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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 01/07/2026
Behind the World Cup's real-time data and automated offside calls is a vast network of manual laborers who turn every pass and tackle into structured analytics to fuel the sports betting industry restofworld.org/2026/fifa-world-cup…
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The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/06/2025
"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning." deplet.ing/the-copilot-...
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The Copilot Delusion
Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while th...
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Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/06/2025
These guys are so stupid I’m sorry. this is the language of an imbecile. “Yeah our artificial intelligence isn’t actually intelligent unless we create a new standard to call it intelligent. It isn’t even stupid, it has no intellect. Anyway what if it didn’t?” www.businessinsider.com/aji-artifici...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai referred to this phase of AI as AJI, or "artificial jagged intelligence," on a recent episode of Lex Fridman's podcast.
"I don't know who used it first, maybe Karpathy did," Pichai said, referring to deep learning and computer vision specialist Andrej Karpathy, who cofounded OpenAI before leaving last year.
AJI is a bit of a metaphor for the trajectory of AI development — jagged, marked at once by sparks of genius and basic mistakes.
In a 2024 X post titled "Jagged Intelligence," Karpathy described the term as a "word I came up with to describe the (strange, unintuitive) fact that state of the art LLMs can both perform extremely impressive tasks (e.g. solve complex math problems) while simultaneously struggle with some very dumb problems." He then posted examples of state of the art large language models failing to understand that 9.9 is bigger than 9.11, making "non-sensical decisions" in a game of tic-tac-toe, and struggling to count.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28/04/2025
"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New from 404 Media: that "college protester" you see online isn't real. Instead it's an AI-powered undercover bot for cops. We've obtained documents showing how 'Massive Blue' is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to protesters. Examples: www.404media.co/this-college...
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
sometimes i forget im a TO and i actually have to do TO things at least its a new venue this time
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/04/2025
Newsletter: OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry, requiring more money than exists every year, threatening the financial health of SoftBank, Oracle and NVIDIA, their future dependent on impossible debt and unproven startups to build their data centers. www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-...
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OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry
Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up and...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/04/2025
“I’m not particularly interested in assisting the process of flattening myself into an array of data points, to serve the interests of tech companies by making myself even more machine-readable. I’m not convinced that the best way to understand oneself is through quantification.“
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We have more data on ourselves than ever before. But can we really track our way into happiness? | Samantha Floreani
Self-tracking is regularly promoted as a way toward self-improvement. But life is not a mathematical problem waiting to be solved
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/04/2025
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/04/2025
I read so many stories like this every day, we live in a completely insane time in tech history. Generative AI is the thing that has revealed how many useless managers are in charge
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/04/2025
Been sent this a few times and I've got to say it is the dumbest shit I've ever read. Empty headed fan fiction written with conviction that should force the writers into concussion protocol ai-2027.com
OpenBrain is building the biggest datacenters the world has ever seen.13

(To avoid singling out any one existing company, we’re going to describe a fictional artificial general intelligence company, which we’ll call OpenBrain. We imagine the others to be 3–9 months behind OpenBrain.)Although models are improving on a wide range of skills, one stands out: OpenBrain focuses on AIs that can speed up AI research. They want to win the twin arms races against China (whose leading company we’ll call “DeepCent”)16 and their US competitors. The more of their research and development (R&D) cycle they can automate, the faster they can go. So when OpenBrain finishes training Agent-1, a new model under internal development, it’s good at many things but great at helping with AI research.17 By this point “finishes training” is a bit of a misnomer; models are frequently updated to newer versions trained on additional data or partially re-trained to patch some weaknesses.18

The same training environments that teach Agent-1 to autonomously code and web-browse also make it a good hacker. Moreover, it could offer substantial help to terrorists designing bioweapons, thanks to its PhD-level knowledge of every field and ability to browse the web. OpenBrain reassures the government that the model has been “aligned” so that it will refuse to comply with malicious requests.
