jesus along with all the other threats right now... be careful, portland...

"During my teenage years, Portishead was one of the few bands I engaged with. Like many of my peers, I’d had a Nirvana phase and liked the Cranberries, but nothing compared to my infatuation with Portishead." #GazelleTwin on #Portishead - Dummy - #ThePortal buff.ly/CKkWXRY

I started working through this historical framework of how extractive logics have set the stage for data center development today in this piece for Data&Society last year - excited to have the chance to explore it further in this zine with Sheila! datasociety.net/research-lib...

I thonk i know wut they doing

Two types of automation in history: 1. We completely understand your job to the point where we can replace you, and 2. We think we completely understand your job, but we don't actually, and we're going to spend years finding this out. And capitalism is notoriously bad at telling the difference

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

creep advocate

adhd really will have you watching a passing train and thinking shit like "i should get into graffiti"

Granny has a good understanding of how to handle authority: let them think they accomplished something so they’ll stay happy and out of the way while you actually do the work of solving the real problems

YOU WILL BELIEVE A DOG CAN READ YOUR MIND

This video is fucking killing me lmao

For some reason Nick didn't like my suggestion 🤷

Nicholas Kole@nicholaskole.bsky.social · 2w ago

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It’s not “your” data, it’s data about you. 🙃

Why you can't access surveillance data collected about you in Georgia

You're probably being recorded all over Atlanta. But what if you want to see the data being collected about you? Credit: AJC|WANF|GDOT|O.C.G.A. Title 35

ajc.com

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If you live in California and you want to take advantage of the state-run portal that tells all registered data brokers to delete your data instead of having to send an individual request to every single one, here is what you need to know: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool

Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. ...

eff.org

"This is the logic of AI, of fascism, of sexism, of racism. That is, because things look a certain way, that therefore they are a certain way. Internal properties are wrongly derived from their superficial appearance.” — @olivia.science 6/🧵 bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3w ago

> core logics of AI are the same as racism and sexism, which is why these issues pop up again and again in these systems: it involves taking the simple shallow features of things we see [&] moving to very flawed conclusions. There is something addictive to this form of sheer intellectual laziness.

cyberwitch doodling

IBS warriors would rather go beast mode on my holes than go to therapy

Mostly in a humanist sense, but it is also very funny.

Josh@dumbjosh.bsky.social · 3w ago

what a small world of insane people it is

weird that all these politicians who historically didn't give two shits about a lack of competition in wireless suddenly support cell phone unlocking, I wonder what could have changed?

idgaf what you think, patti harrison should be the new freddy krueger

This Certo report on how abusers are using Chrome sync for stalking is an important reminder that tech-enabled abuse isn't just limited to stalkerware: www.certosoftware.com/insights/cyb...

Cyberstalkers Are Exploiting Chrome Sync to Spy on Victims | Certo Software

Certo's research team reveals how cyberstalkers are quietly switching the signed-in account in Google Chrome to remotely monitor victims' browsing history and saved passwords with no warning ever show...

certosoftware.com

Following InfoWars on all social platforms is the truest form of bravery.

again, just positively fascinated by business and tech journalism that doesn't think labor or consumer welfare are relevant to any of the stories they're telling, while pretending the country isn't grotesquely corrupt your job is supposed to be truth telling, weirdos

Just signed so I can now say: I have an agent! I’m represented by Nina Richner at Morhaim Literary and she’s going to help me and @dsoart.com get MAGIC WANDA’S FRANKENSTEINEMA published as well as give me the opportunity to publish novels solo :)

Meaty Gumby can still happen if people want it bad enough

I dunno if this is offensive to say because I seem to upset people when I say this, but humanities people should consider joining us, or at least join us in decoupling from Word and other MS products where we can... and @acollierastro.bsky.social says it more convincingly than I can!

Jokes aside, it would be quite nice to have a reasonable "ethical ML" stance / manifesto to seek out and lift up. Something to apply to social orgs and small software that want to avoid the California Ideology currently "eating the world"

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse.com · last mo.

I will forever be confused by how easily Ecosia can convince people that generative AI is compatible with their brand