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@robb@social.lol love this, love my new certificate
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I'm running a session at work next week on AI and it's impact on the environment. I've prepped some slides that include your classic audience participation quiz (guess how much water an AI generated emails consumes, etc etc).
As part of the org's accessibility and inclusion, all session slides are sent to attendees ahead of time - something I was logically aware of, but failed to process.
So my slides have just been sent out, including the answers to my audience Q&A section.
Thursday, so it's #LT3 again.
This week we look at Aithos Research Foundations' report that, basically, no AI model is legally compliant.
Also, we look at a daring display of defiance against Meta at Hay Festival, Starmer caught using disappearing messages on his phone (also, I thought using E2EE was bad, Keir?), and the Competition and Markets Authority force Google to play nice with publishers.
https://buttondown.com/willrc/archive/lets-talk-tech-thursday-32/
#newsletter #tech #technews
#ai #meta #google #hayfestival #ukpolitics
A post about Gmail's incessent AI nagging from @jp@polymaths.social helped me crystalise some thoughts about the ways in which AI is stripping away our ability to consent:
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@ellane@pkm.social Thanks for sharing this. I might give this a go (always a fan of low-tech solutions to every day problems).
What I *definitely* will be doing though, is putting all the metadata for my current organisation system at the front of the item moving forward - it does look so much cleaner!
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@themediumkahuna@tech.lgbt I've been using Readwise/Reader for about a year and really like it, but I keep seeing people talk about Wallabag. (I run my life through Obsidian)
No point to this message, other than to say thanks for nudging me into looking at Wallabag again...
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@orangeacme@fosstodon.org I only have 4 community plugins on my vault, and the two I couldn't live without are Dataview and Tasks.
Tasks is a really robust way of managing todos.
Dataview, with a small learning curve, lets you create views of files from anywhere in your vault based on specific queries. For example, I have a "home page" canvas shows: files I've edited in the last 5 days, files with specific tags, and files that haven't been accessed in over a year.
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@matdevdug Not the point of your post at all (which is fantastic, btw), but I was thinking the other day about how because I use RSS to read most of the stuff I read, I'm probably cheating people out of page views.
It's never occurred to me that one could get stats on your RSS feed. But of course you can. Most people probably don't, but that one can makes me feel better.
Oh shit, maybe doing it is a good idea after all...?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/09/white-house-urges-uk-not-ban-social-media-under-16s
I just renewed my mortgage from the browser on my phone. As a millennial, this felt deeply wrong. If anything is a big purchase / big screen situation, surely it should be a mortgage?