“I hope this isn’t for weapons”: The boring, repetitive work being undertaken to train AI algorithms, which are increasingly used as tools of war, by people fleeing conflicts https://benhr.xyz/2024/05/14/i-hope-this.html
As Australian subsidies to fossil fuel producers increase to $14.5b we have to ask, has the election of the ALP made any difference in addressing the climate crisis?
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/05/13/subsidies-fossil-fuel-producers-increase
Pokémon Go Players Invent Fake Beaches on Real Maps to Catch Rare Wigletts. I’m embarrassed to understand that sentence.
https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-invent-fake-beaches-on-real-maps-to-catch-rare-wigletts/
Family Farms in NSW and Queensland promoted by Covid vaccine-sceptic group Parents With Questions were intended to operate outside a ‘corrupt’ food system. But not all has gone to plan - good piece by Ariel Bogle and Cameron Wilson
Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.
https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-spam-isnt-the-dead-internet-its-the-zombie-internet/
Nobody buys books: How celebrity books and backlist bestsellers fund the 96% of books that sell less than 1,000 copies https://benhr.xyz/2024/05/02/nobody-buys-books.html
Waiting
The Brazilian JSOC for the environment https://benhr.xyz/2024/04/30/the-brazilian-jsoc.html
“We are leaving a trail of devastation through the earth with our daily lives and we don’t care about it yet.” https://benhr.xyz/2024/04/29/we-are-leaving.html