Joseph
Joseph

@j0seph@mastodon.social

Algorithmic craftsman, guitar outcast, tea virtuoso, backpropagator and entropicist.

I like all things black 🏴 🖤 ⚫ ⬛ ♠️ ♣️

This is my attempt at social media. Avoided all other platforms until now.

Toots in English and occasionally German.

Here will be:
• Science & technology
• ML & non-hype AI
• Politics & sarcasm
• Music

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February 14, 2024

Black-and-white thinking - for example in the form of all-or-nothing or "your are either with us, or against us" - is usually a bad oversimplification.

Though, in our comprehension and communication of #ClimateChange we do need information more binary than continuous ⬛ ⬜.

We tend to miss the long-term trend due to our mental baseline shifting too quickly: sciencenews.org/article/climat

Well, the same is probably true for other slowly deteriorating things such as #privacy and #democracy.

Why we fail to notice climate change - Why we fail to notice climate change

Science News

Why we fail to notice climate change

People quickly normalize extreme weather. Simple visuals highlighting abrupt change could help climate change break through our mental blind spots.

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