@moodle Founder, Chairman and now Head of Research
@openedtech Founder and Chairman
I’ve mixed Computer Science and Education since 1999. #OpenSource is The Way.
My personal mission is to find and promote positive ways to implement technology like #AI, #AR and #Openness to help bring high quality education to EVERY person on the planet, and ultimately more peace and prosperity to spaceship #Earth.
“ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development”
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development
Also, a recurring security concern (and bandwidth abuse issue) with training data sets is that they generally don't store copies of the data and have few safeguards checking if it's been changed
So, y'know, if a pre-2020 domain expires and is replaced entirely with slop, many datasets will mark the slop as pre-2020 data
🚨 Meta announced today that it will introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This move further consolidates Meta's social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this.
https://noyb.eu/en/whatsapp-getting-ads-using-personal-data-instagram-and-facebook
It's okay if you didn't get it all done today.
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
settling into my new workplace and can I just say what an absolute bliss it is to be somewhere that doesn’t use Teams
Your occasional reminder to eat less meat because it's good for the planet.
🎓 Want to turn course content into visual, intuitive, and motivating learning paths in Moodle?
‼️Tue, June 17 at 14:00 (UTC), I’ll be presenting the (free) #MoodleAcademy webinar "Learning Maps in Moodle", where we’ll explore how the Learning Map plugin helps create clear, visual paths that guide learners through content in an engaging and flexible way.
Registration link: https://hubs.la/Q03qBKG00
#Moodle #LearningMaps #InstructionalDesign #EdTech #OnlineLearning #UXinLearning #Gamification
Honestly I think AI has the potential to handle legal cases way better than most lawyers (I'm NOT talking about things like ChatGPT, I'm talking about carefully and intentionally designed legal agents with full access to decided law and full transparency on their logic)
@pupuweb What happened to the NRA and all those people with guns ready to rise up against government tyranny?
#Suno now splits generated tracks into up to 12 full stems for local editing / completion in your favourite DAW. This is a total game changer for fine quality control of #musicproduction.
if you don't know Suno, here's one of my tracks: https://suno.com/song/c6e44436-1f65-4b85-b2b4-d71b6f73c5f8
Will My Tech Enshittify? How to tell...
In the absence of a crystal ball, how will you know if a product or service is likely to go to the dark side? Here are my tools for figuring out, in advance, which projects and services are most likely to lose sight of our best interests.
(a blog post and extended version of this thread)
Scale… grow… ever larger… always…
Motherfucking rocket ships baby!
Who’s gonna be the European Elon Musk? We need one, right?!
Let’s embrace Big Tech and recreate Silicon Valley in Europe because what could fucking go wrong?
Instead of say… supporting small, decentralised technology that protects human rights and democracy. No, sorry, we have no money for that sort of crap.
https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology
(In our ten years of existence Small Technology Foundation has not received 1 fucking Euro from the EU. And this, so very clearly, explains why. Enjoy your European version of US technofascism when it arrives. You’ll have deserved it fully.)
#EU #startups #BigTech #scale #growth #cancer #capitalism #SiliconValley https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114585055099190059
@cogdog You’ve done a superb job with that site, sir. It’s not you, it’s definitely them.
Never mind I’m sure the group will just be lost in the noise there.
And we do have local options. Sky Muster is apparently available everywhere according to this:
@Brendan Spot on.
This is why AI needs to be in all our decentralised hands. (Many many people are working on this)
Invented a new genre on Sunday
@timklapdor Sounds nice if you’ve got retirement sorted out!
Web sites are going to become the backwaters of the internet if big tech has its way
When you continuously talk and scheme about wanting global dominance you realise that makes you the bad guy, right? Do you even watch your own movies?
Well, this is quite disgusting.
"A new offshore gas rig, built by US petroleum giant ConocoPhillips, has been erected to drill deep into the seafloor off the Great Ocean Road. Not only is the gas rig next to a Marine National Park, it now stands as a backdrop to the world famous Twelve Apostles – a reminder that nowhere is safe from the oil and gas industry in Australia."
