RE: https://masto.pt/@catarinac/116025097083573856
Ulises and I loved recording this conversation with Catarina. Indeed things did not get better
Nick Couldry
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I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Moses IzumiMy case for using privacy frontends (i.e Invidious and NewPipe for Youtube) is less about service providers tracking my steps and more about them using said information to bombard me with recommendations for baubles and propaganda.
Using corporate social media is eerily close to getting blackmailed, or picking up a hammer that possesses you into slaughtering the woodshop teacher.
(only be a matter of time before @pluralistic finds this post and adopts my metaphor)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115986846050028964
Using corporate social media is eerily close to getting blackmailed, or picking up a hammer that possesses you into slaughtering the woodshop teacher.
(only be a matter of time before @pluralistic finds this post and adopts my metaphor)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115986846050028964
Good to have some honesty from somewhere
Gerry McGovernEvery Sora AI video burns 1 Kilowatt hour and emits 466 grams of carbon. And for what, exactly?
Generating high definition video is one of the most energy intensive things you can do with AI.
https://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/p/every-sora-ai-video-burns-1-kilowatt
Robert W. GehlDay Two of Future Networks (future-networks.ca) commences! On tap today, panels about the ecological impacts of media and alternative social media. Plus a keynote from @couldrynick!
Axel BrunsA very comprehensive critique of the AI moment by @couldrynick to start off Day Two of the #ZeMKI2025 20th anniversary conference.
Liveblog here: https://snurb.info/node/3476
Nathalie Van RaemdonckTitillating talk by @couldrynick at @zemki on corporate capture of the human mind of AI.
Interesting how defending the use of AI is seen by some as "post-structuralism" whereas resistance is framed as remainder humanism.
I agree with Nick's plea to build conversations on the social contract that is emerging through our uses of AI, although I am left wondering what then is and isn't useful AI, or if our only option is to resort to abstinence and resistance.
Interesting how defending the use of AI is seen by some as "post-structuralism" whereas resistance is framed as remainder humanism.
I agree with Nick's plea to build conversations on the social contract that is emerging through our uses of AI, although I am left wondering what then is and isn't useful AI, or if our only option is to resort to abstinence and resistance.
Pedro de-las-Heras-QuirosCory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) :
"The very worst-case speculative scenario for Huawei-as-Chinese-Trojan-horse is infinitely better than the non-speculative, real ways in which the US has killswitched and bugged the world's devices."
Ned HamsonTeen helps pass Oregon bill that requires interdisciplinary sustainability/climate education – Darcy’s Good News for our Future
Mikayla May, a high schooler in Bend, Oregon, pushed the state to integrate sustainability and climate solutions into the curriculum. House Bill 3365 just passed in the House and Senate, becoming law in January. She emphasized that including solutions, not just the problems, helps give students hope. This is an example of Educating for…
Teen helps pass Oregon bill that requires interdisciplinary sustainability/climate education – Darcy’s Good News for our Future
Mikayla May, a high schooler in Bend, Oregon, pushed the state to integrate sustainability and climate solutions into the curriculum. House Bill 3365 just passed in the House and Senate, becoming l…