Is AI really worth its environmental and societal costs?

Join the discussion with @helsus.bsky.social, our lovely speakers Denise Utochin from @hdsai.sund.ku.dk & Sophie Song from @dairinstitute.bsky.social and panelists from The Good AI Lab and University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi!

There is far too little conversation about the long term ecocide which is a separate crime. This is a campaign I’m involved in, in the run up to COP that’s well worth a look www.thewaronclimate.org

This is a wonderful post explaining how to make animations feel "right" (or why sometimes you don't need to animate at all). 👇

emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-...

You HAVE to check out @matthiasott.com's website: matthiasott.com

Extremely creative and well-built, you can even play around with customization knobs (using design tokens!) like a musical instrument!

Looking for a critical book on AI or Big Tech? I've started a little curated list - take a look!

📚💡/ #booksky

"We won’t find salvation by escaping technology, but by using our awareness—our capacity for critique, ritual, invention, and refusal—to carve out room for messiness, for mourning, for risk, and for deep attention."

AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion
fakepixels.substack.com/p/ai-heidegg...

Great video on web animations from Bramus! #GoogleIO

Hyödyllinen lista ohjelmia, jotka korvaavat digitaalisen imperiumin valtaohjelmat. Jokaisen sinitaivaan vapaan linnun kannattaa tsekata tämä! lukakopajtic.com/independence/

Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More

If anyone else needs visual design inspiration, old travel posters from Finland and Sweden are cool as hell.

cometofinland.fi
cometosweden.se

Paz Peña "examining the complexities of digital sustainability amid an ecological & climate crisis, systematizing significant information, increasing its transparency to stakeholders, & advancing responses worthy of the people in affected territories and communities, especially in the Global South"

these days you don't have to use any big tech of any oppressive imperial powers

alt tech:
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