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  1. Michigan Daily: Your digital footprint is worth looking back on. “Think of the last time you had a Snapchat memory flashback pop up as a notification or scrolled through your Instagram archived posts. Usually, there’s an instant flash of embarrassment that often makes us treat our past selves like something to hide or erase indefinitely. There’s a modern impulse to scrub our digital […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/michigan-daily-your-digital-footprint-is-worth-looking-back-on/
  2. GET DOWN OFF
    YOUR HIGH HORSE 💎

    I asked AI to list how humans already use AI to run their world. The list itself makes the argument. It becomes almost absurd by the end.

    We all encounter AI every day, several times a day, whether we know it or not, whether we want to or not, whether we believe we do or not. This list includes:

    Financial trading, Fraud detection, Airline scheduling, Autonomous vehicles, Weather forecasting, Medical imaging, Construction planning, Internet routing, Navigation systems, and Public transport.

    AI's Full List:
    Government administration
    Tax enforcement
    Welfare systems
    Immigration screening
    Border control
    Police surveillance
    Intelligence analysis
    Military targeting
    Cyber defence
    Disaster response
    Financial trading
    Credit scoring
    Fraud detection
    Insurance pricing
    Risk modelling
    Economic forecasting
    Supply chains
    Shipping logistics
    Warehouse management
    Airline scheduling
    Traffic management
    Railway control
    Autonomous vehicles
    Electricity grids
    Energy forecasting
    Water management
    Waste management
    Crop management
    Precision farming
    Livestock monitoring
    Weather forecasting
    Climate modelling
    Medical diagnosis
    Medical imaging
    Patient monitoring
    Hospital scheduling
    Drug discovery
    Disease prediction
    Genetic analysis
    Scientific research
    Space exploration
    Satellite monitoring
    Factory automation
    Industrial robotics
    Quality control
    Predictive maintenance
    Product design
    Construction planning
    Infrastructure monitoring
    Network management
    Internet routing
    Search engines
    Content moderation
    Recommendation systems
    Advertising targeting
    Social feeds
    News distribution
    Language translation
    Spam filtering
    Cybersecurity monitoring
    Identity verification
    Facial recognition
    Retail pricing
    Inventory management
    Demand forecasting
    Customer service
    Recruitment screening
    Employee scheduling
    Workplace monitoring
    Education assessment
    Personalised learning
    Legal research
    Contract analysis
    Court administration
    Crime prediction
    Environmental monitoring
    Wildlife tracking
    Forest monitoring
    Pollution detection
    Fire detection
    Resource allocation
    Urban planning
    Public transport
    Emergency dispatch
    Building management
    Security systems
    Communications networks
    Software development
    Data analysis
    Decision support
    Policy modelling
    Strategic planning
    Robotics control
    Drone navigation
    Weapons systems
    Surveillance systems
    Information warfare
    Financial regulation
    Compliance monitoring
    Scientific modelling
    Protein prediction
    Materials discovery
    Earth observation
    Ocean monitoring
    Food distribution
    Disease surveillance
    Population modelling
    Document processing
    Administrative triage
    Automated translation
    Scheduling systems
    Navigation systems
    Forecasting systems
    Resource optimisation
    Human assistance

    P.S. If you still insist on AI purity while living inside systems already saturated with AI, then you’re kidding yourself. And yes, that hypocrisy makes people angry. Please leave me out of your outrage.

    @3goodthings@meditation@economics_that_works@disability
    #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #EverydayAI #Society #DigitalLife #Algorithms

  3. Restructuring & cleaning up more than 21 years of emails. Re-reading some of it. Seeing some of the cycles and patterns clearly.

    Listening
    jamesblackshaw.bandcamp.com/al

    Reading threads on mailinglists which have slowly gone quiet. Extinguished by Slack or social media. A few still going strong against the stream of the time.

    Encountering the writings & thoughts of people long gone. It certainly brings back memories & makes me a bit melancholic.

    Memento mori.

    #Reflections #DigitalLife #GettingOld

  4. Social media tops indicators linked to depression

    Excessive use of social media is linked to an increased likelihood of developing depression, according to a study that analyzed hundreds of thousands of questionnaires over 11 years.

    #SocialMedia #DepressionAwareness #MentalHealth #DigitalLife #SocialMediaImpact