On my blog: Toots from 04/14 to 04/18 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/18/week.html
This week, we have tariffs, thinness and radicalization, general strikes, right-wing violence, public libraries, history in hip-hop, antitrust, Chile's Roma, and Arab American Heritage.
#linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

New blog post:

Linkdump No 51
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/04/linkdump-no-51/

On my blog: Toots from 04/07 to 04/11 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/11/week.html
This week, we have measles, Le Pen, tariffs, Brazil's metalworker strike, information silos, finding fraud, and Arab-American Heritage.
#linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

New blog post:

Linkdump No 50
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/04/linkdump-no-50/

On my blog: Toots from 03/31 to 04/04 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/04/week.html
This week, we have post-revolution Kenya, tree layout, recovering from autocracy, garment workers and the US labor movement, monopoly utilities, Signalgate, and Arab-American Heritage.
#linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

New blog post:

Linkdump No 49
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/04/linkdump-no-49/

Also, elsewhere, talking large language models, image generation and everything related to that:

Miyazaki himself has called AI “an insult to life itself,” while fans of his work happily and unwittingly feed the hungry AI machinery with opportunities for iterative practice, helpful feedback, and subtle signals for improving the technology along the way. All while completely disregarding the crooked practices that went into sourcing content for the models, and totally disrespecting the opinions and wishes of the creators of the original art upon which these cheap derivative imitations are fabricated.

Watching this happen is really frustrating. Watching artists see the time and talent and passion that they put into their work being so casually devalued by an increasingly effective array of smoke and mirrors (while simultaneously witnessing the harmful ecological side-effects, as some kind of demented cherry on top) is even more frustrating. And then for me, personally, being asked to weigh in on this, to take a strong position and ban the use of this technology within the omg.lol community, well, that’s extra frustrating. But it’s happened a few times in the past 24 hours, and so here I am talking about it now.

I'm having quite mixed opinions on most of the AI and LLM topic going on out there for a bunch of reasons, somewhere in between the general attempt to be basically open in regards to benefits and hazards, advantages and negative side-effects of whichever tool comes up next - and bad gut feelings on many different levels, including distribution of power due to model control, hardware costs, energy consumption, infrastructure spent on such tools, and including effects like these. For this very aspect and in this situation however, once again I completely side with Adam and his rather well-written article, as well as the conclusions he is about to make here. Worth reading.

omglol.news/2025/04/02/we-have…

#linkdump #artificial intelligence #model conversations

Little Bits: Issue #23 For March 2025

A mountain of bits (links) awaits in exploration along with a message to remember to enjoy and be gracious to ourselves with intention.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little-bits-issue-23/

The March linkdump post is up on my blog. A mixed bag of 20 this time (one of which in Swedish).

https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/links-03/

On my blog: Toots from 03/24 to 03/28 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/28/week.html
This week, we have Trump backpedaling, heart health inequality, institutional betrayal, the Great Migration, fighting for democracy, USPS labor contracts, declining US-world relationship, and Women's History.
#linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

This is my monthly link dump containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird:

https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/link-dump-mar-2025

New blog post:

Linkdump No 48
https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/03/linkdump-no-48/

On my blog: Toots from 03/17 to 03/21 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/21/week.html
This week, we have the FACE Act, women in slave revolts, Medicaid, resistance to Trump, the gender gap, AI and Free Culture, Alien and Sedition Acts, mini solar grids, microplastics and antibiotic resistance, and Women's History.
#linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

New blog post:

Linkdump No 47
https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/03/linkdump-no-47/

On my blog: Toots from 03/10 to 03/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/14/week.html
This week, we have memory, empathy in STEM, economic blackout, Medicaid, executions, Firefox, and Women's History.
#linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

New blog post:

Linkdump No 46
https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/03/linkdump-no-46/

On my blog: Toots from 03/03 to 03/07 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/07/week.html
This week, we have bees, LA opposing deportations, prison sentences, Elon versus everyone, holding insurers accountable, including those with disabilities, driving the far-right from Funkwhale, and Women's History.
#linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

New blog post:

Linkdump No 45
https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/03/linkdump-no-45/

On my blog: Toots from 02/24 to 02/28 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/28/week.html
This week, we have optimism, South African pseudo-refugees, medieval trans identity, fighting the South Korean coup, blaming wokeness, leaderless government-disassemblers, and Black History.
#linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week