Notices by Antanicus (antanicus@social.coop), page 6

Neoliberalism creating a new class divide of AI-haves and AI-have-nots?

"Why thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findings"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/may/29/why-thousands-of-ai-researchers-are-boycotting-the-new-nature-journal

#AI #ML #machinelearning

So does the 1$ million donation the GNOME foundation received mean they'll start adding features, and not just removing them?

I am fasting and donating food for my local #foodbank on the 6th of June as part of #UKHousingFast's #PlatePledge. If you'd like to help tackle food poverty in the UK, you can donate here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ukhousingfast2018

Both facebook and the birbsite are blocked on the company's network... but Mastodon is not.

Another good reason to be here :)

People: "OMG evil facebook is stealing my data"

Also people: *literally call anybody who expects the forum of a major political movement to comply with basic #infosec best practices, like sending data over an https connection, "tinfoil hat"*

Hey @samtoland check this out:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/25/resonate-spotify-music-streaming-service-co-op

#Resonate

Companies enforcing a dress code should reimburse the expenses made by workers in order to conform to said dress code.

https://social.coop/media/4dBqBxK_BWCW3XKCKkU

"One of Google’s promotional videos during the event concluded with the tagline “just make Google do it.” As with the very name of the Google Assistant it was advertising, this promo positions Google’s services as your servants (...) But I feel like this deliberately benign portrayal masks a huge number of proactive decisions that Google makes every day on our behalf"

How long will this madness continue? How can people not see where this is going?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17334632/google-io-2018-personal-assistant

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