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Milagros Miceli@milamiceli.bsky.social · 19h ago

You, me, and anyone with internet access do unpaid, uncredited data work to feed AI models. What is data work, and why does it matter? I discuss this in this interview with DW. I also cover labor exploitation, classification and bias, and power concentration in the AI industry: p.dw.com/p/5O0Mm

a UK food delivery service experimented with AI-generated images for restaurant menu items that lacked pictures. they stopped when customers reported seeing some unusual new dishes. a tiger-prawn dish became a bowl containing actual tiger cubs. friends, i think the tech may not be ready.

Wait. People in this part of the world don’t already own a torch and an emergency grab bag?

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Not a single cyberattack in sight

Canterbury Cathedral has left me in absolute awe today.

Marvin “plans to contest the charge on the grounds of her First Amendment right to protest” www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman...

A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months. This week, she got arrested for it

Carolyn Marvin, 78, said she is exercising her First Amendment right to protest — and will do it again.

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A(I)cquiescence: the only option to obtain any type of service nowadays. 😔

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 2w ago

My doctor asked me if I minded his use of AI to summarize summary my appt yesterday, so first I told him why I mind and then I consented because I wanted to see the summary it generated. It listed a medication I don't take and have never taken on my list of current meds, so here we are.

NEW PROJECT LAUNCH! 🚀 DAIR's @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social and @superrrnetwork.bsky.social are building a network to strengthen data-worker-led movements around the world. The website launches in mid-November. Sign up at dataworkersunited.org for updates!

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The Society of Authors@societyofauthors.bsky.social · 2w ago

We understand the strength of feeling this AI Charter has provoked & that more explanation is needed. We will publish a blog tomorrow detailing why, in a vacuum of regulation, this charter demands more transparency & accountability from organisations on how they are using AI now and in the future.

It is interesting to observe how some people swear by scientifically informed policy in other areas but when it comes to AI they believe anything that is said by sillicon valley companies

Rosamunde Van Brakel@rosamundevb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Spot on: Meredith Whittaker has little patience for the AI doom that dominates headlines - she thinks warnings of AI turning on humanity is a fear "not anchored in science". www.bbc.com/news/article...

Insisting on “superintelligence” makes it look like it’s the politicized name for the tech, and as if “AI” is the neutral and objective label. That obscures the politics behind the choice to call it AI in the first place.

so many cool events and initiatives happening across the US. shame that setting foot in that country is a massive risk for people like me so i'll just be watching from afar

Why has Eurocentrism and decolonization come to be associated with identity and location rather than with capitalism, displacing more radical decolonization efforts? I argue that it's linked to what Samir Amin calls 'inverted Eurocentrism'. New article👇 t.co/7ussMKb3KM

Quem festeja parisiense queimando carro festeja qdo favelado faz o mesmo e trava avenida depois que a polícia mata adolescente? Quando indígena ocupa prédio pra defender direitos? Olhe para o lado. Temos resistência e revoltas fortes que merecem também incenso da classe média de esquerda local.

📢 PRISIÓN para tres varones por desnudar a sus excompañeras de colegio usando IA generativa. Según el magistrado, la conducta reflejó «un desprecio de género que va más allá del ataque contra su privacidad y dignidad», proyectando «una pretendida supremacía machista que cosifica a las mujeres»

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Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

SCOOP Internal ICE emails show the agency has been discussing the use of a Palantir-supported tool to track noncitizen voters www.wired.com/story/ice-em...

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 ORG has carried out a 6-month investigation into AI use in the UK asylum system. We've found high error rates and claimants unaware that AI is being used. This could have catastrophic consequences for people whose future is in the hands of Home Office decision-making. Read more ⬇️

AI tool used in thousands of asylum claims failing basic accuracy tests

Exclusive: MPs, charities and rights group warn that accuracy should not be sacrificed for speed in ‘life and death’ asylum decisions

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It was so great working with @neal.fun on this, and I hope you waste as much time playing around with it as I have www.wired.com/story/spend-...

Spend Elon Musk’s Money

What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.

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Nos dejan quienes deberían estar aquí y se quedan los que sobran. 😔

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Reuters@reuters.com · 3w ago

Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing protests in Spain, has died, Madrid's tenants' union said reut.rs/3TsfUIt

Gracias por tanto Maricarmen. Descansa en paz.

Tested positive for Covid today in the year of our lord 2026. Please look after yourselves 🙏

NEW: The principal of the University of Edinburgh has announced his departure 🚨 It comes amid five weeks of strikes at the institute after hundreds of staff members have been made redundant and 90 courses scrapped

Scottish university principal announces departure amid five weeks of strikes

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You have an opportunity to watch "Ghost in the Machine" in Oxford (UK). Tuesday 20 October, 2026 at 6pm. uppcinema.com/show/if-oxfo...

IF Oxford presents: Ghost In the Machine + Director Q&A - The Ultimate Picture Palace

AI's origins lie in power, not technology. This documentary uncovers the fantasies and politics behind Silicon Valley's unchecked growth, and looks at the forces shaping our AI-driven world. Screening...

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Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 3w ago

Have you seen @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social yet? If not, you are in for a treat --- a thoughtful, wry deep dive into the history, present, and ideology of "AI". Streaming for free on PBS's YouTube channel in the US & Korea, rentable on Kinema elsewhere. notaidoc.com

What kills me is that it's no longer Internet randos using AI to cosplay as philosophers, historians or scientists. It's established philosophers, historians and scientists surrendering their hard-won intellectual agency and integrity in a rapid cascade, faster than even my darkest prediction. 1/1

Csilla Gal, PhD@cgal.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am sorry this happened to you as well. I ended up writing a long review detailing which parts were BS, and why, even after a thorough review, the paper shouldn't be published. I also wrote to the editor. The most disappointing thing was that I met & was familiar with half of the author's work.

Me? With my claws and teeth I will will defend art and artists as essential to any version of a beautiful livable world. a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...

"They try to kill the poets": Meredith Whittaker on art in the age of AI - A Rabbit's Foot

Chiara Towne in conversation with Meredith Whittaker is president of the Signal Foundation.

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Classic FM is such a gift 🥲❤️

"renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity"

Dustin A. Chacón@lingdustin.bsky.social · 3w ago

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

What a tremendous honour to see my book "The Rulers. Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud" by @versobooks.bsky.social reviewed at @nybooks.com by @bentarnoff.com as "the most comprehensive picture yet of how our new sovereigns acquire and exercise power." Links below 👇