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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · Aug 17

This article contains 0 mentions of 100+ data centres being built across the UK and 2 mentions of shorter showers. The doctrine of personal responsibility <<<< 20% of treated water lost thru' old pipes + more via unshaded reservoirs.

www.dumptheguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

How can England possibly be running out of water?

While famously rainswept, climate crisis, population growth and profligacy mean the once unthinkable could be possible

www.dumptheguardian.com

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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · Aug 15

⚠️ Freedom of Information (FOI) requests reveal that the UK passport and immigration databases have been used by police for mass facial recognition searches WITHOUT a clear legal basis, or the public or parliament’s knowledge.

pvcy.org/TelegraphFRT

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm genuinely gobsmacked that the Home Office think this is a good idea. How do they envisage "training" technology to verify the age of a young person from (say) Darfur or Iraqi Kurdistan? They might as well get the calipers out and start doing phrenology

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · Jul 22

Given what we know about AI reproducing existing racial bias, and the inaccurate and racist results of facial recognition technology, this has to be there with the worst proposals the Home Office has ever made, and believe me, the bar is high

UK border officials to use AI to verify ages of child asylum seekers

Trial of technology comes as official report warns existing system has been failing for at least a decade

www.theguardian.com

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Jul 16

Join us on Friday: Workshop on “Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the #DigitalTransformation”.

⏰ July 18, 2025, 9 a.m.
🏛️ Deutsches Museum Munich
👉 Organized by DFG-project #ArtViWO (@dfg.de)

#HistSci #HistTech #HistAI #STS
@vgoujon.bsky.social @assiaw.bsky.social

Workshop des DFG-Projektes „ArtViWo“
18.7.2025 | Deutsches Museum München | Seminarraum Forschung 1
„Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the digital
Transformation”

09:00 – 09:15 Ulf Hashagen (DM) Opening
1. Histories of the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision
09:15 – 09:45 Dinah Pfau (DM) “ArtViWo” – Vision between Physiology and Communications Engineering
09:45 – 10:15 Aaron Gluck-Thaler (Harvard) Learning from Particulars: Mid-Twentieth Century Data Processing Ambitions at the National Security Agency
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:15 Rudi Seising (DM) Perception and Perceptron – Pattern
Recognition in the 1950s
11:15 – 11:45 Sebastian Kawanami-Breu (HU B) Retinas and Receivers: Modeling Vision at the NHK Labs, 1960-1980
11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break
2. Computing Landscapes: Environmental History of the digital Transformation
12:00 – 12:30 Tjark Nentwig (TU B) Computing Landscapes – Sketching an Information History of the Environment
12:30 – 13:00 Kathrin Tschida (TU B) Computerlandschaften: A Student-led Project on the Environmental History of Computing
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
3. Sociological Perspectives the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision
14:15 – 14:45 Judith Neumer und Michael Heinlein (ISF) “ArtViWo” – The Automation of the Clinical Gaze? Artificial Intelligence in the Visual
Practice of Colonoscopy
14:45 – 15:15 Assia Wirth (CREST) Searching for facial recognition: uncovering the making of sensitive algorithmic technologies.
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:15 Valentin Goujon (Sciences Po) Scalability, temporality and (mis)alignment: governing Artificial (General) Intelligence through benchmark datasets
16:15 – 16:45 Liliia Zemnukhova (DM) Air in the Room: How Quality Assurance Moves Digitalization
4. Artificial Intelligence, Vision and digital Transformation: Summary and Outlook
16:45 – 17:15 Dinah Pfau (DM) Summary, Outlook and Discussion

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · Jul 14

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Jun 26

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show

The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

www.404media.co

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · Jun 17

I do not like AI in Slack
I do not like AI on Mac
I do not like AI in Zoom
I don’t want AI in my room
I do not want ChatGPT —
please stop, AI, and leave me be!
I don’t want AI here, or there;
I don’t want AI anywhere!

(… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · Jun 17

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

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Monica V @classyearlgrey.bsky.social · Jun 17

“Just last week, researchers at Apple released a damning paper that threw cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of the latest and most powerful LLMs, arguing they "face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities."

Womp womp.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 17

Cultists have a party.

Top AI Researchers Meet to Discuss What Comes After Humanity

A group of the top minds in AI gathered over the weekend to discuss the "posthuman transition" — a mind-bending exercise.

futurism.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 13

What could go wrong.

OpenAI and Barbie-maker Mattel team up to bring generative AI to toymaking, other products | TechCrunch

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toymaking and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging.

techcrunch.com

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Disclose @disclosengo.bsky.social · Jun 13

🇪🇺🇫🇷 La France et l’Europe financent, sans le dire, l’industrie militaire israélienne

Enquête de @disclaimer.bsky.social @reportersunited.gr et @investigate-europe.eu sur un financement public pour développer des drones armés qui alimente la machine de guerre d’Israël

disclose.ngo/fr/article/l...

La France et l’Europe financent, sans le dire, l’industrie militaire israélienne

Un projet de développement de drones militaires financé par l'Europe et sept gouvernements européens, dont la France, a obtenu, en mai 2024, un financement de 59 millions d’euros d'argent public. Pro...

disclose.ngo

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Marme & lade 🌱 @marmelade.bsky.social · May 28

Le gouvernement a supprimé ses publications.

Mais la vidéo a été sauvegardée.

La voici.

