Aparna Sharma
@aparna29.bsky.social
Bangalore, India. Dog Mom. Currently working on Intimacy & Internet Studies in the Global South.
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"Silicon Valley's scale-at-all-costs approach to AI development … is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms," says technology reporter @karenhao.bsky.social, whose new book is "Empire of AI."
June 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Silicon Valley's scale-at-all-costs approach to AI development … is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms," says technology reporter @karenhao.bsky.social, whose new book is "Empire of AI."
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The #automation of jobs like therapist & teacher threatens the survival of interpersonal work.
In the race to automate, we must differentiate between the useful and the harmful – @allisonpugh.bsky.social draws on her new book The Last Human Job
@princetonupress.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social
In the race to automate, we must differentiate between the useful and the harmful – @allisonpugh.bsky.social draws on her new book The Last Human Job
@princetonupress.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social
AI and the consent of the automated
The growing automation of professions like therapist, teacher and caregiver threatens the survival of interpersonal work. We automate without knowing exactly what we’re doing and what its impact is…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The #automation of jobs like therapist & teacher threatens the survival of interpersonal work.
In the race to automate, we must differentiate between the useful and the harmful – @allisonpugh.bsky.social draws on her new book The Last Human Job
@princetonupress.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social
In the race to automate, we must differentiate between the useful and the harmful – @allisonpugh.bsky.social draws on her new book The Last Human Job
@princetonupress.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social
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Now that the Supreme Court has upheld a TikTok ban, "a window has been opened for acknowledging that, as a matter of law, protecting human expression is qualitatively different from enabling algorithmic manipulation of human attention," Allison Stanger writes.
The Difference Between TikTok and Free Expression
The algorithmic manipulation of users’ attention is not the same thing as actual human speech.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Now that the Supreme Court has upheld a TikTok ban, "a window has been opened for acknowledging that, as a matter of law, protecting human expression is qualitatively different from enabling algorithmic manipulation of human attention," Allison Stanger writes.
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Took this image 27 days ago on Christmas Eve (seems so long ago now!). The Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264). 96 images at 5 minutes each (8 hours) in Sulphur II, Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen III.
#astrophotography #photography #astronomy
#astrophotography #photography #astronomy
January 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Took this image 27 days ago on Christmas Eve (seems so long ago now!). The Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264). 96 images at 5 minutes each (8 hours) in Sulphur II, Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen III.
#astrophotography #photography #astronomy
#astrophotography #photography #astronomy