Jill Walker Rettberg

Borealis in Bergen next week with lots of cool stuff - like trance music in the sauna at Laugaren. www.borealisfestival.no/en/events202...

Workshop: Acoustic Laptop 11–13 March BEK – Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst C. Sundts gate 55, 9th floor Time: 10:00 - 15:00 About the workshop Acoustic Laptop is a two-day workshop at BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Ar...

This looks amazing: teo day acoustic laptop workshop in Bergen where you buikd your own instrument from a wooden box with tactile electronic sounds. 11-13 March docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Barn og unge med innvandrerbakgrunn leser mest bøker I 2025 var det barn og unge med innvandrerbakgrunn som i størst grad leste bøker på fritiden, og spesielt unge jenter. Denne gruppen besøkte også folkebibliotek mest.

Jeg vet at det ikke passer i den dominerende historiefortellingen for tiden, men det er ikke bare elendighet i integreringen. Barn og unge med innvandrerbakgrunn leser mer enn andre. www.ssb.no/kultur-og-fr...

Kvinner (og minoritetsgrupper) er mer skeptiske til KI enn menn. Det er jo ikke så rart: KI har masse kjønnsbias i tillegg til andre etiske spørsmål om bruken (bærekraft, arbeiderrettigheter, copyright), og risikoer ved bruk. bsky.app/profile/jill...

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

You can read my study of 10 years of liberal body camera propaganda--The Body Camera: The Language of Our Dreams--here: campuspress.yale.edu/yjll/volume-...

Study from @haimson.bsky.social et al. found transgender, nonbinary and disabled people are more negative to AI. doi.org/10.1145/3715... Perhaps because of AI's tendency to want fixed categories, Haimson says in this new article about it: www.advocate.com/technology/c...

“…according to a report from Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet released last week. Employees in Kenya doing AI "annotation" told the journalists that they've seen people nude, using the toilet and engaging in sexual activity, along with credit card numbers and other sensitive information.”

Trans Technologies book cover

Trans Technologies is available now! My book examines how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.

"An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." - Alex Hanna

Fortellingen om framtidens superintelligens er forførende Jaja er eit norsk tidsskrift om og med forteljekunst, som skal få fram meir allsidige forteljingar frå bygd og by.ISSN 3084-1747 (digital utg.)

Les @annesigrid.bsky.social's essay om KI som fortellemaskiner som serverer oss narrative motiver som ofte er løsrevet fra sin kontekst. tidsskriftetjaja.no/fortellemask...

Anthropic cofounder says studying the humanities will be 'more important than ever' and reveals what the AI company looks for when hiring | Fortune "The things that make us human will become much more important instead of much less important."

Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei has a degree in literature and thinks AI will mean we need more people with humanities degrees. fortune.com/2026/02/07/a...

Politihøgskolen brukte falske KI-tall: — Jeg legger meg flat Da Politihøgskolen skulle bestemme hvor lang tid de ansatte skulle få til å forberede undervisning, brukte den falske KI-tall som saksgrunnlag.

The Norwegian police academy used an AI summary that claimed to show how other universities/colleges calcukate prep time for teaching to decide their norms - but Copilot had just made up the numbers... www.khrono.no/politihogsko...

Hm, that looks kind of impressive but sort of just saying look at all these cool and complicated things rather than checking whether they actually work? I'm in rather an annoyed mood after reviewing two heavily LLM-assisted papers, all surface, no substance, and irrelevant citations everywhere.

Also, I think most office workers are using the chatbots not the API, so perhaps testing the API is not a realistic use case?

Here's a PDF about a report to the Australian parliament about how badly LLM document summarisation worked in 2024. But now the Australian AI Plan says go all in on document summarisation. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...

I found this, which links to the post I already shared and to a report for the Australia parliament, also from 2024, finding that document summarisation doesn’t work. Don’t use AI to summarize documents — it’s worse than humans in every way – Pivot to AI pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/d...

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind. One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…

Does anyone know of more recent tests of LLM document summarisation? This is from 2024 and compared human summaries to ChatGPT summaries and found it shortened rather than summarised and left out key points. ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/w...

The humanities should be construed as critical democratic infrastructure.

If we understood it as such, we'd see the madness in this 👇. See it as what it is: democratic cultures doing self-harm.

The erosion of the humanities is directly linked to the acute democratic backsliding we're witnessing.

I mean, this is entirely standard. I have never received a request to review a book manuscript that paid more than that, and many pay nothing, or they pay "we'll send you $300 worth of books from our publishing house". But then I got great reviews of MY books so it goes both ways.

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Viktig å beskytte barna ja, dette er ikke et problem i det hele tatt.

We will not be intimidated.
And we will keep you informed.

Switzerland: US analytics firm takes Republik magazine to court The American company Palantir Technologies has filed a lawsuit against Republik, an independent Swiss media outlet that published an in-depth ...

#Switzerland: The 🇺🇸 company Palantir Technologies has filed a lawsuit against Republik, an independent 🇨🇭 media outlet that published in-depth investigation into its activities. We stand by @republik.ch and view this legal action as an attempt to intimidate and deter critical reporting.

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Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.

Link in comments. #palantir #freemedia

"Sometimes the problem is not how the sausage
gets made, but that they’re making people into sausage" dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml...

Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This new paper looks very robust. A question remains: does the algorithmic "For you" feed on X make users more conservative because it's designed to do so, or would any algorithmic feed designed to sell more ads do the same? We need the same experiment for TikTok, Instagram, Bluesky etc.

KI-kunnskap og KI-politikk: Fartsfylte visjoner – med farefulle resultater? Hilde Reinertsen (UiO) diskuterer i denne førelesinga konsekvensar av KI-basert evidensproduksjon for politikkutforming og offentleg forvalting.

I'm heading over to this talk by Hilde Reinertsen about how AI-generated reports influence politics - she's one of the co-authors of that article demonstrating that the 155,000 public sector jobs that could be saved by using AI was based on AI-generated numbers. www.uib.no/svt/181467/k...

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

"Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists" describes my trajectory from seeing how the internet COULD HAVE and in some ways did increase democracy to seeing the richest people in the world figure out how to use tech to exploit and manipulate the rest of us. aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

Bar declared crime scene as ACT police seize 'clearly satirical' posters under new hate laws Police have seized five posters on display in the window of a Canberra bar, declaring a "crime scene" while they investigate the artworks under new Commonwealth hate laws.

Here’s the news report on this: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...