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Same as it ever was, same as it ever was (ask the historian).

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world.

OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.

But they can’t make us use their trashware.

Boycott. Luddify. Open source.

Don’t let them have your work or your students.

Citizen will share crime videos with the NYPD A ‘real-time crime center’ promises police direct access to videos.

NYC announces partnership with the app formerly known as “Vigilante.”

Music for Abolition — Institute of the Arts and Sciences Directed and curated by Terri Lyne Carrington

the rest of that series can be found here ias.ucsc.edu/visualizing-...

Malcolm Jamal Warner- Comfort Food As a society we have been conditioned to be creatures of comfort. We artificially sweeten inconvenient truths to make us feel good. We hold onto lies to make us…

Malcolm Jamal Warner performing his poem "Comfort Food" as part of Visualizing Abolition's Music for Abolition series @ UCSC. RIP. vimeo.com/1062919899

UCSC's first Arts Dean!

We should think of the "intelligence" in artificial intelligence not as any kind of mental property, but as the kind one gathers - the stuff of central intelligence agencies. Then we can immediately understand that AI is a technological form of Taylorism, a way for capital to accumulate power.

Rest in power, Andrea Gibson.

“Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.”

😭 I was just thinking of their work last night and hoping they were okay

California: $927,965,332

This is a dramatic understatement of what UPenn agree to. They are also banning any and all Title IX protections for trans students and agreeing that trans people don't actually exist.

TIL AI is not only stealing our archives, it’s killing them.

www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

ART; FILM-VIDEO SUCCESS AT THE THORPE (Published 1981)

found a write-up of that exhibition! www.nytimes.com/1981/05/17/n...

saw this as a kid at an art event my parents took me to in the early 80s, it haunted my dreams for years.

“online cultural heritage collections… described servers and collections straining – and sometimes breaking – under the load of swarming bots. The bots were reportedly scraping all of the data from collections to build datasets to train AI models…The frequency of these swarms may be increasing.“

!!!! this looks dope

They're literally doing the meme

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans.

We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

The Documentary Audit Listening and the Limits of Accountability Pooja Rangan Columbia University Press Documentary films are often celebrated with aural metaphors: they give “voice” to the “voiceless” and ask the public to “listen.” But when did listening become synonymous with social justice? How exactly do documentaries train audiences to listen when they ask them to right historic wrongs or hold power to account? The Documentary Audit challenges the association of listening with accountability and charts oppositional modes of listening otherwise. Pooja Rangan develops a framework for understanding how documentary practices have, under the mantle of accountability, provided a moral cover for listening habits that are used to profile, exclude, and incarcerate. From the British Crown’s promotional films to Zoom meeting recordings, from disability-informed filmmaking in Japan to forensic efforts to expose anti-Palestinian violence in Hebron, Rangan explores how historical and contemporary practitioners have challenged and refused the lures of normative documentary listening habits in order to listen with an accent, listen in crip time, and listen like an abolitionist. Through an interdisciplinary approach that bridges documentary and sound studies while considering raciolinguistics, disability access, and legal forensics, Rangan demonstrates how the question of listening is central to the study of documentary. Far from being a neutral ethic, The Documentary Audit shows, listening creates the reality it purports to verify—with transformative political possibilities. Pooja Rangan is professor of English in film and media studies at Amherst College. She is the author of Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (2017) and coeditor of Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (2023). Order Online: CUP.COLUMBIA.EDU Enter Code CUP20 for 20% discount

Out in June from Columbia University Press--THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT. All of the information on the flier available on this website, where you can also order the book: cup.columbia.edu/.../the.../9... Cover description in comments

We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

Shame Farocki wasn't around for this

finally the academics are making segs

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

one more time for those in the back, WE FUCKING WARNED YOU. city voters should rank Jen Fleisher first, because we need an anti-Flock majority on city council ASAP.

I'm still waiting for Four Tetsuo the Iron Man!

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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations Butler Snow faces sanctions after lawyer cites false case law defending against inmate who says he was stabbed 20 times

Alabama hires bespoke law firm to defend its prison system; firm uses ai and cites cases which don’t exist.

Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.”
No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post.
Compliance ≠ usability.
Day 14 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail

FR24 with a notice about 103 partners

"view our 103 partners" 😬 #privacy #tracking