sorry for the *stack link, but many writers i like from developing countries are on it, and this is an impt post: every time someone says 'hey it's so cheap to have a nice villa in bali' here's the exploitative math behind it --- the money quote "Villa owner: Australian guy named Brett who visited Bali once in 2015 and decided he deserved to own a piece of it. Property manager: UAE company with an office in Seminyak and a token Indonesian partner who doesn’t do anything. Booking platform: American corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Cleaning staff: Indonesian woman named Wayan who’s been scrubbing toilets for five years and still can’t afford to take her kid to the doctor without selling her phone. But sure. “Locally staffed.”

Bali's 40,000 Villas and the Cleaners Making Minimum Wage While Owners Clear Thousands

Welcome to The APAC Tourism & Hospitality Briefing. This is the black-box recorder. What they profit from. Who they displace. What they won't say o...

#Indonesia #Travel #Bali

BREAKING NEWS Orcas seen grooming each other with kelp, in a first for marine tool use

the Guardian

Killer whales seen grooming each other with kelp in first for marine tool use

Behavior in orca population off coast of US and Canada captured by scientists using drone observation

#Marine #Orcas #Whales #Science #Kelp #Ocean

Saw yet another ignorant and condescending European take on ‘who in their right mind would want to emigrate to America’ post. Well, there’s a reason I’m spending thousands of dollars trying to stay in this country, but I don’t need to share it with people who don’t understand that lots of people have different reasons to emigrate and maybe your own countries are also quite terrible for immigrants.

/r/bayarea: ‘Bay Area drivers are terrible’ ‘It’s all the H-1Bs’ I’ll have you know that bad drivers here come from all backgrounds. Ask any pedestrian.

I have #aphantasia and I can’t make visual images in my head. ‘Picture an apple’.. I can’t picture anything. People have asked me how I dream. I don’t have visual dreams. I just had a dream in which I.. smelled a variety of things. Interesting!

Super gay dude working in Amtrak making small talk: so you excited about Super Bowl?? Me: absolutely not Him: omg ME NEITHER

Bad vibes ads are back https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1h4jsyh/bizarrely_offensive_tech_ad_on_muni_bus_shelter/ #SanFrancisco #AI

More of this please. Tiera Tanksley published a paper pushing back on the 'only low AI literacy students fear AI' narrative that we are starting to see / hear. She worked with Black highschoolers focusing on data ethics. "That is, they went from "I'm terrified of AI becoming sentient and killing us" to "I no longer think AI is sentient, but I'm very concerned that these technologies are doing irreparable harm to people and to the environment." Paper: https://www.tieratanksley.com/_files/ugd/eda377_77c1dbe2a48a4ed199bd8101d5eac40e.pdf #AI #Racism

A lawyer specializing in immigration to the US for Singaporeans wrote a blog post about what he thinks will happen if Trump is re-elected. The long and short of it is he will make things harder for everyone, even 'good immigrants' from ally countries. And he did, in the past.

Potential Impact on H-1B1 Cases if Trump is Reelected

I am a Singaporean U.S. immigration attorney based in Los Angeles specializing in H-1B1 visas for Singaporeans.  My California State Bar rec...

#Trump #Immigration #Singapore #TootSea #H1B1

Found this in a discussion about Strava but applicable to all tech companies #AI

Pantheon is one of the best animated series I watched recently. I wish it had more marketing and hype, it’s really worth it. Not really about straight up AI but takes on an ‘uploaded intelligence’ idea that also has parallels with data centers, and real world current day tussles about who gets to make such decisions

Pantheon (TV series) - Wikipedia

#SciFi #AI #TV