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airwhale

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Hi all, I am Tormod 🇳🇴🇸🇪 (he / him)

My days are spent as a consultant in enterprise IT organizations, mainly focusing on teamwork and the people side of delivery. In particular with coaching, processes and enabling teams to work better together across departments and vendors.

My passions are in the areas of #photography, #graphicdesign, #typography and #music. And, of course, family ❤️

Happy to talk to anyone, and I will assume you're awesome until proven otherwise.

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Polynomial_C, to ai Catalan
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The US "government" ’s #AI Safety and Security board.

https://qz.com/sam-altman-jensen-huang-ai-government-safety-board-1851437593

#EnjoyCapitalism #EnjoyDemocracy

jeffowski, to random
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CountBinface, to random
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It’s meant to be.

tokyobybike, to random
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This is peak Nagoya.

gsuberland, to random
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I hope this email finds you living in a shotgun shack
I hope this email finds you in another part of the world
I hope this email finds you behind the wheel of a large automobile
I hope this email finds you in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife

toxi, to random
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Some thoughts about current state/trajectory of tech/software/ethics:

For ~30 years, I've been using, building and sharing open tools around algorithmic, generative & evolutionary design techniques, procedural generation, genetic algorithms/programming, machine learning... The incentives and potentials I saw (and still see!) in these areas/approaches are entirely orthogonal to what is called "generative AI" these days (saving that for a future post) and more importantly contrary to how that tech is being used...

Like many others, I'm desperately trying to keep a positive & balanced mind (also in terms of my own practice as an indie developer/researcher & artist), but I think it says a lot (in multiple ways) about the current state of tech/software/ethics, if the people/voices most critical and outspoken about the current/recent trajectories & decisions are (yet again[1]) the actual practitioners/experts of the field, often with decades of experiences... At the very least the issues raised should give some pause to people in politics/policy, academia/education, media and finance, i.e. all groups with much more direct control & responsibility, yet which are relatively silent in terms of critical voices/reflections and instead largely keep boosting and jumping on the AI hype train... I think I understand (though not agree with) many (self-serving) drivers of this "ignorance", but I've never seen this level of widespread uncritical technology adoption before in my life, especially the bewildering amount of willful ignorance of people who are (or should be) more informed, their active downplaying and rationalisations of multiple glaring systematic train wrecks (aka "jackpot") coming our way (are already here!), incl. climate, water, human rights violations, disinformation, politics/democracy, surveillance, unemployment, health/healthcare etc., and on a different level, pretty important issues like loss of "personal computing", of access (and accessibility!) and individual control of computing & information resources — all of which are massively accelerated by this in(s)ane drive for AI-generated profits...

What's the point of the above named societal institutions if none of them actually want to critically engage with these developments, before their window of opportunity closes?

(Sorry in advance, just a braindump, not gonna be able to reply to comments in the next few days...)

[1] Everyone Is a Luddite Now: https://www.wired.com/story/everyone-is-a-luddite-now/

propagandacentralen, to random Swedish
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Nooshi: 1
Kristersson: 0

yvonnezlam, to random
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Greetings new followers! I believe many of you got here because @kevlin (thank you!) mentioned a tweet of mine in a talk. My stance on many of the questions/discussions taking place in my mentions might be addressed by the original thread, so here it is:

