@ireti.bsky.social
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AI is parasitic on the human created web
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
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October 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
AI is parasitic on the human created web
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Saw this on Reddit last night. Have any US academics heard of problems with CITI training (human-subjects ethics training required at universities) being inaccessible?
February 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Saw this on Reddit last night. Have any US academics heard of problems with CITI training (human-subjects ethics training required at universities) being inaccessible?
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350 Rabbis took out a full page ad in the NYTimes today opposing Trump’s plan for Palestine and calling it ethnic cleansing.
February 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
350 Rabbis took out a full page ad in the NYTimes today opposing Trump’s plan for Palestine and calling it ethnic cleansing.
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“What’s happening at federal government agencies is, among other things, a stark portrait of why power seeks to automate — and why, in enterprise AI, it has found an ideal vessel for corporate and administrative automation,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social writes. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/government...
Government by Grok
How and why Elon Musk is trying to automate the federal government
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February 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“What’s happening at federal government agencies is, among other things, a stark portrait of why power seeks to automate — and why, in enterprise AI, it has found an ideal vessel for corporate and administrative automation,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social writes. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/government...
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A beautiful dispatch by D&S’s @livgar.bsky.social, @mwoluchem.bsky.social, and Joan Mukogosi about their recent research road trip through Pennsylvania, tracing the connection from the industrial past to our tech-dominated present — and uncertain future. datasociety.net/points/digit...
February 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A beautiful dispatch by D&S’s @livgar.bsky.social, @mwoluchem.bsky.social, and Joan Mukogosi about their recent research road trip through Pennsylvania, tracing the connection from the industrial past to our tech-dominated present — and uncertain future. datasociety.net/points/digit...
while I love the aesthetic quality of vinyl, cvs are significantly more practical alternatives/regressions for music listening. can artists start releasing CDs again for us to divest from these platforms?
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The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
Spotify’s plot against musicians
harpers.org
January 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
while I love the aesthetic quality of vinyl, cvs are significantly more practical alternatives/regressions for music listening. can artists start releasing CDs again for us to divest from these platforms?
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...