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Valentin Goujon @vgoujon.bsky.social · May 27

🗓️ Join us next Tuesday for a talk by Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Dieuwertje Luitse on "The Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation: From Present to Future"!

A presentation followed by a collective discussion with @assiaw.bsky.social, @theolenoir.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social and myself ⤵️

Sciences Po médialab @medialab-scpo.bsky.social · May 27

Mardi 3 juin, découvrez comment l’évaluation des modèles IA évolue et soulève un enjeu politique majeur.

Une présentation d’ @annaschjoett.bsky.social et @dluitse.bsky.social suivie d’un échange sur le lancement de la collection « The Politics of ML Evaluation » dans Digital Society.

Plus d'info 🔽

The Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation: From Present to Future | médialab Sciences Po

Le médialab reçoit Anna Schjøtt Hansen et Dieuwertje Luitse pour le prochain séminaire du 3 juin 2025. Elles feront une présentation d'ouverture sur les politiques d'évaluation de l'apprentissage auto...

medialab.sciencespo.fr

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · May 24

Some guy on Twitter made a point of announcing that thousands upon thousands of men are descended from rapists, and we women "aren't going to like it when [they] stop asking nicely."

Which, you know, surprise surprise brother, but you're also not going to like it when we stop refusing nicely.

The painting titled Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. The painting portrays the moment that Judith beheads Holofernes, mid act of sawing his head off with a sword. Judith grasps his hair as he lies face up on his bed and cuts the sword across to behead him while blood spurts out of his neck. Another woman helps hold him down as he attempts to resist.

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · May 24

>would kill the AI industry

imagine thinking that this would be a bad thing.

Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · May 24

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.

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maudbarber.bsky.social @maudbarber.bsky.social · May 3

Vous connaissiez Virginia Eubanks pour son enquête sur les technologies de l'État social américain. On en discute sur @aoc-media.bsky.social, avec l’actualité américaine et un témoignage sur son expérience de proche aidante et sur comment le soin pourrait être réinventé.

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Valentin Goujon @vgoujon.bsky.social · May 20

🗓️ The next and final 2024-2025 session of the FlashLab seminar will feature Dieuwertje Luitse (@dluitse.bsky.social), PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam, with a talk on the technopolitical production of "otherness" through ML modelling and evaluation in medecine!

Abstract and more info ⤵️

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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · May 19

my latest for the guardian on love in a time of surveillance - inspired by some horrifying findings from recent eSafety Commissioner research (e.g. nearly 1 in 5 young people believe it’s okay to track their partner whenever they want)

Tracking apps might make us feel safe, but blurring the line between care and control can be dangerous | Samantha Floreani

Apps like Life360 and Find My Friends are changing the landscape of what’s considered to be an expression of love – and not necessarily for the better

www.theguardian.com

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Assia @assiaw.bsky.social · May 15

La séance se tiendra à 16h en ligne ! Au plaisir de vous y retrouver nombreux.ses 👇

Assia @assiaw.bsky.social · May 7

Nouvelle séance du #Flashlab organisée le 15/05 (16h-17h30) avec une présentation de Laurène Tetu, doctorante en #SIC à l'Université de La Réunion : “Questionner l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle en contexte postcolonial pour combler un manque de source et changer de paradigme”

“Le flashlab” écrit en bleu sur fond jaune

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · May 14

A good rule of thumb: If a surveillance technology exists, it will eventually be weaponized and abused.

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Assia @assiaw.bsky.social · May 7

Et retrouvez toutes les infos et le programme du Flashlab sur le site du séminaire : flashlabinfo.wordpress.com

le flashlab

pour recevoir des nouvlles, c'est ici !

flashlabinfo.wordpress.com

Assia @assiaw.bsky.social · May 7

Le lien de connexion et les informations pratiques de chaque séance sont diffusées sur la liste mail du séminaire, à laquelle nous vous invitons à vous abonner : [email protected]

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Assia @assiaw.bsky.social · May 7

Nouvelle séance du #Flashlab organisée le 15/05 (16h-17h30) avec une présentation de Laurène Tetu, doctorante en #SIC à l'Université de La Réunion : “Questionner l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle en contexte postcolonial pour combler un manque de source et changer de paradigme”

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · May 5

Former Death Star employees condemn new Emperor's plan to use Death Star for death star stuff

Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · May 5

NEW: 13 ex-Palantir employees condemn work with the Trump administration as violating Palantir's code of conduct, including using products to collect data on immigrant children.

"These injustices could be facilitated by the very software infrastructure we help build."

www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...

Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration

In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.

www.npr.org

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ANCMSP (le bureau) @bureauancmsp.bsky.social · Apr 30

❗ PLOUF - Avis de Parution ❗

On l’avait (vraiment pas) rêvé, iels l’ont fait ! Aujourd’hui, mercredi 30 avril 2025, sort l’ouvrage collectif 'Face à l’obscurantisme woke' aux Presses "Universitaires" de France. 🧵

"Texte qui reprend la mise en page et charte graphique de l'ouvrage "face à l'obscurantisme woke. Ici le texte indique "Le bureau appelle au boycott des PUF. Face à la fascisation de l'ESR"

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Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social · Apr 17

Generative AI ate my job: Venezuela provided the tech industry with low-paid gig-work annotating data but generative AI now does many of these low-skilled tasks depriving migrants of work and income.
restofworld.org/2025/generat...

restofworld.org

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