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So we now have centralized political #censorship and #algorithms powered surveillance across #Fediverse. And you ask community for money to continue this great job 😀
David Pakman (@davidpakman)

Help spread the word. This is too important to ignore.

Substack
EU fines China’s Temu €200M over illegal products

Fine is largest so far under the bloc’s platforms regulation, the Digital Services Act.

POLITICO
Selection Sort Made Visual: Learn Sorting Without Abstract Theory https://jsdevspace.substack.com/p/selection-sort-made-visual-learn #javascript #algorithms

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/116647305321442307

"Zero - denn sie wissen was du tust", gerade im Life-TV, Marc Elsberg hat das schon 2014 so genau beschrieben, das wovor uns Kuketz und andere warnen. Krass, wenn man unmittelbar nach diesem Film als erstes solch eine Nachricht liest:
#zero #algorithms

The Quietus: Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive. “VHS magnetic tape is incredibly fragile and has a limited lifespan, especially when stacked haphazardly in the un-airconditioned corners of Lagos living rooms or the labyrinthine, corrugated-iron warehouses of Alaba International Market. As I write this, thousands of original films from the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/27/rotting-tape-and-the-gentrification-of-african-pop-why-we-must-save-the-nollywood-archive-the-quietus/
Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive (The Quietus)

The Quietus: Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive. “VHS magnetic tape is incredibly fragile and has a limited lifespan, especially when s…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose
what is the datafied web? how to study it? and reimagine it? we chat in Internet Histories journal ✨🐰🦔🐨🐢🦉🐿️🦙🦆💬 https://jonathangray.org/2026/05/18/datafied-web
with @nthylstrup Miglė Bareikytė, Carolin Gerlitz, @sebgiessmann @annehelmond Ian Milligan & Valérie Schafer.
come for the datafied web - stay for the AI #slop #adtech #deepfakes #bots #leaks #trolls #bubbles #linkrot #fintech #osint #dataloss #softwaredecay #venturecapital #platformlabour #webarchives #diywebsites #algorithms #surveillancecapitalism #poeticcomputation & more 😋
article on “the datafied web” in Internet Histories

An article on “the datafied web” that I co-authored has just been published in the Internet Histories journal.

Jonathan W. Y. Gray
From @[email protected] on Dead,🐦 1 day ago: Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as #patents, #algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and #data. Cont'd at x.com/i/status/205... #PopeLeoXIV

Pope Leo XIV on X: "Today, amo...
Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex) on X

Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and

X (formerly Twitter)

@si_irini @mina @HistoPol
11/
The Verdict

Kolmogorov's quote is a brilliant challenge to human ego, but it assumes the model is modeling the *entity*. Current AI is modeling the *artifact* (our language).

An LLM can give you the perfect answers, but it does so via a shortcut that has nothing to do with thinking. It is a masterpiece of statistical interpolation, acting as a flawless mirror of human thought, while remaining completely hollow inside.

#AI
#LLM
#Kolmogorov
#algorithms

@si_irini @mina @HistoPol
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Similarly, an LLM can bypass the structural engine of consciousness—subjective experience, emotion, and situational awareness—and still generate the text of a genius. It looks "sufficiently complete" on the page, but only because human language is structured enough to be mathematically modeled.

#AI
#LLM
#Kolmogorov
#algorithms