Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US
Finally, some good news
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It's International Access to Information Day. Article 19 says you have the right to seek and receive information. The platforms say you have the right to see what the algorithm picks for you. I wrote about Australia's attempt to change that. alt-text.eu/my-feed-my-w... #RightToKnow #IDUAI
Australia's "My Feed, My Way" Reform & Algorithmic Control
Australia's proposed Digital Duty of Care introduces "My Feed, My Way". We examine algorithmic feeds, user agency, and lessons from the EU DSA.
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thanks Australia for subsidising Belgium's drinking habits
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
At DW Akademie's event "Solutions for Independent Journalism in the Age of AI".. So much optimism about the future of journalism here. But turning that optimism into a sustainable reality raises a few questions: - What regulation do we actually need to protect public-interest media? #AI
I wrote about #hypeliteracy and why claims of an AI apocalypse benefit the like of OpenAI and Anthropic and why they only serve as a distraction of the real risks that AI brings. alt-text.eu/the-horror-w...
The Horror Was Never the Monster: Who Benefits from AI Apocalypse Narratives? - ALT-TEXT
Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, recently announced he was leaving Anthropic because there’s a non-trivial chance AI is going to wipe us off the face of the earth. His claim was backed by his collea...
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Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—compressed to run cheaply. USC's Emilio Ferrara argues this compression is treated as a safety nonevent, when it should be treated as a change to the deployed system. This has policy implications, he says.
The Model You Audit Is Not the Model You Ship
Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—with under-appreciated ramifications for AI safety, writes Emilio Ferrara.
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@edzitron.com just listening to your podcast and an ad for michael rapaport's podcast was played before everything. i'd check that out
👀 ECPMF is #hiring a Digital Comms Intern to support content for our social media channels, websites and newsletters while gaining practical experience in communications for a European press freedom org. Apply by 22 June: ecpmf-sce-mbh.jobs.personio.de/job/2648080?...
looks like Objection AI has put the coming soon page on. Wonder what happened...
Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was abused, starved, tortured, and humiliated in Russian captivity. Then they fractured her skull and stabbed her to death.
Ukrainian police reports journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna suffered skull fracture in Russian captivity
Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity, suffered a fractured occipital bone while being held at a pretrial detention center in…
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Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
Mpls Emergency Mgmt Director Sayre: "I can't underscore enough how much Operation Metro Surge is impacting our city. Families with loved ones detained and those who are afraid to be in public lneed help accessing most basic necessities, like food, housing, rides to school. Businesses are shuttering"
His brother's a billionaire, so he's practically slumming it at "only" $600k. Common Sense Media should stick to their useful guides for parents, and stay out of trying to push regulations they don't understand.
Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 9mo agoapropos of nothing, just a reminder that the CEO of Common Sense Media, one of the main organizations pushing dangerous censorship bills like KOSA and the repeal of Section 230, makes more than $600,000 per year. source: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
Made by humans: How Pluribus Warns Against AI’s Threat to Human Individuality open.substack.com/pub/lucstein...
Made by humans: How Pluribus Warns Against AI’s Threat to Human Individuality
Reading Apple’s Pluribus as a Parable of Our AI Moment
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Big news!
Media Diversity Institute@mediadiversity.bsky.social · last yr.Are you local media or a freelancer in Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland or Serbia? 🇧🇪🇵🇱🇱🇹🇷🇸🇭🇺 LIMENet is offering €16–20K grants plus mentoring to strengthen independent local journalism. ✍️Apply by 25 August: 🔗 app.media4change.co/grant/local-... #LIMENet
@yungonion.bsky.social from @mediadiversity.bsky.social spoke at #WPFD2025 on two key panels: one on uplifting migrant voices through the MigraVoice platform, and another on rising threats to media freedom in Georgia, including FARA. Press freedom needs action now. #MediaFreedom #MigraVoice #Georgia
Miazia Schueler says "Knowing what I know, if I was to take a neutral stance on tech, I would be complicit" and urges us to further #techliteracy MDI session Open season on the oppressed: can diversity survive? @journalismfestival.com #perugia
#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.
The Staffers Helping Elon Musk Dismantle and Downsize the U.S. Government, One Agency at a Time
Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the…
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masculine energy = less protection for your flock
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2y agoA memo at Meta states privacy teams will have less authority to delay products and previous privacy decisions will be reviewed, as some are overly "risk-averse" (Kalley Huang/The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
One reason I have so much respect for Rachel is because she is driven by a real understanding of democracy I’ve heard Rachel talk about her time in Tunisia watching a democracy collapse in real-time before. This is something that shapes her journalism and one of the reasons she’s so fearless
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2y agoThe United States, to hear some tell it, is currently experiencing a “plutocratic coup.” Its democracy is in decline, reports have warned. In light of that, I’d like to share a slightly personal story -- one that keeps me up at night: youtu.be/VDccQaYgwNk
Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions. "About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...
Federal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach - DCMediaGroup
Nearly 100 Federal employees took part in a protest now into its second day of a takeover by Elon Musk surrogates of the high administration arm of the Federal government. Photo: DCMediaGroup Washingt...
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
"If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires." #FreeOurFeeds custodians @eli.bsky.social & Deepti Doshi explain why enriching & protecting the AT protocol is essential for a billionaire-proof web: www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.
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pretty gross. xitter's notifications screen gives me andrew tate (whom i have never followed) updates. haven't checked it in a long time but it's time to nuke the account
Who thinks there'll be 50% less journalism jobs in 10 years?
As someone who has a PhD in studying misinformation, I can professionally say that this is a fucking stupid idea.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 2y agoSoon-Shiong saying "the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story" is among the scariest and stupidest things I've ever heard. There'd be an alternative version of each story written by AI in Trumpese??? www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/m...
