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Dr. Elinor Carmi

@elinorcarmi.bsky.social

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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 · 23h

This is one of the funniest videos I've seen about people who rely too much on AI 😆
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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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

The Verge @theverge.com · 4d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 5d

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

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 9d

⚠️ 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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

Sending big hugs to you both 💜😘

Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 11d

“I think we can have a crime-free city and civil liberties. . . . We can have it all.”

I agree, so call me when you develop drones to chase billionaires for their tax evasion (biggest crime), which costs countries billions and can solve many problems we have 😉
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America

With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker...

www.forbes.com

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 12d

Brilliant thread from @keyne-unable.bsky.social on why the introduction of digital ID (and the encoding of 'birth sex' in a single government record) has long been an objective of anti-trans campaigners in the UK 👇

Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 12d

Digital ID is a terrible idea for a lot of reasons: technical, political, economic. Especially with the involvement of far right tech oligarchs and it being explicitly sold as a way of surveilling people so as to imprison or deport immigrants.

But there's a layer which many aren't seeing...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13d

Without further ado, here is the trailer for Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.

Against all odds, it will air in select theatres on October 2nd, along with the theatrical debut of Sex House.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow.

And, yes, this is real.

The Onion @theonion.com · 13d

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is in select theaters October 2.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 13d

Literally, I was gonna write that same thing about Blade Runner!!! I also won't go and see Tron, but I genuinely don't understand why he gets hired over and over again! All his latest films flopped!

Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 13d

Beyond being a possible cult leader and being accused for SA, Jared Leto is just not an amazing actor.
So why did Disney have to ruin the Tron franchise with him?? 😫
youtu.be/YShVEXb7-ic?...

Tron: Ares | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Disney

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 15d

The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money.

What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia.

But there's more… 🧵

How Wikipedia Can Save the Internet With Advertising | TechPolicy.Press

Robin Berjon explores how principled advertising on Wikipedia could fund a democratic digital future.

www.techpolicy.press

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

13 years ago, I moved to London, UK 😮
I know I complain a lot about the bad coffee and food (which has improved!), but I still think that London is one of the best cities in the world, and I feel so lucky to have a job I love, friends I love and despite Brexit 🫠, I still love living here💜

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

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ALT: a man with a mustache is laughing with his mouth open in a blue shirt .

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