Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

Spoke to a scientist friend today and asked him about Trump’s anti-science campaign & his attacks on universities?

He replied, I don’t think Americans realize that even if we somehow stopped Trump now, he’s already set the USA back at least 20-30 years in scientific research. And given he still has 3 more years, we may not recover from this for half a century or more.

This Economist data is from 6 months ago. You can imagine how much worse it is now.😳

CWA just shared their research into the lives of the US-based data workers responsible for training and maintaining modern “AI” platforms. The findings are, in a word, grim: https://cwa-union.org/ghost-workers-ai-machine

Honey, I invested $100 billion in AI, and all I got was 1 + 2 + 3 = 15

#ai #microsoft

tiktok is heading toward being full maga.

If your business or life is centered on that app, take steps now to change that.

I am happy to help however I can.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/barron-trump-tiktok-job-trump-advent-b2842539.html#

#TikTokMigration #SocialMedia #USpol #tiktok

No, it can’t https://pubeurope.com/@byteseu/115347142037887038

Will the ‘Zucman tax’ go continental? https://www.euractiv.com/news/will-the-zucman-tax-go-continental/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it

Mancano <3 settimane al Linux Day! 🐧
Segnate il 25 ottobre!
Ci vediamo al Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo!
Il programma uscirà a breve! 🚀
Info: https://linuxdaymilano.org/
#LinuxDay #LinuxDayMilano #OpenSource #Polimi

The proceedings from our workshop are out!

D-SAIL Workshop on Transformative Curriculum Design - Digitalisation, Sustainability, and AI Literacy for 21st Century Learning

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4051

Thank you to everyone who was part of this. We are looking forward to meeting again at the next edition...

https://d-sail.itd.cnr.it

@edtech

‘Fuck You, Make Me’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/03/fuck-you-make-me

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

In presenting a Gaza plan as an ultimatum to Hamas, U.S. President Donald Trump has given Israel the advantage diplomatically, along with even freer rein on the ground if a deal fails. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/01/world/politics/gaza-plan-trump-israel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #us #donaldtrump #republicans

"LLMs were touted as a digital panacea, and the companies building them offered traditional software companies the chance to plug these models into their software using an API, thus allowing them to ride the same generative AI wave that every other company was riding.

The model companies similarly started going after individual and business customers, offering software and subscriptions that promised the world, though this mostly boiled down to chatbots that could generate stuff, and then doubled down with the promise of “agents” — a marketing term that’s meant to make you think “autonomous digital worker” but really means “broken digital product.”

Throughout this era, investors and the media spoke with a sense of inevitability that they never really backed up with data. It was an era based on confidently-asserted “vibes.” Everything was always getting better and more powerful, even though there was never much proof that this was truly disruptive technology, other than in its ability to disrupt apps you were using with AI — making them worse by, for example, suggesting questions on every Facebook post that you could ask Meta AI, but which Meta AI couldn’t answer.

“AI” was omnipresent, and it eventually grew to mean everything and nothing."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #AIHype #LLMs #Chatbots #BigTech