Gee, Open Institute of Technology was going to force me to use TurnItIn on student assignments, and I had to quit.

Spread the word: OPIT is scum.
medium.com/@kim_crawley...

And ko-fi.com/kimatstopgenai

Anthropic Code Crisis Creates Copyright Contradiction For publishers, authors, and other creators, the schadenfreude might feel well-earned, writes James Ball. But is it justified?

Anthropic is using copyright claims to try to stop its leaked code being used to train rival AI models.

Critics are noticing something of an irony, given Anthropic use of pirated materials to train its models.

I've dug into the whole thing for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Opportunisti che fiutano l’aria per continuare ad essere visibili. In ogni caso, c’è una logica tra le due posizioni: sono entrambe tecno-deterministe. Una in positivo, e l’ultima in negativo. Entrambi visioni ingenue. E sono gli tessi che criticano i corsi di scienze della comunicazione.

2010: date a Internet il Nobel per la Pace!

2026: togliete i social ai nostri bambini non possiamo più sbagliare!

🤔

L'uomo che porta la pace. Eterna.

Women Are Falling in Love With A.I. It’s a Problem for Beijing.

"China’s ruling Communist Party wants young women to prioritize getting married and having babies. Instead, many of them are finding romance with chatbots"

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...

The machines that will predict the criminals of the future The Ministry of Justice will deploy machine learning to identify at-risk children for early intervention and to help prevent them falling into a life of crime

History repeats itself "A programme launched by the Ministry of Justice last week will aim to develop a system that can alert schools, health staff, police and other professionals to individuals most likely to be drawn into crime." #ryogens #preemptivesurveillance www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

But the article also says that democrats are “largely unaffected” so maybe it is the same old story of a kind of (media) power that works only on audiences ideologically prepared to receive a conservative message?

Pure evil

Looking for alternatives to Gmail and G-Drive?

Two years ago I switched to #Posteo for emails and to @nextcloud.bsky.social for personal online storage (via #Hetzner).

It costs me the equivalent of a good flat white per month & gives me peace of mind that my personal data isn't scraped or abused.

Take away Spanish and there's no San Francisco or Los Angeles or Sacramento, no San Diego or Santa Rosa or Sierra nevada and actually there's no California, because that's a Spanish word...

Bello, ma forse questo si spiega con il fatto che il modello di business di Anthropic per l’80% é b2b, quindi hanno meno bisogno di monetizzare da utenti comuni che non sono la loro base di clienti maggioritaria.

The role of #GenAI in children’s development is ambivalent, and their opportunities (scaffolding learning) can easily turn into harmful consequences (deskilling and disempowerment). Read more here researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13... #SaferInternetDay

Perché Claude Cowork “terrorizza” i mercati? C'è chi teme l’apocalisse del lavoro Il lancio di nuovi strumenti di Anthropic in grado sostituire i software specialistici ha fatto crollare le borse in India (e non solo): il timore è che numerose professioni spariranno

Perché 11 plugin di Claude hanno fatto crollare le azioni IT (soprattutto in India) e perché l’apocalisse del lavoro ventilata dallo stesso CEO di Anthropic potrebbe essere iniziata – e a pagare il conto saranno soprattutto i lavoratori junior www.wired.it/article/clau...

il 20% di bambin* e adolescenti italian* chiede consigli all'AI su salute e forma fisica ma non si fida al 100%. questi e altri risultati nel report di @eukidsonline.bsky.social researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...

Why fear still sells research on screen time - Impact of Social Sciences Regardless of quality research that deploys fear based framing drives public debate on screen time for children.

"A balanced reading of existing research shows the impact of digital media depends on what children are watching, when, and why." but the debate on #ScreenTime is dominated by 6 papers that sell fears blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social.

To get more data, Anthropic:
* "destructively scanned" millions of books
* downloaded the shadow library LibGen
* hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Curioso di leggerlo!

Israel’s border tech is a tool for ethnic cleansing In the West Bank, we are the unwilling test subjects for digital advancements in methods of population control

"Israel uses technology as a tool for ethnic cleansing, designed to drive us out of Hebron’s city centre and make way for the Israeli settlement expansion taking place in breach of international law."

www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-bo...

Algorithmic resistance da parte degli adolescenti! Curioso che usino le stesse tattiche usate dai rider per aggirare il riconoscimento facciale. Dovremmo fare un seminario insieme!

Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless' Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s is two months old, but teenagers say they have found ways around it.

"Probably around 10 per cent of them actually have been banned, and half of that 10 per cent has been unbanned by just using basically the same thing that I did: use other people's faces, use their driver's licence. #SocialMediaBan www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Trump Super PAC Raised More Than $100 Million in Recent Months

Why I refuse using chatGPT, latest short answer -> Trump Super PAC:
"The biggest donations were $12.5 million each from Greg Brockman, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, and his wife" "www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/us/politics/t...

@emilianotrere.com @tbonini.bsky.social I really enjoyed your book and have it on my syllabus. Thanks for your work. I wrote a review of it for Critical AI:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Thanks @gleemie.bsky.social for this review. Finding out that you enjoyed our book means a lot to us, we loved all your work!

Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control

Given what is happening with X, it's a good time to propose for anyone interested to read the "Algorithms of Resistance" by T. Bonini & E. Trere. It offers ways to challenge the logic of the platform, and there is a lot of research backing up the arguments of the book. It's open access too!

Tell us how it was the reading! Thanks!

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

"AI it’s not going to replace everyone. But if we think about AI, language models are the industrial production of language. It’s the same way that the factories in the 1800s were the industrial production of cloth. And I think we get a much clearer picture of what is going on." (Hagen Blix)

This year’s Nancy Baym Book Award committee would also like to give an Honourable Mention to @tbonini.bsky.social and @emilianotrere.com for Algorithms of Resistance: The
Everyday Fight Against Platform Power (@mitpress.bsky.social).

Congratulations also!