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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · 7d

on.ft.com/4nsRDLP Remember when everyone thought surveillance capitalism was dead?

Meta to mine AI interactions to help target advertising

Changes signal how the social media giant will make money from its costly artificial intelligence efforts

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · 11d

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Excellent read. “These figures are impossible to understand if we rely on the political science of recent decades (…). They are characters accustomed to operating in a world without limits, who draw strength from the unexpected, the unstable and the bellicose.”

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power

Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli

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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 24d

Love the idea because I despise what chasing housing wealth has done to everybody's life and brains.

Though I do feel that the success of this sort of thing requires the advanced 'Swiss' civilisation part of it

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · 24d

What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Swiss co-ops aren’t perfect, but I agree: when working as intended, they take wealth out of the (living) equation and allow people from different social strata to live side by side (and under one roof).
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.

www.nytimes.com

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · 27d

So inspiring to see @karenhao.bsky.social in conversation with @rajiinio.bsky.social at the AI and Society event @ Berkeley. We need more formats like this in the Bay Area! (and beyond)

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · 27d

So inspiring to see @karenhao.bsky.social in conversation with @rajiinio.bsky.social at the AI and Society event @ Berkeley. We need more formats like this in the Bay Area (and beyond).

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Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org · Jan 16

January update from the normative philosophy of computing newsletter: new CFPs, papers, workshops, and resources for philosophers working on normative questions raised by AI and computing.

Normative Philosophy of Computing - January

Happy New Year!

mintresearch.org

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Jan 13

„Though still rare in America, the model reflects the striking idea that fundamental problems of politics—polarization, apathy, manipulation by special interests—can be transformed through radically direct democracy.“

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

What Could Citizens’ Assemblies Do for American Politics?

An Oregon county is looking for solutions to youth homelessness—so it convened a random selection of residents to come up with ideas.

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Jan 13

„We noticed something (…). Wherever in the world we’d sent a reporter, whichever corner of the technology landscape we were covering, the holders of all of that money? Men. All of them. Every. Single. One.“
@katie-drummond.bsky.social link.wired.com/view/5cf8230...

Rich men rule the world

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Jan 13

Lots of cautionary tales out there when it comes to public services being rendered „more efficient“ by opaque AI, systems, see: www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Sweden’s Suspicion Machine

Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented

www.lighthousereports.com

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Jan 13

Interesting side note: „The three words most associated with AI by the public are “robot”, “scary” and “worried”, according to government research last month.“https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/mainlined-into-uks-veins-labour-announces-huge-public-rollout-of-ai

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Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · Jan 8

Something from our story on Meta’s content moderation rollback: the groundwork for it was being established before the 2024 election. And employees say a key push was Zuckerberg’s grievance that Meta had inadvertently restricted the virality of a post he wrote about blowing out his ACL.

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Jan 3

weird

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · Jan 3

Meta is testing, or has started to ship, its AI generated profiles, here on Instagram

www.instagram.com/himamaliv

#SocialWeb

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Dec 21

Smearing is caring in Hollywood. Once more terrifying to see how coordinated media attacks and well-oiled PR machines are deployed to alter public perception.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’ (Gift Article)

Private messages detail an alleged campaign to smear Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

www.nytimes.com

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Dec 18

« The motion filed Tuesday, which draws from years of speeches at exclusive gatherings, depositions and internal university reports, shows officials bowing to financial pressures to admit wealthy students over potentially more qualified candidates » www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Lawsuit Reveals How Colleges Really Talk About Rich Applicants

A lawsuit alleging universities colluded on financial aid provides a glimpse into the ways top schools assess and discuss children of privilege.

www.wsj.com

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Dec 13

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Dec 13

Clio enables bottom-up discovery of patterns by distilling conversations into abstracted, understandable topic clusters. It does so while preserving user privacy: data are automatically anonymized and aggregated. only the higher-level clusters are visible to analysts. www.anthropic.com/research/clio

Clio: Privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use

A blog post describing Anthropic’s new system, Clio, for analyzing how people use AI while maintaining their privacy

www.anthropic.com

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Dec 12

Loved this one by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about journalism, power, and ignoring your workers when they‘re in front of you *with* a loudspeaker in hand.
(Favorites include the description of Mr. Sunde as the dad of the detective - yes to the coffee pot and the volvo - and the PS note at the end.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Dec 12

As Guardian & Observer journalists go out again on strike today, it felt like a good moment to write about journalism. And the philosophical crisis that comes with understanding its limits. Inc details of bloodbaths in both Syria & liberal news orgs.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

How to depose a dictator

No, not the Guardian's management. Though lessons may apply

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Dec 12

Beautiful and compelling: „Damion Searls, who has translated a Nobel laureate, believes his craft isn’t about transforming or reflecting a text. It’s about conjuring one’s experience of it.“
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

What Does a Translator Do?

Damion Searls, who has translated a Nobel laureate, believes his craft isn’t about transforming or reflecting a text. It’s about conjuring one’s experience of it.

www.newyorker.com

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Dec 9

The starter pack buzz is dying down now, but if you're still looking for brilliant women in AI to follow, then look no further 👇

go.bsky.app/2wr669L
go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg

I've been building these packs up, so please feel free to suggest additions!

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Dec 11

🤩🤩🤩🫢 thanks!! @catherinebreslin.bsky.social

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Dec 11

would love to be included too @catherinebreslin.bsky.social 🙋🏼‍♀️

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Samuel Kaski @samikaski.bsky.social · Dec 9

I am at #NeurIPS2024 and looking for postdocs. Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss!

We have also other positions: fcai.fi/winter-calls.... My slightly outdated home page is: kaski-lab.com

2025 winter landing page — FCAI

fcai.fi

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Holger Kiik @holgerkiik.bsky.social · Dec 10

More often than not.
Could think that sitting on a person and supporting their paw on a persons hand who is sitting in front of a computer supporting their hand on a chair is not a natural position and place for a cat to rest, but then again, every position and place is.

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · Dec 5

„Maybe, because all the measures of well-being we’ve had so far are crude (..) AI will seem to provide everything we believe we need in companionship while lacking elements that we will not realize were important until later.“
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

What do you love when you fall for AI?

Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.

www.theverge.com

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