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🔗 linkblog: Le système de bonus social à la chinoise menacerait-il des démocraties comme la Suisse?
C’est bien inquiétant, cette idée de social scoring. Jacques Ellul trouverait beaucoup à critiquer. Et ce n’est pas le seul—j’ai beaucoup aimé ce resumé des critiques d’Adam Knight, à l’Université de Leyden:
En réduisant les personnes à des profils algorithmiques, cela menacerait la vie privée, l’égalité et les procédures régulières. Ce n’est pas juste la surveillance qui est à craindre, mais également une “discrimination automatisée”, estime le chercheur.
🔗 linkblog: Quand les vacances scolaires deviennent un casse-tête pour les parents
Cet été, j’ai beaucoup réfléchi sur combien mon travail de prof rend bien plus facile la vie de parent pendant les vacances scolaires.
🔗 linkblog: Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up – The Markup
This problem makes me so angry, and while I appreciate this article’s exploration of different policy solutions, they also feel overwhelming to me because so many of them come with problems of their own.
🔗 linkblog: Radio Télévision Suisse La bataille perdue par Genève contre les locations Airbnb illégales
J’avoue que je fais partie du problème, vu que j’ai souvent loué des Airbnb, y compris lors de mon dernier déplacement en Europe.
Pourtant, vu les bêtises qui se déroulent actuellement aux É.-U., il m’est arrivé récemment de regarder les loyers à Genève, et j’ai pu voir combien la pénurie des logements pose un problème pour les locataires. Je dois revoir ma relation avec les Airbnb…
🔗 linkblog: Reddit turns 20, and it’s going big on AI
Reddit is a really interesting example of digital labor issues as they relate to both social media and AI. I wonder how things will go over the next few years.
🔗 linkblog: Radio Télévision Suisse A Neuchâtel aussi, les téléphones portables seront interdits à l'école obligatoire
Bon, je comprends ces soucis, mais je ne suis pas sûr que de telles interdictions soient la bonne réponse. Pourtant, vu que je suis plus ouvert à une interdiction de l’IA à l’école, il faut que je développe un peu plus ma philosophie ici.
🔗 linkblog: Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos
What. The. Hell. Is. This. Nonsense.
🔗 linkblog: Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony
The Onion has once again done what only The Onion can do.
🔗 linkblog: Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time
Fanfiction is one of the most compelling examples of the labor issues related to generative AI.
🔗 linkblog: GOP Lawmakers Clarify Their Hate-Filled Rhetoric Only Meant To Stoke Fundraising
The Mike Lee banner picture is perfect.
🔗 linkblog: The LDS historical department just published an 1886 polygamy revelation
This is a big story, and I’m surprised it hasn’t gotten more news, even if it is a recent development.
🔗 linkblog: Teachers Are Not OK
Bookmarked this a while ago and am finally reading it. So infuriating.
🔗 linkblog: Noem Announces Military Will ‘Liberate’ LA From Democracy, Then Watches Security Throw Senator To Ground
Finally read the full quote from Noem and it’s so bad. Scary times.
🔗 linkblog: A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
So scary, so gross. Lexington needs to ditch Flock now.
🔗 linkblog: Doing Justice by Providing Sabbath for Others
Lots of interesting ideas in here. Certainly a different approach to “Sabbath” than the one I grew up with.
🔗 linkblog: ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock sucks, and I’m so mad that Lexington drank the Kool-Aid instead of resisting local surveillance. Just wrote my city council representative, the vice mayor, and the two at-large representatives.
🔗 linkblog: The Internet of Consent - Anil Dash
Lots of good observations in here, and I need to think through the implications for digital methods research.
🔗 linkblog: Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
The sheer hubris of this attitude! The AI industry must exist, even if it means that it will put others out of business, and therefore any moral standard that would put the AI industry out of business must be abandoned. Very Ellulian.
🔗 linkblog: Kentucky’s Bitcoin Boom Has Gone Bust
I somehow missed a lot of this history, so I’m bookmarking this for future reference.