We don't think in words (or numbers). 🧐

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/19/thinking-without-words-and-other-heresies/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Zrt6gbJU8od7Sr00MYaTx?si=9k-th4RZRiW_XNi5Tla8MA

#Language #philosophy #cognitivescience #fmri #science #research #words #cognition #chess #fedorenko #blog #podcast #soduko #blog #podcast #perception #apologies

Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/journalistic-malpractice-no-llm-ever-admits-to-anything-and-reporting-otherwise-is-a-lie/

If Trump can claim that Maduro is a criminal and that the US has authority to prosecute him, then what is stopping anyone from doing that to Trump and his criminal cronies? #showerthought #resist #fascism #antifascism #shame #apologies

🚀 Breaking News: Python 3.15 for #Windows is rumored to be 15% faster! 🎉 But don't get too excited, it's based on an "experimental" internal version of #MSVC, which probably means "good luck finding it." 🙃 Meanwhile, #apologies are being retracted like it's an Olympic sport. 🥇
https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/no-longer-sorry.html #Python315 #Speed #Rumor #Experimental #HackerNews #ngated

The Times: Finnish PM agrees to apology after decades of abuse of Sami people. “For a country crowned the happiest place on Earth eight years in a row, Finland has a surprisingly dark history of human rights abuses against its own indigenous population, the Sami people. Now the conservative prime minister, Petteri Orpo, says his country should say sorry.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/08/the-times-finnish-pm-agrees-to-apology-after-decades-of-abuse-of-sami-people/

First statement to the electorate from the SA Opposition Leader, "we will repeal 'The Voice'"
Cost of Living? Nope
Culture Wars? Yep.
Damn they're hopeless
#apologies #auspol

#Google's #Antigravity #AI makes drive D: empty just for fun ( of us :troll_face: )
#Apologies

12 subtle phrases that are dead giveaways of an insincere apology and how to respond to them

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/signs-of-non-apology

no guilt...

#apologies #none #llamas #cartoon #cruiseship #fire #sinking #liferaft #vidcap #animatedgif

no guilt...

#apologies #none #llamas #cartoon #cruiseship #fire #sinking #liferaft #vidcap #animatedgif

BBC Apologizes to Trump Over Film Edit but Declines to Pay Compensation

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/world/europe/bbc-apology-trump.html

From Atoms to AI: Do Tech Titans Feel Remorse?

Digital surveillance of our every movement. Facial recognition software. Deepfake technology designed to confuse or mislead. Ransomware. Online bots misshaping opinions. Tracking us on websites to sell us products. Three-dimensional printers used to print guns or suicide machines. Smart home and personal tech gadgets that spy on us, track us, study us, and listen to us. Biotech weapons. Genetically modified foods. Data centers that use incalculable amounts of electricity and water. Driverless cars that mistakenly kill or main. The list goes on and on.

All of these dystopian technologies are out there right now. Someone somewhere thought they would be a good idea and developed the technology needed to employ these actions. The big questions are why and when does an invention become evil? Are there technologies that can be invented, but should not be due to ethical, moral, or societal concerns? Are there inventions that are not evil for certain purposes, but become evil when used for misguided or inappropriate functions?

“Just because it can be invented, doesn’t mean it should be.”

panethos.wordpress.com

J. Robert Oppenheimer expressed guilt (“I have blood on my hands”) and regret after use of the atomic bomb on Japan, especially Nagasaki. As he so aptly noted, “The physicists have known sin…and this is a knowledge they cannot lose.” He spent much of his life thereafter trying to rein in the terrible technology that he helped to create.

“The link between Hiroshima and Dresden was indiscriminate bombing, what the Allies called total war. But it was deeper than that; it was something about man’s inhumanity to man, about technocrats who valued demonstrations of know-how so much they lost sight of the fact that they were killing people: schoolgirls and geezers and mothers pushing babies in prams.”

“The Brothers Vonnegut” by Ginger Strand

Today, it seems moral/ethical debates as those cited by Mr. Oppenheimer are fewer and further between. The general philosophy seems to be, if it helps the company’s bottom line or can make one rich, then it is good. Beyond that, there seems to be no limitation to how rich one can become whether or not the wealth was generated by evil technologies.

