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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change. The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I deleted my X account after I saw a pro-H*tler post go viral with tens of thousands of likes and millions of views. Today, its resident AI posts anti-Semitic comments and references H*tler favorably. The fish rots from the head as the saying goes.

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Grok is being antisemitic again and also the sky is blue | TechCrunch

Grok, the AI chatbot powered by Elon Musk's xAI company, is back with more antisemitic rants.

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Hugo Lassiège @eventuallycoding.com · 13/03/2025

Recent events, like documented social media manipulation ahead of elections, prove that technology is inherently political. As tech professionals, maybe we should stop pretending tech is neutral. Read more : EN : eventuallymaking.io/2025/03/tech... FR : eventuallycoding.com/2025/03/tech...

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The Myth of Neutrality: Why Tech is Political

Some argue that tech is neutral. But tech is about making choices, and these choices shape society.

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Epsiloon @epsiloon.com · 02/03/2025

Nous nous sommes penchés sur les chiffres et le moins qu’on puisse dire c’est qu’ils donnent le vertige: les data centers XXL nécessaires aux IA génératives devraient accaparer 4% de l’électricité mondiale en 2026. Une trajectoire intenable selon les spécialistes. Toute notre enquête est dispo ici.

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IA : le mur de l’énergie

Derrière ChatGPT et les IA génératives, se cachent des data centers XXL, des monstres de calcul hyper-énergivores, qui devraient à eux seuls accaparer 4 % de l’électricité mondiale en 2026. Une tra...

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Vert, le média 💚 @vert.eco · 27/02/2025

🔴 Le tribunal administratif de Toulouse annule l’autorisation environnementale de l’A69 et ordonne l’arrêt immédiat du chantier. C’est la 1ère fois que la justice annule une infrastructure routière de cette ampleur. Une «victoire historique pour le droit de l’environnement» selon ses opposants.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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Bon Pote @bonpote.com · 06/02/2025

Imaginez un pays qui ne respecte pas ses objectifs climatiques et où aucun journaliste n'aurait interrogé le gouvernement sur le sujet depuis un an. L'Allemagne ? Les Etats-Unis ? Non, la France. Pas une fois. Et après on se demandera comment on a pu laisser faire.

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Shirley 🧡🧡🧡 @tatashishi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Ce candidat est à l'écoute d'opportunité. Je l'ai déjà recruté par le passé et je le recommande à 1000% Il est plutôt positionné sur l'environnement .NET mais reste très ouvert. Il est très sensible à la qualité logicielle et aux bonnes pratiques de dev www.canva.com/design/DAGdw...

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Tristan Nitot @nitot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

OpenAI aurait été pillé par DeepSeek : www.ft.com/content/a0df... . C'est délicieux. L'IA qui pique des boulots se plaint que son job a été piqué par une autre IA. L'IA qui pille des contenus par milliards se plaint qu'une IA pille son travail. L'hypocrisie est à son comble.

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OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

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Bon Pote @bonpote.com · 22/01/2025

Ils ont réussi à faire croire que voiture = liberté. Quand votre seul choix pour vous déplacer et vivre c'est d'avoir une voiture, ce n'est pas une liberté, c'est une prison.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Data showing the top 16% of remote workers outperform the top 5% in-office, while the bottom 12% underperform the bottom 5% in-office, makes sense. Top performers thrive with extra time from no commute, but underperformers struggle without oversight. RTO penalizes top talent for others’ inability.

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