It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
Jesper Aagaard
@aagaard.bsky.social
technopsychologist | associate professor | aarhus university |
Self-driving car? Deskilling. Adaptive cruise control? Deskilling. Using a GPS? Deskilling. Automatic transmission? Deskilling. Power steering and ABS? You guessed it, buddy.
Here’s what I’m observing in AI papers: Title and abstract: these set the scene in academic jargon overdrive. You’ve never seen so much over-use of the word “epistemic”. AI-enhanced papers start jargon-heavy and keep at it, exhaustingly, all the way to just within the journal word limit. 2/
excessive technophilia is how you become a hypercapitalist neoreactionary type and excessive technophobia is how you become an anti-vaxxer neo trad nationalist type so be careful folks
build-er-berg workshop@werrrp.bsky.social · 3w agowe effectively cured AIDS and have a pancreatic cancer vaccine that just passed phase 1 trials
“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”
The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible
The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.
futurism.com
County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’ www.404media.co/henrico-virg...
County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computer...
404media.co
Step 1: Sæt AI til at skrive hele din AI-kritiske bog. Step 2: Når dette hykleri påpeges, svar: "Jeg har jo skrevet 12 bøger og fået Rosenkjær-prisen for min formidlingsevne, så man må formode, at mit kognitive apparat er veludviklet i forhold til at kunne gøre de her ting selv". Step 3: Profit.
Speciallæge efter digitalt eksperiment: Det har været »fulds
Imran Rashid, der har tordnet mod TikTok og techgiganter, har skrevet sin nye bog sammen med ai-værktøjet Claude. Det har været »fuldstændig ulig noget andet«, han nogensinde har oplevet, siger han ek
politiken.dk
Trees. Trees. Trees. They matter. Plant them. Protect them.
honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned
Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.
politico.eu
McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.
Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!
UKgov publishes new screen time guidance for under 5s 👨🍼 <2s: Avoid screens except shared activities 👶 2-5s: Try for less than 1hr a day 📱 Choose safe, slow-paced content 🧑🧒🧒 Lead by example 🛌 Have screen-free areas/times Glad to have contributed. Parent guidance and research report linked below.
The death of writing will not be caused solely by AI; it will also be perpetrated by concerned educators who now perceive academic essays as outdated. In the end, this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: If students are solely trained to do oral exams, it is unsurprising if writing skills take a hit
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring
A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
NEW on @nbcnews.com: The Los Angeles Unified School District banned smartphones in class last year But a growing number of parents are irate that some LA schools require kids to spend all day staring at school-issued iPads -- even in gym and band class www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
LA Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids
A growing contingent of public school parents say school-mandated iPads, particularly in elementary and middle schools, are leading to behavior problems.
nbcnews.com
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
I can't stop thinking about @bedoyausa.bsky.social's essay this week. It is a story-forward account of why the American people are struggling. (Hint: political economy.) It's the kind of account that makes an ethnographer swoon. I can't recommend this enough: newrepublic.com/article/2011...
How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.
newrepublic.com
I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cough up an organ. Every line is gold.
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
colincornaby.me
If, like us, you find psychology curiously devoid of what JL Austin called ‘middle-sized dry goods’, we’ve got an article for you: Drawing on STS, technopsychology is a way of doing psychology where technology isn’t background noise—it’s part of the conversation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry
Technology plays an important role in human existence, yet its theoretical significance has seldom been explored in psychology. This article introduce…
sciencedirect.com