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Ameel Khan

@ameel.bsky.social

Geek, techie, drummer, amateur photographer. He/him. Lives on Woiworung land in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia).

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Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 14h ago

You all can follow me on Substack as I navigate the next steps of this Washington Post Saga. Thank you to everyone who suubscribed, especially paid subscribers .. you all help me weather the storm to be able to fight against Washington Post. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.

Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.

karenattiah.substack.com

Ameel Khan@ameel.bsky.social · last mo.

"LinkedIn was the most AI-saturated platform, where more than 40% of longform posts flagged as fully AI-generated. However, if we included mixed AI and human content, X/Twitter was the worst off […]with only 53.2% of X articles flagging as fully human-authored." www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-y...

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn | Pangram Labs

We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.

pangram.com

Ameel Khan@ameel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is really cool. Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerla...

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...

High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought

ecoportal.net

Ameel Khan@ameel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"It strikes me that, if you are going to be a writer, then the process is as important as the product – if not more so. That, after all, is what defines the writer. *How* you get the words down on the page, not *that* you get them down." engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

The case against AI: writing isn't meant to be easy

The encroachment of AI into literature is catastrophic for writers, not because of how bad its outputs are or how unoriginal it makes us, but because of what it does to the practice of writing.

engelsbergideas.com

Ameel Khan@ameel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How lucky are we that some artists now proactively release multiple version of their songs. Like Peter Gabriel who, since his 2023 album i/o, has been releasing bright and dark mixes of all his songs. And Dua Lipa released regular and extended versions of Radical Optimism in 2024. 1/2

Nelson@nappell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“When one resists AI, one is making an investment in maintaining the veracity of the world we all experience. As George Bernard Shaw said: “The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik

For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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CAMERON WILSON@cameronwilson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Australia can avoid an US-style backlash against AI if it acts now to keep Australians safe from the harms of the new technology, Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton said as he announced that the government's AI Safety Institute is now up and running.

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