Author: Cathi Harris
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Reading List: The ‘AI Bubble’ for Dummies
I put together this round up of links to articles and videos from sources that know way more about it than I do, and that explain things in a way that I understand.
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This is the Real Future of AI
Scientists all over the world are using AI-assisted technologies in work that has the potential to lead to major advances in medicine, agriculture and mathematics. Why are we not hearing about them?
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Don’t Take the Ragebait
Et tu, Medium? I thought we were better than this. But I guess, sooner or later, the negative content cycle comes for everyone.
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Bad Trip – What is Going on With Google Maps?
Weird detours, inaccurate time estimates, walking routes that double back on themselves. Is this some new instance of enshittification?
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Learning to Live in the World as It Is
Instead of simply exhorting the rest of the world to get on board with the American way of space cooling, we really should be looking to Europe and other regions for clues to adapting our habits to the world that we are in, instead of remaining stubbornly attached to the artificial world that we created,…
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Drop it Like it’s Not
Yes, the use of some form of A/C is now inevitable. But it can be adopted in ways that are more equitable, sustainable over long periods, and minimize the harmful downsteam effects. But Americans aren’t leading these efforts. And, many Americans’ assumption that they have the answers – when they absolutely do not – is…
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Two Words: General Strike
In November of 1948, workers in the British and American-occupied sectors of west Germany (then known as the Bi-Zone Economic Area, Bizonia for short) staged the largest single-day strike in the nation’s history. More than nine million workers, out of a total workforce of 11.7 million, stayed home from work, shutting down mines, factories, mills,…
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