“These corporations steal our work to create sound-alikes, effectively forcing us into a ‘training’ role to which we never consented,” the Music Workers Alliance said in a statement. plus.flux.community/p/eddie-dalt...

“Even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility & repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their conviction that they were right. Despite distorting judgment, sycophantic models were trusted & preferred.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Companies have a profit motive to see that you return again and again to their AI companions. The chatbots are designed to be really good at forming a bond with the user.” news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Artist whose work was stolen for AI content has her works taken down by #youtube for copyright violations against the plagiarised versions, so no longer can make money off the source music she produced. #aiethics #digitalGovernance #platformRegulation #dsa #llm #genai cc @jeffdean.bsky.social

U of Minnesota has named a new School of Nursing scholarship after Alex Pretti.

host a shrine in your neighborhood!! shrine.computer/stewards

Por que a criptografia é uma questão feminista? irisbh.com.br/por-que-a-cr...

O TCU e a agenda de gênero www.geledes.org.br/o-tcu-e-a-ag...

National Nurses United has distinguished itself as one of the earliest and most forceful labor voices against the adoption of artificial intelligence in their members’ workplaces, Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo reports.

Que bolo no pote, que nada. Pao de queijo, meu filho.

New from UNESCO: the 2026 World Water Development Report argues that stronger water governance depends on gender equality. That means not only access, but also leadership, data, and policy that reflect lived realities. https://ow.ly/ioA450YCpZ6

The EU’s plan to delay key provisions of its AI Act could leave some high-risk AI systems permanently unregulated, reports Joana Soares. While nudifier apps face a ban, sector-specific carve-outs and postponed deadlines raise concerns about weakened oversight.

In March we covered the UN Statistical Commission (#UN57SC) and #SXSW. For April our attention with be on #TED and #SkollWF. Be sure to check out our full list of the most important conferences for those interested in #Data and the #SDGs: https://ow.ly/lh8b50YCoMm

just a reminder that the UN tech wing, ITU, has mistreated me and censored my talk when I tried to point out the irony of AI for good when big tech is the very force powering war and genocide bsky.app/profile/abeb...

Yes it is, my contracts specify humans have to do cover art, editing, translation, etc. I will note that to date I have had no real resistance to these contract points by my publishers. So, really, if these points are not in your contract, ask for them (or have your agent ask for them).

over at @justsecurity.org there are two important international law statements that should get wide circulation & coverage. the first i signed & reflects widespread expert condemnation of trump/hegseth's war/conduct of it

Or, to put it more bluntly: "Rich people could pay less in taxes if only women would do more unpaid labor at home."

SLS lançado! Artemis 2 começou 🚀 🌘

Lift off

What @tjheffernan.bsky.social goes through in her talk is something that's been at the edge of my thoughts for a while, although of course she's fully fleshed it out and more: It's so shocking that certain people don't understand metaphor anymore. No wonder they can't understand scientific models!!

Today is #AprilFoolsDay. Hoaxes & satires are everywhere. Check every story that seems “too good to be true” before you share it as fact. Read About pages. See if authors exist. Learn when a website was created, & by whom. Find other sources to corroborate the claim. Then, do this every day!

“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”

This is tomorrow, and I am super-psyched 🤗

SAÚDE E NUTRIÇÃO | Enquanto o dia da conscientização sobre hábitos alimentares saudáveis é celebrado, relatório da ONU afirma que 28,5 milhões de brasileiros vivem em situação de insegurança alimentar. Saiba mais:

Sometimes the mail brings the loveliest of gifts! #PROPHECY is here! In the flesh! And it's beautiful! (OK, I'm biased, but still). #authors #books

Join us! Algorithmic predictions are making decisions about you right now. And no one is notifying you. We will talk about what we can learn about the history of prediction, the philosophy of prediction (what are predictions in the first place?!), and how to build the future we want to inhabit.

From time to time, I will use an LLM for answer generation, but every time I will verify its results. I also presume that search will always be biased and inadequate, and I act accordingly. Do not surrender your humanity to tools that are architecturally and demonstrably unreliable narrators.

AI slop giving rise to AI sludge www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A U.S. lawsuit takes aim at “addictive design.” Regulators from Brazil to Southeast Asia are following with their own rules. The push to rein in Big Tech is going global https://restofworld.org/collection/the-global-push-to-rein-in-big-tech/?utm_campaign=row-social

UK ODA allocations through 2028/29 confirm the steepest aid cuts among G7 countries. Bilateral aid to Africa down 40% in 2026/27 alone. Humanitarian funding down 21%. Climate finance commitment also reduced. #SDGs https://ow.ly/p78j50YAFft

O Cade está próximo de concluir uma investigação de quase 5 anos sobre o uso de IA pra „combinar“ preço de combustíveis. Cerca de 20 mil postos já estavam usando a tecnologia de precificação da startup Aprix em 2022. As propagandas da própria empresa são evidências. valor.globo.com/brasil/notic...

“We try to halt the flood of pollutants into our waters. We should try to halt floods of lies into the seas of knowledge, too.” www.ft.com/content/c1af...

AI systems aren’t just supporting decisions—they’re structuring how public authority is exercised, writes Michael A. Santoro. “Human in the loop” isn’t enough. Accountability must be built upstream through guardrails embedded in system design, not added after the fact, he argues.

As legal challenges mount and courts take a closer look at platform recommendation systems, the question is shifting from whether platforms are allowed to make editorial decisions to whether those decisions foreseeably incentivize behavior toward the edge of real-world harm, writes Dylan Moses.

Excellent advice. People tend to hide economic distress, but talking with loved ones about how to cope strengthens their resilience to small shocks. Family and friends better understand why someone is unable to join certain activities, and are more willing to adapt. Do it. Talk about it.

O caso abriu um precedente histórico que pode finalmente colocar as big techs na mira por prejudicar a saúde mental dos mais jovens.

Every governance crisis is a democracy crisis: both are evidence of social actors not meaningfully participating in decisions. Governance without democracy is autocracy. Bought and paid for by big-pocketed private actors, in the case of AI.

Claro que a gente nao confia nessa tecnologia de tirar nossa roupa para nos objetificar, e de produzir pornografia infantil. Como homens, parem de usar, boicotem e denunciem as IAs que atacam a dignidade de mulheres e criancas.

Who is there...?

My sister is playing Mother Spider (from Demon Slayer) in a movie! OMG!

“We find ourselves in what Theodor Adorno might have called a ‘mimetic regression’ — and a ferocious one at that. We must fight back against our algorithmic overlords. If we don’t, we might be stuck in a risk-averse, slop-filled, cultural feedback loop forever.” www.ft.com/content/0d96...

"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people." www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

“These verdicts mark an unsurprising breaking point,” said Proulx, research director at the market research firm Forrester. “Negative sentiment toward social media has been building for years, and now it’s finally boiled over.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Digital Discrimination: Gender Bias in Algorithmic Recruitment Practices in the Global South journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.3...

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

As legal challenges mount and courts take a closer look at platform recommendation systems, the question is shifting from whether platforms are allowed to make editorial decisions to whether those decisions foreseeably incentivize behavior toward the edge of real-world harm, writes Dylan Moses.

Immigrants weren’t just filling existing jobs; they were helping create them. That’s Econ 101: jobs are not a fixed pie. More people means more customers, more demand, more businesses expanding, and yes, more hiring.

What I find amazing is that there is not one word on common practices of polling which are also extremely problematic - such as paying very litte to Amazon Mechanical Turk gig workers - to fill out surveys -> 🖱 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Love this thread, about the joys & pitfalls of multilingual content moderation. Had a good laugh, too: kkkkkkk 🤣