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Dr. Elinor Carmi

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🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data politics/feminist data/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · May 23

🤩🎉NEW PUBLICATION ALERT! 🎊 I am thrilled to share my new OPEN ACCESS paper with Panagiota Nakou - "Building data citizenship and learning to resist in the datafied
society" -
Here's a short 🧵 on what we did ->
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 8h

I don't dare to go to the upside down...

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DON'T WORRY EVERYONE, THEY MITIGATED MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES!

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 21h

My PhD student Zhaorong Zeng published her first paper 🥹😍 together with Jiazheng Nie. Check it our here -> "Decentralising feminism: Post-#MeToo narrative fragmentation on Weibo" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decentralising feminism: Post-#MeToo narrative fragmentation on Weibo

The #MeToo movement played a pivotal role in shaping digital feminist discourse in China. However, increasing censorship on platforms like Weibo has a…

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 1d

Together with the TUC & other online harms experts, I signed a letter to call TikTok to:
1. Reverse the planned Trust& Safety redundancies in London
2. Maintain robust human-led content moderation standards
3. Respect workers' rights to organise w/o interference

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK MPs urged to investigate TikTok’s plans to cut 439 content moderator jobs

Trade unions and online safety experts sign letter warning jobs losses could expose children to harmful content

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 4d

Another opportunity to check @danmk.bsky.social and my article on how NSO normalizes its surveillance. Our analysis identified four legitimation practices: securitization, Zionist patriotism, ethics washing, and normalization

And it is open access 😉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 5d

As I write in The Guardian this morning, the danger of this moment is that if Europe does not act against Trump now, it will never act again.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan

The anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure, says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 7d

This is one of the funniest videos I've seen about people who rely too much on AI 😆
vm.tiktok.com/ZNdn6HT2T/

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 8d

Meta ends (at least for now) political ads in the EU today. Per their ad library data, they've run nearly 11,000,000 different political, social and issue ads in the EU since 2018 and made around €800m from them.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 9d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 11d

The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.

The Verge @theverge.com · 11d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 12d

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

Welcome to the Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website
Are you the legal or beneficial copyright owner of a book included in the Anthropic Copyright Settlement?
You could get a payment from the $1.5 billion Settlement.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12d

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 11d

Escape Misinformation in the Library (ESC-MISINFO) will build the capacity of public #libraries across Europe, helping them to become active hubs for youth engagement, digital literacy, and democratic participation.
esc-misinfo.eu

Escape Misinformation in the Library

esc-misinfo.eu

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 13d

The printed version is out today! Here we discussed how social credit system, an Orwellian Chinese Other, becomes a stand-in for Western anxieties about authoritarianism, technology goes wrong, quantification of everyday life, and shifting global power.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 12d

We know OpenAI is not making enough money to cover its insane costs, so by creating these kinds of tools, what they are doing is opening additional markets for disinformation, political intervention, scammers, conspiracy theorists, blackmail, and other types of crimes.
Crime pays off, apparently...

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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michael veale @michae.lv · 14d

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14d

Streeting rules out VAT on private healthcare.

Govt levies VAT on private school fees. Why not on healthcare? Billions can be raised.

Private sector freeloads on NHS trained staff, doesn't pay for training. Makes excessive profits from NHS contracts.

Streeting rules out VAT on private healthcare

The health secretary says

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 14d

I am so bad at giving articles/chapters a good title.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it snappy? 🤔😐

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 14d

Exactly. Plus, Eisenberg has that neurotic and awkwardness of Zuckerberg that I just don't think he will be able to portray as well.... but I guess let's see!

Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 14d

A real shame they didn't bring back Jesse Eisenberg, who was an amazing Zuckerberg.... Sorry I don't think Strong will manage to be as good...

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 15d

Sending big hugs to you both 💜😘