Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.

I think I remember this Black Mirror episode

Can't we just have anything nice without turning it into a data hoarding surveillance kraken for profit?

Sie sagen es offen. Alles liegt auf dem Tisch. Niemand tut mehr so, als ginge es um etwas anderes. #StopPalantir

This feels like MORE WORK FOR MOTHER by Ruth Schwartz Cowan, which explored the irony that many of the technical advances in housework and the kitchen did nothing to ease the burden on women but instead increased it.

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

Does anyone know where I can stream or watch the 2010 Weizenbaum doc "Plug and Pray"? I can't seem to figure out where to find it.

Roses are red Violets are blue You can resist AI hype Luddites were sexy, too

In a not so surprising turn of events, we are back to women being basically witches again.

der bekannteste deutsche forscher, der viel peer review publizierenden ki-forscher:innen hierzulande komplett unbekannt war

Can't wait for the near future where I will be misinformed by a customer service chatbot, misdiagnosed by a medical chatbot, misidentified by a face-recognition system and misrepresented by a legal chatbot.

*sighs deeply* She can't teach an AI model to have morals, only to imitate her understanding of what having morals means. Its a pattern imitation machine, not an intelligent machine, people!

This.

By no means do I have a musical ear but I can't believe how bad the sound quality at Spotify is. Its basically just very flat. I switched to Deezer two months ago and its a whole new (better) world of listening to music.

There will be a backlash eventually but I fear for the students in school and university right now who are basically lab rats for AI curriculums created by tech companies and do not realize they get robbed of a proper education.

Well, sound like a marvelous idea where nothing can go wrong! The city and its inhabitants will definitly profit from this surely well-informed AI push with improved infrastructures for health, eduation and business because who better to trust with sensitive data than Big Tech?

I would describe my PhD writing process as learning while writing while also somehow managing to take one step forward and two steps back with each new written section.

Hallelujah! Die EU-Kommission leitet endlich (!) ein Verfahren gegen X wegen Grok ein.

Littel Tip: There is this little thing called a hard disk drive where you can save all your digital files. It also comes in a portable version. And there is an ancient practice know as "back-up", which is specifically designed to avoid mishaps like this.

Ruhezone im ICE der Deutschen Bahn funktioniert heute nach dem Motto "Nur wer möchte", wer stattdessen lieber das ganze Abteil an einem einen Facetime Anruf mit seinem Bro teilhaben lassen will, darf das natürlich gerne.

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

No shit, ey - Smart Brillen sind dermassen surveillance coded, dass von Anfang an klar war, wofür Nutzer*innen diese Gadgets nutzen werden: Um anderen Personen ohne Consent zu filmen.

Pure trolling at this point.

Oh hell no.

I feel this. A lot. Like A LOT.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Home Depot is running a surveil Santa ad that also has Santa dropping off more surveillance gear for the family, in this world there is only surveillance

If you are planning to attend the stsing conference in Bochum next March, may I point you to our case? We happily accept attendants and are looking for a fun, interdisciplinary crowd eager to discuss all things more-than-human, anthropocene and toolkits. Come and join us! stsing.org/before-ruins...

If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:

The relationship of eugenics and AI goes waaaay back. @timnitgebru.bsky.social did an execellent talk about this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT...

What hell feels like: Transcriping interviews and hearing your own, slowed down voice on repeat for hours. Have my spoken words any meaning? Can I not form at least one coherent sentence when talking to other people?

Most important lesson in the age of AI: "how do you develop the skills of discernment? This one is very very important: do not let the AI do the work for you before you have learned how to do it yourself. "

Große Empfehlung an alle, die sich eine Übersicht über digitale Technologien und deren komplexe und teilweise desaströse geopolitische, ökologische und kapitalistische entanglements im Anthropozän verschaffen möchten.

When STEM discovers sociology but instead of giving credit, sells this as new research. I see this happening a lot in STEM and it makes me furious.

Ever wondered what " your data is stored in the cloud" means? Contrary to real clouds, the digital cloud is based in massive noisy loud data centers and far less celestial - some would even describe living next to them as hell. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Content creation has become so cynical that homeless people are now pawns for allegedly "random acts of kindness". These content creators are very aware of their privacy but do not care for the privacy of a vulnerable and marginalized community.

I love stumbling on resources like that, because teaching is hard and inspiration is always welcome. I am especially drawn to the unit about the iconic "More Work for Mother" from Ruth Schwartz Cowan.

Like all AI companions before, this too an overhyped (and overprices) gadget which will probably land forgotten in a cupboard somewhere, not a companion with whom you'll form a longlasting relationship for years to come.

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Starlink seems just another in a long line of Elon Musk projects which seemed to good to be true: 1-2 satellites are falling back to Earth each day which raises questions how this affects the delicate future of near Earth space. earthsky.org/human-world/...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

My paper on pioneering communitites, feminist speculation & Creative AI is available in the ACM library. This paper is part of my PhD and I am so happy that it got accepted & published (doing a PhD is hard as many of you probably know) and I hope it finds its audience 🤗 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Damit Inklusion kein Fremdwort bleibt, müssen wir uns für den Erhalt einer emanzipatorischen, kritischen und diversen Forschungslandschaft einsetzen: weact.campact.de/petitions/di...

Consider also how few professional women feel they have any safe margin to allow for mistakes or mediocrity in their work (both risks of AI-generated output). Especially in male-dominated fields, women can’t afford to use a machine that shits the bed even 5% of the time

I did a thing and talked about my PhD research on pioneering communities and feminist speculations.

I'll be in Siegen next week for the Communities &Technologies conference to present my paper on Pioneering communities, feminist speculation and Creative AI. So, if you wanna discuss "doing speculation", Donna Haraway or just talk about making stuff, let me know!