Or even "we don't have guests, and the guest room bathroom is mysteriously out of toilet paper. Can whoever is using that bathroom please make sure it's restocked?" The thing with tech debt is that in order to have a useful discussion, you need to be able to talk about
@yvonnezlam - As anyone who has ever argued about housework knows, housework arguments are disturbingly specific. It's always "Who minds the most?" and "l don't use that," and "Who's going to do the work?" and (rarely) "Who's going to manage getting this done?" @yvonnezlam - Bringing some of that uncomfortable specificity to discussions of tech debt could be really useful. We need to be able to talk about who minds and why and where the work should live. @yvonnezlam - We also need to talk about how what we do affects other teams/people. Team A can decide not to worry about concurrency right now, but they might be sticking Team B with that work down the road. @yvonnezlam - Right now, with the financialization metaphor, no one cares, because we know "down the road" might never happen. But: that means we don't think "Hm. We're not going to develop in-house expertise on concurrency in a hurry. Maybe we should hire/send people to training/support ... @yvonnezlam - ... people who are interested in this kind of thing doing some study?" or any number of other things to spread the load when the time comes. We don't think about what work Team B might need to put down in order to pick up the problem that everyone knows has been brewing forever.
@yvonnezlam - We don't think "Team A took on this debt because they didn't know how to do the right thing and they had to do something. Not their fault, but...that wasn't good." @yvonnezlam - Whereas if we thought of it as more like housework, we could think "ok, the kids made this mess, now someone has to clean it up, can we get some of the kids involved since they have context for what they did, and it'd help everyone to get context for what to do next time?" @yvonnezlam -The debt conversation assumes a kind of statelessness, because that is the magic of financialization and financial metaphors. Anyone who has ever dealt with tech debt in an org knows that it's not stateless. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 Housework is stateful. You don't get a clean slate. You often end up moving stuff from Place A to Place B so that you can clean and tidy Place A properly. And people have state (feelings) about it. O boy do they have feelings about it. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 We picked a metaphor for "tech work that is about cleaning up old stuff instead of making new stuff" that sounds like something that would make sense to The Business, but (a) it's not clear it does, and (b) it confuses us thereby falsely constraining our options. /fin

VeroniqueB99, to random
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Packing it in for today lads... see you on the next one.

Night! 😴

Long_live_rock_n_roll, to music
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Happy 66th birthday to Toyah Ann Willcox, Born today 18th May 1958

"You should never undermine friendship and loyalty."

📸 Gered Mankowitz

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kathimmel, to art
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: o, the ignominy of admitting that i'm not extremely intimate with the oeuvre of my subject...
still, she sounds so rad that i had to make sketchy ode to adrienne rich (born in 1929). an essayist & poet who centred the oppression of women & lesbians in her work, adrienne was also a jewish pro-palestinian activist involved with the new agenda who supported the movement.

mixed media digital illustration i drew of poet, feminist & activist, adrienne rich. a young & smiling adrienne wields a fountain pen in her right hand, her cheek leaning against the same hand. her left arm is draped over the back of a basic chair. colours are peach, rust & royal indigo.

timhollo, to australia
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It is established fact that Australian soldiers in Afghanistan committed war crimes. Today, the man whose courageous act of whistleblowing brought these crimes to light has been sentenced to almost 6 years in gaol.

This is a dark day in Australian history. Democracy needs people to stand up when they see wrongdoing being committed by powerful people. We should be thanking and celebrating David McBride, not imprisoning him.

https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/14/david-mcbride-former-army-lawyer-sentenced-to-five-years-for-stealing-and-leaking-afghanistan-war-documents

mapache_tico, to random Spanish
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steely_glint, to random
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Thanks to @saghul for the perfect illustration of the problems with chatGPT:

jsnell, to random
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Just posted on Six Colors: M4 iPad Pro Review: Here we go again

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/m4_ipad_pro_review/

markmetz, to random
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Sigh..

joabaldwin, to random
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A photographer's dream. I've been photographing at Mono Lake for many years, and never did I expect to get photos like these, I didn't think it was possible. The aurora came and went for only about 15 minutes with that intensity, shifting colors before vanishing.

Magenta pillars rising from the sierras, with Mono Lake tufa in the foreground. The aurora is mostly pink with a fringe of yellow-green underneath.
A cluster of Mono Lake tufa silhouetted over a bright pink and red aurora. The light pillars are not too defined, but the colors are intense and reflect on the lake.
More Mono Lake tufa towers with a pink, yellow, and red aurora glowing softly behind them.

Kayla, to random
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Reader, the description was wrong.

I only went back to look at this after I received something covered in very hot hot sauce and mustard, which I hate. Discovered this gem/nightmare.

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sarah, to random
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Sarah-Savage.com: My journey of transition and self-discovery https://sarah-savage.com/my-journey-of-transition-and-self-discovery/

Lana, to random
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Anyone arguing in favor of arming school teachers needs to first explain to me where in the budget you're going to find the money to buy 27 Glocks when you cheapskates won't even buy us printer toner.

eclectech, to movies
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A decidedly more upbeat film than the original

Ten, to random
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I wish this sort of thing didn't happen to me.

AmiW, to Stockholm German
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🪡 Artist: in City: Finspångsgatan /Gunnebogatan Sweden 🇸🇪 2019 - Title: "Sleeping Beauty" -
! ☕🥐

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Like that the app will tell you about your journey in 🐟 or 🧀

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