resieber
@resieber.bsky.social
geoAI, ethics, citsci, GIScience, prof @ McGill
Never underestimate employers' tolerance of mediocrity
June 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Never underestimate employers' tolerance of mediocrity
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Human care reduced to five categories, three of which were deemed expendable.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
June 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Human care reduced to five categories, three of which were deemed expendable.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The squirrels in my neighborhood are so literally overburdened with food that i routinely find whole slices of pizza in roof gutters and crooks of trees. But a full sized croissant abandoned in the geraniums, that’s new!
June 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The squirrels in my neighborhood are so literally overburdened with food that i routinely find whole slices of pizza in roof gutters and crooks of trees. But a full sized croissant abandoned in the geraniums, that’s new!
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"On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demos at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference, hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project, a think tank founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is free and open to the public."
Palantir Is Going on Defense
Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.
www.wired.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demos at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference, hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project, a think tank founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is free and open to the public."
Not what's meant by human-in-the-loop www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP1t...
How Big Tech Got Scammed by an 'AI'
YouTube video by Slidebean
www.youtube.com
June 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Not what's meant by human-in-the-loop www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP1t...
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Only nine (!!!!) days left in our contract. We’re still here bargaining for a fair contract from Vox Media.
June 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Only nine (!!!!) days left in our contract. We’re still here bargaining for a fair contract from Vox Media.
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Watermelon aurora during a full moon in Alaska
June 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Watermelon aurora during a full moon in Alaska
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“I found that on Bluesky.” “People were discussing your article on Bluesky.” “Too bad I couldn’t tag you on Bluesky.”
I have become totally shameless
I have become totally shameless
June 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“I found that on Bluesky.” “People were discussing your article on Bluesky.” “Too bad I couldn’t tag you on Bluesky.”
I have become totally shameless
I have become totally shameless
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Missed Opportunities in AI Regulation: Lessons from Canada's AI and Data Act
New from me and @resieber.bsky.social for Data & Policy @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
We draw out the problems with AIDA and ways forward to shift decision-making and control from AI companies to the people!
New from me and @resieber.bsky.social for Data & Policy @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
We draw out the problems with AIDA and ways forward to shift decision-making and control from AI companies to the people!
May 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Missed Opportunities in AI Regulation: Lessons from Canada's AI and Data Act
New from me and @resieber.bsky.social for Data & Policy @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
We draw out the problems with AIDA and ways forward to shift decision-making and control from AI companies to the people!
New from me and @resieber.bsky.social for Data & Policy @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
We draw out the problems with AIDA and ways forward to shift decision-making and control from AI companies to the people!
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🌕 📷 Mapping the descent of a lunar lander, using nothing but data from an event camera – this is the next challenge presented to the space community by @esa.int’s Advanced Concepts Team 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
May 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🌕 📷 Mapping the descent of a lunar lander, using nothing but data from an event camera – this is the next challenge presented to the space community by @esa.int’s Advanced Concepts Team 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
National Science Foundation stops www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
National Science Foundation stops www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"We don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules. We don't invade our neighbours, and we don't punish them. On the contrary, there are 12 countries on the waiting list to become 🇪🇺 members.
In Europe, children can go to good schools, however wealthy their parents are"
President von der Leyen
In Europe, children can go to good schools, however wealthy their parents are"
President von der Leyen
April 17, 2025 at 6:17 AM
"We don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules. We don't invade our neighbours, and we don't punish them. On the contrary, there are 12 countries on the waiting list to become 🇪🇺 members.
In Europe, children can go to good schools, however wealthy their parents are"
President von der Leyen
In Europe, children can go to good schools, however wealthy their parents are"
President von der Leyen
Because a single hard drive for the cloud storage saves so much money.
What the..??
Why?!
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Why?!
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April 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Because a single hard drive for the cloud storage saves so much money.
Preach! This means-ends flip also shows up in AI governance: "all that is required of civic participation in AI governance is an AI literate public." Accountability? Political influence? Unnecessary.
A reminder that "literacy" is inseparable from power, and it's noteworthy how OECD defines "literacy" in ways that align with Big Tech and its demands for informed, responsible users rather than definitions situated in sociopolitical contexts and practices that make space for resistance and refusal.
Nothing really exists in education until there is an OECD test for it. So we can now expect the international "AI literacy" ranking results in 2030, in case any countries wanted yet another way to be seen to perform on a made-up education metric.
www.oecd.org/en/about/pro...
www.oecd.org/en/about/pro...
April 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Preach! This means-ends flip also shows up in AI governance: "all that is required of civic participation in AI governance is an AI literate public." Accountability? Political influence? Unnecessary.
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This dog got a little impatient waiting for his pup cup. Decided to make sure everything was going alright in there. 14/10
April 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This dog got a little impatient waiting for his pup cup. Decided to make sure everything was going alright in there. 14/10
"One can only imagine the horror the late Iain Banks would have felt on learning his legendary Culture series is a favourite of Elon Musk"
April 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"One can only imagine the horror the late Iain Banks would have felt on learning his legendary Culture series is a favourite of Elon Musk"
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Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.
Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
www.caut.ca
April 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.
Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
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🇨🇳 China imposes export controls on rare earths, threatening US tech and defense supply chains.
April 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🇨🇳 China imposes export controls on rare earths, threatening US tech and defense supply chains.
"the search product had fundamentally changed in the AI era" Let me fix that for you "the search product had fundamentally enshitified in the AI era" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’
In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow.
www.bloomberg.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"the search product had fundamentally changed in the AI era" Let me fix that for you "the search product had fundamentally enshitified in the AI era" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A geosurveillance public private partnership that you might not be aware of. Add to that questionable accountability when you have to rely on the private sector to protect your privacy www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
April 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
A geosurveillance public private partnership that you might not be aware of. Add to that questionable accountability when you have to rely on the private sector to protect your privacy www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
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"The right wing aesthetic project is to flood the zone with bullshit in order to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
April 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"The right wing aesthetic project is to flood the zone with bullshit in order to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."
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“We cannot afford to place our digital sovereignty, workers’ rights, and democratic values in the hands of a corporation that has repeatedly demonstrated hostility to the European model.”
@euronews.com covered our statement calling on the European Commission to review AWS public contracts.
@euronews.com covered our statement calling on the European Commission to review AWS public contracts.
Union asks Commission to reassess public contracts amid trade war
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hinted at a “strong plan to retaliate” to US tariffs.
www.euronews.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
“We cannot afford to place our digital sovereignty, workers’ rights, and democratic values in the hands of a corporation that has repeatedly demonstrated hostility to the European model.”
@euronews.com covered our statement calling on the European Commission to review AWS public contracts.
@euronews.com covered our statement calling on the European Commission to review AWS public contracts.