Kathryn Corrick

24/7 Russian Propaganda Blitz Hit Moldova Before the Elections - VSquare.org Moldovans had faced months, if not years, of an information onslaught at levels beyond what just about any society has faced. In the end, the pro-European ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) w...

💥🔎🇷🇺 Our analysis reveals the scale of Russia’s massive propaganda offensive in Moldova: in 3 weeks, 9,900 TikTok videos were published and generated over 93 million views, created with artificial intelligence. Yet despite Moscow’s efforts, the pro-European PAS secured 50.2% in the Sept 28 election.

“Since Sora 2’s release, videos that infringe our members’ films, shows, and characters have proliferated on OpenAI’s service and across social media. While OpenAI clarified it will ‘soon’ offer rightsholders more control over character generation, they must acknowledge it remains their responsibility – not rightsholders' – to prevent infringement on the Sora 2 service. OpenAI needs to take immediate and decisive action to address this issue. Well-established copyright law safeguards the rights of creators and applies here.”

statement from charles rivkin, CEO of the motion picture association, on OpenAI’s new video app Sora and intellectual property rights

hollywood remains unimpressed

i was part of this class action against anthropic ai & it worked.

in a landmark ruling, creators will now receive around $3000 for each eligible work used to train anthropic (more difficult to claim if like me you're outside the us). more here:

www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow

Thank you! It was a beautiful morning.

"[Altman] said the company would also “have to somehow make money” from video generation, and already the platform was seeing people generating much more than expected per user."

Context, est. cost per Sora2 video: $5.

Altman wants to raise $5-7 trillion. US Federal budget 2022: $6.3 trillion.

OpenAI promises more ‘granular control’ to copyright owners after Sora 2 generates videos of popular characters Company behind the AI video app says it will work with rights holders to ‘block characters from Sora at their request’

"OpenAI told the Guardian content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form”, but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out."

So OpenAI, you have no control of your own product and all the work you've stolen?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

How wonderful!

Europe’s democracies are in danger, warn Merz and Macron Threats dwarf anything seen since the Cold War, says German chancellor.

Macron: “We’ve been guilty of handing over our public democratic space to social networks owned by big American and Chinese firms whose interests are not in the survival and the functioning of our democracy."

I'm quite hopeful that French-German leadership on tech sovereignty can achieve something.

Please read the study, see Figure 4.

#Strawbuilding #Strawhouse is so obviously convincing that it's almost funny that I still have to explain it everywhere.
Study shows how far you can transport insulation materials so that it still extracts more CO2 than it emits.
Straw doesn't even fit fully on the scale.
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A model of Sputnik, captioned with a quote from Sir Bernard Lovell's autobiography, Astronomer By Chance: “By strange irony, Sputnik saved me and Jodrell Bank from extinction. The telescope (...) was transformed almost overnight into the world’s most powerful radar system.”

✨ On this day 68 years ago (4 October), the Soviet Union launched #Sputnik 1: the world’s first artificial satellite. Orbiting Earth approx. every 98 minutes, it marked a pivotal moment in the Space Race and a defining chapter in the history of Jodrell Bank.

🔗 Learn more: https://ow.ly/q7fG50X60FS

Paris Philharmonic Building.

The Cité des Sciences. Absolutely amazing outside and in. Near by is the Paris Philharmonic building which is equally off planet looking.

:-) Feels a bit other worldly (Sent the wrong photo!) Enjoy Edinburgh!

Cité des Sciences, Paris.

No. I’m in Paris. At least I think I am…

Avez-vous ouvert votre boîte mail ? La nouvelle édition de Buena Vista Data Club, la newsletter de la #data et de la #dataviz, vous a préparé une édition pleine de bonnes résolutions !

You're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" Cory Doctorow warns 😲 pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Cité des Sciences et Industrie, Paris.

Paris or another planet? You decide.

Facial Recognitions - The Ideas Letter Davies traces the political history of the human face, showing how it has become both a weapon and a site of contestation—from far-right mobilizations fueled by viral images to the…

"To some extent, the twenty-first century politics of the face is another episode in this dance of technological progress and romantic regress." says @will-davies.bsky.social .
www.theideasletter.org/essay/facial...

This morning's thought provoking long read.

We've been primed by generations of SF to imagine machines that think, well or poorly. But maybe we would have a better understanding of LLMs — of what they do well as well as what they do poorly or not at all - if we thought of them as windows: windows onto the thinking people have already done.

In all the endless discussions of LLMs, there’s a point that is, on one level, obvious, but that I feel does not get sufficiently foregrounded: LLMs are transforming material that people have put up on the internet.

Expositions

Oh hello. Free entry tomorrow and Sunday to the Cité des Sciences & Industrie in Paris!
billetterie.cite-sciences.fr/expositions....

Fête de la science 2025: Découvrez une centaine d’animations festives programmées tout au long du week-end !

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Definitely.

You have to make sure there's a proper paragraph break (full carriage return) rather than a line break (shift + return). It's been like this for a long time.

Hello to some of the digital innovation students at Grenoble Ecole de Management that I've been teaching this week!

Waves!

💯
Wow. Just wow.
Come on Sky, you can do better than this.

What?! In which century are we?

And not only time, but equipment, space, a heat source and money for the energy costs.