Digital Skills

Press enter or click to view image in full size Philosopher Karl Popper The moral armor of tolerance Popper saw tolerance as a civic safeguard. That means a system designed to protect disagreement so reason could do its work. But somewhere along the line, tolerance stopped being a discipline. Let’s look at where things are … Weiterlesen

Time is money. Move fast and break things. Crunch time. We hear these idioms repeated, and to many, they become true. You can live your life by these sayings if you like. I prefer: “Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. — Virginia Woolf” Woolf … Weiterlesen

How tech companies like OpenAI are addressing emotional safety to make technology more humane. Press enter or click to view image in full size A quiet reflection on how OpenAI and others are rethinking emotional dependence. There was a time when we would phone a best friend or even write to the agony aunt in … Weiterlesen

Smiling with your eyes First of all let’s get the obvious out of the way — the eyes make it seem like a friendly robot, signaling this AI is a friendly one. Sora’s AI is a cute little robot that just wants to help you be more creative and is capable of no harm (roll … Weiterlesen

Can we trust Big Tech monopolies in essential infrastructure? Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash You never know the value of something until it’s gone, they say. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage caused many services — from streaming and e-commerce sites to financial and … Weiterlesen

The mayoral election is around the corner in my hometown of Montreal, so I wanted to confirm whether I was registered to vote at my current address. What I naively assumed would be a simple task turned out to require a trip to a local community centre. I gave my name, they flipped through a … Weiterlesen