The front and back cover of this week's New Yorker. Says the BofA ad on the back: "You didn't come this far just to come this far." Just what the front cover dude cozily tucked away under the $-bill was thinking before he dozed off. A bit of cognitive dissonance, seeing them next to each other...

What's the state of play around #AI sovereignty in Latin America? Natan Amado picks it apart in this RegulAite working paper. Spoiler alert: without push-back, AI dependency will only entrench LA's peripheral position in the global economy. www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/A...

A deeply personal deep dive into #AI & politics with the Ivory Tower podcast. 🙏 to Tadey Luka Sadovyi for being such a gracious and erudite host 😃 Here's the Spotify link:

open.spotify.com/episode/7f5n...

Gender vote share gap among young Germans. Massive.

Among women, the left, greens and social democrats have a comfortable majority; among men, AfD, CDU/CSU and FDP score 50%.

Thanks to @lizamugge.bsky.social for pointing me to this; the German original is here: www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/...

And while we're at it, last week's by Christoph Niemann

'Coding 101', by Malika Favre, from 2017. Love the artwork. And funny to think how abstract digital still felt then 🤔

8:00. Dageraad, en Nederland kiest z'n koers.

One of the subtler images that stuck with me: someone distrusting e-books "because they can be disappeared". (First time I have come across it as a transitive verb...)

Immediate resonances with Yoko Ogawa's 1994 novel about an authoritarian regime that slowly lets things vanish from society.

Foundation models score poorly on transparency. Among most opaque dimensions: use of human labour to build them, and presumed impact (black boxes in table). Both dimensions maybe don't interest developers too much, but clearly matter to society. Report from Stanford CRFM here crfm.stanford.edu/fmti/

Globally harmonized econ #statistics that actually measure what they're supposed to are an illusion: stats can't be (1) suitable to domestic conditions, (2) prescriptive enough to prevent tinkering, and (3) harmonized internationally.

Now OA in Int'l Politics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

After days of gray and drizzle, fitting weather for my first day on BlueSky. Hoping that's a harbinger of saner, more constructive and enjoyable, and less overwhelming online exchange 😀🤞