Refuting the idea that digital design must be human-centric has helped me manage my role and professional responsibility in a digital ecosystem. The pursuit of universal wellbeing is more rewarding, and invites conversations that I and my teams were not previously having. axbom.com/design-for-u...

Design for universal wellbeing

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The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Really looking forward to today's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 where Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna will break down the reporting around the OpenAI agent that "broke free" to hack Hugging Face. 9pm CEST

dair_institute Schedule - Twitch

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). — Check out dair_institute stream schedule, and set reminders so you don't miss out!

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"How can anybody in their right mind notice the growing damage to universities and instead of stand against this, facilitate the destruction of expertise, of learning skills, and of academic integrity?" Thank you for keeping it real @olivia.science 🙏 olivia.science/anxiety/

Anxiety

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

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Good brief of different models of intelligence, why they fail or why ”AI” does not fit into them. randomgraphs.blogspot.com/2026/08/mode...

Anyway, since I’m always annoying my own brain by trying to come up with clearer and more specific wording for my own opinions: I reject the notion that LLMs can be deployed “responsibly” at scale and believe that anybody claiming otherwise is fooling themselves, conning you, or possibly both

"I really don’t understand why somebody would want to make me say things that I don’t want to say as they please and then sell it as my own voice. It’s heartbreaking. Why can’t Japan, which calls itself a content superpower, establish rules for content use or tell the world,..."

The voice of Shinji in Evangelion says AI voice cloning is 'heartbreaking,' calls for Japanese government to intervene

It would be nice if somebody did something, for once.

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Vill skriva mer om det här, men behöver case. Hör gärna av dig om du blivit filmad av Metaglasögon utan att ha samtyckt. annie.croona@etc.se / 0728-933670 (Signal), går bra att vara anonym.

Happy pride alla fina människor! Har plockat fram systemkameran och tänkte fota lite idag. 🏳️‍🌈

The backlash made Google pause the feature that made it easy, but it's of course still possible, and now put in everybody's heads. It was so hard for Google to predict the harm. Asking experts is a struggle for tech companies 🤪 www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

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Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d ago

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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Reading is resistance. As ”AI” companies purchase and destroy books, it’s an apt time for people to start building little free libraries. Plans and blueprints here: littlefreelibrary.org/start/build-...

Build a Little Free Library - Little Free Library

Find free blueprints and plans to build a Little Free Library book-sharing box. We offer how-to videos and step-by-step instructions to build your own little library.

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#accountability #AIEthics Given these are key corporate products, I’d expect someone in the C suite to do the time, not a random engineer. Even if you could prove malevolent intent in one individual engineer, it would still be negligence at the corporate level that that got through to the test.

Crimson Oracle 🏳️‍⚧️@crimsonoracle.bsky.social · 6d ago

If a person had done this they’d be catching federal charges, only fair for someone at open ai and Anthropic to be in the same situation, simple as. If the engineer that put the test together spent a couple years in prison the next person might not be willing to go along with this bs

The Africa map debacle is a glimpse of a future with "AI". Not knowing. Not caring. The most unbelievably wrong map I have ever seen at an international, official event. A huge insult and embarassment. "AIDS? We don't even know where your countries are." emilysbass.substack.com/p/the-us-sta...

The US State Department Redraws the Map of Africa at the AIDS2026 Conference

And rewrites history, too. All before the official opening.

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I suppose it you've been constipated your whole life, diarrhea might feel like a blessed relief... at first. Those around you probably feel differently. (Yes, this is an analogy)

So many myths about running shoes killed in this post. www.worseonpurpose.com/p/same-shoe-...

Same Shoe, Different Factory: Who Makes Your Running Shoes

Only two major running brands still own their factories. The rest rent from the same pool of contractors, often with no commitment past the current order.

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Enlightening and scary talk by Bruno Giussani. ’Why Big Tech is Incompatible with Democracy’. ”Every dependence can be turned into coercion and submission.” Giussani also has many good recommendations for the path forward and increasing resilience.

