“The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks” theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

This whole issue looks SO INCREDIBLY GOOD!

If you care about AI, power, AI and Power, good scholarship, etc.

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

I’ve been waiting for this paper to drop like yall wait for the latest Kendrick or Bey hit! On eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence by @[email protected] on Mastodon + Dr. Émile P. Torres. <> firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

Edward Snowden and other privacy advocates are warning against a significant expansion in mass surveillance, expressing concerns that it could grant 'Stasi-like powers' to the Trump administration, posing a serious threat to personal privacy.
truthout.org/articles/edwar…

TLDR: to 'solve' trash content on trash surveillance platforms, BigTech AI will flag whether content is 'good' or not.

Can we please stop falling for this? This isn't 'solving' the problem. It's simply consolidating control over platforms w/o attending to who will wield it.

Thanks to everyone who listened to & shared the short clip from the 2024 Spelman Founders Day address. In case you'd like to hear the full 15min talk, here's a captioned version. The spicy section that's circulating is towards the end: bit.ly/RuhaSpelmanTalk

an established artist like drake’s diss track being debated for authenticity (vs AI), goes to show how auto-theft technologies marketed as AI are undermining trust at the most basic level on top of all the well documented issues w/ the legacy music industry

For all of you, who like me, use Signal constantly before and after usernames...GREAT NEWS! We've added a new feature we're calling 'nicknames.'

It allows you to save new contacts, without having to put them in your phone's address book.👇

I coined a term on This Machine Kills that I feel like needs its own essay: Habsburg AI – a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI's that it becomes an inbred mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque features. It joins the lineage of Potemkin AI.

Returning to this Intercept article about Google's role in Israel's AI programme; in light of 'Lavender' and 'The Gospel'

theintercept.com/2022/07/24/goo…

This is why surveillance is a life or death issue for trans pol. organizations that claim to defend us need to start taking it seriously. This is just the beginning. Let’s see some of that $$$ & energy that went to marriage equality go toward data privacy & surveillance reform