Tarot Card Futures for the Surveillance Observatory

We ran a session on trying to figure out what we should do with the Surveillance Observatory site. What it is now The site is basically designed for the community to submit news, research, and personal stories. I think it’s pretty easy to do technically. I even added a bookmarklet a while back in an […]

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Reclaim Open “Your website is a slow, bloated, carbon-belching monstrosity” presentation details

This was a 15 minute presentation at Reclaim Open. I botched the timing because I didn’t put in enough timed practice. I would have been better off reading the blog post that generated the presentation and led to the creation of this page for our environmentally-focused Digital Detox. Why work on energy-efficient websites? I wanted […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-05-14

Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams | Ars TechnicaSpotify, the largest audio streaming business, recently took down about 7 percent of the tracks that had been uploaded by Boomy, the equivalent of “tens of thousands” of songs, according to a person familiar with the matter. Recording giant Universal Music had […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-05-07

Moderator Mayhem: A Content Moderation Game KumuKumu makes it easy to organize complex data into relationship maps that are beautiful to look at and a pleasure to use. h/t Downes Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes — ProPublica Designing for (Realistic) Attention – Christopher ButlerWhen I advise that a webpage?—?like a […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-04-30

CodeAnalogies | CSS,JavaScript Tutorials Critical AI — Cybernetic Forests.Critical Topics: AI Images was an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It was an overview of the emerging contexts of AI art making tools that connected media studies and histories of new media art, with data ethics and critical data studies. Through this […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-04-09

About Us – Mozilla.aiMozilla.ai’s mission is to make developing trustworthy AI apps and products easy. To start we will focus on developing tools to build safety and transparency into the heart of recommendation systems and generative AI technologies. Richard Walter, the ‘Living Sherlock Holmes,’ Was a FraudWalter refused several requests for an interview. “You have […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-04-02

[2108.07258] On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation ModelsThough foundation models are based on standard deep learning and transfer learning, their scale results in new emergent capabilities,and their effectiveness across so many tasks incentivizes homogenization. Homogenization provides powerful leverage but demands caution, as the defects of the foundation model are inherited by all the adapted […]

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