Are you tired of answering “is this generalizable” questions when you present research on India/ specific states? I suggest try this 👇

✨I deeply appreciate katie mackinnon (@ktmac)’s decision to join our #dataloss team. Her extensive expertise in web archives, and her mindful work on the ethics of the web archival encounters makes her an invaluable addition. I can't wait to see where her work takes us! European Research Council (ERC)

The politics of deletion and dispossession in the age of genAI #dataloss

Shoving a confidently wrong chatbot trained on Reddit into a service marketed for decades as a portal to the world’s knowledge is reckless and legitimately dangerous.

Agreed ! Was such a wonderful experience to have Alex Campolo unpack this and his new work last month in our Critical Data and AI lecture series. Just brilliant stuff from him and Dr. Katia Schwerzmann ✨

The CUDA moat is central to Nvidia's dominance, not only because of its centrality to the stack but also because it creates a chokepoint in expertise. Jai Vipra and I wrote about it - and outline policy fixes - in this report: ainowinstitute.org/publication/po…

I forgot about the secret message I left in my website about responding like the Swedish Chef. I did it 9 months ago. I've never been able to trigger it before. Thank you Perplexity AI.

AI workers in Kenya are organizing on multiple fronts, calling attention to how U.S. tech companies like ScaleAI & Meta are undermining labor laws.

Read their letter calling on President Biden to fight for improved pay, conditions, and safety on the job: foxglove.org.uk/open-letter-to…

Seems the origin of the Google AI’s conclusion was an 11 year old Reddit post by the eminent scholar, fucksmith.

The tragic irony of this appalling act won’t be lost on the readers of my #Burningthebooks

🤖 The power of the tech industry lies in infrastructure:

AWS is investing almost 16M EUR in Aragón (Spain) to expand 3 data centres and build a fourth one. At the same time, they say that these projects will help address water scarcity in the region.

elpais.com/economia/2024-…

Want to learn more about my new book Counting Feminicide from The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social ? Listen here!

Here's a provocation for today. . . #celebrity #politics #AI Who has the power to defend their own identity against global capitalism in the digital age? Scarlett Johansson seems to have learned from that Sodastream problem. Annika Rosamond Dan Brockington nanna thylstrup (nannathylstrup.bsky.social)

no one:

academia's reimbursements:

'how's the writing going?'

'Oh it's going'

Move over, fresh young energy incoming!

“Also in touch with the board [of trustees at Columbia],” Deutch wrote to the chat group. “So NYPD can return.”

Intolerable meddling with our campus: Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show — here:

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if you wear T-shirts, you're wearing what used to be women's clothing because the T-shirt started as the top half of the union suit, which was originally women's underwear worn by first-wave feminists who wanted more uncomfortable undergarments

This is also my sense: the politics of data dispossession include experiences of having data taken away even if it also remains “in place”, eg through model training. Jodi Byrd et al’s work on the affective economies of dispossession offers one perspective epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewconten…

“Nina Smith mener at Finansministeriets regnemodeller, som danner grundlaget for alle politiske beslutninger, ikke har fulgt med udviklingen i økonomisk teori.
I dag indregner modellerne positive effekter på arbejdsudbuddet af skattesænkninger fordi folk arbejder mere - men der