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Gary doesn't like Yann
AI flame war, Gary Marcus puts Yann Lecun's fame in perspective.

An evening stroll
I was walking my dog the other day when we ran into the sphinx

"Good morning sphinx", I said
The sphinx said nothing
"How was your weekend sphinx?", I tried
The sphinx stared into the distance

My dog came up carrying a note in his mouth
I deciphered the note:

"The net serves to catch the fish; once the fish is caught, the net must be forgotten.
The snare serves to catch the rabbit. Once the rabbit is caught, the snare is forgotten.
Words serve to catch meaning; once the meaning has been caught, the words can be forgotten.
If only I could find someone who has forgotten the words, someone I could talk to for a while."[1]

We walked on

My dog looked around and glanced back at the sphinx one more time

[1] Zhuang Zi, 3rd century BC

Eben Moglen
A forgotten hero. I saw Eben Moglen live once, 14 years ago, in Bruxelles as a keynote speaker for FOSDEM. He has a very inspiring and engaging and charismatic personality. I completely forgot about him until a friend notified me of this recent speech in Berlin. He's still great, though YouTube doesn't do him justice.

AI is an amplifier
Madianou writes in Technocolonialism: "In other words, because it reflects ways of seeing the world, design ‘creates ways of being’. Such practices explain why automation and AI systems reproduce and heighten inequality (Eubanks, 2017) and racial and gendered discrimination (Benjamin, 2019; Noble, 2018)."

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Chappie

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O nee, toch niet, een stukje kantoorbeleving, dat kan dus gewoon.

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