Digital Geographies of Hope: The Transformative Power of Media. Special issue of Media and Communication edited by Cornelia Brantner, Kaarina Nikunen and Georgia Aitaki. doi.org/10.17645/mac...
Palantir ad in Palm Springs airport
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe’s approach to water management is helping to integrate sovereignty and conservation into water policy in Montana.
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
If you’re looking for a short film that tackles AI, computer vision, data and power, Alan Warburton’s three-and-a-half minute “Image Empire” is a brilliant scratch for that itch. If you’re teaching critical AI, it’s ideal. Has a very accessible paper attached too. alanwarburton.co.uk/image-empire
It’s kind of crazy that the takeaway from the Anthropic-Pentagon fallout isn’t about how US military and intelligence contractors are undeniably manufacturing an illegal surveillance state enforced by autonomous drones.
I'm creating a series of short form videos about how language models work technically. The goal is to be something in between "you know it's next token prediction" and "now you've taken a machine learning class." I'd love your thoughts so here are the first few! 🧵
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Countdown to launch. T-minus 10 days (but your book will arrive before that). #BookSky
Unfortunately, this book is all too relevant in our current political moment. Help spread the word.
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Lawfare's paper series marking the 40th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act is now live.
You can find all 6 papers here: www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripheries"
Reflecting on this year’s #REAIM Summit, Zena Assaad argues that there is critical misalignment between international initiatives, Silicon Valley’s narratives around AI capabilities, and the realities of AI use in ongoing conflicts:
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Spain to Trump: "Spain opposes this catastrophe … governments are there to improve people's lives … not to worsen them .. it is absolutely unacceptable that leaders who are incapable of fulfilling this task use the smokescreen of war to mask their incompetence $ line the pockets of a select few."
This is how screwed up everything is. The DOD shot down a CBP drone which cause the FAA to shut down the airspace around El Paso. We have stupid idiots in all levels of all agencies thanks to this Regime.
If we go to war, GOD help us.
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It cannot be overstated that nothing on the ground here in Minneapolis has changed it has gotten worse and continues to get worse and our leadership is lying about it all.
It’s absolutely destabilizing watching the elite class moves back to business as usual as the citizens attempt to maintain
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Its a great season to study disinformation, despite what the US federal government says. 😆
Foreign intelligence agencies are reacting covertly to the information in the Epstein files becoming public even if the USIC isn’t.
A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
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A memo just went out to employees at two of Musk's companies: SpaceX has acquired xAI.
The NSF graduate research fellowship program (GRFP) is one of those early career "elevators" that can help exceptional young researchers become extraordinarily successful senior scientists.
Many of them are being returned without review in unprecedented fashion.
Don't be a casualty! Do this!
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Statement from Maricopa County Schools Superintendant Sheila Boggs referencing the First Amendment to defy the First Amendment. Constitutional crises are serious safety concerns, Sheila, as is 🧊🧊🧊.
ICE isn’t just brutal. It’s also big business. From 2008 to 2021 ICE spent *$1.2 billion* on geolocation tracking, $561M on data analysis, $252M on government databases, and $97M on data brokers. Most of that went to companies who will lobby for this system to stay in place.
SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
The full user guide here:
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
The EU says it ordered X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)
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New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“When the U.S. has faced resistance or defeat elsewhere in the world, they come back 'home' to the Western Hemisphere. They use Latin America as an imperial laboratory."
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Jump on over to the fediverse to cast your ballot!
Join the conversation TODAY at 3PM PT | 6PM ET to break down the data center proposals coming to the Southwest and strategies for resisting them, led by local grassroots organizers.
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Me before becoming a CS professor: "with tightly scoped and heavily regulated use-cases, it's worth developing an extremely limited form of AI"
Me after 3 years as a CS professor: "we have to destroy all AI of any and every kind immediately and ban any future development work of any kind"
