Koen Hufkens, PhD

@koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Addressing #climatechange through data driven methods in #ecology #remotesensing #phenology #foodsecurity

#rstats developer | #academic omnivore | move fast […]

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@qagggy.bsky.socialReposted by @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

The American Dream—buying a house in the suburbs and watching it increase in value to the point where subsequent generations need to move farther and farther out to obtain the same thing at a comparable price, but with an even more soul-crushing commute—was always a Ponzi scheme.

@gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gyReposted by @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

@felienne.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

If we want to regulate AI, why not start with a simple ban on LLMs using "I"?

Easy to build, easy to verify and deflates a hype while still allowing people to use chatbots (so no one can claim we are limiting anything)

My latest for @volkskrant in English! […]

@c-9.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gyReposted by @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

This is the same discussion as autonomous vehicles - "oh no we have no way to ever charge a computer with murder for running down pedestrians, so I guess we better give up". This is not complicated.

@aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gyReposted by @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

This is farked. Voice actors now have to compete against AI reproductions of their own voices. And because they often don't hold the copyright to the ads of TV shows they work on, there's basically no recourse: "Jacqui Duncan has voiced more than 5000 commercials for Australian radio and […]

@thetnholler.bsky.socialReposted by @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

This right here is the Trump/Republican agenda👇🏽 Tax cuts for them, while regular folks struggle. The super rich are laughing.

@danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

So… the USA is buying oil from Russia… Russia is aiding Iran… Iran is at war with thei US causing the shortage in the first place… Just how many people are being blackmailed, extorted, or paid off to enable this grift?

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