Tim Cowlishaw

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PhD-ing @ UOC DARTS (Design Research + STS + Environmental Humanities + Digital Waste). Teaching @ UDIT y Elisava. Working @ greenweb.org & FabLab BCN. Anglès a Catalunya (sempre guiri, mai "expat") https://www.timcowlishaw.co.uk

Pequeño artículo publicado en @es.theconversation.com sobre el derecho a la sombra "El higienismo es la máxima que ha guiado las urbes modernas, poniendo la apertura al sol en el centro de su diseño. Pero las olas de calor extremo obligan a pensar sobre el derecho a la sombra"

¿Tenemos derecho a la sombra en las ciudades?

El higienismo es la máxima que ha guiado las urbes modernas, poniendo la apertura al sol en el centro de su diseño. Pero las olas de calor extremo obligan a pensar sobre el derecho a la sombra.

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The European Commission has not shown why Europe needs to triple data center capacity, nor how existing infrastructure is being used. Michelle Thorne, Aurora Gomez Delgado, Fieke Jansen and Rosi Leonard make the case for a moratorium.

The Case for a Temporary Moratorium on Large Data Centers in Europe

Michelle Thorne, Aurora Gomez Delgado, Fieke Jansen and Rosi Leonard argue the EU should pause new data centers until it proves they are in the public interest.

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AlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.

Screenshot of Financial Times headline reading "Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift" with photo of Demis Hassabis & John Jumper

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

I occasionally worked in the BBCs music studios. I booked a free slot to record my mate's band. They got bored and were chucking the guitarist's bag of sandwiches around. It got stuck on a light fitting. Alex's lunch was visible on TV music programmes for several years after.

The Quietus continues to astound: existed on a shoestring for almost 20 years years, it has in recent years beefed up its site including its archive, which means gems such as this fun rundown of Blur lesser known tracks (including one from me) FROM 14 YEARS AGO are floating out into the world again

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Ian Wade, Charlie Frame, Mic Wright, Jeremy Allen, Wyndham Wallace, Scott McKeating, Ben Myers, Stevie Chick, Jamie Bowman, Tim Burrows and Luke Turner select their finest b-sides, rarities and album tracks #Blur: Beyond The Hits - #ThePortal - Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/k7LWizI

Early black and white photograph of Blur.

I’d add that “sovereign AI” does not mean “Britain owns this stuff and profits from it”. It means “Silicon Valley PRs noticed governments are having a hard time selling this shit to their publics, so they rebranded their bog-standard product as ‘sovereign’, even though it’s just the same thing”.

What are we gaining from having these? Because if the answer is “a few construction jobs for a year or so, and then a small number of IT maintenance and security jobs” then that doesn’t seem worth it. Are these companies stuffing our mouths with gold, or are they saying Take It Or Leave It?

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something i think about often is how doing anything genuinely hard takes a lot of concentration which entails insulation from distractions like oh i dunno having to toe the playing-make-believe-at-gunpoint party line like fascism truly is a tax on capability to solve hard problems

Reckon that’s the thing we have to bear in mind. “You will want and need this” they say. All the time. But they don’t know what we want and need. They have no fucking idea. They’re not like us. They didn’t laugh when the robot butler fell over.

Accusations of bias actually have specific content that can be assessed. The left attack the BBC for justifying a genocide, the right attack it for having too many black people on screen. These aren't equivalent extremes that cancel each other out leaving only the enlightened centre.

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Her anti-rights viciousness was worn on her sleeve from the get-go. It was just accommodated because her little class eugenics fantasy of being innately speshul enough to get picked for Magical Eton pandered so well to the egos of middle class nerds happy to see their chud peers as innately inferior

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