"... Data Workers Inquiry ... is a really important example of bringing attention to what's going on in the work that is hidden behind the facade of artificial intelligence because it's being marketed so heavily is fully automated when it's always people and so the various initiatives to make that visible are hugely meaningful even if they are small compared to the onslaught."
#EmilyMBender, author of The AI Con, 2025
Apropos of nothing does anyone know the history of moles* in Aotearoa NZ? Obviously one made it but it doesn't look too happy
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/64587
*burrowing creatures, talpids.
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The recommendation engines we habitually call "algorithms" have actually been *models*, not algorithms. So "AI" is just a continuation of the automated disinformation-as-usual that corporate platforms have been engaged in for almost 20 years.
"The quantitative analysis was conducted by hired consultants, who fed the submissions into a large language model – a form of generative AI.
After this, the ministry separated out all submissions from iwi, hapū or other organisations, as well as all submissions longer than 10,000 characters (about 1600 words) and read these as part of a 'qualitative analysis'."
#MarcDaalder, 2025
*shudder*
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Anyone need more bad news? MediaWatch this week is full of it.
For a start, there's the govt cancelling a focused tax on international online services making money from Aotearoa. A sensible policy I hadn't even heard was on the cards. While continuing with a link tax on currently dominant platforms - an unprincipled, short-term policy that has mostly failed in Oz, Canada and elsewhere - and the online age verification farce;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=3b55abf5-5b70-408a-8d70-c7d1514d875d
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Le cours d'eau de la #Môle a fait un bond en avant au #Lavandou avec une montée de 6m en 2h ! Depuis 10h, les données de la station ne sont plus disponibles avec une hausse probablement plus importante.
⚠️Des inondations catastrophiques sont signalées avec plusieurs victimes.
Le cours d'eau du #Môle a fait un bond en avant au #Lavandou avec une montée de 6m en 2h ! Depuis 10h, les données de la station ne sont plus disponibles avec une hausse probablement plus importante.
⚠️Des inondations catastrophiques sont signalées avec plusieurs victimes.
La #Môle, une petite rivière varoise de 24 km, s'est transformée en fleuve ce matin suite à un très violent #orage 🌩️. Plus de 150 mm de #pluie 💦sont tombés en 2h ce matin sur le sud du Var, provoquant des inondations. Le temps s'améliore en cours d'après-midi.
https://twitter.com/JohanRouquet/status/1924748651055685814
🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/lachainemeteo/status/1924768356730560750
🕐 20/05 12:05
Mole 4 bei #Brunsbüttel
#photography #photographyisart #alttext #photooftheday #fotografie #photo #amateurphotography #handy #handyfoto #moody #moodoftheday #elbe #boote #ships #lighthouse #leuchtturm #mole #pier #redandwhite #river
Com van ser descoberts els quatre policies nacionals infiltrats als moviments socials dels Països Catalans.
A principis de 2020 i durant més de dos anys, almenys quatre agents del Cos Nacional de Policia s'infiltren en diversos moviments socials dels Països Catalans. Formen part de la 33a promoció de l'Escola de Policia d'Àvila i actuen sota les ordres de la Comissaria General d'Informació. El documental exposa el modus operandi i els patrons dels policies i revela alguns dels errors que van ser clau per descobrir-los.
https://kolektiva.media/w/4H59xNXJiSSuHGrTvBEyUK
#infiltrats #spionage #police #acab #video #spain #paisvalencia #paisoscatalans #mole #talp #top #peertube #kolektiva #documentary #report
(Cobalt:) Adam the mole says hi! He hopes any soil you touch today is very easy to dig in.
(Adam can be adopted here: https://artisans.coop/products/tiny-knitted-mole )
"Ilsa is an AI that replaces Boolean logic with quantum law on an algorithmic level."
Dr Ivon Teslia, Travelers, s03e01
Legendary technobabble! The writer of this dialogue could get a marketing job with a MOLE Training company : P
Scilly shrew – dweller of the abandoned garden
Scilly shrew. It is such a small creature. As a shrew. As a little mouse. Such kind. And, also, good and kind. It does not make a passages underground. And, use what exists, already. Easily, it can live near in a garden nearby. Or, in the field. Lots of places, where this little animal can live.
#little animals #Scillyshrew #shrew #mouse #field #garden #abandonedgarden #yourfriend #summer #bush #highgrass #digitalart #drawing #moss #mole
You might as well substitute "magic" for "artificial intelligence" in this sentence.
"What we're able to tell is that there are really small changes in the eye that we probably wouldn't pick up using your standard optometry or ophthalmology tests but that taking those images and being able to use artificial intelligence may be able to give you an idea of a person's risk for dementia."
#DrAshleighBarrettYoung, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/559118/researchers-uncover-link-between-eye-health-and-dementia
