This article contains 0 mentions of 100+ data centres being built across the UK and 2 mentions of shorter showers. The doctrine of personal responsibility <<<< 20% of treated water lost thru' old pipes + more via unshaded reservoirs.
www.dumptheguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
⚠️ Freedom of Information (FOI) requests reveal that the UK passport and immigration databases have been used by police for mass facial recognition searches WITHOUT a clear legal basis, or the public or parliament’s knowledge.
pvcy.org/TelegraphFRT
I'm genuinely gobsmacked that the Home Office think this is a good idea. How do they envisage "training" technology to verify the age of a young person from (say) Darfur or Iraqi Kurdistan? They might as well get the calipers out and start doing phrenology
Workshop des DFG-Projektes „ArtViWo“ 18.7.2025 | Deutsches Museum München | Seminarraum Forschung 1 „Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the digital Transformation” 09:00 – 09:15 Ulf Hashagen (DM) Opening 1. Histories of the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision 09:15 – 09:45 Dinah Pfau (DM) “ArtViWo” – Vision between Physiology and Communications Engineering 09:45 – 10:15 Aaron Gluck-Thaler (Harvard) Learning from Particulars: Mid-Twentieth Century Data Processing Ambitions at the National Security Agency 10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break 10:45 – 11:15 Rudi Seising (DM) Perception and Perceptron – Pattern Recognition in the 1950s 11:15 – 11:45 Sebastian Kawanami-Breu (HU B) Retinas and Receivers: Modeling Vision at the NHK Labs, 1960-1980 11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break 2. Computing Landscapes: Environmental History of the digital Transformation 12:00 – 12:30 Tjark Nentwig (TU B) Computing Landscapes – Sketching an Information History of the Environment 12:30 – 13:00 Kathrin Tschida (TU B) Computerlandschaften: A Student-led Project on the Environmental History of Computing 13:00 – 14:15 Lunch 3. Sociological Perspectives the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision 14:15 – 14:45 Judith Neumer und Michael Heinlein (ISF) “ArtViWo” – The Automation of the Clinical Gaze? Artificial Intelligence in the Visual Practice of Colonoscopy 14:45 – 15:15 Assia Wirth (CREST) Searching for facial recognition: uncovering the making of sensitive algorithmic technologies. 15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break 15:45 – 16:15 Valentin Goujon (Sciences Po) Scalability, temporality and (mis)alignment: governing Artificial (General) Intelligence through benchmark datasets 16:15 – 16:45 Liliia Zemnukhova (DM) Air in the Room: How Quality Assurance Moves Digitalization 4. Artificial Intelligence, Vision and digital Transformation: Summary and Outlook 16:45 – 17:15 Dinah Pfau (DM) Summary, Outlook and Discussion
Join us on Friday: Workshop on “Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the #DigitalTransformation”.
⏰ July 18, 2025, 9 a.m.
🏛️ Deutsches Museum Munich
👉 Organized by DFG-project #ArtViWO (@dfg.de)
#HistSci #HistTech #HistAI #STS
@vgoujon.bsky.social @assiaw.bsky.social
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
I do not like AI in Slack
I do not like AI on Mac
I do not like AI in Zoom
I don’t want AI in my room
I do not want ChatGPT —
please stop, AI, and leave me be!
I don’t want AI here, or there;
I don’t want AI anywhere!
(… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)
“Just last week, researchers at Apple released a damning paper that threw cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of the latest and most powerful LLMs, arguing they "face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities."
Womp womp.
🇪🇺🇫🇷 La France et l’Europe financent, sans le dire, l’industrie militaire israélienne
Enquête de @disclaimer.bsky.social @reportersunited.gr et @investigate-europe.eu sur un financement public pour développer des drones armés qui alimente la machine de guerre d’Israël
disclose.ngo/fr/article/l...
Le gouvernement a supprimé ses publications.
Mais la vidéo a été sauvegardée.
La voici.
🗓️ Join us next Tuesday for a talk by Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Dieuwertje Luitse on "The Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation: From Present to Future"!
