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Faculty and students on Chinese campuses are enthusiastically embracing AI, and the level of public excitement for AI in China is far greater vs. the US and UK (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/28/1120747/chinese-uni…

Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less
Unlike the West, where universities are still agonizing over how students use AI in their work, top universities in China are going all in.

Goed achtergrondartikel over Peter Thiel en zijn pion JD Vance.
https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/pas-op-voor-peter-thiel-de-techmiljardair-is-zijn-geduld-met-de-mensheid-aan-het-verliezen~b348bd1c/

Pas op voor Peter Thiel: de techmiljardair is zijn geduld met de mensheid aan het verliezen
Met hun verlangen naar een nieuwe mens en een andere wereld marcheren de Amerikaanse bigtechmiljardairs richting de utopie. Dat zou Europa zeer nerveus moeten maken, schrijft Stevo Akkerman.

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

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Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
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(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

> "AI" is a fossil fuel technology.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114760351207463338

📡 Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology
#technology

Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology
With the ability to detect and amplify extremely weak electromagnetic signals without adding additional noise, masers have many potential uses, including the production of more sensitive magnetic resonance body scanners, such as those used in airports.

Oh, my. How interesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/28/trump-tax-bill-weakens-doge-cost-cutting-efforts-elon-musk

Oh, my. How interesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/28/trump-tax-bill-weakens-doge-cost-cutting-efforts-elon-musk

Emerging applications of neurotechnology and their implications for EU governance #BCI

Emerging applications of neurotechnology and their implications for EU governance
This report sums up recent developments in neurotechnology, that is, technology that can read and modify activity from the central nervous system. Some devices record information from the brain, and others deliver stimulation to the brain (and some do both). These technologies are rapidly advancing and are likely to have a profound impact on various aspects of society. In the near future, neurotechnology is set to revolutionise the way we approach a range of policy areas, from healthcare, educa…

Im Rahmen des Journalismusfest Innsbruck wurde für für DER STANDARD interviewed.
Wir sprachen über KI und Technologie im Allgemeinen. Und darüber, dass dem #KI Hype hinterherzurennen das Gegenteil von sinnvoll und zielführend ist.