 2001.
Back then, it was just a dream. -- A wildly ambitious, probably impossible dream. -- But it came together piece by piece.
And for all that time, Wikipedia's stayed free. We do not run ads—we rely on the support of everyday readers.
Only 2% ever donate.
But that small group makes a big difference.
When you support Wikipedia, you're standing up for something simple but profound:
that knowledge should belong to…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Arrested Development:
🎵 People Everyday
#ArrestedDevelopment
https://ericfaria.bandcamp.com/track/arrested-development-people-everyday-eric-faria-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1nSUJWYRqsafI8Bh1X0ypp
Molly interviews the founders of @…
Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin,
about the origins and evolution of their grassroots political movement,
which emerged in response to Donald Trump's 2016 election.
As former congressional staffers,
they leveraged insider knowledge to empower everyday Americans
—from nurses …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Wizzard:
🎵 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
#Wizzard
https://littleblue0.bandcamp.com/track/wizzard-i-wish-it-could-be-christmas-everyday-littleblue-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Y1NBPXqLOoxoBK9I2Dg1c
Moody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 📌
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 📌
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sly & the Family Stone:
🎵 Everyday People
#Sly #theFamilyStone
https://itsjimmythegent.bandcamp.com/track/sly-the-family-stone-everyday-people-jimmy-the-gents-back2thabronx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5H4OmZpHmjqYrL5bhijrwj
Moody Urbanity - Past 📴
情绪化城市 - 过去 📴
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MiddayShow
Arrested Development:
🎵 People Everyday
#ArrestedDevelopment
https://ericfaria.bandcamp.com/track/arrested-development-people-everyday-eric-faria-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6JvodgYcsthsORxPsEYUoe
Moody Urbanity - TWO II 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 II 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Sly & the Family Stone:
🎵 Everyday People
#Sly #theFamilyStone
https://itsjimmythegent.bandcamp.com/track/sly-the-family-stone-everyday-people-jimmy-the-gents-back2thabronx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZVZBc5xvMyV3WzWktn8i7