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Linn Høgåsen @linnhogasen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

also: "That Meta is at least sometimes letting human beings read users’ chats and make phone calls on their behalf is part of a time honored tradition in which companies launch an AI product, claim that it is AI, only for it to be later learned that human beings are doing some or all of the work."

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 09/09/2026

Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.

a screenshot from an iPhone and Apple Watch showing "recaps" of conversations from ambient audio.

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thank you @emilymbender.bsky.social and Nanna Inie! So many great alts to anthropomorphism in this piece! buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation
hybrid intelligence → augmented human intelligence
image recognition → image labeling
speech recognition → automatic transcription
the model shows bias → the model reflects bias
model mistakes → model errors
chatbots are good at … → chatbots are good for …
hallucination → undesirable output

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The Picture of Doriane Gros @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.

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Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad @finnmyrstad.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we! Today we are publishing our new report, Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future. vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

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The Enshittificator

Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

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Anders S. Løvlie @anderslovlie.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

«For Israelis of my generation, the word “genocide” was supposed to remain a nightmare from another planet. We asked: how could ordinary people go on with their lives while this happened? In a grotesque twist of history, that question now circles back to us.» www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak

My generation was raised wondering how ordinary people could countenance an atrocity. In a grotesque twist, the question has circled back to us

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Zichro L'MAAPACHA May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥 The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence, was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +

Awdah Hathaleen in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Five things to remember about war:

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

In their excellent book, The AI Con, @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social cite useful guidance from Garance Burke and @karenhao.bsky.social on how to approach AI hype. While directed to journalists, these are questions that we should all ask of our tools:

past years focusing on AI and working towards improving coverage from the industry writ large. Garance Burke of the Associated Press (AP) developed a chapter for the AP stylebook–a canonical reference for many journalists inside and outside the AP–on how to talk about AI. Burke instructs journalists to “get back to basics” and ask many of the same questions we pose here:

How do these systems actually work? Where are they deployed? How well do they perform? Are they regulated? Who’s making the money as a result? And who’s benefitting? And also, very importantly, which communities may be negatively impacted by these tools? Karen Hao, one of the foremost journalists on AI coverage, has been working with the Pulitzer Centre to develop a program to train 1000 journalists in covering AI over the next two years with the purpose of holding companies to account. Hao’s work on the data labor behind AI and the drama within OpenAI’s walls has been crucial for understanding how this industry operates. In her training, Hao encourages journalists to focus on the people affected by these tools: “If we want a technology that is so consequential to actually benefit all of humanity–as OpenAI likes to say–the best way to understand how to do that is by covering the communities that are the most vulnerable in shaping the technologies thus far.” This effort is critical, as it plans to unsettle the centrality of the tech narrative around the Global North and back to the Majority World, where much of the labor occurs. It also aims to dispel the (intentional) obfuscation achieved by lumping all these technologies under the moniker of “AI”. And it ensures that the main story about AI is the human one, not the technical one.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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Ailo @airavn.eurosky.social · 21/03/2025

This is a major milestone in assuring consumer protection in video games, following our work on virtual currencies! Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases. 🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Action points to be taken:
When in-game virtual currency or in-game digital content or services are offered for sale, their price in real-world money should be clearly and prominently displayed
When in-game virtual currency is offered in exchange for another in-game virtual currency which the users can buy with real-world money, its price should be indicated also in real-world money
When in-game digital content or services are offered in exchange for in-game virtual currency that can be bought (directly or indirectly via another in-game virtual currency), their price should also be indicated in real-world money.
The price should be indicated based on what the consumer would have to pay in full,
directly or indirectly via another in-game virtual currency, the required amount of in-
game virtual currency, without applying quantity discounts or other promotional offers
u Although consumers may acquire in-game virtual currency in different ways and quantities, for example through gameplay or due to promotional offers, this does
not change the price of the in-game digital content or services itself. The price must constitute an objective reference for what the real-world monetary cost is, regardless of how the consumer acquires the means to purchase it

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Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad @finnmyrstad.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Vipps ønsker å bruke kundenes kvitteringer og kjøpshistorikk til å målrette reklame. Forbrukerrådet mener dette bryter personopplysningsloven og at Vipps manipulerer brukerne til å gi samtykke. Vi ber nå Datatilsynet se på saken: www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/f... #personvern #gdpr

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/01/2025

OpenAI has to be the most insufferable company in the world. They can steal from the whole world & guzzle all resources. But no one can give them a taste of their own medicine even a little bit. How long till they use this to say give us even more resources & this is why we can't release anything.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/01/2025

Newsletter: Mark Zuckerberg's MAGA pivot is really just the continuation of years of rotting out the core products of Instagram and Facebook - and begins an era of unrestrained, unrepentant growth where tech will proudly make their products even worse. www.wheresyoured.at/the-slop-society/

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The Slop Society

In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too pol...

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