@heiseonline "Zunächst werden geeignete Naturfasermaterialien genauer unter die Lupe genommen. Darunter fallen etwa Flachs, #Balsaholz und Paulownia, ein Blauglockenbaumgewächs." Flachs klingt spannend, da der auch in unseren Breiten wächst. Balsaholz wird jetzt schon verbaut und ist nicht so cool. Da gab es letztes Jahr eine Studie #IllWind https://eia.org/report/ill-wind/ #Amazonia #Ecuador #Peru #Windkraft #Energiewnde

"At 19, I was the first Indigenous person to exclusively interview António Guterres and I imagined what it would be like to take him to my territory in Terra do Meio, where collapse is already evident in extreme drought, thirsty rivers, and the pain of visible and invisible people" - Wajã Xipai, Xingu River, Altamira, the Amazon

https://sumauma.com/en/quando-o-mundo-rio-encontrou-o-mundo-onu-a-conversa-com-o-secretario-geral-que-ecoa-em-mim/

#amazonia #water #forest #climate #indigenouspeople #cop30

"What if I told you that one of the most well-capitalized AI companies on the planet is asking volunteers to help them uncover “lost cities” in the #Amazonia—by feeding #machinelearning models with open satellite data, #lidar, “colonial” text and map records, and #indigenous oral histories? This is the premise of the #OpenAItoZChallenge, a #Kaggle-hosted hackathon framed as a platform to "push the limits" of #AI through global knowledge cooperation.

In practice, this is a product development experiment cloaked as public participation. The contributions of users, the mapping of biocultural data, and the modeling of ancestral landscapes all feed into the refinement of OpenAI’s proprietary systems. The task itself may appear novel. The logic is not. This is the familiar playbook of Big Tech firms—capture public knowledge, reframe it as open input, and channel it into infrastructure that serves commercial, rather than communal goals."

https://www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-openais-amazonian-archaeology-initiative/

"What if I told you that one of the most well-capitalized AI companies on the planet is asking volunteers to help them uncover “lost cities” in the #Amazonia—by feeding #machinelearning models with open satellite data, #lidar, “colonial” text and map records, and #indigenous oral histories? This is the premise of the #OpenAItoZChallenge, a #Kaggle-hosted hackathon framed as a platform to "push the limits" of #AI through global knowledge cooperation.

In practice, this is a product development experiment cloaked as public participation. The contributions of users, the mapping of biocultural data, and the modeling of ancestral landscapes all feed into the refinement of OpenAI’s proprietary systems. The task itself may appear novel. The logic is not. This is the familiar playbook of Big Tech firms—capture public knowledge, reframe it as open input, and channel it into infrastructure that serves commercial, rather than communal goals."

https://www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-openais-amazonian-archaeology-initiative/