iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

An excellent and informative thread 🧵

A still from Thor: Ragnarok. Hella (goth Cate Blanchet) has casually caught Thor's hammer out of the air before it could hit her. The hammer is labeled "It's basic biology." Hella is labeled "Advanced Biology." Hella is smiling. Nice try.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Block 2/64 was a struggle. I think I sewed the order incorrectly, and I definitely underestimated some seams. Overall, I am not thrilled with the product. But I learned: 1) It's okay to unpick (I kept telling myself that an unpicker is just like an eraser).

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Block 1/64: my very first quilted block. I was gifted the fabric and covers of The Art of Quilting, and so I have a project to learn with. It doesn't need to be perfect, or even good, it just needs to exist.

A 4 x 4 quilt block, featuring bright pink, patterned lime green and a light blue with dotted white contrast.

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves—all of our selves—wherever we go." ~You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir

Quote shared via Kindle: "We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves—all of our selves—wherever we go."

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 06/12/2024

Here is more information. They may not all be bots, some may be real people, but any time someone offers to boost your campaign for a fee, you should be very careful. Here is an article on how to spot red flags. There are also some helpful videos: www.vvdailypress.com/story/news/l...

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GoFundMe reminds fundraisers, donors to be wary of scammers. Here's how to spot red flags

Scammers use several tactics to try to con organizers and donors of online fundraising campaigns. Here’s how to protect yourself.

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"The danger of stereotypes is not that they untrue, but that that they are incomplete." youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg?...

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23/11/2024

"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI" www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines... this is a damning report

reads: The Ways AI Decides How Low-Income People Work, Live, Learn, and Survive

The use of artificial intelligence, or AI, by governments, landlords, employers, and other powerful private interests restricts the opportunities of low-income people in every basic aspect of life: at home, at work, in school, at government offices, and within families. AI technologies derive from a lineage of automation and algorithms that have been in use for decades with established patterns of harm to low-income communities. As such, now is a critical moment to take stock and correct course before AI of any level of technical sophistication becomes entrenched as a legitimate way to make key decisions about the people society marginalizes.

Employing a broad definition of AI, this report represents the first known effort to comprehensively explain and quantify the reach of AI-based decision-making among low-income people in the United States. It establishes that essentially all 92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

11) The next few months are going to bring unimaginable pain to so many. I did my breakdown earlier this week because I confronted the fact that I might be separated from my kids like my husband was. Grieve. But remember we are legion. Be uncompromisingly hopeful because fascists feed on nihilism.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

4) Learn to live with social complexity. If you write off the possibility of persuading your fellow citizens, fascists win by default. In practice fascist ideologues are few, but people think they can ride that tiger for their own purpose. Read Sarah Ahmed’s organization of hate. Weaponize love.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My current go-to line is 'if you can't out-human a computer, you're going to be in serious trouble once you leave university...' - bleak, but unfortunately true.

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Today, I continued an unexpected journey of helping a 7th grader reconcile with maths, the more I teach fundamentals the more connections I see between disciplines.

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

"The thrilling freedom of having nothing to lose" hard-hitting words.

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Today I have rocked my job, I have helped kids master word-attack skills and helped a 7th grader grasp the base 10 number system. She paid me a huge compliment: "You make maths seem simple ma'am". Of course, I reminded her that maths truly is simple if you take it step by step.

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 29/09/2024

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

I utterly despise doomer thinking. We have WORK to do, god damn it. We have years, DECADES of work to do. It is going to take our time and money and emotional commitment.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Functional political systems are *supposed to be* boring! It should be sewage specialists arguing over what size pipe is most efficient for the city layout! It should be debates over whether to put a mural or a frieze in the new park! “Interesting politics” are when people start dying!

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Dys @whiskeytown.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Bitcoin consumes about 2.5% of US electricity, about the same as all residential cooling. An article decrying *that* electricity usage as a personal moral failing would be much less tone deaf.

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

This is beautifully narrated and while I am only 2 chapters in (it is heavy), highly recommended.

