Out of 39 richest countries the UK has suffered the biggest rise in child poverty (by a long way) between 2014 & 2021…

Flight

Remember all the times Elon Musk said Tesla is so amazing for the environment? The company is being sued for violating the Clean Air Act hundreds of times in recent years by emitting harmful pollutants from its Fremont factory into nearby neighborhoods.

cnbc.com/2024/05/14/tes…

World in progress, always

Dinner is served

Emotion AI in schools ... most people agree that computers can't 'detect' emotions, so why are AI products now being sold to monitor attention, concentration, distraction etc? I talk to Nathalie DiBerardino about the problems with this form of EdTech: buzzsprout.com/1301377/150635…

You too can have access to a teacher who lies all the time and is incapable of reasoning but will reflect the worst prejudices and assumptions of dominant power. Thanks, Sam, you’ve ‘democratised’ substandard education. Shame so many colleagues lap up this Promethean rubbish.

Entangled Futures Festival runs in June at the University of Cambridge. Take a look. Book your tickets :)

entangledfutures.com

Cambridgeshire

I would also guess that CS/AI suffers the most from this given critical thinking is entirely strange to this field

STOP Southwark Council extortionate rent increase on 5 essential small shops! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/cyMbPRP9NS via Change.org UK workers in these shops have stuck with us through thick & thin, including the Pandemic, they are part of our community, not to be thrown away

Enjoying these: The Terraformers, Annálee Newitz and The Memory Librarian, Janelle Monáe.

The actual fragility of school digital data infrastructures bodes pretty badly for those pristine fantasies of AI-enhanced schooling bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

let them eat compute

Fantastic and very insightful article about #datalabour by ⁦Milagros Miceli⁩ … on how to know and claim the rights of data workers, but also about the entanglement with topics like refugee lives, war and various other vulnerabilities and concerns. untoldmag.org/i-hope-this-is…

Saturday morning Roblox development, in the image factory, going to see the management...

Where do the images go?

Welcome to the image factory

Being chased by Robot.txt in the Generative AI Image Manufactory

Roblox preparing for Experimental Worldbuilding: for large Image Data Sets and the question of Interpretability, a Roblox Installation for MozFest House, Amsterdam, this June :-)