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I am continuing in English. It is not the most interesting story, but I want to finish it. Although it is easy to read, I can´t connect with any of the characters. And on top of that, I think that the design of Klara as a "companion for kids" is a bit irresponsible

I am continuing in English. It is not the most interesting story, but I want to finish it. Although it is easy to read, I can´t connect with any of the characters. And on top of that, I think that the design of Klara as a "companion for kids" is a bit irresponsible.

"Contrary to what the Ancient Greeks believed, technology is not a gift from the gods. It is forged by human hands and indelibly marked by its creators'world"

AI needs training. And the good content in internet is already used, so soon AI will train on AI, making the quality decrease quickly. But these companies figured they could exploit people to check the content or even generate it. In my circles they are offering 40EUR/h to generate "high quality" training data. But in a data annotator center they are paying miserable wages to check, tag and classify the data...

Difficult read... But I want to cite:
'We understand, then, why every definition of the ecological crisis as a "return of the human to nature" immediately unleashes a sort of panic, since we never know if we are being asked to return to the state of brute beasts or to resume the deep movement of human existence'
Why do we have to return to an specific "natural" state, instead of improving the changing cycles?

Het is wel interessant om te ontdekken hoe dit wereld werkt. Je krijgt de details druppel voor druppel. Het gaat een beetje langzaam, maar dat is goed in dit geval, omdat ik wil wel begrijpen. Ik heb zoveel vragen haha.

Ik lees in Nederland om te oefenen en om de bibliotheek te steunen (ik kan ook e-books lenen, wiii!)

Social media moderators that have to watch videos under horrible work conditions and flag them for removal so we can have "safe" social media...
This just feels like the kids working illegally on clothes manufacturing for fast fashion companies. Yet most of society does not care about what they 'cant see'...

"Plus, he is not really my type" suuuuure hahaha

Damn, right in the feelings.

So intriguing!

"It may be a seaside farmer's prejudice, but it's claimed that nothing tastes quite so good as a potato grown in seaweed gathered from a nearby shore." Now I need to try these for scientific purposes 🧐

Sometimes I just need to read about nature to relax a bit :)

How convenient xD

I knew it!

Yeah I was indeed wondering why would they be so generous.

Damn, it's getting interesting.

Uhmmm

Omg a food printer that can make anything you wish nomnomnom

Some takeaways:

• A large group of meat reducers may be a better way to change the system as they drive demand and supply.
• We don't need to use moral arguments all the time. Non-moral motivations can develop into moral ones, and compassion can grow after people have taken the first steps, for whatever reasons.
• We have to create a facilitating environment by working on institutional change.

I started again and I am super excited. I like the pragmatic view on this. We should stop selling unattainable ideals but to involve more allies and nudge the societal change with achievable steps for more people!

So far I've learned that anything you decide will have it's critics. But that indecision, or a passive choice, also carries its consequences.

"You were doing science with him? You were supposed to be doing science with me!"

Best jealousy ever 😂

I want to have a Fawkes

What value to put on a life?

Why do I feel they are leaving too many threads lose? I hope they wrap up nicely.

<<"Good!" said Slytherin. "I'm glad you see now that the most moral thing to do is to sacrifice the lives of sentient beings for your own convenience, to feed your dreadful appetites, for the sick pleasure of ripping them apart with your teeth—"

His inner Slytherin’s mental voice was grim. "You too will some day embrace the doctrine... that the end justifies the meats." This was followed by some mental snickering.>>

Noooo, whaaaat? How? Why? Hahahaha

If you are very curious about fungi at the moment I recommend this book. It includes a lot of facts about fungi narrated in a light to read way. Fungi are so cool! And they are everywhere. I cannot see them the same way after this book. Plus, I have a couple more extra fun facts for when I am out of conversation topics :P