🚀 Thanks for all the feedback on my German post about AI & critical thinking! I’ve just published the English version: »AI makes us humans unlearn how to think — and we mistake it for progress.«

If you care about culture, education, and how convenience can quietly erode our judgement, give it a read and let me know what you think. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/ai-makes-us-hum…

#AI #CriticalThinking #EdTech #KI

AI makes us humans unlearn how to think – and we mistake it for progress

How AI is changing our thinking — and why we risk unlearning it. An analysis of cultural shift, education, and convenience.

^{www.kuketz-blog.de}

My plea to Canada’s public sector workers and unions:

Reject the use of AI, and save the soul of the public sector.

#CdnPoli #AI #Canada

thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

AI is Dehumanization Technology

A call to reject the deployment and use of AI systems in Canada's public sector.

^{thedabbler.patatas.ca}

If you use Telegram, now’s probably a good time to stop.

Musk has just signed a one-year partnership with Telegram to integrate his AI Grok into the message app.

xAI will invest $300 million, cash and equity, and share 50% of Grok subscription revenue.

france24.com/en/live-news/2025…

#AI #Telegram

Telegram to get $300 mn in partnership with Musk's xAI

Telegram established a partnership with Elon Musk's xAI to provide the Grok generative artificial intelligence program on the messaging service for one year, Telegram's CEO announced Wednesday.

^{France 24 (FRANCE 24)}

I chatted with @bagder about #Curl and the recent #AI happenings

It's always fun talking to Daniel, and I think there's a lot of good ideas in this one, especially on how to approach AI fueled contributions that aren't slop. And even suggestions on how to deal with slop contributions :)

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/202…

Curl vs AI with Daniel Stenberg

Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of Curl, discusses the increase in AI security reports that are wasting the time of maintainers. We discuss Curl’s new policy of banning the bad actors while establishing some pretty sane AI usage guidelines.

^{Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)}

KI macht das Leben leichter – und das Denken seltener. Ein kritischer Blick auf die schleichende Entwöhnung vom eigenen Verstand. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/ki-laesst-uns-m…

#KI #AI #denken #menschen #fedilz

KI lässt uns Menschen das Denken verlernen – und wir halten es für Fortschritt

Wie KI unser Denken verändert – und warum wir drohen, es zu verlernen. Eine Analyse über Kulturwandel, Bildung und Bequemlichkeit.

^{www.kuketz-blog.de}

🌟 Excited to share Thorsten-Voice's YouTube channel! 🎥 🗣️🔊 ♿ 💬

Thorsten presents innovative TTS solutions and a variety of voice technologies, making it an excellent starting point for anyone interested in open-source text-to-speech. Whether you're a developer, accessibility advocate, or tech enthusiast, his channel offers valuable insights and resources. Don't miss out on this fantastic content! 🎬

follow hem here: @thorstenvoice
or on YouTube: youtube.com/@ThorstenMueller YouTube channel!

#Accessibility #FLOSS #TTS #ParlerTTS #OpenSource #VoiceTech #TextToSpeech #AI #CoquiAI #VoiceAssistant #Sprachassistent #MachineLearning #AccessibilityMatters #FLOSS #TTS #OpenSource #Inclusivity #FOSS #Coqui #AI #CoquiAI #VoiceAssistant #Sprachassistent #VoiceTechnology #KünstlicheStimme #MachineLearning #Python #Rhasspy #TextToSpeech #VoiceTech #STT #SpeechSynthesis #SpeechRecognition #Sprachsynthese #ArtificialVoice #VoiceCloning #Spracherkennung #CoquiTTS #voice #a11y #ScreenReader

Thorsten-Voice

Guude! (hi, nice to see you) 👋, i'm Thorsten 😊. You like open source, privacy aware and local running voice technology? Me too 😎. You'll find cooking recipe like tutorials on TTS, STT, Voice Assistants, AI, ML and way more cool stuff here.

^YouTube

Seen many blind people advocating for Audible's AI narration instead of having narrators they don't like record the audiobook and its takes like this that make me super ashamed of some in my own community. I can't even think of what to call these people.

The reasoning is that an AI voice won't be busy or expensive so we can get more audiobooks and just... I strongly suspect these are Blind people that hate audiobooks and want them gone or otherwise reduced in pop culture. I can't understand the logic otherwise.

