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Blockout2024: Big Tech edition

TikTok · 00:36 · May 10, 2024

Inviting Big Tech to this year’s block party on social media for their continued dedication to following the money, regardless of whether it leads to genocide or further environmental collapse. If you work in tech, follow these instead:

• Tech Workers Coalition
• No Tech for Apartheid
• Tech for Palestine

Tethix Weather Report, December 2023

TikTok · 03:07 · Dec 13, 2023

This moon’s recap of weather conditions in the tech industry. Read the full Pathfinders Newmoonsletter on:

• Tethix website
• Substack

Cease fire.

TikTok · 02:15 · Nov 13, 2023

What else do we have to witness live to rethink the stories we tell and start valuing all life on planet Earth? What human values are we aligning our AI models to?

2hr meetings

TikTok · 06:40 · Sep 1, 2023

Everyone loves to hate meetings, but the problem is not with taking the time to meet with people, but rather that we don’t make enough time for quality, in-depth, relationship building meetings. I think we should make time for at least one or two 2 hour meetings each week with max 3 people. (And have fewer unsatisfying short ones.)

Green web development tips

TikTok · 03:38 · Aug 30, 2023

Just because it’s digital, it doesn’t mean it’s clean and green. I share three basic tips on how you can reduce the carbon footprint of your websites and a couple of links that can help you learn more about green web development:

• Green Hosting Directory
• Website Carbon Calculator
• ClimateAction.Tech guide

Witcher's code

TikTok · 01:13 · Aug 19, 2023

What if we took a note from Geralt of Rivia and used our guild’s code as an excuse to get out of icky feature requests? At least until we can actually agree on our guild’s code of ethics.

AI Cassandras (part 2)

TikTok · 03:12 · Aug 17, 2023

Learn more about the work of the AI Cassandras profiled in the Rolling Stone article and other women in the field of artificial intelligence.

• DAIR & Timnit Gebru on LinkedIn
• Joy Buolamwini & Algorithmic Justice League
• Safiya Noble & Center on Race and Digital Justice
• Rumman Chowdhury & Humane Intelligence
• Our Data Bodies
• Coded Bias documentary
• Women in AI Ethics

AI Cassandras (part 1)

TikTok · 05:08 · Aug 17, 2023

Highlights from the Rolling Stone article about five AI experts, all women of color, who have been trying to warn us about the risks and harms of artificial intelligence – and were, in some cases, fired for sounding the alarm.

• These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots

GPTBot rant

TikTok · 02:37 · Aug 14, 2023

A short rant about how we let OpenAI and other companies scrape our data without our permission. We now have the ability to block the GPTBot web crawler, but why is this opt out instead of opt in?

• GPTBot documentation
• VentureBeat report on GPTBot
• TikTok on getting revenge on Google Docs AI