“Isn’t there a point where so rich is too rich?”

panethos.wordpress.com

• Have we heard regret for technology and modern weapons used to obliterate Gaza?

• Have we heard regret for providing technologies that assist ICE?

• Have we heard regret for allowing lies to permeate across the web?

• Have we heard sorrow or dismay for those who will lose their jobs to AI?

• Have we heard any thoughtful regret for any evil products created by Tech Titans?

Heck. When Google was first becoming a household name some 25 years ago, the company’s motto was “Don’ Be Evil.” This was removed from the preface of the employee code of conduct in 2018 and relegated to hardly more than an afterthought. Given where technology has taken us since, it is doubtful that goodness is true for any major tech company any more.

Author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. went to great lengths in his poignant writings to raise ethical concerns about the misuse and abuse of technology during his storied career. Here are two examples of the concerns he noted:

“It wasn’t necessarily evil to invent Ice-9 or a machine to replace a human being, like OMIBAC, EPICAC, or the ‘contour-following system’ [three fictional techologies in his books] that made skilled workers obsolete. but it was unethical to do these things without thinking about the implications for humanity.”

“The Brothers Vonnegut” by Ginger Strand

“The danger of the technocratic worldview was that it made human conflicts, human drama, even war, into a kind of game.”

“The Brothers Vonnegut” by Ginger Strand

As citizens of this nation and planet we must work together to formulate a series of ethical standards and protocols to be met by all parties (individuals, corporations, nations). Whether this is done through the United Nations, global agreements, or through non-government organizations doesn’t matter. What’s necessary is some form of treaty or failsafe to rein in the proliferating evils that derive from technological advancements and untethered greed, and to hold those accountable when advancements are employed for evil purposes.

#apologies #biotech #books #digital #ethics #evil #futurism #history #KurtVonnegut #militarism #morality #Oppenheimer #streaming #technology #transportation #weapons

Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/world/europe/trump-bbc-lawsuit-documentary.html

Why the BBC Is Facing Its Gravest Crisis in Decades

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/world/europe/bbc-news-trump.html

Every time I hear anything about DHH these days I feel I have to apologise for inviting him to Small Is Beautiful in 2021.

https://small-tech.org/small-is-beautiful/07/

I’m sorry, I didn’t know he was a dollar-store Elon Musk at the time.

What can I say? He duped me with his “small tech” talk, making me think we were talking about the same thing. Which, clearly, we weren’t, because Small Tech is all about inclusivity and a non-colonial approach to designing and developing human-scale technology:

“Small Tech is political through and through. It stands with both middle fingers raised high against Big Tech and capitalism. It’s proudly progressive. Small Tech is the opposite of Big Tech, not Big Tech Light.”

Learn more about Small Technology here: https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

#SmallTech #BigTech #DHH #apologies #SmallIsBeautiful https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115502864868912851

#Apologies.. I'm in a good mood.. and have to share another #pet #dog moment 🥰 The #frequency in this commercial always create this reaction.. as ambulances in the distance. So much so, I looked it up and other #dogs do this to the same commercial.. hmm clever

I can offer no acceptable excuse for my prolonged absence. I bow my head in humility.
In the #stumpery in the #garden today, #Buddha is snug under the acer's #autumnal canopy.

#apologies #ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #gardener #gardening #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #NaturalGarden

Ars Technica: Caught cheating in class, college students “apologized” using AI—and profs called them out. “Apologies came back from the students, first in a trickle, then in a flood. The professors were initially moved by this acceptance of responsibility and contrition… until they realized that 80 percent of the apologies were almost identically worded and appeared to be generated by AI.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/01/ars-technica-caught-cheating-in-class-college-students-apologized-using-ai-and-profs-called-them-out/

Carney Says He Apologized to Trump Over Ad Reviving Reagan’s Tariff Criticism

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/world/canada/carney-trump-apology-tariffs-reagan-ad.html