#AI #Audible

Duolingo deletes its TikTok and Instagram posts amid AI backlash 😂

After Duolingo said it was going “AI-first,” things went downhill fast as millions saw it as replacing humans developers and support staff with bots fastcompany.com/91338068/duoli… They also increased subscription costs while firing staff #ai

FFS: What an absolute bellend: "Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will still exist ‘because you still need childcare’"

Were I still using that POS Duolingo, this would have made me stop.

fortune.com/2025/05/20/duoling…

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Duolingo

Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will still exist ‘because you still need childcare’

Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI, and it has its eye set on schools.

^{Irina Ivanova (Fortune)}

Oh hey, Firefox just announced it's closing down. That's a shame.

hackread.com/firefox-tests-ai-…

#Firefox #AI

Firefox Tests AI-Powered Perplexity Search Engine Directly in Browser

Mozilla Firefox tests AI-powered Perplexity Search Engine in its address bar for version 139, signalling a potential shift in search partnerships.

^{Deeba Ahmed (Hack Read)}

Thank you, Teresa Heffernan.at the Halifax Examiner. It's worth reading the whole article.
#AI #CanPoli

halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/…

An open letter to Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence

Above all, I hope you will fight for a democratic and sustainable future, now under threaten by the authoritarian technocrats that own the AI infrastructure.

^{Teresa Heffernan (Halifax Examiner)}

Tak jsem si dnes cely den hral s Codexem od OpenAI. Rozhodne je to posun smerem k vetsi pouzitelnosti AI pri kodovani.

Asi nejvetsi wow efekt pro me bylo, jak dokaze hledat v kodu. Moje repozitare jsou totalni bordel, takze neco najit je vykon.

Jeho crawleni si muzete uzit v primem prenosu. Nebo behem nej hrat pinces. Takove 2025 "Kompilujeme".

Historie se opakuje!

#it #ai #swift

Microsoft claims that 30% of the code is already generated by AI. Why isn't it 100%.
So I tried it.
I "created" an application whose code is 100% generated by AI. I didn't write a single line of code.
The goal was not to create some large or complex application. Simply just a test.
If you are interested, the app is available on Google Play (currently not for iOS, maybe later).
I may publish the source codes later, but for now only here: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

#AI #android #androiddev

AI Notes - Apps on Google Play

A note-taking app written entirely by AI.

^{play.google.com}

The future is here...

#AI

In 2010, #AaronSwartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR. He faced a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison
➡️ Aaron took his own life in 2013.

#Meta illegally downloaded over 80 terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train its #AI models
➡️ facing no consequences.

Information is power, knowledge is power.

Beware and fight against those who want to keep you ignorant, unaware, and misinformed.

#digitalrights #openknowledge #opendata #privacy

In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.

So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.

I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!

Next step: radicle.xyz maybe?

github.com/orgs/community/disc…

#github #microsoft #openai #codeberg #ai #ml #llm #enshittification #foss #floss #opensource #radicle

#Development #Reviews
First impressions of Deque Axe Assistant · What to expect from the AI accessibility chatbot ilo.im/163tch

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#AxeAssistant #AI #Chatbot #Accessibility #WCAG #Design #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #HTML

My @TetraLogical colleague @craigabbott has tested the Deque accessibility chatbot and provided his initial impressions

#a11y #AI #accessibility

craigabbott.co.uk/blog/deque-a…

Deque Axe Assistant - First impressions

Testing Deque's axe Assistant for accuracy and ability.

^{Craig Abbott (craigabbott.co.uk)}

AGI isn’t just buzz—it’s a systems problem.

In this #podcast, Your Undivided Attention explores what AGI actually means and how we might (or might not) be ready for it.

your-undivided-attention.simpl…

#AI #AGI #TechEthics #FutureOfAI

So beautiful and to the point 🥲\
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#ai

What on earth, SoundCloud??

"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services."

soundcloud.com/terms-of-use

via @sarahdal crispsandwi.ch/@sarahdal/11447…

#soundcloud #AI #copyright #musicians #AITraining

Who on this #mastodon uses #RSS? I just made 🥯 FeedBagel – feedbagel.com

An RSS feed finder #API that categorises feeds with #AI, and saves them for browsing and searching

any feedback welcome and appreciated! #webdev #design

So I was browsing the Internet today, and so I found some weird script someone made for Linux which takes a screenshot and describes it with Gemini. As usual, read the script before running it and all that, I obviously wasn't the one who created it because I don't code, so I cannot answer any questions about it or make new features or anything like that. But yeah I mean it's also AI, so don't use it, and Linux will obviously be filled with slop because of this awful person who added A11yAI to Linux, but yeah here it is:

dropbox.com/scl/fi/qy49ewvvj0g…

#ai #blind #linux