“The rapid deployment of AI systems into all aspects of our lives means that these questions about the nature of their intelligence and their real-world capabilities are no longer in the realm of philosophy and idle academic discussion, but are now playing out in real time.”
Melanie Mitchell: What We Get Wrong About AI
Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.
yalereview.org
"concerns about reproducibility should not trump concerns about confidentiality or harm to participants, particularly... [given] the potential to place inequitable burdens on qualitative researchers and to further erode people’s willingness to participate in research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
“The government (Kenya) will start selling non-personal data collected through platforms like eCitizen to generate extra revenue from information in demand by researchers, businesses and other organisations.” eCitizen is the single point of digital access for all government services. #dataprivacy
“Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements” by Courtney Desiree Morris theanarchistlibrary.org/library/cour...
Why Misogynists Make Great Informants
Courtney Desiree Morris Why Misogynists Make Great Informants How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements
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If you are attending demonstrations this week at Delaney Hall or other detention centers, please study operational security and arrive properly equipped. How do police and federal agents identify and target those who participate in protests? How can we protect ourselves? crimethinc.com/opsec 🧵⬇️
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security
How do police identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder repression?
crimethinc.com
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone. My latest at @wired.com
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war.
wired.com
No matter who you are, if you are running a platform or a making a product that collects user data, you need to have a plan for what happens when the government shows up and asks for it, you need to share that policy with that users, and publish a transparency report.
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2mo agoNew, by me at this.weekinsecurity.com: Health wearable giant Oura says it has received government demands for users' information (because Oura does not use end-to-end encryption). Will Oura say how often it gets demands for user data, and how often Oura hands over users' data to authorities?
Kenya matatu strike over high fuel prices paralyses transport
Kenya matatu strike over high fuel prices paralyses transport
Key roads have remained largely empty and some schools have asked students to stay at home.
bbc.com
“The AI income predictor systematically overcharged those who could least afford it while undercharging the well-off” sha.africauncensored.online #AI #algorithms
Hiding Behind AI
How SHA Was Used to Load Health System Costs Onto Poorest.
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britone@britone.bsky.social · 2y agoKenya government is messing with health system plus involuntarily registering us onto non-functioning insurance plans
"Palantir is creating digital infrastructure for the multiple forms of state violence & control... from the software facilitating mass deportations to the AI wielded in wars against colonized people." @alfatau.bsky.social explains the drive for domination. inthesetimes.com/article/pala...
NEW REPORT: “Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech” Our research confirms that ad-based surveillance tech Webloc is used by military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies across the globe. citizenlab.ca/research/ana...
Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech - The Citizen Lab
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life. In this report, we uncover how a geolocation surveillance system called Webloc uses ad-based data to monitor hundreds of millions of people across the globe.
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Signal has a setting to stop this (Settings > Notifications > Notification Content). It's likely not an issue limited to just Signal, but more fundamental friction between secure chat apps and phones. Very interesting data point when talking about forensics www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...
FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
404media.co
Prof. Mogobe Ramose reflects on philosophy as a lived ethical practice grounded in Ubuntu. He challenges epistemic injustice and the silencing of indigenous languages, calling for a way of philosophizing attentive to experience, truthfulness, and justice. youtu.be/iJZLhkbG4xI
An incredible and beautiful short documentary by Nicolas Gouralt who interviewed online workers from Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines who annotate images to train A.I. systems. Here is as gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
Opinion | Self-Driving Cars Can’t See Without Their Eyes
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Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 7mo agoNicolas Gourault's fantastic short experimental documentary film «Their Eyes» about the invisible human labor behind AI, which we showed and discussed at our «React & Respond» conference in Zurich last year, is now streaming on the NYT website www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
a very good primer to how data generated from the mobile apps we install end up in the hands of intelligence agencies #booksky
Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:
Teach like a Luddite - Kappan Online
Embracing new technologies that don’t advance teaching and learning is a mistake. Educators must ask questions — and resist when necessary.
kappanonline.org
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
Khan Academy CEO predicts AI in the classroom will be like 5 'amazing graduate students' assisting teachers
Founder and CEO Sal Khan believes AI agents will act like a team of grad students, helping teachers adjust lesson plans to improve student engagement.
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