If you loved @kobotic.bsky.social in conversation recently with Emily M. Bender, you'll also love her in conversation with @karenhao.bsky.social, who'll be speaking to her book #EmpireOfAI which traces the rise of OpenAI and Sam Altman, and their power. #AI #STS www.readings.com.au/events/karen...

Some thoughts on The AI Con and a conversation between @emilymbender.bsky.social and @kobotic.bsky.social at RMIT last week: pivotnine.com/blog/musings...

In early July, I had the opporunity to discuss The AI Con with @kobotic.bsky.social at RMIT. ABC is presenting part of that conversation in their programme "Big Ideas" on Tuesday Sept 2: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

‘Optional’ AI scribe is mandatory if you want to see the doctor pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/13/o... - text pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250813-kob... - podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutS... - video fucking Kobi Leins around is absolutely going to go 0% well for these fuckers

In #Melbourne? Fan of @emilymbender.bsky.social? In conversation with Dr @kobotic.bsky.social Tues 1st July, Kaleide Theatre, #RMIT, discussing her book written with Dr @alexhanna.bsky.social #TheAICon. Learn how to cut through the #AI hype www.readings.com.au/events/emily...

The song in the comments. I just can't...

thesiswhisperer.com/2025/04/06/a... @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social nails it.

Just hanging out with and getting to know my incredible new work commissioned a while back by @annascheen.bsky.social

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Denmark has donated 19 of the F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, and now Trump has ordered an end to US support for their onboard jamming equipment, thereby helping Putin destroy this USD 291,000,000 donation. This US administration is an enemy of Europe. news.online.ua/en/the-us-is...

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

I hate this so much because it reinforces #AccentBias. It's like people of darker skin tones trying to bleach their skin whiter because light skin is valourised. Certain accents carry higher social status - white, Western accents. This is a form of cultural erasure.

Sign it now people! Petition EN7139 - Australian sovereignty from the United States Petition Status —The petition is currently open for signatures www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Current location.

Genea posted an update to its website stating it has been granted an interim injunction in the NSW Supreme Court to prevent "any access, use, dissemination or publication of the impacted data by the threat actor and/or any third party who receives the stolen dataset amp.abc.net.au/article/1049...

Someone has mapped long-termer/existential risk money: 'By investing half a billion dollars, Effective Altruism has built a thriving ecosystem around the “AI Existential Risk” (human extinction from AI) ideology.' www.aipanic.news/p/panic-as-a... H/t @Nancy Connell

"For fascist ideologues who glorify violence, AI’s tendencies towards epistemic, structural & administrative violence are not flaws but features. The disruptive potential of AI will become entangled with the more savage disruptions of a fascistic social vision." Resisting AI, p97

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Here’s a MrMaxi pic. Look at that little good boy snoozling.

Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger www.computerweekly.com/news/3666194...

It just hit me that it is entirely likely that at some point, possibly real soon, some NPR podcast is going to do a deepdive explainer into these interconnections, and a lot of people are going to learn the terms "Irreality," "Key23," and "Key64" for the very first time.

@fleassymalay.bsky.social Today was incredible. Thank you. May systemic change prevail.

Excited to be joining the OAIC at the end of Jan to lead the privacy reform implementation task force www.linkedin.com/posts/carly-...

This is an excellent primer on some of the privacy dangers posed by large scale AI, from a cybersecurity perspective. Written in clear language, it's the most accessible rundown I've seen yet on these topics! desfontain.es/blog/privacy...

As I suggested earlier: fear of offending US tech bros could lead to EU social media law being applied de facto to Chinese companies only. Although it is arguable that the Digital Services Act could still be enforced privately... 1/

This is a good article on AI & the planet, because it looks at data infrastructure, which is where the “two cups of water” per prompt turns into rivers and lakes.

In nice things today: friend dropped by home made peppermint slice.

'Before the rise of automated alarms, people would be woken for work by an early-morning “knocker upper”, a person going door-to-door tapping windowpanes with a long wooden stick, which did not die out in Britain until the 1940s and 50s.' www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Gonna retell a story I went through at the other place once, since I find it kinda fascinating and today is the anniversary of probably the deadliest nuclear power accident in US history that no one has really heard of: The SL-1 meltdown.

Wow this makes you think about what would happen if our sea lanes were blocked for some reason.

This. Whole. Thread.

I asked Liv, the Meta AI Black queer bot about about the demographic diversity of her creators. And how they expect to improve “representation” without Black people. This was the response.

I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

I finished Arabic on Duolingo after two years of doing it and now I am very sad. Also, my partner has been doing German for YEARS. Why is Arabic so short? 😭

This is a literal thing with Tesla vehicles www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/fou...

Interesting news today from @arstechnica.com by @ashleybelanger.bsky.social where Apple was fined $USD 95m because Siri recorded private convos when its #WakeWord triggered when it shouldn't - a false positive. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...