Why Big Tech is incompatible with democracy

Most of the technology powering life in Europe today — chatbots, the cloud, digital infrastructure — is owned by companies in the United States. Writer and curator Bruno Giussani makes the case that E...

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'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Reading is resistance. As ”AI” companies purchase and destroy books, it’s an apt time for people to start building little free libraries. Plans and blueprints here: littlefreelibrary.org/start/build-...

Build a Little Free Library - Little Free Library

Find free blueprints and plans to build a Little Free Library book-sharing box. We offer how-to videos and step-by-step instructions to build your own little library.

littlefreelibrary.org

"A few weeks ago, a self-driving Waymo-brand taxi in San Mateo, California delivered two children into the hands of the police." A @margaret.bsky.social short story gets the Torment Nexus treatment. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/when-they-...

When They Insist Upon the Torment Nexus

or: your car should not drive you to jail

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I just backed @stopgenai.com’s new book project.

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse.com · 7d ago

Consider supporting @stopgenai.com's Kickstarter campaign for her new book, Recovering After Gen AI, scheduled for October release. Kim has previously published cybersecurity books with O'Reilly and Wiley, but is now self-publishing her Big Tech critical books. www.kickstarter.com/projects/kim...

As it appears, he clapped for 3-4 seconds between speakers while no clock was running for speaking time. His wife was next up to speak and was standing ready at the podium as her spouse was carried out and she burst into tears. "Don't hurt him."

Per Axbom@axbom.com · 7d ago

In 80 years scholars will write essays about how people started being arrested for clapping, and how reactions to this development were timid at best.

In 80 years scholars will write essays about how people started being arrested for clapping, and how reactions to this development were timid at best.

“Clapping Is a First Amendment Right:” An Interview With the Person Arrested for Clapping at a Data Center Meeting

"I have a right to speak. I'm here to speak. I have a right to clap, and if you want me out, you're going to have to drag me out."

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Att scrolla Omni ger migrän.

Otroligt sorglig historia det här med den anställde på Arbetsförmedlingen som tog sitt liv. Från det att han tog sitt liv tog det två månader innan de avslutade sin internutredning av honom. Och mycket tycks handla om missförstånd(!) och en oförmåga att värna om sina anställda.

Kritiken mot Arbetsförmedlingens ledning växer

Arbetsförmedlingens internutredning av it-avdelningen har pågått i över sex månader, och nu växer kritiken mot myndighetsledningen. ”De borde erkänna att de gjort fel, och att en medarbetare har dött ...

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Bränderna i Frankrike är ingen anomali att betrakta på avstånd. De är en förhandsvisning av vad som väntar Sverige. Efter kalhuggandet har vi nu tät, likåldrig produktionsskog av gran eller tall. En ensartad barrskog brinner omkring 24 gånger lättare än en lövskog www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/k0K...

Bordeaux visar den svenska framtiden

SEBASTIEN BOUDET Bränderna är inte ett unikt franskt fenomen

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Rikspolischef Petra Lundh tjänar nu 200 700.-/månad. Först över 200k. Näst högst lön bland myndighetschefer har Nils Öberg på Försäkringskassan; 196 000.-/månad. Maria Mindhammar, Migrationsverket, 182 600. Petra Mårselius, Forum för levande historia, 99 500. Intressanta skillnader i tabellen.

Så mycket tjänar myndighetscheferna

Rikspolischefen Petra Lundh har fortsatt högst lön av de myndighetschefer vars löner sätts av regeringen, visar Publikts sammanställning. Hon är först ut att tjäna över 200 000 kronor i månaden – mer ...

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The Hype Literacy Toolkit for Journalists. Such an important and valuable resource , and course. Free. akademie.dw.de/hype-literac...

My first ever computer program that I wrote in 1982 was autonomous. If I left the computer it would keep printing my name, as if it had a life of its own. As if it was sentient. It never gave up. Thankfully I had a keyboard command to kill it. This was the whole of it: 10 PRINT "PELLE" 20 GOTO 10

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.