How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/20/no-app-no-entry-how-the-digital-world-is-failing-the-non-tech-savvy

#Inclusion
#Unbanked
#Agism

#AI #AGI #AGIsm #Neoliberalism #AIDoomsterism #Capitalism: "Fascinated with privatization, competition and free trade, the architects of neoliberalism wanted to dynamize and transform a stagnant and labor-friendly economy through markets and deregulation.

Some of these transformations worked, but they came at an immense cost. Over the years, neoliberalism drew many, many critics, who blamed it for the Great Recession and financial crisis, Trumpism, Brexit and much else.

It is not surprising, then, that the Biden administration has distanced itself from the ideology, acknowledging that markets sometimes get it wrong. Foundations, think tanks and academics have even dared to imagine a post-neoliberal future.

Yet neoliberalism is far from dead. Worse, it has found an ally in A.G.I.-ism, which stands to reinforce and replicate its main biases: that private actors outperform public ones (the market bias), that adapting to reality beats transforming it (the adaptation bias) and that efficiency trumps social concerns (the efficiency bias).

These biases turn the alluring promise behind A.G.I. on its head: Instead of saving the world, the quest to build it will make things only worse. Here is how."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion/artificial-intelligence-danger.html

@PhilipKing

Also, I'm curious about this whole generation XYZ thing.
What happens now?
Do we go back to the beginning with Generation A, like car number plates?

#agism

Diskriminierung von Menschen ab 50 – Ataman spricht von »unterschätztem Phänomen« #agism

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ferda-ataman-will-schutz-vor-altersdiskriminierung-in-grundgesetz-aufnehmen-a-ffc0b16c-ed63-4b50-8f7e-56068b4bb62d?sara_ref=re-so-app-sh

@SteveThompson @davidtoddmccarty I hear you. I am older also, but running into serious and worrisome tech knowledge gaps in these younger, so-called “digital natives”. Then we get to talking, and I find out I was working in advanced tech when they were still in diapers. #agism #ExperienceVsAge

Vet tech: She’s really Attractive for… an older dog. Me: staring, with a slightly irritated look on my face. Let it be known – – There doesn’t exist in this world a more beautiful dog than my precious yellow lab Tegan. #dog #love #truth #agism

#Americans should treat those who wish to #govern aka #rule over others should employ the #IT #agism behavior to #politics https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/19/us-congress-presidency-gerontocracy

Over 60? Please consider completing this survey for an axe-con session, Ageism in Technology. https://forms.gle/V8JB3CrFty3wmE1XA #a11y #agism #tech #survey #axecon

#Australia ’s #tourism body wants to lift working holiday #visa #age limit to 50, from the current 35. #agism

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/26/australias-tourism-body-wants-to-lift-working-holiday-visa-age-limit-to-50

Aussies living longer and working smarter, we certainly need the workforce and people in their 70s enjoying working longer but smarter #age #work #agism #WorkforceAustralia #retirement

@nilikm same at schools.
Maddening, perplexing, depressing

We need #solidarity with our vulnerable seniors, poor, POC and disabled

Against #ablism and #agism

90% of all US Covid fatalities are now occurring in seniors older than 65, despite being the most highly vaccinated cohort (and possibly the most highly masked). Yet the majority of infections are among younger people.

My mom, who is 81, is constantly saying, "they just don't care whether we live or die!"

Anyone else feel like we're sacrificing our seniors, working poor, disabled & other vulnerable populations so that everyone else can act like the pandemic is over?

#covid #agism #ablism

I just saw an "epic romance" casting call for women age 20-30 and men age 35-45.

I feel like storytellers, in print and film, think women over 30 turn into creatures of fungus and dust who only emerge at night to read feminist literature and brew foul potions.

Which we do. But we also have epic romances.
#AgeDiscrepency #AgeGap #Agism #over30 #MatureWomen #witchy