A presentation followed by a collective discussion with @assiaw.bsky.social, @theolenoir.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social and myself ⤵️
The painting titled Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. The painting portrays the moment that Judith beheads Holofernes, mid act of sawing his head off with a sword. Judith grasps his hair as he lies face up on his bed and cuts the sword across to behead him while blood spurts out of his neck. Another woman helps hold him down as he attempts to resist.
Some guy on Twitter made a point of announcing that thousands upon thousands of men are descended from rapists, and we women "aren't going to like it when [they] stop asking nicely."
Which, you know, surprise surprise brother, but you're also not going to like it when we stop refusing nicely.
>would kill the AI industry
imagine thinking that this would be a bad thing.
Vous connaissiez Virginia Eubanks pour son enquête sur les technologies de l'État social américain. On en discute sur @aoc-media.bsky.social, avec l’actualité américaine et un témoignage sur son expérience de proche aidante et sur comment le soin pourrait être réinventé.
🗓️ The next and final 2024-2025 session of the FlashLab seminar will feature Dieuwertje Luitse (@dluitse.bsky.social), PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam, with a talk on the technopolitical production of "otherness" through ML modelling and evaluation in medecine!
Abstract and more info ⤵️
my latest for the guardian on love in a time of surveillance - inspired by some horrifying findings from recent eSafety Commissioner research (e.g. nearly 1 in 5 young people believe it’s okay to track their partner whenever they want)
La séance se tiendra à 16h en ligne ! Au plaisir de vous y retrouver nombreux.ses 👇
A good rule of thumb: If a surveillance technology exists, it will eventually be weaponized and abused.
Et retrouvez toutes les infos et le programme du Flashlab sur le site du séminaire : flashlabinfo.wordpress.com
Le lien de connexion et les informations pratiques de chaque séance sont diffusées sur la liste mail du séminaire, à laquelle nous vous invitons à vous abonner : flashlab@framalistes.org
“Le flashlab” écrit en bleu sur fond jaune
Nouvelle séance du #Flashlab organisée le 15/05 (16h-17h30) avec une présentation de Laurène Tetu, doctorante en #SIC à l'Université de La Réunion : “Questionner l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle en contexte postcolonial pour combler un manque de source et changer de paradigme”
Former Death Star employees condemn new Emperor's plan to use Death Star for death star stuff
"Texte qui reprend la mise en page et charte graphique de l'ouvrage "face à l'obscurantisme woke. Ici le texte indique "Le bureau appelle au boycott des PUF. Face à la fascisation de l'ESR"
❗ PLOUF - Avis de Parution ❗
On l’avait (vraiment pas) rêvé, iels l’ont fait ! Aujourd’hui, mercredi 30 avril 2025, sort l’ouvrage collectif 'Face à l’obscurantisme woke' aux Presses "Universitaires" de France. 🧵
Generative AI ate my job: Venezuela provided the tech industry with low-paid gig-work annotating data but generative AI now does many of these low-skilled tasks depriving migrants of work and income.
restofworld.org/2025/generat...
"our aim is to accelerate the development and adoption of AI" every government, university, and business alike.... my question is WHY?
🗓️ Le séminaire FlashLab ouvre son nouveau cycle trimestriel, dédié aux enjeux contemporains de l'IA, avec une présentation d'Hélène Herman (CEMS, @ehess.fr) : au menu, l'implémentation de la notion de confiance au sein des normes européennes portées par le CEN-CENELEC.
Titre et résumé ci-dessous ⤵️
📢 Appel à témoignages 📢
Notre groupe de travail “Précarité” lance son enquête auprès des enseignant·es vacataires de l'ESR exerçant en France !
Le questionnaire prend 5 mins à remplir et sera ouvert jusqu'au 31.07.25. Il est accessible ici 👉 framaforms.org/enquete-sur-...
Pour plus d'infos 👇
Vote demain jeudi à partir de 15h — fera à @arnaudsaint-martin.bsky.social
Et d'ici là, on invite les députés à aller voter contre le maintien du @hceres.bsky.social !
En Français, "cloud souverain" ça se dit "Microsoft" apparemment...
