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morandi

@morandi@hachyderm.io

PhD in history and philosophy of technology

currently working in educational technology, specifically #AffectiveComputing and #XR

and setting up a strategic futures consulting nonprofit

while writing a masters dissertation on #SpeculativeDesign

but mainly just into #art #design #books #ideas #cycling #retroGaming #virtualWorlds and #greenPolitics

Always European 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇮🇹

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morandi, to cycling
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The no-parking areas being imposed on cities by the bike-sharing companies and city councils seem intended to destroy and ridicule the notion that rental e-bikes are a ‘last mile solution.’

I just had to drop a bike 1.8km from my house, after a 7.6km journey home.

Needless to say, countless private cars parked on public pavements in the 1.8km in between.



morandi, to random
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Anyone been on Flickr lately?

When scrolling, you are forced regularly to wait five seconds to look at ads, but no ads are displayed.

Pointless ?

Or perhaps it’s an exquisite piece of design fiction that creates these moments of silence when we remember the death of everything good in the world.

cc @pluralistic

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Dear Mastodonians,

Could you please recommend European scientists that are researching the environmental impacts of datacenters and/or AI?

I've suggested in my workplace to assess the environmental footprint of our IT infrastructure, which is mostly cloud-based and uses gradually AI.

The Staff Committee might invite experts in the field to gather more information.

Thanks!

morandi,
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@rafa_font

María Pérez Ortiz is Associate Prof of AI and Sustainability at University College London and you’ll find them on LinkedIn.

morandi, to random
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I see the tech feudal overlords are now saying there’s no longer a need to learn programming because AI.

These are the same wnkers who earlier said there’s no need to buy or keep physical media (books, music) because they wanted to sell you the same sht on-demand, only you never really owned it only leased it and sorry you have no rights and we f*cked you over.

F*ck them.

Learn programming.

We’ll need your skills when we’ve burned all this sh*t down and we’re rebuilding.

joelanman, (edited ) to random
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oh just the police knocking a 71 year old female legal observer unconscious. Like they did to Ian Tomlinson who later died of his injuries

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/02/police-aggression-towards-gaza-march-observers-on-the-rise-in-uk-as-woman-says-officers-knocked-her-over

morandi, (edited )
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@joelanman

White British are now learning what Irish, Black and Asian people and other immigrants have always known — the UK police are not there to help or protect you. They won’t come when your house is burgled or your car stolen. But they will rape you and assault you and murder you and wrongfully arrest you with impunity. Welcome to the country you wanted back so badly. Enjoy.

morandi, to random
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Never forget where was and what he was doing when they came to trash your democracy and prosperity and remove your freedom of movement and EU citizenship and steal your future.

Reminder: he was blowing Farage on Russian TV and laughing at you.

Fools.

morandi, to random
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is a card-carrying cnt who got into bed with Farage and supported the Russian embassy’s Brexit and laughed and lined his pockets while they pssed all over UK democracy and lied to the dead queen to take away your EU passport.

He shakes hands with the far right of the Conservative Party.

No amount of right on pro-Palestinian posturing should obscure what he really is.

morandi,
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@Wen @PurpleyWitch
Rees Mogg and Johnson while Galloway was lining his pockets with Russian money and blowing Farage behind the sofa comrade

morandi, to random
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I spent time in several eastern European countries after the fall of the Soviet Union and 30 years later I see scenes in the UK that remind me of those experiences on an almost daily basis.

The place is a pissy puddle of mud.

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    morandi,
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    @ElleGray

    I can never unsee this

    Nightmares for years to come 👻

    morandi, to ai
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    The danger is that by branding the ‘first war’ the grifter doomsters with studied socialist creds fall into the trap of mistaking AI for the greater enemy when it is the Israeli fascist genocidal war criminals who right now we should be hunting down and dragging at gun point to The Hague.

    morandi, to random
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    There’s a few reasons why western governments are standing with Israel and one of them is arms sales and the other is they’d do ethnic cleansing too if they thought they could get away with it.


    joelanman, to Palestine
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    Amazed to hear relatively clear info on BBC Radio 4 about the illegal behaviour of Israel in the West Bank

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001smrn

    morandi,
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    @joelanman BBC Radio 4 gave up even pretending to do objective journalism sometime around 2010.

    morandi, to random
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    ‘We will remember them.

    ‘But not them.

    ‘Not them, no.’



    tante, to random
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    The way that LLMs shield you from learning is a form of intellectual self-harm TBH.

    morandi,
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    @tante

    It’s very easy to make the counter argument — LLMs force you into learning.

    morandi, to random
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    The UK government likes to talk about ‘rip-off degrees’ including today in the .

    The king himself knows all about rip-off degrees. He studied archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge, then sat on his arse for the rest of his life while taking £90 million a year from UK taxpayers.

    That’s what I call a

    georgetakei, to random

    I don’t get it. Biden has done a fantastic job as president and seen us through some of the toughest times in recent history. The economy is strong, unemployment is at 60-year lows, inflation is tamed. But there are people calling for that youngster to drop out? (I have 6 years on him…) Why aren’t they calling on the guy who’s been indicted in four places and charged 91 times to drop out?

    morandi,
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    @georgetakei

    There’s a long history of people voting for their own destruction when the economy starts to climb out of the toilet. Most recent example is Brexit. See also 1933 when the Nazis became the largest party in the Reichstag and appointed Hitler as chancellor.

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    Dieter Rams pointing at things he doesn't like.
    With subtitles. h/t Benedict Evans
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypyAg3Zbs_8

    morandi,
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    @jeffjarvis

    ‘Frank Gerhy is not a friend of mine, neither personally, nor as an architect’ 💥

    morandi, to random
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    Information is not learning.

    Daojoan, to random
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    The tagline “Master AI before it masters you” is deeply fucking troubling. It plays on existential fears, insinuating that AI is a looming threat ready to replace us.

    That framing is not just misleading - it’s manipulative, preying on people’s anxieties in an age where job security and identity are paramount.

    By suggesting that we’re in a race against AI, it capitalizes on our deepest fears instead of fostering a balanced and informed dialogue.

    morandi,
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    @Daojoan
    I find it helps to distinguish between ‘AI’ technology and ‘AI’ ideology.

    morandi, to jazz
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    ‘So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.’

    ~ Art Blakey

    Art Blakey at the recording session for The Prophetic Herbie Nichols, at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, May 6, 1955

    Photo: Francis Wolff/Mosaic Images LLC

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    @LauraKT
    ‘Inflation’.

    jon, (edited ) to random
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    Just cycled Neukölln (Schillerkiez) - Hausvogteiplatz and back. 16km total.

    Incidents - twds Hausvogteiplatz
    1️⃣ Oderstraße - Mercedes driver. Sees me. Pulls out of a side road onto Oderstraße where I have priority, forcing me to abruptly brake
    2️⃣ Südstern - cyclist going fast wrong way on cycle lane, take evasive action
    3️⃣ Lindenstrasse - Mercedes van overtakes me, then 100m later pulls in and parks on cycle lane

    morandi,
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    @jon
    Y chromosome.

    morandi, to random
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    The ‘official’ Mastodon app is a pile of garbage on iOS. Dial-up levels of slow and unresponsive.
    What’s the best iOS app here please?

    morandi,
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    @SecurityWriter
    thank you

    morandi,
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    @rmdes
    🙏🏻

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