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Este é o tipo de coisa em que eu penso quando se fala em distopia.
A IA é cada vez mais uma ferramenta de usurpação, contrafação, fraude, mentira e manipulação.
E poluição ambiental também. Quase me esquecia.
independent.co.uk/arts-enterta…
David Attenborough says he is ‘profoundly disturbed’ his voice is being cloned with AI
‘My identity is being stolen by others,’ said 98-year-old naturalistEllie Harrison (The Independent)
With our #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc efforts we put all intelligence on the end devices, and architecutally separate it from a transport layer that routes safely and fast but knows nothing.
There are a dozen or more #chatmail servers across many jurisdictions, all safely interopable with each other and classic servers.
Turned out we can dumb down email servers by relying on cryptography instead of IP reputation and ai/spam filtering. And have 200ms delivery times. We are not done :)
Whoops! school accidentally leaked names of kids who opted out of sex education
Names had been redacted from a PDF, but included in HTML version. 🤦♂️ This kind of screw-up happens far too often.
nj.com/education/2024/11/nj-sc…
N.J. school accidentally released names of kids who opted out of sex education
Parents say the move violated students' privacy. The school says it was an accident.Tina Kelley | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com (nj)
In case you missed it, Apple has been using age limits to unfairly discriminate against third party browsers:
A collaborator found out that the US State Dept is seeking public input on whether "satellite signature reduction" should be subject to ITAR regs.
Translation: should satellite operators who make their satellites fainter (in order to not destroy the night sky quite as much) be allowed to talk about how they did it?
So some of my collaborators and I put together a quick and easy template for you to email the US State Dept and tell them this shouldn't be secret info:
New review feat. THE Sapna Cheryan (essentially if you want to understand STEM gender equity gaps this is the scientist to read) free to access until Dec 2
"Global patterns of gender disparities in STEM and explanations for their persistence"
nature.com/articles/s44159-024…
Global patterns of gender disparities in STEM and explanations for their persistence - Nature Reviews Psychology
Women remain underrepresented in some STEM fields throughout much of the world. In this Review, Cheryan and colleagues discuss four factors that might explain this underrepresentation — access to education and employment, masculine cultures, insuffic…Nature
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So yes, I hope people are loyal to you. I hope they stick around. I hope they forgive and understand when you’ve made a mistake or acted out of character and I hope they talk through it with you.
But I also hope we all realize that of course you can lose real friendships if you aren’t careful with their hearts.
They’re people with needs and wants too. They’re people with very real feelings and their time and energy is precious too.
Following up on my last post: While "Dining in the Dark" uses blindfolds to simulate blindness—a deeply problematic practice—Netflix’s *Love Is Blind* raises a different but related issue: the casual use of "blindness" as a metaphor.
The title refers to the idea that love can transcend physical appearance, but it uses blindness to symbolize ignorance or a lack of perception. This isn’t new—our language is full of metaphors like "turning a blind eye" or "blind ambition" that associate blindness with negative traits like ignorance or inability.
As a blind person, I see how language shapes perceptions. These metaphors may seem harmless, but they perpetuate outdated, ableist notions of blindness as a deficiency. They turn our lived experiences into rhetorical devices, erasing the richness of blind culture and reducing us to symbols of "lack."
No, *Love Is Blind* isn’t offensive in the same way as "Dining in the Dark," which makes a spectacle of our lives. But the metaphorical use of blindness shows how ingrained ableism is in language and culture. Casual metaphors matter—they reinforce unconscious biases that we must challenge.
Blindness isn’t a symbol. It’s a lived reality, full of challenges, skills, and a vibrant community. Let’s think more critically about how we use disability in language and storytelling.
💬 What do you think?
This comes up a lot.
My concern about inclusive language is that one day, we'll go so far that we can't understand each other.
For me, far too many people treat me like blindness is more of a problem than it is. The person I have been dining with has been asked for my meal choices on far too many occasions to count. Nonetheless, if we stop using the word blind in a metaphorical context, this doesn't change their actions. In fact I could make an excellent case to argue that it distances them even more from the idea of blindness, a widening I already struggle with when in some parts of the world, someone can both be legally blind and drive a vehicle. I already feel that the term blind is appropriated by those who have corrective vision. To want the word even less in use seems ridiculous.
I am happy that my love is blind. I love my life partner without considering her visual appearance overmuch, and love being blind encapsulates that perfectly.
I love things being blindingly-obvious. people have blind spots in their vision, and I see no harm in transfering that concept to an emotional one (there are people with whom i cannot discuss certain topics because they have a blind spot about it in an emotive context).
mobile phone companies are being advised to avoid the term blackspot for an area of poor signal coverage because it is offensive. Man hours are no longer applicable to people because they disinclude women. Processes at work have to be unalived because terminated sounds harsh.
Language is an ever-evolving system of expression. I worry that being militant about a word like blind will, if we are not careful, see us using so many tortuous tautologies that we are divorced from richness in language full-stop.
Tell a child that you'll turn a blind eye to their unflattering drawing of their dad one day, they'll understand that an adult with real blind eyes can't see. Boom. Life lesson.
Steven
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