Joanna Bryson, blathering

@j2bryson
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I'm an academic, proud to work in a policy school, but still somewhat longing to be a natural scientists and/or programmer again. Or maybe some kind of artist. This account is a more personal than professional; a more professional one is bridged here https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy Blogpost on my social media policy, linking yet more accounts: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html Increasingly returning to reading physical books.
PositionProfessor of Ethics and Technology, Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School, Berlin
ExpertiseArtificial & natural intelligence, culture, cooperation, evolution (behavioural ecology),
Expertise (cont.)technology policy, competition/antitrust, and (digital) governance
Websitehttps://www.joannajbryson.org/
Show threadJoanna Bryson, blathering7h ago
bought something for €3 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255993123?sortBy=rank
Is there a good way to view Markdown (*.m… - Apple Community

Joanna Bryson, blathering7h ago
how the heck can markdown be so popular and there be no way to see a random file properly formatted from os x? Everything I have that uses markdown wants to incorporate it into a file structure for a purpose, not just look at a stupid readme.md file someone built
Joanna Bryson, blathering8h ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/02/04/russia-shadow-fleet-europe-sanctions/
As West goes after Russia’s oil fleet, Moscow fears for its war funding

New European measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet could severely hurt its economy at a time when it is looking increasingly vulnerable.

The Washington Post
Joanna Bryson, blathering9h ago

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116017885160504649

More importantly to me at least, even big famous newspapers like the @guardian can't afford to fight all the lawsuits they get involved in, so if you want to read the original version of stories, you can't trust their archives, you have to go to the wayback machine. Without that, the past gets edited.

Joanna Bryson, blathering9h ago
Joanna Bryson9h ago
The #AI company blames the store, and they're right – the store should NEVER have hired the AI company. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #facerec #AIEthics #AIBias via @fipr-policy.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

‘Orwellian’: Sainsbury’s staff...
‘Orwellian’: Sainsbury’s staff using facial recognition tech eject innocent shopper

Man misidentified by London supermarket using Facewatch system says: ‘I shouldn’t have to prove I am not a criminal’

The Guardian
Joanna Bryson, blathering9h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@giocomai/116018431532380594

Azerbaijan seems to have done the most genocidal / ethnic cleansing acts in this conflict, and is now condemning the leaders they've conquered to jail for life for genocide. Have I got that right? I know I'm pretty ignorant of this region.

Joanna Bryson, blathering14h ago
https://bsky.app/profile/jackscarab.bsky.social/post/3me3fnqtooc26
Jack who wrote Aether Torrent (@jackscarab.bsky.social)

Hi, my name's Jack. Here is the text of Terry Pratchett interviewing Bill Gates in 1995. Thanks to @rhi.bsky.social for summoning help, and to @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk for the source, I have manually transcribed its 3,481 words into a Google doc. Enjoy. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PVRA9v2eeLCWb3Z4Js8gm5hrwolfAsaKi0aSQ17MGoE/edit?usp=sharing

Bluesky Social
Joanna Bryson, blathering14h ago
https://bsky.app/profile/tomjoscelyn.bsky.social/post/3mdzoelzp5c2p
Tom Joscelyn (@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social)

France’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response: [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Bluesky Social
Joanna Bryson, blathering19h ago
Pernille Tranberg ✔️22h ago

Good read. Big AI tech is selling AI personalisation as something very useful and poweful, it might help you, it certainly helps the companies, as they suck up all your data and memory leaving you without any control or insight.
Alternatives in Europe have not (yet) followed suit so they are more safe to use.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/28/1131835/what-ai-remembers-about-you-is-privacys-next-frontier/

What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier

Agents’ technical underpinnings create the potential for breaches that expose the entire mosaic of your life.

MIT Technology Review
Joanna Bryson, blathering19h ago
Prof. Sam Lawler1d ago

Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

Comments due March 6.

I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.