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tante

@tante@tldr.nettime.org

Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. Email: tante@tante.cc | License CC BY-SA-4.0 tfr

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Volt in Deutschland waren zu Beginn irgendwelche McKinsey Leute und der Stink ist weiterhin da.
https://chaos.social/@patrislav/112440482541275547

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Today a consortium the company I work for is part of we prepared a meeting on Monday where we'll defend a grant application. When it came to who was gonna present or answer questions people were very protective of me and two other people because "you are still so young, we don't want to overwhelm you".

I am 44 years old.

Boomers are really fucking Out of touch with reality.

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Es geht Menschen wie Lindner bei "Steuersenkungen " ja auch immer darum, den Handlungsraum für staatliches Handeln zu verkleinern und damit immer mehr Services zu beerdigen oder durch Privatwirtschaft zu ersetzen. Er will euch nichts geben, er will euch Dinge nehmen, die seine Buddies euch dann vielleicht für viel mehr Geld zurückverkaufen https://zirk.us/@istuetzle/112564819454203392

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Teilzeitquote geht hoch, was ja oft problematisiert wird. Aber es ist doch viel mehr ein Zeichen, dass Menschen das 40h/Woche Ding nicht machen wollen und andere Modelle suchen.
Ich und meine Partnerin arbeiten auch beide nur 32 h/Woche, die Zusatzzeit geht in Zeit mit unserem Sohn.

(Original title: Teilzeitquote steigt auf Rekordniveau)

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/teilzeitquote-steigt-auf-rekordniveau-a-76496d0d-72a3-477d-8490-1a6aabe52c24#ref=rss

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Wenn webEX jemals Authentifikation via Gesichtserkennung einführt, dann nur um @evawolfangel rauszuhalten.

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We really live in the dumbest world. Yes, many meetings are run (and documented) badly. And you shouldn't go to them. No agenda, no attendance has been my baseline policy for a while.

But what is that guy trying to do? Get people to run better meetings? No. He just wants to build a machine that allows you to pretend you were there. Because even a "AI bot writes a summary" thing (which doesn't really work but well) does not include the faked presence. But he thinks he needs that. Why? What's the problem that guy is trying to solve? Who is he solving it for? And has he understood the actual problem?

Like many people hate meetings for (as I said above) often very good reasons. But meetings also serve other less tangible functions of building trust, understanding of one another, a feeling of belonging and shared values. All things that he's not even addressing.

This is the prototypical "let's just slap AI on" and it's painful to watch the amount of money and people's time we throw on those pointless activities.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24168733/zoom-ceo-ai-clones-digital-twins-videoconferencing-decoder-interview

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Brian Merchant comes to the same conclusions I outlined in my 2023 Re:Publica talk:

"Generative AI may or may not be a flash in the pan, but it can be a wrecking ball to your job regardless, especially if your boss is looking for an excuse to cut costs or to appear innovative — and you should be ready"

(Original title: Understanding the real threat generative AI poses to our jobs)

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/understanding-the-real-threat-generative

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TBH: About 90% off all "open source AI models" are nothing moe than blobs. They might be what used to be called "freeware" but nothing more.

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A quick glance shows that it's not that easy to determine what this model has actually been trained on and how which makes it at least a bit dubious for an open source project. Will have to dive in later
https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/112552008112665604

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Ihr kennt ja immer alles. Ideen, wo man sich für ne Finanzierung zum Schreiben eines Buches bewerben kann (Sachbuch)?

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What happens when you create something and put it on social media?

(Original title: Sharing creative stuff on Social Media)

https://designthinkingcomic.substack.com/p/sharing-creative-stuff-on-social

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"But now, Google’s move to AI search is creating a whole variety of new difficulties. It isn’t just that it fosters errors, but that the errors are tied to Google’s name in a way that they weren’t previously."

(Original title: Google AI fails the taste test)

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/google-ai-fails-the-taste-test

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Unvorbereitet mit Sascha Lobo verglichen worden. Der Tag machts mir schwer heute.

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Getting an "AI"-generated email from a friend "felt like a family fridge decorated with printed stock art of children’s drawings." I can very much relate to this feeling.
https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112529681376210626

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Microsoft Dame auf dem "KI gegen den Klimawandel" Panel ist sehr gut vorbereitet und lenkt sehr gut vom Thema ab: Microsoft kann seine vor wenigen Jahren gross angekündigte "Carbon Negativity" nicht mehr einhalten wegen "KI", Microsoft's CO2 Emissionen gehen gerade hoch und nicht runter.

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“Empty Innovation” at Re:Publica 2024

Under the motto "Who Cares" Re:Publica gathered a few thousand people in Berlin and I got to give a talk continuing the path I started out on with my last two talks in 2022 and 2023. Titled "Empty Innovation" I tried outlining my understanding of the patterns of the weird technological hypes we've gone through in the last years, why they happen and also what this mode of "innovation" does to us as people, communities and societies.

https://tante.cc/2024/05/28/empty-innovation-at-republica-2024-rp24/

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If you only took one thing from my talk let it be this https://chaos.social/@creohn/112514204013054765

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Just saw that there is a talk that frames "Longtermism" as positive at . Luckily it's only on one of the smaller stages but holy cow how could that happen?

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At 10 at #rp24 @parismarx and myself are gonna record an episode of Tech won't save us at the podcast booth. You can listen in live.
https://re-publica.com//de/session/tech-wont-save-us-live-paris-marx-tante

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Tonight at 19:15 I'll be speaking about "Empty Innovation" at https://re-publica.com//de/session/empty-innovation-what-are-we-even-doing

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If the whole Windows Recall thing scares you and you are looking for options: For many people Linux just does the trick. If you need a browser, some office stuff, maybe a bit of image/media management, Linux absolutely got you covered. It probably will be annoying or something might be broken but that is the same with every operating system.

But before you install something, maybe have a chat with someone who knows a bit more about it to help you navigate the choices and to ensure that your workload is actually supported on Linux.

But it's no longer an OS just for experts. You can do almost anything graphically and a lot of shit just works.

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I love how many people interpret my post as if I had just tried Linux for the first time and try to tell me what Distros to use. https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/112497169505427167

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"it sure would be nice if they made a version of this operating system that does not have five hundred things I would like to remove by force every single fucking time I install it.”

(Original title: Microsoft Should Make A Version Of Windows That Doesn’t Suck And Then Gets Worse)

https://aftermath.site/microsoft-windows-11-debloat-copilot-ultralite-good-version

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Finde es schön, dass die @republica an der Strategie festhält, meine Vorträge immer parallel zu den Interviews mit Regierungsmitgliedern zu legen (2022 Olaf Scholz, 2023 Christian Lindner, 2024 Annalena Baerbock). Jetzt habe ich die gesamte Ampel eingesammelt.

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Another quick round of advertising: Saturday May, 25th, @parismarx and Sarah Grant are going to join me for a conversation on resistance: Is resistance against current tech even possible and how? The Berlin event is pay as much as you can and you can sign up here: https://ownw.de/event/otherwise-network-salon-v-resist-but-how/

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