kappazeta @kappazeta@mastodon.bida.im

A nine-month investigation undertaken by the Guardian, Die Zeit and SourceMaterial found that 90% of rainforest offsets from the world's biggest provider are worthless "phantom credits". Bought by the likes of Disney, Shell, easyJet and Gucci, it seems they may even do more harm to our environment than good.

Videos taken by residents in Peru showed forced evictions, and their homes cut down with chainsaws for an offset project.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe

En ce jour de #Greve19janvier une grande quantité de personnes ne travaille pas pour son employeur, mais continue de produire textes, données etc pour les GAFAM. Pour tou•tes, la revue Barbarie publie mon article “Anarchisme de plateforme” (en espagnol). https://www.barbarie.lat/post/anarquismo-de-plataforma-contra-bezos-musk-y-zuckerberg

ChatGPT gets treated like technological magic, but that ignores the humans behind the curtain that make it function.

OpenAI paid Sama to hire Kenyan workers at $1.32 to $2 an hour to review “child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest” content. Their work made the tool less toxic, but left them mentally scarred. The company ended the contract when they found out TIME was digging into their practices.

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

#tech #chatgpt #ai

my new small language model AI, titled Enough, draws on a one parameter pre-trained corpus —the smallest in history— and answers every question with the same response: “No.”

Today's #mood

È incredibile come le pagine della wikipedia italiana non abbiano spesso neanche il minimo delle informazioni necessarie per poter esser prese sul serio. Ogni tanto facciamola un'aggiuntina, una modifichina qua e là, quando vediamo che qualcosa di importante manca o non torna.

#wikipedia

"Il y a ceux à qui on n'exige jamais rien.
Aujourd'hui l'ONG Ofxam nous sort que Les plus riches milliardaires en France, depuis 2020, ont cumulé + de 200 milliards de fortune.
Une 2 % de taxe permettrait de régler les déficits des retraites."
Olivier Besancenot

Sacro potere dei tracker a me! L'ultima volta che ho usato un tracker era su un 386, direi. LSDJ è di una eleganza incredibile! @kenobit grazie per il tuo corso online, davvero prezioso!

@neurob yep, aperiodicamente ma sì

https://www.radioraheem.it/shows/classical-hooligans/

#AI is a diversion and a corporate capture #VC wet dream by @DonnaLanclos

"We have students in poverty. We have precarious lecturers. Climate change is real.  

But sure let’s look at the shiny new (#AI) toy."

https://digitalispeople.org/aingry/

As with Substack, there are always going to be a ton of people who very understandably feel like they have to keep quiet about the bad stuff because most writers live in various states of perpetual precarity—which is exactly why this clownshow history drives me up the wall. Tech companies buy new toys and throw away the old ones and real people get hurt.

I am looking to set up davidgraeber.org mastodon server. I got great recomendations on where to host it (thank you @hko)
but I would like to find one where we can get technical support in English. Any recommendations?

#Medium, the proprietary, #SiliconValley equivalent of free and open #fediverse app #WriteFreely, by the #billionnaire co-founder of #Twitter now has a fediverse server.

Now might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (https://write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (https://writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the people who bequeathed you Twitter.