Philip Di Salvo

Ho finito le forze Perché non vi importa del clima?

Ho finito le forze - Perché non vi importa del clima? silvialazzaris.substack.com/p/ho-finito-... @silvialazzaris.bsky.social

Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

Large language mistake: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

How Palantir infiltrated the state At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company

How Palantir infiltrated the state: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.

can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop

On the third anniversary of ChatGPT, I aimed to pull back from “AI” as a flowing current of new models, new data centers, new initiatives, “new new new” — and look at it as a product of a specific and unique moment in history. What *was* ChatGPT? A few points in the thread ⬇️

The man on a mission to save Mauritania’s ‘city of libraries’ from encroaching desert sands Desert settlement of Chinguetti faces rising sands, dwindling tourism and insecurity due to conflict in neighbouring Mali

The man on a mission to save Mauritania’s ‘city of libraries’ from encroaching desert sands: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.

OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.

The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition An FBI procurement document inquires about AI surveillance on drones, raising concerns about a crackdown on protests.

The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition: theintercept.com/2025/11/21/f...

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege: www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

We explored current practices and workflows, and saw how these methods have become an integral part of the news production process in a context of widespread online mis- and disinformation.

He discussed with students how major newsrooms verify and audit social media content in granular ways to incorporate it into their reporting about major breaking news stories.

Not the best photos, but it was great to host @moschella.bsky.social from NBC News’ Social Newsgathering team for my “Automating Information Disorder” MA course at Universität St. Gallen yesterday.

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say: www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Once more valid.

Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when Another day, another outage.

Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when www.theverge.com/news/823562/...

ROXY VINYL CAFE SELECTOR SET Archaeology of the Expanse PHILIP DI SALVO / RVC-SS N° 010 DONNERSTAG, 27. NOVEMBER 2025, 20:00 UHR RO XY

Looking forward to our next Roxy Selector Set w/ @philipdisalvo.bsky.social | Archaeology of the Expanse, 27. November

Through an archaeological reading of jazz, post-punk, electronic experiments, and beyond, this set uncovers fragments of lost futures and the lingering possibilities they carry.

The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.

The Texan Ideology: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t... @thebaffler.com

What Data Reveals About Meta and Google’s Political Ad Ban in the EU | TechPolicy.Press The ad ban is a complete failure of platform responsibility that will make elections less transparent and more vulnerable to algorithms, writes Fabio Votta.

What Data Reveals About Meta and Google’s Political Ad Ban in the EU: www.techpolicy.press/what-data-re... @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Enshittification: il progressivo degrado delle piattaforme digitali - Guerre di Rete Intervista a Cory Doctorow sulle risposte radicali necessarie a liberarsi dello strapotere delle Big Tech statunitensi e su quel processo di degrado dell’esperienza utente che chiama "enshittification...

Enshittification: il progressivo degrado delle piattaforme digitali: www.guerredirete.it/enshittifica... @lauracarrer.bsky.social

Even beyond these events, I’m still waiting for the moment when there will be an analysis of the damage Spotify has done to music as a cultural experience, but by then it will in any case be too late

12 lessons from news outlets on the cutting edge of AI Here are the key points, ideas and tips from the first day of the JournalismAI Festival in London

12 lessons from news outlets on the cutting edge of AI: www.journalism.co.uk/12-lessons-f...

thanks for sharing, surely they were building something great. It’s saddening

The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.

The bombing ofGaza Sky Geeks: restofworld.org/2025/gaza-sk... @restofworld.org

How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow A chat with the SF writer, activist, and author about his world-conquering coinage and how workers can take back the internet.

How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow - @bcmerchant.bsky.social: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...

Thinking again how perverse it is that Musk was given a $1T salary as his cuts to USAID has led to 600,000 deaths. What a shameful world.

The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers “You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.

The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A collage of screenshots from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, overlaid with the headline, "YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations," and the DEK, "The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions."

The Palestinian groups’ YouTube channels hosted hours of footage documenting and highlighting alleged Israeli government violations of international law in both Gaza and the West Bank. interc.pt/4oUJNer

Il giornalista licenziato dall'Agenzia Nova dopo una domanda su Israele  - Il Post Gabriele Nunziati aveva chiesto alla Commissione Europea se Israele dovesse pagare per la ricostruzione della Striscia di Gaza, come la Russia per l'Ucraina

Il giornalista licenziato dall’Agenzia Nova dopo una domanda su Israele: www.ilpost.it/2025/11/05/g...