Bits
mythcloud.eu explores the enduring power of shared stories and their relevance to our everyday lives. It is an open education resource developed as part of Erasmus+ project Digital Mythologies.
“It’s a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo.” https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
“People are already trusting today’s friendly, patient, often insightful AIs for facts and guidance on nearly any issue, and they will be vulnerable to being misled and manipulated, whether by design or by emergent behavior.” #ai #llm #technology What AI Thinks It Knows About You
“Developing a robust ethics, in other words, is participatory and cultural; rules have to be worked out in the complex context of the human experience, with a lot of trial and error. Maybe we should have known that commonsense rules, whether coded into a positronic brain or approximated by a large language model, wouldn’t instill machines with our every value.” #ai #llm #ethics What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.
“Deep learning can act as co-pilot. Without the eye of the humanist, though, you don’t stand a chance at decipherment.” #ai #technology #humanities https://longnow.org/ideas/the-codes-ai-cant-crack/
Gardening
“No class of beings have in any time past made so rapid a movement forward .. Our bondage will steal upon us noiselessly and by imperceptible approaches.” https://orionmagazine.org/article/natural-intelligence/
Travel
Love getting updates from my kids – they are working on Bornholm #denmark this month
Politics & Economics
Fascinating reporting on the role of shortwave #radio in the rise of far-right militias https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-divided-dial-episode-2-you-must-form-your-militia-units
Why You Should Shop at Your Farmers Market This Summer https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/06/02/Why-Shop-Farmers-Market/ #food #foodsecurity #economics