Great @nicoleeinbinder.bsky.social scoop here that raises all kinds of questions www.businessinsider.com/flock-camera...

Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police in one California town

Flock sent 1,427 alerts to Roseville police over two years, flagging cars as stolen or used in a felony. In 71% of them, Flock read the plates wrong.

businessinsider.com

LOL Suresh describes workers who feel they have to "AI wash" their work: "They just do the work, the same way they have for decades, and say Claude did it."

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Why businesses lie about AI; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/d... #Pluralistic 1/

Happy "Hello madam, I want to make fraandship with you" Day! aarohini.medium.com/hello-madam-... #FriendshipDay

‘Hello madam’

A light-hearted take on gendered salutations, identity, and everyday sexism through the recurring phrase ‘Hello madam.’

aarohini.medium.com

Unfortunately now Google itself indexes pages with the ChatGPT tracking in them. I had a thread - bsky.app/profile/bogi...

Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 4w ago

Absolutely WTF, just searched for a book which had a chapter from me in Google and it came up *in Google* with the tracking "utm_source=chatgpt.com" in the link. (Probably needless to say, but I wasn't using ChatGPT.)

TIL that there is an AI company called Attentive AI. But it's not about ADHD.

India had one helpline that functioned well. It was shut down. Here’s what happened next.

Scroll@scroll.in · 6d ago

Call data statistics of Childline between 2018 and 2022, accessed by Scroll, showed that Maharashtra was among five states that had received the highest number of calls by distressed children or activists. It saw a three-fold drop in calls since. scroll.in/article/1094... By Tabassum Barnagarwala

From pilot to 100%: how the @orcid.org advocacy project is helping researchers increase their visibility leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/f...

From pilot to 100%: how the ORCID advocacy project is helping researchers increase their visibility

This post is by Research Services Adviser Jen Dunhill. Since February 2025, the Library Research Services team has been working with schools across the University to increase engagement with ORCiD.…

leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com

Addictive apps from Meta are not just harmful to teens! They're also harmful for adults. Stop using them, and put warnings on them for everyone, like on cigarette packages!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

“…the state’s lawyers said Meta researchers repeatedly flagged teenagers’ compulsive use of the platform – leading to eating disorders, depression and self-harm. But despite those warnings, Meta did not ⁠disable features such as autoplay, notifications and infinite scroll…”

not a rogue paramilitary agent, the order was given by a cop

RAF fired pellet gun at protesters on the directions of a Delhi Police officer, document shows

Document reveals RAF used pellet guns on protesters in Delhi, contradicting police claims and raising concerns over excessive force.

thehindu.com

Aditya M@almostinfamous.bsky.social · 2w ago

just in case you could not appreciate the work of the delhi police any more, they are now using disabling weapons against citizens

They created vile 'app' where they put Muslim women up "for sale" to humiliate them. They've called minorities every name they could think of and made up some more. Their IT cell has popularised these slurs. Rich of them to now start talking about restraint and polite behaviour in public discourse.

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · last wk.

Hilarious that the Hindu right in India is trying to make an issue of protesters using foul language after spending 12+ years calling every Indian woman on social media every variation of 'bitch' 'slut' etc and making receiving rape & death threats a regular-ass part of online life in India.

Hilarious that the Hindu right in India is trying to make an issue of protesters using foul language after spending 12+ years calling every Indian woman on social media every variation of 'bitch' 'slut' etc and making receiving rape & death threats a regular-ass part of online life in India.

I happened to walk past the office of a matrimonial/ matchmaking bureau today. The sign outside read that they are specialists in "divorce and delayed marriage." I know what that actually means but it's still hilarious.

CJP and Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation on Wikipedia's front page today.

The mascot of Indian roads. (The driver cribbed about Uber underpaying them.) I once rode an auto-rickshaw with a "Yumraj is back" sticker on its front windscreen. (Yumraj is the Hindu God of death.)

Fuck Flock cameras.

Summer academic: 1) I'm not getting enough writing done 🥲 2) Huh, I just wrote 12K words in the last 4 days, reviewing other peoples' work. 😵‍💫

Did you drink a big glass of water today? Max loves you!

Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.

Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google

Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.

404media.co

18 years. Proud Wikimedian. Sharing a snapshot of my on-wiki and off-wiki contributions to the #KnowledgeCommons: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ro... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ro... Some of you've figured I haven't attended events in the past few years. Requesting kindred spirits to keep in touch.

Rohini Lakshané@aldebaran14.bsky.social · 2w ago

A part of today's handiwork. I wrote these structured data captions and descriptions on the Wikimedia Commons in eight languages. #PolyglotDiaries #openness #openknowledge

वो दिन के जिसका वादा है... www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

In India, fear has switched sides

By refusing to be intimidated, India’s students have turned a protest over education into a crisis for Narendra Modi.

aljazeera.com

See the alternating warm and cold patches in the Northern mid-latitudes? That's the imprint of a quasi-stationary Rossby wave (i.e. oscillations in the jet stream). It's rare to see it so clearly in a monthly-average temperature map.

Another day, another government climate agency pointing out that unchecked data centre growth directly impacts climate targets 🫠 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

I just zoomed in to the sign in Hindi that Captain America is holding. It's pretty bold. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

‘Televising our revolution’: India’s Gen Z flips Modi’s social media game

For 12 years, Modi and his party have dominated Indian social media. Now, youth use the same platforms against him.

aljazeera.com

“Twelve years ago, Modi rode to power and pioneered in many ways, leveraging social media platforms to reach the masses. Today, Gen Z is flipping his Hindu majoritarian party’s dominance on social platforms, weaponising against it the very tools the Bharatiya Janata Party has long relied on.”

‘Televising our revolution’: India’s Gen Z flips Modi’s social media game

For 12 years, Modi and his party have dominated Indian social media. Now, youth use the same platforms against him.

aljazeera.com

A part of today's handiwork. I wrote these structured data captions and descriptions on the Wikimedia Commons in eight languages. #PolyglotDiaries #openness #openknowledge

Dopamine.

The best way to spend a Sunday is to put together a nice wiki-résumé en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ro...

CaturDogDay Feels Good….

A few years ago, I was a part of a DEI project. DEI haters viciously attacked the grant proposal & my personal talk pages. I used to get dozens of password-reset emails every week for almost a year from unknown people trying to break into my account. Good to see this feature introduced in Wikipedia.