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»Quantenphysik und KI — Warum neue Technologien magisch wirken - und das #BigTech in die Hände spielt:
Während bei einem Kartentrick jeder den Zauber entlarven will, begegnen wir neuer #Technologie gerne mit ehrfürchtigem Staunen. Der Grund hat etwas mit einer ganz rudimentären Angst zu tun, mein…

Quantenphysik und KI: Warum neue Technologien magisch wirken – und das Big Tech in die Hände spielt | t3n
Bei Kartentricks wollen die Menschen gern herausfinden, wie sie funktionieren. Bei neuen Technologien hingegen, lassen sie sich gern verzaubern.

The Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech

Tech Pizza Monday is on, as usual, tomorrow starting at 6 PM, at the usual place, Victory Cafe at 440 Bloor St. W. #techmeetup https://luma.com/h9neb30z

Seems worth posting this again:
#tech #ethics #DataEthics

Glossary of Technical and Green Terms - Understand key words, abbreviations and other terms used on Earth Notes. #tech #glossary #energy -

Glossary of Technical and Green Terms
Understand key words, abbreviations and other terms used on Earth Notes. #tech #glossary #energy

Phew finally managed to track down a copy of “Enshittification” by @…
Was weirdly hard to find it in NYC today! I tried multiple bookstores and had to wonder around multiple floors of the Union Sq. Barnes and Noble to find a sole copy tucked away on a sociology shelf.
Not sure if I’m just too early, since I was looking around 1 pm on the day the book officially released, or if the bookstores are sleeping on it.
In either case - I have it and I’m delighted to be reading it!!
#books #tech #enshittification

The product triad is obsolete. The ideal software development team actually has four members:
#tech #agile #softwaredevelopment

Rest of World, an outlet focused on covering #tech "outside the west" hires, as their new publisher, someone whose has spent his entire career in #NYC and, as far as I can tell, has no experience "outside the west."

Rest of World Welcomes Gordon Saft as Next Publisher
It’s a big day at Rest of World, as we share the news that Gordon Saft will become our next Publisher. Gordon brings a wealth of experience across media, technology and innovation.

I find it quite funny how if I write an essay on tech, I sound really anti tech 😂
#tech

Stickers! Pins! Patches! All this plus pizza (and Monday, and tech!) can be found at Tech Pizza Monday: Stickers Club Edition. Monday, October 6th, 6 PM at Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W. #Toronto #tech #pizza

✍️ New post: Euro­pean Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺
#blogtober #tech #software #europe

European Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺 · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

»Tech & #Religion — Peter Thiels geheimer Besuch an der Uni Innsbruck:
Der #Tech-Milliardär Peter Thiel ist fasziniert von der Idee eines "#AntiChrist'en". Im August hielt er dazu vier Vo…

Tech & Religion: Peter Thiels geheimer Besuch an der Uni Innsbruck
Der Tech-Milliardär Peter Thiel ist fasziniert von der Idee eines "Anti-Christen". Im August hielt er dazu vier Vorträge im kleinsten Kreis an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät. Warum die Geheimnistuerei?

SD Card Data Recovery... #tech
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xcukLOhm9zY
very nice

Ah, good thing Ireland didn’t bet a major chunk of its economy on US Big Tech creating jobs or anything.
*phew!*
#BigTech #USA #AI

Here's my latest free to read article from Prairie Voice about digital ghost towns:
#tech

Über die Gründung von Broadcom und deren Mitgründer Henry Samueli: #techhistory

Henry Samueli: Champion of Digital Broadband
In 1991, the few people who had Internet access at home mainly relied on slow dialup lines. Henry Samueli envisioned faster digital broadband. In research at UCLA and at Broadcom, which he cofounded in 1991, Samueli and his team revolutionized digital modems, enabling today's high-speed communications. Awarded the 2025 IEEE Medal of Honor, Samueli's journey from a curious middle schooler to a tech pioneer is inspiring.

Entirely not shocked. Never gonna buy a Smart display of any kind and I'm done with streaming services so I wouldn't buy one of those either. It's a pirate's life for me.
#Tech #PSA #HDMI

hahah.. yes.. YES...
The #tech #conglomerates, having scoured all crumbs of the original #internet, how turn to each other and devour themselves.

Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI
Reddit is selling your posts to AI companies, and now it’s suing to stop the ones who won’t pay. Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get …

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

I know all the bootleg phone cheat codes #tech #shanzhai

world's greatest speakers (this was preloaded on the phone BTW) #tech #shanzhai

Terms and Conditions May Apply.
#tech
#bigtech
#privacy
#documentary

Here's a live walking test of the Meta v2 AI glasses on the streets of New York City.
#newyork

Passwords are a scourge foisted on elderly tech-users. :(
I just got back from a house call with a fellow who can’t remember his passwords for his email. None of his backups work. His little book of passwords, useless.
There is no support to call for help.
His only option is to create a new email and leave the other behind.
Over and over I have seen this trouble. Not always to this extent, but always the same frustration.
Passwords are elder abuse.
#techsupport #life #security

There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.
This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.
AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.
Doing what is easiest is only going to make things worse. The only helpful course of action is to fix the system.

"Just doing things" is not a path to value
Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

Now this is really cool!
Not just the 3d effects (actually 4d as the #drones are moving) but also the #technology with drones recharging on the fly.

How 3,000 drones recreated Michelangelo’s masterpieces above the Vatican
The lightweight tech is custom-made, with drones swapping in and out seamlessly to create halos of light—and the hand of God.

"Indigenous women in Peru use technology to protect Amazon forests"
#Peru #Technology #AmazonRainforest

Indigenous women in Peru use technology to protect Amazon forests
In 2017, when Betty Rubio began patrolling the forests of her ancestral land, she began to question why she was doing it. It wasn’t easy. She knew that tackling environmental crimes such as illegal logging and mining came with risks, and that as a woman, those risks were even greater. “My children would say to […]

This is your friendly reminder to start that backup you've been putting off :p #tech

I think there’s a real possibility that local, running on consumer electronic devices, generative AI without the need for expensive processors, data centers, massive amounts of water and electricity may well be the actual long term way forward for generative AIs like LLM, image and video generators.
#tech #ai

This is how “delighted” and “helped” I feel.
and no, I still have no idea how to resolve my issue. #AI #chatbot #tech #CustomerSupportNightmare #CustomerSupport

A fresh notepad, clean desk and coffee ready. Red hat 10 training will start soon.
#tech #RHEL #linux #coffee

Thanks, customer support #AI chatbot. So f**king helpful.
Bot: “Contact our support team”
Me: “How do I do that?”
Bot: “I can’t help you.”
(I want to scream so badly)
#chatbot #tech #CustomerSupportNightmare #CustomerSupport

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
E‐40 feat. Tech N9ne & Brotha Lynch Hung:
🎵 Zombie
#E40 #TechN9ne #BrothaLynchHung
https://open.spotify.com/track/08yQRRz4xUUSK9gHgsPocT

"Virgin Media 02 to scale tech reuse programme in Coventry"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Coventry #Technology

One other pattern that I kept experiencing last year when I was actually trying these tools in my work (because I had so many people pushing them on me I started to think I was crazy):
Them: “oh you are struggling with X? I have been using AI to solve it and it gives me the solution in less than 10 minutes! You HAVE TO try it!”
Me: “X is really annoying, I’d love to get help with it. I’ll try that, thanks!”
* I go and try to do X, spend hours prompting AI back-and-forth as it keeps messing up and doing things wrong. I give up and do the thing manually, spending 2-3x the time I would have spent if I did it myself from the start.*
*days / weeks later*
Me: “hey, person, I tried to do X with AI and it didn’t work. I kept getting issues like Y and Z. Did I prompt it wrong? This is what I tried.”
Them: *nods, maybe chuckles* “oh yeah, it does that. I still haven’t been able to figure out how to reliably do X. I tend to redo the output completely too. But sometimes it helps me do like this tiny part. Anyway, these tools will improve soon and we won’t have to do so many manual revisions. “
I kid you not, this stuff happened every other week.
#AI #LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble

Curious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #AI flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way:
Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.”
Stage 2: “Here are the steps in the flow and the instructions I feed to this agent / custom GPT / Claude project. I tell it to do X, reference document Y, and aim for Z.”
Stage 3: “Now, let me show you the results it gives.”
*Writes task, presses to run the prompt.*
Stage 4: “Umm sorry it’s taking a while. It’s fast but not instant. And by the way, the prompt isn’t perfect, you can definitely make it better. I just threw this together real quick the other day. It makes some mistakes, but it’s really good.”
Stage 5: “Uuuuuuh actually don’t look at the output.” *scrolls or stops screen share or pulls device away.*
“You know it’s already doing so well, if I do more prompt engineering it will get really good but I need to give it better instructions. And it ran just fine last night, I don’t know what’s up with it. And this is a cheap model, if we use another model it will be better.”
Stage 6: “You know, you really shouldn’t judge this so much. The technology will improve, it will get there sooner than you know and then you’ll regret not trying it sooner.”
So curious that this keeps happening 🤷‍♀️
#LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble