marleenstikker

marleenstikker, 5 days ago to random Dutch

“Technology is built by humans and controlled by humans, and we cannot talk about technology as an independent agent acting outside of human decisions and accountability–this is true for AI as much as anything else. “ @Mer__edith https://theinnovator.news/interview-of-the-week-meredith-whittaker-ai-ethics-expert/?utm_source=pocket_saves

marleenstikker, 6 days ago to random Dutch

Solid + ActivityPub could radically change the network. https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/activitypods-federated-solid-pods/

marleenstikker, 25 days ago to random Dutch

‘De Staat van het Internet’ lezing door @kimvsparrentak ‘technologie is politiek’ @waag

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marleenstikker, 1 month ago to random Dutch

Vraag: hoe verstaat de toename van data centers en AI zich tot de inspanningen van big tech om energie te besparen?

marleenstikker, 1 month ago to random Dutch

Good riddance … “The closure of Bostrom’s center is a further blow to the effective altruism and longtermism movements that the philosopher has spent decades championing, which in recent years have become mired in scandals related to racism, sexual harassment and financial fraud. “

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

marleenstikker, 1 month ago to random Dutch

Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/28/taliban-edict-to-resume-stoning-women-to-death-met-with-horror?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

marleenstikker, 2 months ago to random Dutch

“The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. “ https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

marleenstikker, 3 months ago to random Dutch

At Transmediale the panel ‘Anti-Colonial Tech through Resistance and Discomforts’ prepared by Varia, Constant, TITiPI, Digital Discomfort Workgroup has been redrawn because they were not allowed to talk about Palestina. Here their statement: https://pad.riseup.net/p/r.5e8fb6bd54cdce773db487845244e55d

marleenstikker, 4 months ago to random Dutch

Kom naar de feestelijke lancering van MeentCoop!

Op 8 februari vindt de lancering van MeentCoop plaats: incubator voor de gemeenschapseconomie, een broedplaats voor coöperatieve ondernemingen. We delen kennis, geld en netwerk bij financiering, technologie, bedrijfsvoering en ontwikkeling. We nodigen alle Amsterdammers uit om mee te doen!

https://meent.coop/event/lancering-meentcoop/

marleenstikker, 4 months ago to random Dutch

Behind the scene story on how Meta/threads want to integrate the fediverse: http://plasticbag.org/archives/2024/01/how-threads-will-integrate-with-the-fediverse/

marleenstikker, 4 months ago to random Dutch

“Last year, Big Tech companies (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft) received about $3.04 billion in fines for breaking laws on both sides of the Atlantic. As of seven days and three hours into 2024, they had already earned enough revenue to pay it all off.
A little over a week of operations is all it would take if the companies tackled their fines one after another.”
https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-2023-fines-vs-revenue

marleenstikker, 8 months ago to random Dutch

Waag | Boekpresentatie 'De hackers die Nederland veranderden'

https://waag.org/nl/event/boekpresentatie-de-hackers-die-nederland-veranderden

marleenstikker, 8 months ago to random Dutch

The Guardian blocks ChatGPT owner OpenAI from trawling its content

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/the-guardian-blocks-chatgpt-owner-openai-from-trawling-its-content?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

marleenstikker, 9 months ago to random Dutch

Ik ben met mijn collega Sander van der Waal op weg naar de commissie Rechtstaat die aan advies werkt en kom deze brief van Tjeenk Willink tegen. Zijn analyse over de maatschappelijke democratie zou de basis moeten vormen voor elk verkiezingsprogramma:
“ https://www.staatscommissierechtsstaat.nl/binaries/staatscommissie-rechtsstaat/documenten/brieven/2023/08/13/brief-herman-tjeenk-willink-aan-de-staatscommissie-rechtsstaat/Brief+Herman+Tjeenk+Willink+aan+de+Staatscommmissie+rechtsstaat.pdf

marleenstikker, 9 months ago to random Dutch

Thirsty Data Centers Are Making Hot Summers Even Scarier
With drought spreading around the globe, battles over water are erupting between AI companies seeking more computing power and communities where their facilities are located.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-26/extreme-heat-drought-drive-opposition-to-ai-data-centers

marleenstikker, 10 months ago to fediverse Dutch

Koen de Jonge - SynQ: "Lieve #Fediverse bewoners. V…" - ProcoliX Mastodon

https://procolix.social/@koen/110785047348645921

marleenstikker, 10 months ago to random Dutch

“McKinsey claimed that the Metaverse would bring businesses $5 trillion in value. Citi valued it at no less than $13 trillion. There was only one problem: The whole thing was bullshit. Far from being worth trillions of dollars, the Metaverse turned out to be worth absolutely bupkus. It’s not even that the platform lagged behind expectations or was slow to become popular. There wasn’t anyone visiting the Metaverse at all.” https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/metaverse-zuckerberg-pr-hype/

marleenstikker, 10 months ago to random Dutch

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority imposes a ban on Meta carrying out behavioural advertising based on the surveillance and profiling of users in Norway. The ban will initially apply until October

https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/temporary-ban-of-behavioural-advertising-on-facebook-and-instagram/

marleenstikker, 10 months ago to random Dutch

https://openfuture.eu/blog/the-launch-of-threads-is-an-opportunity-for-public-institutions-to-embrace-the-fediverse/

marleenstikker, 10 months ago to random Dutch

OpenAI and Microsoft Sued for $3 Billion Over Alleged ChatGPT 'Privacy Violations'. “Defendants have been unjustly enriched by their theft of personal information as its billion-dollar AI business, including ChatGPT and beyond, was built on harvesting and monetizing Internet users’ personal data," the lawsuit states. “

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjxgx/openai-and-microsoft-sued-for-dollar3-billion-over-alleged-chatgpt-privacy-violations

marleenstikker, 11 months ago to random Dutch

Ian Forrester of BBC: ‘we do not want your data’ https://conference.publicspaces.net/session/datakluis-datacommons #publicspaces2023

marleenstikker, 11 months ago to random Dutch

“The techno-catastrophists want to create a narrative that the shit coming down the pike is not the result of their actions, but the inevitable cost of progress. “
https://www.profgalloway.com/techno-narcissism/

marleenstikker, 11 months ago to random Dutch

This is exactly the reason why the AI ‘existential risk for humanity’ tech bros are fearmongering our societies. To keep us busy with demystifying nonsens and bogus science while they are lobbying intensively against regulation: “Exclusive: OpenAI Lobbied E.U. to Water Down AI Regulation | Time”

https://time.com/6288245/openai-eu-lobbying-ai-act/

marleenstikker, 11 months ago to random Dutch

"Je denkt dat je een klein lief apparaatje aanschaft dat in je zitkamer staat, maar het achterland is gigantisch met een enorm energieverbruik", zegt Chris Julien van het Amsterdamse onderzoeksinstituut Waag Futurelab."

https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2477186-kunstmatige-intelligentie-vreet-stroom-een-opdracht-hetzelfde-als-een-uur-een-lamp-aan

marleenstikker, 1 year ago to random Dutch

https://waag.org/nl/article/quantums-got-talent-open-call/

Het project Quantum Inspire wil meer mensen betrekken bij quantum technologie.

Met deze open call nodigt Waag kunstenaars uit om een rol te spelen in het tastbaar maken van quantum principes, met als doel toegankelijke technologie voor iedereen.

Deadline voor aanmeldingen is 10 juni 2023

Wil jij meedoen? Meld je dan eerst aan door te e-mailen naar QGT2023 [at] waag [dot] org en ontvang verdere details over je deelname.