Cette pétition européenne a pour objectif de montrer le refus populaire massif de la surveillance biométrique et d’imposer un débat sur l’arrêt du déploiement de ces outils de contrôle
Detto questo...
Copying Is Not Theft!
🔗 https://vidcommons.org/videos/watch/a5bcc9ab-221c-4e25-afdb-88d837741b61
(Our free culture anthem gets a fabulous arrangement by Nik Phelps. Vocals by Connie Champagne. Animation and song by Nina Paley. This video contains subtitle support for 18 different languages)
Algorithms and people have agency. It is in the interaction between humans and algorithms that the contemporary production and circulation of ideology should be understood. When we take the assumption on board that algorithms have agency, then it is important to understand the socio-technical but also the economic context in which they are created. The objectives of the platforms are clear. Beneath all the fine talk of big tech boasting about ‘connecting the world’ and ‘doing no evil’ lies the quest for profit. Social platforms make profit by commodifying our digitally networked social relationships: our emotions, photos, posts, shares and likes are repackaged into ‘tradable commodities’.
https://www.ideology-theory-practice.org/blog/ideology-and-algorithms
The Tree Alphabet offers a way to elucidate the paradoxes of the Anthropocene by slowing us down to decipher words in the woods. It is an invitation to start thinking about inter-species communication, multi-species storytelling, and our ancient entwinement with trees.
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Our capacity to produce language is innate, like a tree’s ability to produce leaves. Buds burst with potential stories. Words create meaning; they are alive and shift with culture. Words can be planted. They matter. We can seed stories, watch them take root, and grow. That’s what makes us human.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/deciphering-words-in-the-woods/
"the bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. (...) Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans."
Philip K. Dick, quoted in this very interesting article: https://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/henry-farrell-philip-k-dick-and-fake-humans
Para Gürses, el verdadero interés de las tecnológicas en la educación superior es convertir la universidad en un mercado: estas empresas han invertido mucho dinero en su infraestructura y ahora buscan un retorno. “Necesitan ser tratadas como algo más que proveedoras de servicios, quieren ser un actor predominante en nuestras organizaciones, instituciones, fábricas… Crecer en todos esos mercados para poder continuar el negocio, han convertido a la universidad en su mercado”, sentencia, a la vez que defiende que la tendencia no se produce solo en la universidad, sino también “sobre la salud, el trabajo, la administración de las organizaciones y las instituciones en general”.
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/universidad/bolonia-google-universidad-servicio-mercado
Poliziotti virtuali, riconoscimento facciale, tecnologie biometriche, scoring algoritmico per gestire il controllo dei confini: è questa l’Europa dei diritti? https://www.valigiablu.it/sorveglianza-tecnologia-confini-europa/ #intelligenzaartifi #DirittiDigitali #biometria #controllo #migranti #confini #Diritti #europa #Post #AI
The police is playing copyright protected songs so that you can not live stream them because of #upfilters on big social media platforms. https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxa7q/new-video-shows-beverly-hills-cops-playing-beatles-to-trigger-instagram-copyright-filter
What a fucking dystopia.
DIAGNOSE! Interview Series #10 - Mark Graham
"Society as we know it would simply break down if the internet were to disappear tomorrow. We're long past a point where we have to ask if we're dependent. We're as dependent on the internet as we are on the infrastructures that provide electricity and running water. But the pandemic has made the fact that we rely on digital gatekeepers more visible to end-users. And that will hopefully encourage ever more people to ask themselves if having digital infrastructures that are publicly run, owned, and governed might make them more accountable and more likely to serve the interests of local communities."
Tutto questo hype su Clubhouse e le chat vocali un po' mi fa rabbia ma un po' mi conferma che ci avevo pure visto giusto quando, sette anni fa, consapevole dell'importanza della voce nelle interazioni, avevo montato un progetto che proprio sulle voci si basava. L'evoluzione della fase sperimentale avrebbe dovuto essere non una chat vocale in tempo reale ma un network asincrono di voci da ascoltare seguendo più percorsi. Però non ho trovato finanziamenti (devo dire che non sono per niente bravo a vendermi, eh). Il progetto si chiamava "Quelli che partono, quelli che restano: voci di italiani" e se volete darci un'occhiata, la presentazione sta qua (pdf): https://www.mavala.life/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/VociDiItaliani_RLaghi.pdf
an interview with me (en français!) in arobase, on computer generated poetry, sound symbolism, and language models: https://arobase.substack.com/p/des-pomes-prdits-par-lordinateur
Questa cosa che un amico mi ha prestato una batteria elettronica mi sta facendo voglia di tornare a suonare e, dopo tante belle esperienze in gruppi diversi, ora che sto togliendo la ruggine dopo anni di inattività, mi dà pure voglia di mettere su la mia band ideale: batteria, basso, violino. con magari una voce che ogni tanto recita qualcosa.
Oggi va un po' così (oggi, e forse anche un po' spesso)
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=CheXvr_pFZk&list=PL57D5DB7696007785&autoplay
Note to Reporters: If Surveillance Data Shouldn’t Exist, Then Don’t Use It
Lawmakers, journalists, and the wider public must ask “is this data needed?” rather than “can this data be useful?” A consistent claim from authorities is that more surveillance equals more safety. Not only is there little evidence to support the claim that widespread and pervasive surveillance makes people safer, but such a setup is also incompatible with a free and open society.
Amazon Workers Share the Shocking Tactics the Company is Using to Stop Workers From Forming a Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTkWjyIYiVk&feature=youtu.be
(just to remember what Amazon is about)
Bello strano e bello bello l'esordio dei Black Country, New Road, «For the First Time».
https://blackcountrynewroad.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-first-time
Grazie della dritta @AkaCisco e @bibliotecaradicale Ascoltato?
"You can't take yourself too seriously.
We're just riding bikes." (Mike Hall)