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DATA VAMPIRES is a four-part series digging into the costs of hyperscale data centers and why tech billionaires are so desperate to build more.

In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/241_...

Signal alone is not enough. If you are an activist, you need a complete self-defense against surveillance. @eff.org has been maintaining these resources for years: ssd.eff.org

Delighted to share the 2nd of 3 faculty openings in the Dept. of Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado Boulder. If you're focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA, please consider applying. It's a tenured or tenure-track OPEN-RANK search. Deadline: Dec. 10 |
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil’s Online Extremist Landscape - GNET

Published today, my insight for GNET analyzing the alarming growth of Neo-Nazi ideology among Brazilian youth :)

gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/t...

Lesley Stahl reports on the growing market of “humans in the loop” — workers around the world who help train AI for big American tech companies. They say they face poor working conditions, low pay, and undertreated psychological trauma. Sunday on 60 ⏱️

An Update on Research Data Management at the Institute After a fruitful open access week (4 events with Catherine Brendow, including a discussion with department heads about a future policy), it is time for us to focus back on Open Data and Research Data Management. Here is what's happening at the Institute around research data support, mostly through the collaboration of the Library and the Tech Hub.

An Update on Research Data Management at the Institute

After a fruitful open access week (4 events with Catherine Brendow, including a discussion with department heads about a future policy), it is time for us to focus back on Open Data and Research Data Management. Here is what's happening at the…

Tracking Elon Musk’s Political Activities | TechPolicy.Press A roundup of articles and information related to the billionaire owner of X's political activities since his endorsement of former President Donald Trump.

Musk Tracker:

• Elon Musk Is Positioning X Behind the New Trump Presidency (NYT)
• Elon Musk Net Worth Tops $300 Billion (Bloomberg)
• How tech leaders tied to Musk hope to steer the Trump administration (Washington Post)
• Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky (Axios)

Of course this would happen

Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home...

New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action www.404media.co/someone-put-...

This is such a good reminder that science, its concepts and tools are all situated

Yes, but as I explained to students in my Phil of Science class, “truth” and “objectivity” in Journalism are NOT the same things as “truth” and “objectivity” in the sciences (both of which are Not Good) and the cultural conflation of the two is very dangerous.

Study: AI could lead to inconsistent outcomes in home surveillance MIT researchers find large language models apply different norms when deciding whether similar home surveillance videos show a crime and whether the police should be called. The models often recommend...

“…researchers found some models flagged videos for police intervention relatively less often in neighborhoods where most residents are white, controlling for other factors. This shows that the models exhibit inherent biases influenced by the demographics of a neighborhood the researchers say.”

Quantifying extremism: A data-driven analysis of UK riot-related far-right Telegram networks This Dispatch demonstrates how far-right extremists leveraged a range of mainstream and smaller ‘alt-tech’ social media platforms in the wake of the Southport attack to grow their following, promote h...

Following the most significant far-right violence in the UK in a decade, sparked by the Southport attack, new research from ISD and CASM Technology provides a quantitative analysis of the role of far-right Telegram channels in mobilising riots. www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...

Tal trabalho heteromado é muitas vezes tornado invisível para a não devida compensação dos seus trabalhadores, como é o caso do Amazon MTurk, ou por ações que beiram a ilegalidade como é o caso da Infraestrutura Humana da Desinformação. +

5 ferramentas show de bola para usar com o Bluesky Dá pra fazer muita coisa legal quando plataformas digitais permitem que outras aplicações acessem seus dados

Eu e o @alexandreorrico.nucleo.jor.br bolamos uma lista de 5 ferramentas imperdíveis pra usar com o Bluesky, coisas que nós mesmos utilizamos no dia a dia.

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Conjuring algorithms: Understanding the tech industry as stage magicians - Peter Nagy, Gina Neff, 2024 In this article, we introduce the term “conjuration of algorithms” to describe how the tech industry uses the language of magic to shape people’s perceptions of...

"By linking [magic and technology] deliberately in how they talk about algorithms, the tech industry tries to manipulate people’s perceptions of algorithms in order to deflect attention and calls for accountability away from their own already immense power." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW WORK ALERT! We (me + Isadora Cruxên, Angeles Martinez Cuba, Helena Suárez Val, Amelia Dogan & Natasha Ansari) are thrilled to announce the publication of our paper 📢📢Geographies of missing data: Spatializing counterdata production against feminicide 📢📢 dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263... 1/11

Pensando aqui

Dá pra sonhar com Vini Jr ganhando a Bola de Ouro e o filme da Fernanda Torres (ou ela) ganhando um Oscar.

Aí é ponto facultativo no país

Bandeira amarrada no corpo e “eeeeeeeuuuu sou brasileirooooooo”

The thesis defences are open to the public

Muito louco escrever isso, mas na quarta-feira eu defendo minha tese de doutorado.

O nome dela é “Prefiguration and GIS Interfaces: affects, politics and decision-making”. Se você estiver interessado, a defesa vai ser híbrida e pode ser acompanhada pelo link disponível no endereço abaixo.

Um conto cautelar: A Democracia Brasileira, distúrbios antidemocráticos e as plataformas da Meta O pesquisador Pedro Maia, utilizando o Influence Industry Explorer como base, discute as conexões entre as plataformas da Meta, as eleições presidenciais brasileiras de 2018 e 2022 e a democracia no B...

A democracia brasileira foi atacada em 8 de janeiro de 2023. No meu novo artigo para Tactical Tech, exploro como as plataformas da Meta desempenharam um papel crucial na disseminação de desinformação antes, durante e depois das eleições de 2022. Leia mais:

A Cautionary Tale: Brazilian democracy, anti-democratic riots, and Meta’s platforms Researcher Pedro Maia relates, using the Influence Industry Explorer as a foundation, the role of Meta platforms during the 2018 and 2022 presidential elections in Brazil.

Proud to share my latest article for Tactical Tech on January 8, the Brazilian democracy and the anti-democratic riots. In this piece, I investigate how Meta's platforms contributed to the spread of misinformation leading up to these events and during the 2022 elections