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thomas.tikatech.org.ap.brid.gy
STS researcher at Trondheim's Centre for Technology and Society. Co-founder of NTNU's The Good Infrastructures Lab. Fascinated by infrastructures, user agency […] [bridged from https://tikatech.org/@thomas on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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That no ownership of the means of production always was linked to exploitation of work should be an easy way to convince knowledge workers to not use any cloud products (including non-local LLMs). Unfortunately, it is not. #selfhosting #localfirst #work

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, I have now switched to #maintenance mode: Preserving, repairing, and caring for things and people in my reach. Abandoning the progress myth starts here! Innovation must die! Old and boring is beautiful.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Grrrr, working with revising an article where one peer reviewer has not understood a word of what we want to say. They still wrote a long review where 90% just repeat what we have written and smell a lot like AI. The other reviewer wants us to comply to the IMRAD-structure, as if this was the […]

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

INCREDIBLY excited to announce this: I collaborated with the Internet Archive to make a new 24/7 lofi livestream! By day, you can see scanners scanning and what they're scanning, and when they're not scanning, you will see public domain silent movies and pictures. Sorta like an Internet Archive […]

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

So what happens after you have convinced someone close to you to ditch #Facebook and #Instagram? S/he starts to scroll the homepage of the mobile chrome browser where a feed of curated "news" is displayed. Never underestimate the salespeople of algorithmic entertainment! Next mission: #RSS

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

First day of exclusively using the #Jolla C2 phone (=Linux phone), many months after I have received it. The worst bugs are gone and everything except my work email works. And not having access to work stuff on the go may in fact be an improvement.

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Two recent reads on #AI that summarise well some of our recent discussions at a university department in the #humanities. The contours of a reasonable, post-hype answer to this challenge slowly become visible: A long read: https://archive.is/hE0UM And a hot take […]

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments