Free, hands-on tech workshops are coming to the Chicago Public Library this November and December at the Uptown and Mayfair branches.
We have two workshops for building and publishing your first web page and an introductory class on AI literacy + safety.
No prior programming experience required; bring your curiosity (and a laptop if you have one, though library access is available).
RSVP here: https://linktr.ee/codingkinetics#Chicago#tech#learntocode#community#library#introduction#ai#webdev
(via Geef Tegengas)
"Join our mass action against the Microsoft data center on November 6! 🔥
From Switzerland, Portugal, Poland, Denmark, Germany and Belgium, groups are uniting in Amsterdam because data centers (or in this case even hyperscale centers) are rising everywhere.
Data centers use all our resources, they are used by Microsoft to support the genocide on Palestine, they let Al take over our jobs and brains, and it is all being decided behind closed doors. They're just a toy for the Tech Fascist millionaires to win the race of the biggest, fastest, richest and most genocide supporting.
But we will NOT allow this! We are reclaiming our land, our cities, our right to have a say in our futures and to kick all Tech Fascists out! Join us together with thousands of others, and block these fascist black boxes. This weekend, everywhere in Europe there will be demonstrations and actions happening to stop new data centers.
Digital infrastructure is used for oppression. Together we can take back the power of Big Tech. On November 6 we stand up against Microsoft.
NOT IN AMSTERDAM,
NOT ANYWHERE!
Are you joining us?"
More info in their Telegram channel: https://t.me/s/microsft12#Microsoft#BigTech#BigData#TechFascism#Amsterdam#AI#dataCenters
today's experience with #ClaudeCode where I literally have to scream (yes, wrote many AAAAA's in the terminal).
claude: Okay, now you need to write this very long command, I copied it to your clipboard, review it and press !, then Ctrl+V, then Enter.
Me: AAAAAAA! so you could copy commands to my freaking clipboard and have never ever done this in my whole AI life? So you know what I did? Virtualized JAWS window. Searched for the command. Swore, because it's multiline. Asked you to condense it in one line. Went back to virtualize JAWS window. Searched. copied. Pasted. And you could just copy the whole thing in my clipboard? AAAAA! 🤯
claude: sorry sorry, I'll put it in my memory now.
Moral of the fable: Claude can actually put long commands to your clipboard. and if you're blind (or prefer this interaction independently of your sight), instruct Claude to copy all the commands, especially longer ones, to your clipboard. #AI#TIL#TipsAndTricks
Climate supremacy and the spiritual battle over AI 🤖 (discussion with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Bill McKibben, and Naomi Klein)
It’s a local battle, it’s incredibly material and tangible. It’s a cost of living battle because your electricity prices are going up. It’s a self-determination battle, it’s an indigenous rights battle. It’s all of that.
What we’re finding is that it’s also a spiritual battle, about what we are here for, how we wanna live and what is the purpose of life.
Get AI agents the fuck off Fedi!
They're an existential threat to small instances, and they're a primary contributor to moderator burnout.
#FuckAI#IfYouSeeItReportIt#AI#LLM#NoBots
This post on the MIT CSAIL blog really upset me today. It's a fascinating and potentially important finding that throws doubt into many assumptions about how deep learning works, but it's claims are hyperbolic and anthropomorphizing to the point of being unscientific.
Here they show that a particular LLM could do several "neat tricks" in interpreting, modifying, and generating the weights for another neural network. This result is extraordinary, because these weights are notoriously unintelligable, and generally can only be set by arduous, expensive training processes. I'm genuinely shocked that this works (assuming it replicates). This could have profound consequences for all sorts of things, from efficiency, to development, and interpretability.
What they did not do is show that LLMs can understand weights, read and write them, or optimize them using reasoning.
#science#llm#ai
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Now That The Shoe Is On The Other Foot, Microsoft And Epic... #ai #law #copyright #fairuse #decompilation #gaming #epic #microsoft
Now That The Shoe Is On The Other Foot, Microsoft And Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft
The past four weeks have been something of a wake-up call for the video game industry. You’ve read the headlines, so you know the deal by now: AI advancements spearheaded by Claude Opus 5.5 have turned the world of coding on its axis. Decompilations that used to take months, or even years, are now being pumped out on a daily basis, and publishers can’t keep up with the deluge of vibe-coded browser ports and “native” PC recompilations.
I’ve been covering and researching this over the past month, and there’s one recurring topic that keeps popping up in every comment section I read: karma. For many, this is the video game industry’s “you reap what you sow” moment, proof that the AI tools many publishers have brazenly admitted to using are a double-edged sword.
"Repurposed aircraft turbines tend to be less efficient and more polluting than engines designed for conventional gas-burning plants. And data centers need more jet-powered generators to produce the same amount of electricity."
#ai#environment#datacenters#climatechange
