Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem | Aeon Essays
Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future
Bangladeshi Street Fakeclaiming — miftah
Fakeclaiming isn't a purely online Western phenomenon. A lot of “pro-social” Bangladeshi monetized vlogger and “citizen journalists” act as if filming random disabled beggars in the streets being able to dodge some obstacles, recognize light or being able to walk after forcibly having their mobility aids taken away is doing some grand justice to “real” disabled people.
Imran Hossain
দেশে নতুন এক প্রজাতির কনটেন্ট ক্রিয়েটর বের হয়েছে— এরা মেটা-রে ব্যান গ্লাস (ভিডিও করা যায় এমন চশমা) পরে সুপারশপে গিয়ে উল্টাপাল্টা প্রোডাক্ট নিয়ে সেলসম্যান বা কাউন্টারে থাকা ক্যাশিয়ারের সাথে মজা নেয়।...
Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem | Aeon Essays
Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future
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Keep Android Open
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
Meta Blocks President Lula’s Facebook Page and Campaign Ads
The page is now back online, but Lula's electoral coalition says Meta's actions harmed the president’s campaign.
Workers powering the AI industry face terrible conditions, but they shouldn’t have to – interview
Mark Graham, founder of the Fairwork initiative, notes that most of the labour in the AI supply chain is data work primarily done in low-income countries in poor conditions.
OII | The Hidden Human Cost of AI: In conversation with Professor Mark Graham
Professor Mark Graham highlights the hidden human cost of AI and shares observations from his latest book 'Feeding the Machine: the Hidden Human Labour Powering AI'.
James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’
The Fairwork trio talk about their new book on the ‘extraction machine’, exposing the repetitive labour, often in terrible conditions, that big tech is using to create artificial intelligence
Seven Theses from Feeding the Machine
New Book – Publication 18 July 2024 (UK) / 8 August 2024 (US)
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People
Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky critique how AI-driven infrastructure changes obscure accessibility and reveal whose needs society chooses to prioritize.
The Socialist Party of Great Britain
The Socialist Party wants to get rid of the profit system and establish real socialism.
It is a shame that "democratization" in software has come to mean broader access to products instead of participation in democratic processes — there is talk of LLMs democratizing software production, but I have yet to see social, collective and democratic processes govern the design of software.
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