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Julien Porquet @julienporquet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
If you want to know more about the AI side of style transfer and how it aligns with capitalist extraction in the creative industry, take a look at our #chi2025 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
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Julien Porquet @julienporquet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
If this week has taught us anything, is that styles are never "just" styles. They are at the core of our cultural, political and economic lives and how we think about, and do things with them has a tremendous impact on our lives. (A real Miyazaki sketch to cleanse your feed.)
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Julien Porquet @julienporquet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
But styles are not natural resources, they are the product of human labor. As illustrator Roman Muradov put it "The generated result may resemble something real, but it bypasses the labor, and says nothing, adds nothing. The process is the thing" substack.com/@bluebed/not...
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Roman Muradov on Substack
Style is not aesthetics. Style is substance. It grows out of thoughts, experiences, and labor. You can’t take work out of art—what you get is an empty shell. The generated result may resemble somethin...
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Julien Porquet @julienporquet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
But styles are also not surfaces to apply anywhere indiscriminately What genAI models generate is not style, it's a superficial veil designed to benefit capitalist extraction of value from artists' labor As styles become detached from artists, they become construed as natural resources up for grab
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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“There is nothing that makes AI systems inherently good. Without intentional rectification and proper guardrails, AI often leads to surveillance, manipulation, inequity and erosion of fundamental rights and human agency while concentrating power, wealth and influence in the hands of AI developers..”
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Avijit Ghosh @evijit.io · 23/02/2025
New work: Protecting Human Cognition in the Age of AI - with Anjali Singh, Karan Taneja, and Klara Guan. We claim that overreliance on GenAI models disrupt traditional learning pathways. We suggest best practices for better teaching, testing, and learning tools to restore these paths:
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
hyperpop good www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrbc...
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lilbesh ramko - nichijou:loopmania (Music Video)
YouTube video by lilbesh ramko
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
apropos of resurgent discourses around "official languages" and whether all residents of a nation should have to speak them (and what that discourse is actually a proxy for: spoiler, it's about race, not language) -- this paper by Adrian Blackledge from 2009 is great: doi.org/10.1080/1543...
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“As a Country We Do Expect”: The Further Extension of Language Testing Regimes in the United Kingdom
In recent times debates about language and languages have increasingly become the battleground on which debates about immigration to the United Kingdom (U.K.) are fought. Since 2002 a series of leg...
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 25/02/2025
the tech stack musk is using is incidental. computer scientists who happen to be interested in LLMs will make careers out of the next 4 years chasing the idiosyncrasies of the implementations of these systems, condescendingly dismissing the study of the political movement animating all of this shit
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 25/02/2025
i'm not going to belabor the point, except to say that people doing challenging work - as in, work that challenges the hegemonic epistemology that tech companies salivate over - don't endear themselves to that tech $$$ (not independently, not in academia, not anywhere), and are especially struggling
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/02/2025
Destruction of critical thinking continues apace.
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How AI is affecting the way kids learn to read and write
Teachers are increasingly relying on AI to boost their student's reading and writing skills.
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
sepiarecords..................my soundcloud goat....................................... www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4468...
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Меcмеризатор [音楽・サウンド] Satsuki - Mesmerizer (sprc pinafore rmx)Special Thanks : DRs_pro (azukinekop, wa!ter, petera,...
