Read eight contributions from regional experts across the world to get a sense of national narratives and geopolitical ambitions that drive the current state-of-play. An executive summary of key themes across these regions is HERE: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-nat… 6/6

Four days left to apply for the first EASA summer school in ethnography ‼️

Nearly 50 years after it was made, a pristinely restored Manthan, India’s first crowdsourced film received a red-carpet world premiere at Cannes alongside classics from Godard and Kurosawa. This is the story of its 4K restoration. #cannes2024 bbc.com/news/world-asi…

In the wonderful world of student essays written through AI translation, McLuhan's The medium is the message becomes Media is information. And who am I to judge when the medium itself hath spoken.

Enjoy the beautiful and poignant writing of andrea pollio

A huge percentage of data in data centres is not even used, i.e. 'rot data'. From the workshop on democratic participation in computing infrastructures at Minderoo centre for technology and democracy

🎉 Launching online today: "Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500." Dive into our large-scale interactive visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. 🧵 calculatingempires.net

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The submission prepared by Julia Rone and colleagues builds on the discussions from a workshop that gathered researchers (myself included) and activists in mid-June and focuses specifically on data centres and their environmental and social impact in UK and the EU.

Fresh off the press. Our analysis of alignment and its roots in historical debates about linguistic science and statistics, with Liam Magee and Karen Soldatic link.springer.com/article/10.100…

An article that deserves more citations. Kaljund on how Estonia reimagine issues of national sovereignty and security through the infrastructure of the cloud #cloud #datacenters anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The Angel of History had friends. Paul Klee made these hand puppets for his son, Felix, between 1916 and 1924, WWI and it’s aftermath.

Raise your hand if you are with SMARTY and have not had mobile reception for weeks or months on end. Major failure of this company and no solution offered to customers so far. Can a mobile provide even be allowed to operate if they don't provide reception for months?

Y'all write about them creating "superintelligent" machines when they can't even have speech transcription tools that don't randomly add things. apnews.com/article/ai-art…

Using AI to simulate its architects and generate alternate histories, our hidden gem of the week revisits Chile’s Cybersyn project as a means to counter neoliberal capitalist realism and expand economic imagination. By Luke Munn & Liam Magee buff.ly/4fSSwt8

Tracing the infrastructure of AI to mines, chip factories, data centers, and e-waste dumps, our video of the week unveils the environmental harms of the supply chain capitalism data centers. Feat. Ana Valdivia at Oxford Internet Institute buff.ly/4fXKlw5