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Recently at work we have hired a younger person. I’ll keep all details of work type etc. a secret to prevent any Identifying Information. That person shown from start that ‘AI’ is in center of the persons life, even when arguing with partner the person said they willl use ‘AI’ to solve the issue rather then talk to the partner. The team was looking at some tools for more productive flow of information etc. and asked that person what they think would be a good option, they reached for there phone, asked ‘AI’ and answerd that the best tool in there option and that ‘AI’ confirms is tool X. Okay. Me speaking now: I honestly think that the tools that the ‘AI’ chat boots are is super useful, I use it daily to support me in debugging and in bouncing off ideas, like with a coworker in the old days when companies actually would employ more then one person to create a ‘team’ ( team in ‘’ as I am the team 🤣🤣🤣). Now I am worried, that the younger population is using ‘AI’ as there brain…like they do not think any more or make decisions based on exportable or what is in front of them, they just ask ‘AI’ and think it will always say the right thing or truth…WTH is happening…and BTW. could we stop calling it ‘AI’, it’s not! It’s a Large Lenguage Model that is based on Statistical probability on which word comes next…it’s more a SI (Simulated Intelligence). #ai #computers #future #help

A quotation from Orwell

Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. […] This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic Magazine

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/19106/

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Hello fediverse solarpunks! We’re Solarpunk Presents Podcast, a podcast run on a shoestring budget by two lady solarpunks, one in Canada (@arielkroon) and one in Germany (@xtinadlr). We’re not great with technology, but we happen to both be PhDs from the opposite sides of the spectrum between STEM and Humanities/the Arts, and we’re united in our working towards solarpunk futures.

Our podcast is an interview-style podcast where we talk to guests and each other about various aspects of solarpunk, renewable energies, political action, and more. Often, our guests are people who wouldn’t label themselves as solarpunks, but are (and have been, often for years) quietly involved in working towards making the world a better place to live in. We strongly believe that once you get past the aesthetic and hype about renewables, solarpunk at its core promotes compassion, kinship with non-humans and humans alike, and grace for our fellow human beings as we all work together to survive on our shared planet.

You can support the podcast on Patreon, with tiers starting at just $1 USD! We host a monthly solarpunk hangout that all of our patrons are invited to, and all Patrons at the $3 tier and up receive early access to our episodes. There are more tiers with more extras, so head to patreon.com/solarpunkpresents to see them all. We also take one-time or recurring donations over at our PayPal: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butt
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As I’ve said before, it's rough out there for anyone valuing the environment, social justice, compassion, and more, and we want to keep doing our part to keep hope alive. We want to broaden the imagination of what it's possible to do to contribute to a better world, no matter who you are, where you live, or what life stage you're at.

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🆕 New article in @TATuP:
“Whose Future? Epistemic Challenges to the Collective ‘We’ in Long-Term Governance”
doi.org/10.14512/tatup.7205

The article engages with concepts from Science & Technology Studies and epistemology to examine the underlying assumptions of long-term governance. Drawing on the notion of Techniques of Futuring and Ludwik Fleck’s concept of thought styles, I highlight how dominant imaginaries of the future are formed and how they may marginalize other ways of knowing and relating.

I argue for greater attentiveness to contextuality, plurality, and the epistemic preconditions of imagining futures.

Published in the thematic issue Beyond short-termism: Strategies and perspectives for the long-term governance of socio-technical change (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2025).

doi.orgWhose future?: Epistemic challenges to the collective ‘we’ in long-term governance | TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis