Nadia Bellardi

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
🙃 how surprising!

Da Srebrenica a Gaza, di genocidio in genocidio A trent'anni dal genocidio di Srebrenica assistiamo in diretta streaming ad un altro genocidio. Ciò per cui ci siamo spesi e le istituzioni che sono scaturite dalla tragedia di allora non sono riuscit...

Abbiamo l’ònere di combattere contro la rassegnazione di fronte al mondo distopico che si sta delineando davanti ai nostri occhi. Per la Palestina è necessaria un'ampia mobilitazione. La disumanizzazione di alcuni prelude alla distruzione dell’umanità intera. www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Bosnia-...

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

Wikipedia wanted to use AI summaries at the top of article pages. Editors said please please don't www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

BBC Three - What It Feels Like for a Girl It’s a new millennium, but Byron is stuck in a small, suffocating working-class town.

One day left to catch up with the first two fantastic, devastating, tender, infuriating, irresistible episodes of www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... before the new ones air tomorrow! Via cable TV in CH (or iPlayer with VPN 🙃)
💜 @parislees.bsky.social @ellishoward.bsky.social @hannahftjones.bsky.social

A bottle opener attached to the side of the desk in a hotel room

When you know you’re in Scotland 😂
#SIEF2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Buddha

I use technology in order to hate it more properly. –Nam June Paik

I warmly recommend this
www.ai-explanations.com/about/
(and many more resources developed in the context of human rights & freedom of expression here: www.osce.org/saife/resour...)

OpenAI and Google's dark new campaign to dismantle artists' protections OpenAI and Google have cozied up to Trump's imperialist approach to AI for a shot at tearing down artists' copyright protections.

OpenAI and Google's dark new campaign to dismantle artists' protections
open.substack.com/pub/bloodint... @bcmerchant.bsky.social

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid If you’re planning on hitting the streets, this guide may be of some assistance.

Protesting is a right of all Americans under the first amendment. That said, If you're thinking about joining a protest near you, there are some crucial factors to consider in order to stay safe. Our guide from 2022:

Love Signal. Recently got my mom on it as well.

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

We’re about to start
#8March #Zurich

Where else will you find happiness if not at the University Main Library in Basel?? @unibas.ch

Our call for contributions for the boasblog on "Co-Producing Knowledge" is finally out!

Deadline is 30 March, later contributions are possible.
boasblogs.org/coproducingk...

#collaborativeanthropology #participatoryanthropology #actionbasedresearch #coproducingknowledge #reflexivity

The new episode of the "Machines That Fail Us" podcast is out now! Glad to host @adiod.bsky.social for a chat on the hidden human work (and nature) behind artificial intelligence.

Listen here on the @unisg.ch website or on your preferred audio and podcasting platform ⤵️

A collage of 4 different photos showing sound artists at work during the Sonohr Festival: - in a temporary radio station - during the live audiowalk ‘Near my Ears’ with the collective Sounding Situations - on the stage for a discussion after listening to the audio pieces

Once again, an inspiring #SONOHR radio and podcast festival last weekend in Bern!
www.sonohr.ch
merci @blechtram.bsky.social & everyone else!

Blouse (with my glasses on!)

Beautiful sweater/shirt 😍

That look!

Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."

The DOGE.gov site is insecure and basically anyone could edit it.

via @404media.co
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

Should publishers hand over scientific output to AI companies to train their models? Horizons - Issue 143

Are we seriously discussing this?! Make science and technology (even more) extractive and unethical (again)?
#AI

www.horizons-mag.ch/2024/11/28/s...

My black and white cat stretched on my lap and over a book (Anne Lamott’s ‘Bird by Bird’)

When your #cat is personally invested in your reading 😂

Fakten statt Falschinformationen: Für einen starken Wissenschaftsjournalismus! - Online-Petition Offener Brief aus der Wissenschaft an SRF Sehr geehrte Direktion der SRG, sehr geehrte Geschäftsleitung von SRF, sehr geehrte Medien- und Wissenschaftspolitiker:innen Mit grosser Besorgnis haben wir z...

Please consider signing this to protect what is left of Swiss #publicservicemedia

www.openpetition.eu/ch/petition/...

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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

Spice the cat, napping behind my computer monitor

Your afternoon cat nap is ready

The ‘Manosphere’? It’s Planet Earth. A “boys will be-boys” sensibility has jumped off the internet and into the halls of power. Are you surprised?

“Because the “manosphere” is not just a fringe that has become mainstream, it’s a mainstream that many liberals continue to treat as a fringe.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/s...

Aaaaaaah, the joy of new #books !

“the guy who runs the biggest social networks in the world—and boasted … that because he can’t be fired, he will do anything he damn wants—has cast his lot with those who seek to tumble the distressingly vulnerable house of facts.” @stevenlevy.bsky.social at his best!

link.wired.com/view/5cc9e21...