Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

Microsoft has always had a great philosophy around accessibility and introduced me to the idea of temporary disability. It’s a great way to broaden one’s perspective on how much impact making your product more accessible has.

Being “data driven” is like teens talking about sex. Everyone says they are doing it, the majority don’t know what it means, and everyone is exaggerating massively.

@HuShuo

And it is a story about how media (not @drewharwell) are setting LLMs up for a fall, making it do what it cannot and should not do and then crowing like John Henry, victorious at last, about the fall of technology. LLMs are autocomplete, not calculators, not researchers, not fact-checkers, not journalists, not librarians, not writers, not creators, not editors, nothing but linguistic prediction machines fed and trained on the sooty exhaust of humanity.

Wichtigste Erkenntnis: Es ist nicht psychisch. Surprise!

https://t.co/brYajiEDBy

It's official, #Twitter is going to kill academic access and premium access to the Twitter #API.

The only 3 access levels in the future:
- Limited free
Login and write access (1500 Tweets per user token)
- Basic $100
"Low level of API usage"
- Enterprise $$$$+
Talk to your sales agent.

That's the email I got last night (the first one on the issue; for developers who don't follow the news that's the first time they read that their access will be turned off the next business day).

Still no information what "low level of API usage" means. #fedifinder hits the rate limits of current elevated access for some accounts. If those get lowered, it will affect more, even if I pay for basic access (and I have an internal resistance against that). We will have to wait for Monday, to see what it will actually look like.

There are many other unanswered questions as well. With my elevated access I can use the v1.1 and v2 API endpoints. Will that be the case in the future as well? Will the fee be per app or per developer account? What about dev and staging environments? How will the rate limits look like? Volume limits? Per app or per authenticated user limits?

Auf der Seite des Virtuellen Kompetenzzentrums gibt es übrigens eine ständig wachsende Sammlung von #KI Schreibwerkzeugen. #twlz ⬇️
https://www.vkkiwa.de/ki-ressourcen/

Wer sich bei #KI Tools auf dem Laufenden halten möchte, möge sich https://www.futurepedia.io/ anschauen. Dort werden täglich neue KI Werkzeuge eingestellt, besprochen und verlinkt.#twlz

This is the kind of librarian I work to be every day. From the Unshelved comic strip.

"I love the sound policy makes when I break it."

#librarians #books #reading #literacy

Der preisgekrönte spanische Regisseur Carlos Saura ist tot. Vor allem mit seinem Film "Carmen" wurde er auch in Deutschland einem breiteren Publikum bekannt.
Spanischer Filmemacher Carlos Saura ist tot

My best housecleaning tip:

1. Become a writer.
2. Get tight deadlines.

After that, you will magically want to clean everything in sight. You will have to *restrain* yourself from dusting baseboards.

#AmWriting #AmDoingDishes

Experten warnen: In drei Tagen ist schon wieder Montag
https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/02/montag.html

18 corrections in a 659-word AI-written Men's Journal article about low testosterone. AI language tools generate cogent word patterns, not facts - an obvious issue that so many companies ae going to embarrass themselves learning in the coming years

https://futurism.com/neoscope/magazine-mens-journal-errors-ai-health-article

Our team @threemaapp is looking for a senior iOS dev. Speaking German is a must, and we are not fully remote, so you must come to our offices which are located near Zurich.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

Full job description can be found here: https://threema.ch/de/job/ios_engineer_2023

#ios #swift #swiftui #dev

Many universities are forcing students and instructors to use #Microsoft products—and will thus deploy #AI assistants on a massive scale. You probably won’t be able to turn off these functions even if you wanted to.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/10/23593980/microsoft-bing-chatgpt-ai-teams-outlook-integration

25 Jahre #XML und ich war von Anfang an dabei. <Tja/> https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/xml-1-0-1998 https://www.data2type.de/home/xml-periodensystem