On the final Friday of every month I curate a few of the observations and insights that have been shared on social media. I name these Friday’s Finds.
“Q. what AI is greatest at?
A. Propaganda”
—@GeorgeSnorwell
“I noticed a submit that requested: why is divestment political however funding isn’t? And I can’t cease enthusiastic about it.” —@JackieGardina
“Whenever you invent the ship, you additionally invent the shipwreck; once you invent the airplane you additionally invent the airplane crash; and once you invent electrical energy, you invent electrocution … Each expertise carries its personal negativity, which is invented concurrently technical progress.” —Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999) Politics of the Very Worst
“Slack — accessible work capability — is essential for scaling and for organizational well being generally.
Individuals with slack have headspace and time to enhance issues, to suppose forward, to comb out the corners, to arrange for what’s coming subsequent. And they’re going to see these wants earlier than administration does.
‘Operating lean’ eliminates slack. This solely works for some time, and solely if in case you have a flat org of extremely self-actualized individuals who you give autonomy. And also you’ll nonetheless burn individuals out ultimately.
In the event you take away each slack and autonomy, (e.g. ‘operating lean’ however with a stratified org) you get the worst of each worlds.
Laborers are anticipated to spend each billable second engaged on work outlined and prioritized by another person. They’re unable to make use of their intimate data of the work to enhance how issues work, to arrange for what’s subsequent, to maintain issues tidy and secure, as a result of none of this has ‘worth’ for administration.
This is a company that may grind itself to powder earlier than it succeeds.” — Chris Ammerman
In a way, roads are the final word expression of One Well being, the idea that our personal well-being is intimately linked to the planet’s. Roads concurrently degrade nature and jeopardize human well-being: The identical grime highways which have carved up the Amazon additionally facilitate the unfold of malaria; the identical Los Angeles freeways pulverizing mountain lions are additionally liable for the town’s dismal air high quality. Scientists name the research of how roads affect nature ‘highway ecology’, the topic of my latest e book, Crossings — and nature consists of us people. Whether or not you’re a pedestrian or a porcupine, you reside within the thrall of roads.
How Three Massive Conspiracy Theories Took Root in Canada
It’s generally assumed that schooling inoculates in opposition to conspiratorial pondering. Nonetheless, education isn’t a foolproof safeguard in opposition to paranoid pondering. Regardless of Canada having one of many world’s most extremely educated populations, a ballot launched in December 2023 by Leger discovered that 79 % of Canadians imagine at the least one conspiracy idea, together with hallucinations about Princess Diana being assassinated and world cabals of elites secretly pulling the strings. Nonetheless, the conspiratorial pondering operating rampant is neither new nor an imported phenomenon. Types of fringe thought which can be more and more related at the moment, together with pseudo constitutionalism, conspiratorial anti-communism, and New World Order conspiracism, have traditionally appeared in Canada, together with among the many properly related and extremely educated.
Open AI is constructed on a tradition of deception, one which obfuscates the precise talents of their expertise, and each additional profitable obfuscation enriches an enterprise that lacks morality, readability and respect for its customers or the tech business at massive.
The identical goes for Sundar Pichai of Google, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, and, after all, Mark Zuckeberg and anyone related to Meta … as a result of AI can’t, by definition, know something.
“Why sure, I’m completely sporting this cut-off tshirt with a picture of Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofrenes that claims ‘Lady Dinner’ to the discuss I’m giving this afternoon about tech-enabled abuse.” —@evacide
![Judith Slaying Holofernes c. 1620, now at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence,[1] is the renowned painting by Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi depicting the assassination of Holofernes from the apocryphal Book of Judith. When compared to her earlier interpretation from Naples c. 1612, there are subtle but marked improvements to the composition and detailed elements of the work. These differences display the skill of a cultivated Baroque painter, with the adept use of chiaroscuro and realism to express the violent tension between Judith, Abra, and the dying Holofernes.[2]](https://jarche.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Giuditta_decapita_Oloferne_-_Google_Art_Project-Adjust-634x780.jpg)