"Moral outsourcing, [ruchowdh.bsky.social] says, applies the logic of sentience + choice to AI, allowing technologists to reallocate responsibility for products they build onto the products themselves – tech advancement becomes predestined growth + bias intractable." theguardian.com/technology/202…

Word of the day is ‘consolate’ (15th century): consoled and comforted. Another lost positive in the dictionary, joining ept, wieldy, couth, ruly, ruthful, feckful, persona grata, full of gorm, and advertently.

Here she is!

Not BBC Radio 3 casually dropping the Blue Whale soundtrack from #BluePlanet🌍 like it’s no big deal 😭 It’s been over 20 years and I’m still not over it! 🐋

Phwoar 😍 Brutalist beauty at its best and the best library outside of Aber!

Potpourri and socialism is the older millennial dream

Didn’t Mitchell and Webb do a radio sketch similar to this which ended up with Olivia Coleman dirty crying when the horse ate her yoghurt?

I only read this book when I have a spare 5 days to take to my bed and recover 💔💔

Well if this didn’t cut me right to the quick 👀

Bob dydd yn dysgu rhywbeth newydd - o’n i’n tybio ‘mod i’n anghywir i defnyddio ‘hwnna’ dros bopeth 😂 Hashnod problemau dysgwyr!! 😂

EU Parliament passes the AI Act including ⏺️ban of live facial recognition tech (NatSec carveout?) ⏺️ban on scraping of biometric data ⏺️pre-deployment risk assessment Next: final negotiations between the EU Parliament, EU Commission and the EU Council nytimes.com/2023/06/14/tec…

Our Future Inside The Fifth Column- Or, What Chatbots Are Really For Frightful rhetoric on chatbots is a come-on to powerful corporate and institutional actors. We must resist the nihilist billionaire conquest for algorithmic supremacy, says Emily Tucker. techpolicy.press/our-future-ins…

Ok Twitter community: what’s a question that you wish you had asked long ago and now feel like it’s too late? Also, unrelated, WTF is a ‘playbook’ anyway?? 🧐

Another marathon of organising, but finally happy to (hopefully) sit back and just enjoy the quality of work being presented at our #datajustice2023 conference. 🙌🙌🙌

De-sensasionalising the rhetoric of national #security which constructs the criminal #other: Hamid Khan presents the brilliant work of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition building community power to abolish the #police state #DataJustice2023

Public service announcement for those who didn’t already know 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

This is SUCH an important reminder.

Overnight experts keep throwing the words 'Wagner' and 'mercenary' around without fully understanding that even in the 19th Century, precarious work was rife in the music industry and even the most talented composer always had to look at the bottom line 🤷

Put a Byrd on it