Pflanzen sind überall & werden doch oft nur als „grüne Kulisse“ wahrgenommen. Plant Blindness beschreibt dieses Phänomen. Dabei machen Pflanzen den größten Teil der Biomasse der Erde aus, sind aktive Lebewesen & Grundlage vieler Lebensräume.

Nur wenn wir Pflanzen bewusst wahrnehmen, bemerken wir auch ihr Verschwinden.

In Deutschland zeigen Rote Listen: Rund 1/4 der Farn- & Blütenpflanzen sowie Moose ist bestandsgefährdet. Verlust von Vielfalt beginnt regional.

Mehr: https://www.artensterben.de/plant-blindness-uebersehene-pflanzenarten

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social see also the rabbit proof (ish) fence and following descent into biological warfare against them. Humans at work being intellectually superior apex predators.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit...

@greenpeace @greenpeace_de Hats off for the factual and accurate press release you linked to. Good read. #unplugtrump

More stenography here. Google starting shoving the "AI Overviews" into query results as an opt-out situation. That is, you have to take action to have them not pop up. I don't doubt they are *shown to* 2.5 billion monthly users, but that doesn't mean they are used by as many or desired by them.

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To expand just a little bit: the point of a Google Alert was to gain access to things that people were saying about a topic that you were tracking, which you otherwise might not turn up. And every (blue, even!) link that you clicked on brought you to a web page you could examine to get a sense of who was writing, in what context, and why.

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Spot the magical thinking here. No, the "AI" isn't making sense of anything. It's making papier-mache of the input, and preventing the use from doing the sense-making.

Also, is that the Pokemon sense of "evolution"?

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Look, I hate pointy-clicky interfaces as much as the next Gen-Xer (let me use the keyboard, dammit) but it is so weird to reduce the important, and importantly effortful, work of navigating the information ecosystem to the apparent drudgery of clicking on links that are (*shudder*) blue!!!

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How infantilizing --- you thought you were looking to find something that someone else wrote on the web. But woah! Now you've been "dropped into" an "interactive experience". Yeah, Google can just fuck right off with that.

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@informapirata @politica
questi sono i rischi di una repubblica presidenziale, con troppi poteri a una sola persona

Not satisfied to cut people off from the important sense-making of looking at information in its context and finding and navigating different perspectives (what "AI overviews" do), Google also wants to tell you what to search for:

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Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die: https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/19/dumb-ways-for-an-open-source-project-to-die.html

5 years ago (2021) Google researchers Metzler et al put out a preprint talking about how LLMs would change information access ("Rethinking Search"). It was full of TERRIBLE ideas, and Chirag Shah and I wrote a reply ("Situating Search"):

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816

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@cipper tendenzialmente eviterei di assecondare il tuo complottismo, ma bisogna essere realisti: poter accedere alle conversazioni che transiterebbero attraverso un Discord "crittografato" sarebbe una tentazione irresistibile 🤣🤣🤣

@informatica

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something):

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

A short thread
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Just blogged "New postgres packages are ready for Solaris 11.4 SPARC "

https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2026/05/new-postgres-packages-are-ready-for.html

#solaris #oraclesolaris #postgres

Artificial intelligence
Artificial workers
Artificial products
Artificial consumers
Artificial cashflow
Artificial economy
Artificial society

@emilymbender Thank you for this summary and analysis!

Ich kann allen, die es plötzlich völlig ok finden, eine 3-Grad-Zuviel-Welt anzusteuern (wie Kristina Schröder), noch mal ein bisschen hierin zu lesen. Insbesondere ab Seite 14. Wer das in Ordnung findet, muss seine Kinder wirklich hassen. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf

Um 10:30 könnt ihr die Teckids-Gemeinschaft am Stand von @digitalcourage auf der #republica kennenlernen.

Wie finden Kinder den Weg in digitale Räume? Wie gehen sie bewusst und selbstbestimmt mit Technik um?

Besucht uns in Halle 3, Stand D3!

#Kinder #Jugend #rp26 #republica26