Today in Poznań students, and among them unionists, after a week-long occupation successfully saved dorm “Jowita” from getting into private hands. After a meeting with newly appointed minister, they secured funds for its refurbishment. “Jowita” stays!
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Ian Miles Cheong starting to sweat profusely: "Keep correcting it. KEEP CORRECTING IT."
"I'm tryin-"
"NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH."
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Might be of interest to @parismarx.bsky.social @davekarpf.bsky.social @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @garbageday.email
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Today Panoptykon Foundation released a new case study titled “Algorithms of Trauma vol. 2” co-authored by @sapiezynski.bsky.social. It shows how Meta exploits users’ fears & denies them the right to not be targeted by traumatizing content. I can’t recommend it enough panoptykon.org/sites/defaul...
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Oops, that's how replying without clicking the link ends... Still, I think those issues are somewhat connected. "Nuclear anxiety" seems to be diminishing in Poland, in part thanks to the efforts to install power plants, so it's easier to talk about e.g. Nuclear Sharing program
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So what I'm saying is: in the case of Poland Trump's victory might be a non-factor, we're probably already on that path
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At COP28 president Duda pledged to triple the number of nuclear power plants and many people ridiculed him that 3x0 is still 0. But there's a major drive towards building it — it's one of the few things the new (soon-to-be) ruling coalition seems to agree on and the public supports it
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meanwhile on the other site a16z partner is discussing dog eugenics with the ex-CEO of OpenAI
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In general, I see the EC as rather toothless, but I hope that the 1.3 billion fine for Meta changed its attitude. Plus recently Musk has become overtly adversarial towards European politicians, accusing them of censorship and so on, so it's personal now
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Apart from FTC, the European Commission also investigates Twitter and treats this clash with Musk as a testing ground for the DSA - they simply cannot be seen as weak. So the second financial blow might soon come from across the ocean ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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TIL about the least known member of the OpenAI's family of products: Five, who is a gamer
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Elon rizzed up Baby Grok. Is Baby Grok the new drip king?
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AI is officially as skilled in naming characters as J. K. Rowling (and probably as transphobic)
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I was wondering why the OpenAI saga got so much media attention, even outside the US, and I think a major reason is that big tech companies are held in same regard as countries. This fight between the board and the CEO was analogous to a coup d’état, which is definitely front page worthy
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wrote a @bcmerchant.bsky.social’s “Blood in the Machine” inspired defense of Luddism in the age of AI - you can read it here (in Polish) oko.press/rewolucja-sz...
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A bunch of people went to a bored ape event in Hong Kong and it used UV lights that burned their eyes, leaving some temporarily and maybe in a few cases permanently blind. To be clear this was an event specifically and only for people who own bored ape NFTs.
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AFAIK plan jest taki, żeby Bluesky przez AT Protocol I ActivityPub stał się częścią fediwersum, więc liczę na to, że nawet jeśli tu się zadomowią, to w przyszłości będę miał łatwy dostęp do Mastodona i innych platform
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state of Polish mainstream media:
“So there is no escape from robotization / automation / artificial intelligence. They will accompany us until old age.
The article was created thanks to a trip organized by Amazon. Amazon had no influence on the content of this article”
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one of the saddest views on twitter rn is seeing well-meaning, compassionate people sharing uncritically posts from right-wing grifters like J. Hinkle or C. Owens who capitalize on the outpour of support for Gaza to build their accounts, further their reach, and make some money in the process
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I wrote about the original sin of the 90s internet — expecting everything to be free and therefore relying on advertising — and how we maybe have a chance now on Bluesky etc to slightly right that wrong. www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1...
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"When I die, I hope it will be here in New York, the promised land, surrounded by my brothers: all the different peoples of the world." johnganz.substack.com/p/the-trap
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Poland after the announcement of exit polls on Sunday evening
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the blue bird years for the blue sky
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talking about "vaush"? gauche
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RBG keyboard seems very fitting for the US court, respectful even
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logging in for the first time on bluesky as a polish politics-poisoned poster during a heated parliamentary elections campaign and immediately feeling withdrawal syndrome
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