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These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

We don't need AI, but we do need a livable Earth. We can't have both.

#fuckAI#ArtistsAgainstAI#AgainstAI#SayNoToAI

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

DIY > AI

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

“Bluesky claims to want decentralization and composable moderation, but they still enjoy abusing the power of arbitrary banishment.” - Link

ideally, the only places i want to be in AI are spaces for resistance, refusal and community organising

in reality, i find myself in spaces where AI governance, regulatory or institutional/scientific decisions are made where either i my input is paid lip service or entirely ignored

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

screenshot of a popup on Google Sheets with two buttons "Learn more" and "Got it" header reads "Gemini can now do more for you in Sheets" with "for" scribbled out in red, and the word AS above it, so it says "Gemini can now do more AS you in Sheets" below that: Gemini can now make requested changes and insert content directly into your files. HIGHLIGHTED TEXT: All inserted content will be attributed to you in version history. For inline features like =Al), Gemini will insert content directly. For the side panel, Gemini will provide a preview first unless it understands your goal is a direct edit, such as making a pivot table or adding conditional formatting. Gemini in Workspace can make mistakes, including about people, so double-check responses.

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

Book cover for Susan Dackerman, Dürer's Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East.

Book cover for Judith Herrin, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe.

Book cover for Jed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

Book cover for James Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace.

Through Oct. 31st, @princetonupress.bsky.social has a 70% off sale on a wide range of titles -- Susan Dackerman on Albrecht Dürer, Judith Herrin on Ravenna, Jed Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz on the Rosetta stone, James Costa on Alfred Russel Wallace, and more: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

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From NYMag: 'The Techno Optimist's Guide to Futureproofing Your Child: AI has killed the old achievement track. What should we raise our kids to do instead?' by Benjamin Wallace

My blood pressure can't take another one of these pieces, but anyone who bit: is this satire or deadly earnest and what does the robot Asian girl with the ax have to do with it

yeah tbf I do think indeed you both (me too) agree

one bad egg might ruin an omelette, but academia is not a single dish

yes, more are going full on abuse the students more not gracefully learn ungrading

the idea that academia struggles to do things differently is a tricky trope to contend with when we also create new knowledge; I do not doubt it's veracity per se, but I sure as hell see it weaponised to ruin us further

Thx! I am defo not an AI enthusiast (see our position paper here bsky.app/profile/oliv...). I've heard some ppl (not from any community) argue for its use in certain cases cause it's better than nothing and it would help certain communities. I would like to hear from the communities themselves.

A good question for my deaf/hearing impaired followers. Please be respectful. She’s looking for input, not touting the greatness of AI.

I won't use AI for alt text because of the time it would take to verify what it's spitting out is actually true.

Q: AI translation is heralded as great cause it can help with inclusivity but ofc it's far from good, takes job of translators, ÷ feeds the hype. On live interpreting events, some argue against but others say it's better than nothing. How does the community feel about this?
#DisabilitySky #CripSky

I've been ungrading for years before it got this bad, we can do things without being forced by companies hollowing out education ALSO sometimes a grade is really all academia can do given budget cuts and class sizes: fund us more

I mean sure, but that's IMHO like saying I hope the earthquake makes your house fall down because I don't like your living room's layout 🫠

My favorite new initialism: AI;DR I'll be using this a lot from here on out.

I propose that the university, as currently understood will be killed by end stage capitalism compelling scholars of good will, who're brave, to build alternatives. The modern system served Cold War ends, though honest work was done. This technocratic age has ended. Now is the time of total war

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

This is something I wish my AI-cheerleading colleagues in archives and libraries fully understood: all the work we've done in the past 25+ years, all of it, is now actively being used to putting us out of business in the most dire fashion imaginable by the wealthiest people on the planet

A detail from a German pamphlet showing three male human heads: a Turk, A Hungarian, and a German. All heads have three mouths and you can see the tongues. The pamphlet was printed in 1605 and will be highlighted in more detail in my upcoming book about early modern news.

Gossiping is both an art and an annoying practice. In #earlymodern Europe, a gossipmonger would often be depicted as a person with three mouths. Like these three fellas that made it on a title page of a pamphlet in 1605, a Turk, a Hungarian, and a German. #skystorians #gossip

and then also 2/2 bsky.app/profile/oliv...

yup! it's a two-pronged attack too 1/2

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