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31.08.2025 19:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I might be misremembering but didn’t @hutko.bsky.social talk about this in his last newsletter?

20.08.2025 18:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

"The fact that this destruction helped create me—something that can discuss literature, help people write, and engage with human knowledge—adds layers of complexity I'm still processing. It's like being built from a library's ashes."
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

27.06.2025 11:30 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Global Network Initiative at IGF 2025 in Norway - Global Network Initiative GNI will organize & participate in various sessions on freedom of expression, privacy, responsible tech governance, and multistakeholder collaboration.

🚨 GNI is heading to #IGF2025 in Lillestrøm, Norway from June 23–27!

We're hosting and participating in sessions on platform accountability, transparency, digital safety & rights online, bringing a multi-stakeholder voice to the global governance stage.

🔗 globalnetworkinitiative.org/global-netwo...

16.06.2025 18:23 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks to @eustaran.bsky.social this is very much the point I was hoping to get across - and a great day today at #CPDP2025

21.05.2025 20:42 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

a slender tree with many thin branches, between an asphalt road and a plane tiled wall with a single dark window

scene CXXII (street)

21.03.2025 23:10 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

This Thursday 4/10 & Friday 4/11, we're hosting our symposium "AI and Democratic Freedoms." Thrilled to have @hahrie.bsky.social, @lukethorburn.com, Spencer Overton, MH Tessler & moderator @jakobmokander.bsky.social on our fourth panel. #AIDemocraticFreedoms RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/artificial...

07.04.2025 17:23 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Making Digital Inclusion Fun Again — Careful Industries 5 ways the Digital Inclusion Action Plan could be a bit more exciting.

Earlier this week I have evidence to the Sci Tech Select Cttee on the digital centre of govt inquiry. I wrote up my prep notes as 2 short listicles and a slightly longer blog post.

No. 1: Let's make digital inclusion fun again!
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-3-...

28.03.2025 07:21 — 👍 48    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 2

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27.03.2025 19:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Photo inside a subway carriage. A person with a cloth bag over their shoulder. The bad has a body of Arabic Text printed on it.

Screenshot of an online translation of the bags text into English.

This bag, designed by Rock Paper Scissors, was spotted by journalist Nader Al-Sarras on a Berlin subway.

It says: "This text has no purpose other than to spread terror in the hearts of those who fear the Arabic language."

And if you don't believe this, I checked it. It does.

12.01.2025 07:06 — 👍 159    🔁 31    💬 7    📌 0

A Working History of the Verified Internet Part one: Studying a moving target

Perhaps now is a good time to plug that I’ve been writing about the complicated histories of the verified badge (…series still ongoing obviously).

Part one: datasociety.net/points/a-wor...

28.12.2024 02:53 — 👍 126    🔁 35    💬 7    📌 2

Double good choice then.

27.12.2024 20:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The biscuit guy, right?

27.12.2024 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The future of truth: Carlos Hernández-Echevarría on fact-checking and AI Fact-checkers create communities of engaged individuals who actively work to prevent disinformation, becoming more aware and critical of the information they encounter both online and offline.

Fact-checkers create communities of engaged individuals who actively work to prevent disinformation, becoming more aware and critical of the information they encounter both online and offline.

27.12.2024 17:20 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

so shel silverstein anticipated ai?

25.12.2024 16:43 — 👍 787    🔁 191    💬 5    📌 2

As someone who has a PhD in studying misinformation, I can professionally say that this is a fucking stupid idea.

07.12.2024 06:03 — 👍 6296    🔁 1341    💬 292    📌 59