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For Tech’s Sake

@fortechssakepod.bsky.social

A podcast from @elaineburke.bsky.social and @earley.bsky.social taking a side-eye view of tech developments.

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kelly@earley.bsky.social · last mo.

myself and @elaineburke.bsky.social spoke about this topic extensively on @fortechssakepod.bsky.social last week buuuut…. after recording, a scary realisation struck me: nearly every existing safeguard on the web exists solely because kids are online jrnl.ie/7077815

Kelly Earley: Social media bans for teens make the internet a worse place for all of us

Keeping teenagers off social sounds like a noble pursuit, but it risks a drop in standards for all other internet users.

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Elaine Burke@elaineburke.bsky.social · last mo.

Using the brain as a metaphor for AI is deeply unhelpful, and that includes illustrations. Because really what you're dealing with is the *absence* of what we conceive of as a brain: a computational system that can go through the motions but cannot apply critical thinking.

For Tech’s Sake@fortechssakepod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Have you listened to our episode with @hannahdaly.ie? pod.fo/e/42e262 Hannah is Professor of Sustainable Energy at @ucc.ie and you can find more of her work at HannahDaly.ie.

For Tech’s Sake: Are data centres a drain? (with Prof Hannah Daly)

In this episode, Elaine is joined by energy researcher Prof Hannah Daly to discuss the energy strain data centres represent for Ireland, the greenwashing that enables their proliferation in the fac...

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Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Elaine from @fortechssakepod.bsky.social showing what you learn from AI companies’ public statements when you actually *do the reading*. It begs the question why more tech journalists aren’t doing this.

Elaine Burke@elaineburke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anthropic Institute, the research arm of Anthropic, published a report speculating on what it sees as potential future trends in AI development, and media literacy took an absolute beating from it. A thread: (1/22)

Anthropic When AI builds itself Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.
The ADAPT Centre@adaptcentre.bsky.social · 2mo ago

SCREENING SAT JUNE 6th - Ghost in the Machine w/ Q&A with Dr. @abeba.blacksky.app, Director of @aial.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social and chaired by @elaineburke.bsky.social host of @fortechssakepod.bsky.social TICKETS: ifi.ie/film/ghost-i...

GHOST IN THE MACHINE + Q&A - Irish Film Institute

SCREENING SATURDAY JUNE 6th Valerie Veatch’s gripping documentary exposes the hidden history of AI, not as a neutral system of algorithms, but as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny, eugenics, and...

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Elaine Burke@elaineburke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am legit struggling to pick a fave, but recent high rankers are the Women in STEM stamps featuring Aoife McLysaght and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, because they are beautiful but also mean I can say I've met people who are on stamps.

A pink envelope from An Post branded with their Women in STEM stamp logo, with the stamps affixed in the corner. An illustration of Aoife McLysaght appears alongside a double-helix DNA structure and Jocelyn Bell Burnell is illustrated alongside a radio telescope. The inked stamp marking the postage stamps is stylised to look like an atom sketch encircling the letters S T E M.
For Tech’s Sake@fortechssakepod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And if you listened to the end you will have heard @earley.bsky.social talking about her favourite stamps at the moment. In case you were wondering: www.anpost.com/Shop/Special... If you'd like to share *your* favourite stamps, please do!!