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

An interesting and delightfully written, opinion piece on AI ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-... Contains profanity

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I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Google cofounder Larry Page once said, “Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it’s very hard to fail completely. That’s the thing that people don’t get.” Quoted by Timothy Ferriss in The 4-Hour Chef

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Darlings, a moment. You are *not* hard to love. If someone made you feel that way, that is 100% about THEM and their own bullshit. Loving people is easy. None of us are perfect. We're all quirky, with flaws and baggage. But love doesn't give a damn about that minutiae.

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

An amazing read. Like all the best stories, it has an ending, but leaves room for so much more.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Trash talk in Ancient Rome

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Daily reminder: While all feelings are valid: it does not justify all behaviour in response to those feelings.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

feeling unsafe and being unsafe are not the same thing

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

I cry for my beloved continent. We are a big and beautiful place, we should not kill people for being who they are. The fact that a lot of Africa's homophobia can be traced back to colonialism compounds the tragedy.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

This week, Uganda's Constitutional Court upheld a law that makes homosexuality punishable by death. To justify it, the Court cited the US Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs as an example of using "the nation's history and traditions...to overrule the broader right to individual autonomy"

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

I believe the word for this is procrasticleaning.

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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Everything ends eventually. And maybe we as people won't make a huge difference one way or another on a cosmic scale... but maybe small actions have big impact. And maybe, we should be working to make it better.

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Sometimes, all you need is a good cry before having a cup of tea and some healthy food.

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Robert Hill @robert.hill.cx · 01/03/2024

Me: A whole month for vowels? Why? Them: Sometimes.

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

The world does not need to expose or shine a light on hatred towards Trans people. What the world hasn’t seen yet — what the world needs to see, needs to hear — is trans people. We need their humanity. We need their voices. Adapted from: jude-doyle.ghost.io/i-dont-care-...

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I Don’t Care About Your Brand

Nex Benedict, Taylor Lorenz, and why trans trauma is not your goldmine.

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

“I would never ask anyone to move on, but what I can ask is for us to move forward.” - First Minister Michelle O’Neill "While we are shaped by the past, we are not defined by it.” -Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly Progress towards peace and prosperity is always good. I have hope.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 19/01/2024

Petition to bring back the term "Cybercrud" for what's happening right now with "AI" (from "Computer Lib", 1974)

Cybercrud takes numerous forms. All of them, however, share the patina of "science" that computers have for the layman.
1a) COMPUTER AS MAGIC WORD
The most delicate, and seemingly innocent, technique is the practice of naming things so as spuriously to suggest that they involve computers.
Thus there is a manufacturer of pot-pipes with
"Data" in its name, and apparently a pornography house with a "Cyber-",
1b) COMPUTER AS MAGIC INGREDIENT
The above seems silly, but it is no less silly than talking about "computer predictions" and
"computer studies" of things. The mere fact that a computer is involved in something has no bearing on its character or validity. The way things are done with computers affects their character and validity, just like the way things are done without computers. (Indeed, merely using a computer often has no bearing on the way things are done.)

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

I have the folks in Better call Saul, so it could go very well or terribly for me and my captors.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/01/2024

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent '“Haven’t you noticed that by running away you end up in more trouble?” “Yes, but, you see, you can run away from that, too,” said Rincewind. “That’s the beauty of the system. Dead is only for once, but running away is for ever.”'

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Trisha Cornelius (she/her) 🇿🇦 @trishawebs.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Want a pencil pic of your purr-fect pet? You can get one from Danelle Malan, a graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art (recognized as one of South Africa's foremost art schools).

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/01/2024

An incomplete list, but here are some ways I keep my Bluesky experience pretty happy: 1. Be kind when possible 2. Celebrate/congratulate people's wins 3. Always "like" pet pics 4. Trolls, etc: Don't Engage, Just Block 5. Don't nitpick typos/small errors 6. Remember the failure mode of clever

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 11/01/2024

Carlin's daughter

My statement regarding the AI generated George Carlin special: My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination. No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI generated products are clever attempts at trying to recreate a mind that will never exist again. Let’s let the artist’s work speak for itself. Humans are so afraid of the void that we can’t let what has fallen into it stay there.
Here’s an idea, how about we give some actual living human comedians a listen to? But if you want to listen to the genuine George Carlin, he has 14 specials that you can find anywhere.

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