Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

"Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects. Started nearly 25 years ago, the site was long mocked as a byword for the unreliability of information on the internet, yet today it is, without exaggeration, the digital world’s factual foundation. It’s what Google puts at the top of search results otherwise awash in ads and spam, what social platforms cite when they deign to correct conspiracy theories, and what AI companies scrape in their ongoing quest to get their models to stop regurgitating info-slurry — and consult with such frequency that they are straining the encyclopedia’s servers. Each day, it’s where approximately 70 million people turn for reliable information on everything from particle physics to rare Scottish sheep to the Erfurt latrine disaster of 1184, a testament both to Wikipedia’s success and to the total degradation of the rest of the internet as an information resource.

“It’s basically the only place on the internet that doesn’t function as a confirmation bias machine.”

But as impressive as this archive is, it is the byproduct of something that today looks almost equally remarkable: strangers on the internet disagreeing on matters of existential gravity and breathtaking pettiness and, through deliberation and debate, building a common ground of consensus reality."

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

#Wikipedia #Collaboration #OpenWeb

No somos conscientes de lo importante que es Radio Nacional y Radio Clásica y el lujo que son.

How good is AI.

IKEA order arrived with a damaged box. The return AI booked a replacement drop off and pickup scheduled for Friday. All good zero touch customer rep experience. Status updates telling us it’s on the way etc.

Except it never arrived.

Called IKEA this morning took 45m of waiting and dealing with humans to discover. The AI had hallucinated the whole thing. The schedule was too tight For the warehouse to load the goods. So the AI just faked the rest of the delivery updates.

Cust rep couldn’t fix it so just created two new deliveries, one for the replacement and one for the damaged part pickup.
So much time wasted and inconvenience to our family.

Grr.

Anthropic to pay $1.5B over pirated books in Claude AI training — payouts of roughly $3,000 per infringed work - Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle... - https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/anthropic-to-pay-landmark-settlement-over-claude-training #artificialintelligence #techindustry

Sports are incredibly unfair. They just are.

Anyone calling themselves a sports fan who is unable to acknowledge this simple truth is not an honest communicator.

You could have two women who are unquestionably assigned female at birth *who are more different* in stature and stamina and any other physical metric you could think of than a women and a biological male might possibly be.

If we are to divide sports up by anything at all, it should be by size/weight class.
https://indieweb.social/@jgarber/115153503371954353

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

"Pictish ogham is very difficult to translate, but in the 1990s it was discovered that earlier academics had been reading it backwards."

La casualidad de que el globo aerostático con el diseño ideal para que te pase justo por encima te pase justo por encima.
Esta tarde en #Valladolid.

Artificial intelligence may not be for the majority, unless they want to be poorer.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Wealth #Economy

Annualized change in non-farm employment over each presidency from 1939 to 2023. Democrats are in blue and Republicans in red.

Notice the pattern between the red and the blue bars? Democrats are good for the economy, while Republicans are good for the wealthy, who get to control the narrative.

BTW, Biden holds the record as the only President with positive job growth during every month of the Presidency.

Vote Blue 🌊

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presidential_terms
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fridays-jobs-report-created-presidential-163510883.html
#Politics #Economy
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You know, I remember when Tesla was a company that wanted to make electric cars because we should really care about saving the environment.

Way-ay-ay back in my day… 🤪
https://mastodon.social/@verge/115152204696937551

My new book of cartoons is out soon. I am bringing it to SPX/BETHESDA TORONTO, NEW YORK, CHICAGO, MONTREAL and QUEBEC CITY in the next two weeks. Visit www.tomgauld.com for more details and preorder links!

Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis - Google's goal to be net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030 is... - https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/google-quietly-removes-net-zero-carbon-goal-from-website-amid-rapid-power-hungry-ai-data-center-buildout-industry-first-sustainability-pledge-moved-to-background-amidst-ai-energy-crisis

📸 Una cámara te fotografía.
Un software convierte tu rostro en un patrón biométrico imborrable.
🔗 Lo asocia a tu historial médico.

Todo esto ya está en marcha en centros de salud de Ceuta y Melilla, y en pruebas en hospitales.

Así funciona: https://civio.es/sanidad/2025/07/17/sanidad-incorpora-reconocimiento-facial-con-ia-para-fichar-a-170-dot-000-pacientes-de-ceuta-y-melilla/

Este sistema de vigilancia se implanta sin la transparencia necesaria.
Podría extenderse a toda la sanidad pública.

Lo destapamos. ✍️ Lee la investigación completa:

https://civio.es/sanidad/2025/07/17/sanidad-incorpora-reconocimiento-facial-con-ia-para-fichar-a-170-dot-000-pacientes-de-ceuta-y-melilla/

Report: "Nelson Mandela’s grandson says Palestinians are suffering a ‘worse form of apartheid’ than Black South Africans did"

Many have returned from Palestine with one conclusion: "The Palestinians are experiencing a far worse form of apartheid than we ever experienced."

Mandela is among 10 South African activists on the Freedom flotilla, which includes hundreds of people from 44 countries.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/mandelas-grandson-says-palestinians-plight-is-worse-than-apartheid-2025-09-04/

#GazaGenocide #FreedomFlotilla #BDS #USPol #EuroPol #Racism #Press .

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