Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

AI has won. It's too late for us. #AIart

I’m a Black scientist, tired of facing racism and exclusion from academia https://www.science.org/content/article/i-m-black-scientist-tired-facing-racism-and-exclusion-academia #academia #racism #science

American universities are banning TikTok on campus networks, following the state ban due to fear of Chinese surveillance.

I agree 💯

The thing is, TikTok is not only a Chinese surveillance app, it is also the biggest tool the CCP uses to manipulate and influence the western youth.

Finnish kids have seen their accounts suspended after talking about Uyghurs. Random violence campaigns against strangers on the streets go viral on TikTok frequently.

CCP has restricted the local version of TikTok, Douyin, because it is deemed unhealthy and detrimental for the Chinese youth. The Chinese TikTok recommends healthy activities and enforces time limits to prevent addiction.

In the west, TikTok is the most addictive app in existence, force-feeding our youth with content that causes addiction, body image issues, depression, and loneliness. What's worse, it encourages violent behavior.

For the sake of the mental health of a whole generation, western governments should enforce TikTok to use similar usage limits and content recommendation algorithms in the west as it uses already in China.

What do you think?

Click on the link below for unlocked NYT article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/15/business/auburn-tiktok-ban-students.html?unlocked_article_code=3puhqxcETZ4y6-Yqmgp8CaNJ33K1oAH4s7OJnSEx9U1MvWejFS9ScGewTXN1mOrsXGytLrqujzsfLhlwoFPK5FsSc0XtWuQTfBqc8CvCp160tJw7aqsacq8upFEGhvJR4zTbLh9D82WePaPq_JLibpe9CRow2jHeV8GiCg9hyYJ9i509ZY00JhUkKndPxxzSw9pGF37oYi1RxmIopbuJvdhbyVB0TDMW5LJoeJyjOxHgRP6a2bYHa5q6ci5nHlHTclvJMDDffHttGrcA8fIqBw1uw6cbWRWg5vUZ72avva2dSGXv0DIo-ZV749GDUXqFC5svNi-7_HMUv-r87vNyNUPZhd5v

#addiction #socialmedia #tiktok #algorithm

I don’t know why folks are so obsessed with getting nude photos when you could be getting nudibranch photos

I’m having a hard time keeping up with all of the thoughtful, creative, sincere, fact-based, and inspiring toots. Please, keep them coming! Drown me in awesomeness.

Out on the Oa today.

#Islay #InnerHebrides #Scotland

Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/

Magnesium in White Vinegar https://diode.zone/videos/watch/ffd96d40-9b43-4729-9652-3693a3687c64

@aral Where I live we have some of these book benches as a sort of tribute to a local company called Ladybird which made iconic early reader books for kids. They look great but I can confirm that they are massively uncomfortable to sit on for more than a couple of minutes! #HostileArchitecture

This makes me very angry.

These are anti-homeless benches designed to look pleasing. It’s called hostile architecture. They’re meant to be uncomfortable to discourage sleeping on.

The people who designed these are assholes. They’re decorators, not designers.

A designer makes things to improve the world for everyone. A decorator takes otherwise unpalatable injustices and disguises them with aesthetics in an attempt to make them inoffensive or even desirable.

Be a designer, not a decorator.

A Banded Woodpecker (Chrysophlegma miniaceum) spotted at Ulu Sembawang Park Connector on 15 Jan 2023. I saw it land on the back of this tree. I took some shots and slowly moved around to get better shots of it before it flew away.

Happy to get finally get better than blurry shots of this uncommon resident bird.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146602961 ]

Michael Gisiger 📖 started reading "The Computers That Made Britain"