"Education is one of the blessings of life—and one of its necessities." -- Malala Yousafzai

Thinking will become a hobby #ai #society #futurism

As happened in past technological revolutions, there will undoubtedly be fierce resistance to the replacement of cognitive work with AI. This time it will be fiercer because, unlike previous revolutions, which transformed manual labour, AI challenges knowledge workers, whose specialised expertise, control over information, and decision-making authority afford them greater economic and organisational power. Governments will try to clip AI’s wings through regulation and taxation. Such actions didn’t quell past revolutions so there’s little reason to believe they’ll work now.

So what’s the fate of human thought? My take is that cognitive work will diminish. Thought will increasingly become a leisure pursuit, as hunting did following animal domestication, calligraphy after typography, woodworking after industrialisation, and horse riding after motorisation. Machines transformed much of physical activity from necessity into choice; similarly, AI will decouple human thinking from its economic purpose.

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GitHub - valimised/ivxv: IVXV online voting system · GitHub #poensource

The intention behind this repository is to make source code of the Estonian online voting system available for public review.

The repository is not used for active development, but will be kept up to date, so the code that can be found here is the code that is used for election. As the voting system used for legally binding elections must strictly follow the legislation, the actual development of Estonian I-voting system and I-vote verification application is supervised by State Electoral Office of Estonia. Please refer to www.valimised.ee for further information.

How Machines Learned Precision #technology #engineering #longread #rabithole

Accuracy from Iron in the Industrial Revolution

Google is silently linking your phone number across all Google accounts #privacy

TL;DR

• Google now automatically verifies and attaches your phone number to every Google account signed in on your Android device without explicit prompts.

• Google updated its documentation between August and October 2025 to reflect this opt-out behavior, which links numbers across secondary, work, and alt profiles.

• Users can turn off “Verify phone numbers automatically” in their Android device’s Google settings page, but previously linked numbers must be manually removed from each Google account’s Personal Info page.

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