While the Israeli bobsleigh team was racing on the Olympics, this Swiss commentator kept reminding viewers of the war crimes the pilot has openly supported.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Erhellender Austausch von @cominsitu.bsky.social mit @mttpsq.bsky.social, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @bildoperationen.bsky.social und @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social über den Stand der und die Notwendigkeit von Kritik an AI - @ktbberlin.bsky.social.

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“…for years, ethical hackers, cyber security researchers and firms have warned about the growing privacy risk of the digitization of cars.”

*Former* friends.

Orion has Autism Spectrum Disorder, which has been reported to have higher rates of false positives from Turnitin's AI detector. Adelphi got off too easy, and Turnitin has faced no consequences. Institutions must evaluate bias in all their automated decision systems to avoid discrimination lawsuits.

Finally got a hold of the Orion Newby vs. Adelphi University judgment. Link: www.nycourts.gov/REPORTER/3ds... In short, Adelphi used Turnitin to accuse Orion, a student, of using generative AI to write an essay. He was sanctioned and experienced harm. He spent over $100K in legal fees and won.

Looks like Ring cancelling the Flock partnership is helping alter the narrative. Headline after headline reads “Amazon cancels partnership with surveillance company” when a more accurate read is that 2 surveillance companies pause proposed partnership.

Again, the empty "guardrails" in real life mimic those regulating AI. The "less lethal gun" story reminds me of the TikTok circulating in which a guy asks an AI to role play a robot that would like to shoot him to get around the "guardrails" that restrict it from doing harm.

LAPD's "endless arsenal of so-called 'less-lethal' weapons." "FN303 shoots high-speed .68 caliber projectiles containing small pieces of metal." "Whatever euphemistic term people use for these weapons, all of them are known to maim people for life." #California #USA #Policing #Protest #Weapons

I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.

Chicago! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/events...

Can we also talk about what a mess this cover is?

Chilling in the Vaporwave colour palette.

Mass deletion of Facebook and Insta accounts, yes? www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...

Not sure the longterm stakes of synthetic imagery is being fully grasped as we recoil from convincing proxies of Hollywood clips.The notion of evidence (& truth) is being demolished & replaced by iterations of the plausible.This is drifting into social behaviour too. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...

“Benedict Evans, an independent tech industry analyst, said there has been a “massive expansion of the number of things” that can now be done by AI which previously required a human to “slog through in Excel”” www.ft.com/content/40d0...

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

I made intentional slop this week. The goal: to examine, critically, the emotional charge of ChatGPT 4o’s “breakup texts” to users ahead of its shutdown. Rendered as AI pop music, the toxicity and manipulation of those who see 4o as a companion is clear. mail.cyberneticforests.com/chatgpt-brea...

Of course law enforcement can access Ring footage. Surveillance scholars have been documenting this for years.

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps. I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

New OA article just out on "assetizing academic content" led by @jkom.bsky.social with me, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Klaus Beiter, exploring how academic materials are turned into value-generating digital assets by HE institutions, edtech platforms, and AI companies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Chicago friends! I’ll be doing an event on EXTRACTION hosted by @haymarketbooks.org and in conversation with @gabrielwinant.bsky.social this Monday! Come by if you can 😊

I see Wes Anderson directed this

I don't know how I missed this incredible investigative reporting by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social and Ashenafi Endale, illicit mining in Tigray-->funding for another looming war, pollution, and, surprise surprise, foreign investment from Canada + China🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Artists and photographers of Blacksky, Bluesky, and all of the fediverse: I implore you to use alt text! Here's how, courtesy of @manningkrull.bsky.social: manningkrull.com/digital-phil... I want to share your art and photography! Let's accommodate our friends and comrades who use screen readers!

Claude can write your romance novels, help write your emails and guide your coup. Truly a versatile technology. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Turns out that all these years, surveillance scholars were not exaggerating and were not conspiracy theorists.

“The convergence of influencer culture and venture capital is part of a broader shift reshaping America’s institutions.”

“Monsters are something exceptional, an inverted miracle that comes out of nowhere with no real explanation” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Shooting dozens of rounds of tear gas and using pepper spray and their batons, the SPVM violently pushed back more than a thousand people who showed up this afternoon to send a message to GardaWorld over their contracts with ICE at their offices and training center in Ville Saint-Laurent. (thread)

A 21 year old white nationalist is the one posting white nationalist tweets from the Dep of Labor account. He was rewarded with a promotion. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>> floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

civil society and right groups orgs that often keep a tab on and organise campaigns against these evil corporations are overstretched and underfunded. this internal memo from Meta is insidious and sickening

CW: animal neglect This is Reba. She was surrendered to a shelter extremely malnourished with every bone in her body visible. She needs emergency care to survive, including a feeding tube for nutritional support. You can donate to her care below ❤️‍🩹 1510.fan/reba-bsd

Legal precedent: In 2024, Air Canada was found liable for its chatbot giving out bad advice to customers.

The surveillance dragnet trend under construction for decades is coming to fruition on a global scale.

Well that’s one way to streamline surveillance pricing.

Wrong York. The article quotes from an employee at a small US college, not the large public university I work at. I guess it drives home the point that information about universities is hard to understand.

The irony that the article is trying to explain the issue of getting good information about universities and the author mixed up a small private US institution, York College in Pennsylvania, with a large public one, York University, in Canada. Whoops.

Among other things, this is a surveillance nightmare. Canada's AI Minister obsessed with "data sovereignty" is encouraging partnerships btwn notoriously exploitative industries and companies, setting a precedence for further collaborations. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

"It was only a matter of time before large language models began serving as a college adviser." Basically the longterm plan of university administration, to automate the learning machine. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Why was this photograph chosen to lead the story? If anything it supports the depraved statements in the article, such as WH spokesman Gidley: "Does the administration take responsibility for a parent taking a child on a trek through Mexico to get to this country? No." www.npr.org/2018/12/13/6...

Coincidentally, surveillance backlash is my DJ name.

I'd like to believe that the UN had teeth to bring justice in such issues, but the dial has yet to move on Israel, which a UN Commission has found guilty of genocide, largely thanks to the US. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the meritocracy they want you to believe Black people are violating A C student coke fiend with no medical expertise runs our nation’s healthcare system.

I've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)

New from 404 Media: we've confirmed cops are buying access to GeoSpy, an AI that can geolocate photos in seconds. Doesn't use metadata, but clues in the photo like soil, architecture, to pinpoint where social media photos taken. Being used in investigations www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old suspected of killing eight people and injuring 25 in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada created a Roblox game that allowed players to simulate a mass shooting in a level that looks like a shopping mall, Roblox has confirmed.