Rob Collins

Disrupting Algorithmic Decision Systems

Made a basic web page that gives 100 suggestions on how to disrupt Algorithmic Decision Systems, based on levels of effort. Mostly written and suggested by my own local AI server:
agonisticdesign.com/disrupt/

#agonisticdesign
#antidefuturing
#algorithms
#ollama

17.07.2025 11:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The first #AGON event was held on Whiddy Island last weekend. A bunch of amazing folk gathered to talk, eat and walk under the theme of #antidefuturing. As a prototype for this kind of cross-disciplinary collaboration, it was a big success. Planning our next iteration already. agonisticdesign.com

10.07.2025 11:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Has this been done before? Feels like it has.
#ai #stochiasticparrots

02.03.2025 10:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I tried the default question that I ask all AI models - "What is The Fatima Mansions" and unlike any other models I've asked, it couldn't give me any information on the band. Today, I asked Mistral:latest to summarise a text for me, which it did quite well.
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28.01.2025 12:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter Our other networks for everyone booklet “Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter” has been printed and we will be sending out hard copies to those who requested them very soon! If you were u…

if you've been wondering how you YES YOU might go about building small networks outside of the internet or if you've been wondering abt good ol' fashioned amateur radio, check out our pamphlet Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter othernetworks.net/2024/08/20/b... @rose-alibi.bsky.social #othernetworks

21.01.2025 21:42 — 👍 173    🔁 38    💬 13    📌 7

Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.

@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...

02.12.2024 14:23 — 👍 962    🔁 338    💬 25    📌 36

Secretive algorithms deployed in Sweden's vaunted welfare system cast suspicion on innocent women & migrants while ignoring men & the affluent. We reveal with @SvD how Sweden built this system then stonewalled journalists

27.11.2024 12:03 — 👍 23    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 2

Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.

22.11.2024 08:37 — 👍 5600    🔁 1601    💬 105    📌 133

Documentation is finally emerging from my Contestation Café events at Ars Electronica in September. Hosted by the amazing folk at Stadtwerkstatt in Linz.
#arselectronica #stadtwerkstatt #servus.at #contestation #aicounterism #antidefuturism

22.11.2024 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Boids

19.11.2024 11:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On-the-nose response by Prof. Eileen Culloty from DCU School of Communications on my Conspiracy Capitaliser. Honoured. www.adaptcentre.ie/eileen-cullo...
Check out her book on disinformation here: www.routledge.com/Disinformati...

#conspiracycapitaliser #posttruth #disinformation

18.11.2024 10:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0