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
as it turns out my control deck's wincon is, in order: - 9 boardwipes into concede - raw cast riptide gearhulk - timescam
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
i love timescamming a control player in bo3 :) (i am also playing control)
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
need to get back into finding indie artists in youtube so here we are
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花束爆弾魔 [Official MV]
YouTube video by 赤丸ディストピア
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
4 gainland is there as cope for not having +1 surveiland +1 restland but it saved me twice so maybe it is not cope after all
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
making out with riptide gearhulk sloppy style
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4 Island (FDN) 275
4 Plains (FDN) 273
2 Stock Up (DFT) 67
4 Sunfall (MOM) 40
1 Day of Judgment (FDN) 140
2 Get Lost (LCI) 14
3 Temporary Lockdown (DMU) 36
3 Beza, the Bounding Spring (BLB) 2
4 Three Steps Ahead (OTJ) 75
4 No More Lies (MKM) 221
4 Deduce (MKM) 52
3 Floodfarm Verge (DSK) 259
2 Adarkar Wastes (DMU) 243
2 Restless Anchorage (LCI) 280
1 Meticulous Archive (MKM) 264
2 Seachrome Coast (ONE) 258
3 Fountainport (BLB) 253
2 Demolition Field (BRO) 260
4 Tranquil Cove (FDN) 270
1 The Eternal Wanderer (ONE) 11
1 Jace, the Perfected Mind (ONE) 57
2 Destroy Evil (DMU) 17

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1 Get Lost (LCI) 14
1 Jace, the Perfected Mind (ONE) 57
1 Ezrim, Agency Chief (MKM) 202
2 Tishana's Tidebinder (LCI) 81
1 Temporary Lockdown (DMU) 36
1 Elspeth's Smite (MOM) 13
1 Get Lost (LCI) 14
2 Exorcise (DSK) 8
1 Loran of the Third Path (BRO) 12
1 Destroy Evil (DMU) 17
1 Beza, the Bounding Spring (BLB) 2
2 Spellgyre (BLB) 72
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal
A graphical asset in the shape of a cog. It contains the following text 'This developer assures that NO GEN AI' was used in this indie game
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
i am falling out of multiplayer games for reasons unknown to mankind
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
7 year old marquee snatched
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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · 13/02/2025
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
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Felty | ~commission open~ @feltchicken.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Psyger-0 Manga Page Redraw #シャンフロFA #shangrilafrontier
The character Psyger-0 from the manga Shangri-la Frontier
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 14/02/2025
E-rickshaws are leading “the common man’s” EV revolution restofworld.org/2025/sazgar-...
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
if i watch enough assorthair youtube shorts i will eventually manifest the capability to run good ass dyed hair styles at corporate work as a male
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
now that i am finally an adult capable of more than one thought i can play the psp game i ragequitted as a child
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/02/2025
The cool* thing about papers like this is they sort of demonstrate what happens, which is they identify an extremely serious and systemic problem underlying the technology, but then they (a) put the blame on the user and (b) propose non-systemic responses *not cool, actually very bad
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/02/2025
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 08/02/2025
Drivers for the delivery app Grab complained that Google Maps couldn’t navigate Southeast Asia’s complex and unpredictable streets. So Grab enlisted its 5 million drivers to chart the streets as they worked, creating its own, more-accurate map restofworld.org/2024/grab-go...
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
arcaded too hard my right arm hurts :(
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 04/02/2025
Filipino tech workers launched a coalition to lobby for protections as AI is deployed. The AI tools raise new risks, and the firing of a worker who spoke to Rest of World signals a “code of silence” around the impact of AI on the workplace, the group said restofworld.org/2025/code-ai...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025
we have written extensively on this very topic firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Debunking robot rights metaphysically, ethically, and legally | First Monday
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pettter, stuff scientist @pettter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Not sure if these are the kinds you're thinking of, but the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group over on Mastodon posted a list a few days ago: tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/113867... And similarly, there's Glaze and Nightshade: glaze.cs.uchicago.edu And I saw this as well: www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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ASRG (@asrg@tldr.nettime.org)
Attached: 1 image Sabot in the Age of AI Here is a curated list of strategies, offensive methods, and tactics for (algorithmic) sabotage, disruption, and deliberate poisoning. 🔻 iocaine The deadlie...
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
out of curiosity are there any mpreg fics that end up with an abortion trying to prove a point for my own bc out of 6 women that i know that like omegaverse all 6 turn out to be staunch religious 'i like gay if its not irl :)' pro lifers
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
virtua fighter 5 revo: glue eater edition twitch.tv/syncuren
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
amazing development or yet another instagram bait: instagram trap cafe playing action bronson
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sync the fogman @syncfogman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
despite the risk of being thrown off a cliff i will say that ginya and maia's cover image gives extreme yearning vibes
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
yes, and... don't call them "hallucinations". They are not living beings, they do not "hallucinate". They make up bullshit.
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