Our information landscape and opaque black box systems

The AI Con, debunking myths of the AI revolution, a review

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
"But that is precisely why some in power want to hand decision‑making capacity to computers: it promises a sunlit utopia of profit without blame. Once AI is mainlined into our veins, we may be too doped up to care."
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna by Bodley Head
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/19/the-ai-con-by-emily-m-bender-and-alex-hanna-review-debunking-myths-of-the-ai-revolution
#AI #LLMs #KMS #DigitalHumanities #OpaqueBlackBox #SyntheticTextExtruding #machines #PoliticalSubjects #accountability #transparancy #language #extractivism #DataEconomy #technopolitics

Another Trump style authoritarian power grab from this Labour Government, giving another victory to the Tories as well.....fucking amateurs.

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #UKCourts #Journalism #Authoritarianism #Transparancy #Labour #Tories

I'll leave that here without comment.

Just one thing:
I'm really fascinated by our British friends.

I love Europe.
We are so different in many ways, yet so close.

#mastodon #fediverse #YouWinAgainSi #palantir #world #britain #uk #eu #europe #transparancy #democracy #freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvDF7Z18Anc

#Wisconsin #Transparancy #opengovernment

Privatized government transparency is problematic when private funding falls short.

Wisconsin Blind Eye https://www.cogdis.me/2026/01/wisconsin-blind-eye.html

Cloudflare Reports Surge in Streaming Piracy Takedowns, Removes 20k+ Storage Accounts

https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-reports-surge-in-streaming-piracy-takedowns-removes-20k-storage-accounts/

#transparancy #Anti-Piracy #Cloudflare #DMCA

Tại Vietnam AI Contest 2025, trong khi AIWS Angel và Film Park gây ấn tượng bởi sáng tạo, thì chủ đề AIWS Ethics lại khơi gợi cuộc đối thoại quan trọng: đạo đức và minh bạch trong thời đại AI. Tại sao transparency lại là nền tảng của niềm tin? 🤖

#AIethics #Transparancy #VietnamAIContest #AIvàĐạođức #Trithứctạosinh #AIContest2025

https://vietnamnet.vn/ai-va-dao-duc-vi-sao-minh-bach-la-nen-tang-cua-niem-tin-2461590.html

German Pirate Site Blockades Target Anna’s Archive, FitGirl and RPG Only

https://torrentfreak.com/german-pirate-site-blockades-target-annas-archive-fitgirl-and-rpg-only/

#SiteBlocking #siteblocking #transparancy #Anti-Piracy #germany

PoliDashboard Launches Major Update to Advance Transparency in Political Advertising On Facebook and Instagram - Social Media Lab https://socialmedialab.ca/2025/07/29/polidashboard-launches-major-update-to-advance-transparency-in-political-advertising-on-facebook-and-instagram/

What a gob smackingly fascinating resource!

#advertising #transparancy #meta