NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great Timothy Snyder. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Top AI systems have been trained on screenplays for over 50,000 films and 85,000 TV shows, according to a new deep dive by Alex Reiser in The Atlantic. Not necessarily *surprising*, but good to see this dug into and confirmed:

Yeap, Milei's shock therapy making Argentina's industry really great again

Ora dovremmo citofonare agli economisti italiani tipo Marattin, attratti dalla dottrina economica di Milei…

Very thrilled to announce this; Paris Marx and I have finally gone and started a show. Big tech has ruined the internet, Elon is in the White House—clearly the system has crashed. Each week, we'll try to make sense of the wreckage, and try to point a way to a better future.

Another positive review of our book (with Emiliano Treré) Algorithms of Resistence (The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social) has been released. This time in Work, Employment and Society journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Dopo il post su #PiracyShield ho ricevuto #diffida a rettificare e #minaccia di azione risarcitoria. E’ una pressione? Ma sono contenta che il dibattito scaturito dal post abbia colto i veri temi in gioco, di cui parlo da 4 anni. Nei commenti! bit.ly/3CAazWJ

In the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI, NYT lawyers spent 150 hours combing through OAI's training data. OpenAI engineers *erased it* and admitted to erasing it. The NYT is now unable to get that data back. This should be a serious scandal.

New Jeremy Kahn @websummit: Sarah Myers West argued it may be better if the AI bubble burst: "The world could not afford a technology with the energy footprint, appetite for data, and problems around unknown biases that today’s generative AI systems have." fortune.com/2024/11/19/web…

ana vldv (@anavaldi.bsky.social): Meta used 22,000,000 liters of water training its LLaMA-3 model in 97 days. This is equivalent to water that would be consumed by a Londoner in 424.46 years.

In new report led by Waqas Ejaz, PhD📊 we document "platform ambivalence"–people rely on platforms for info, while also remaining sceptical, many concerns are widespread, even as people also appreciate platforms for a range of personal and societal benefits reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-people… 1/5

‘tiziano bonini @tbonini.bsky.social and Emiliano Treré's book is a highly readable intervention: seldom polemical, it nonetheless forcefully reasserts an investment in humanity in the face of the algorithm.’ Craig Gent reviews Algorithms of Resistance below. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

Huge news from Reed Albergotti: Apple employees are suing the company, alleging it’s spied on them through their personal iCloud accounts and non-work devices. So much for all those claims about respecting people’s privacy. semafor.com/article/12/02/…

How open is “open” AI, really? If models are reusable, but… origin of data is opaque, work hidden & exploited, frameworks dominated by Big Tech, access to computational power restricted… “open” is just an empty label. Meredith Whittaker & friends in Nature. nature.com/articles/s4158…

In January, Israeli historian Lee Mordechai released a 124 page report with 1,400 footnotes detailing evidence of Israel’s genocide. How many of you heard about it? Did any Western papers cover it?

Neural [#bookreview] Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power - tiziano bonini @tbonini.bsky.social , Emiliano Treré - The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social - neural.it/2024/12/tizian… #hacktivism #mediatheory

📚 I reviewed the book "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power". It explores how individuals and communities creatively resist algorithmic control in platform capitalism. What examples of #AlgorithmicResistance have you seen? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

Register here for our 1st MCCI Research event of 2025: Algorithms of Resistance. The Everyday Fight against Platform Power, Wednesday, 19th February, 17:00 – 18:30 city.ac.uk/news-and-event… #media #algorithm

- Sa perfettamente come funziona il mondo della comunicazione - Stroppa, il suo portavoce, su Twitter ha parlato di saluto romano, prima di rendersi conto di averla combinata grossa e cancellare il tweet. Immagino che Stroppa non scriva stupidaggini a vanvera: 4/➡️