Pedro Maia
@pdsmaia.bsky.social
Postdoc Skema Business School | STS, tech, AI, security and democracy | My opinions | RTs ≠ endorsement | He/Him
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Virada de ano de mineiro é outro naipe
January 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Virada de ano de mineiro é outro naipe
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Ninguna experiencia es individual en Latinoamérica
feliz natal pessoal já coloquei uma roupa nova pra ficar sentada na sala
December 24, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Ninguna experiencia es individual en Latinoamérica
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DATA VAMPIRES is a four-part series digging into the costs of hyperscale data centers and why tech billionaires are so desperate to build more.
In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/241_...
In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/241_...
October 7, 2024 at 2:15 PM
DATA VAMPIRES is a four-part series digging into the costs of hyperscale data centers and why tech billionaires are so desperate to build more.
In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/241_...
In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/241_...
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Signal alone is not enough. If you are an activist, you need a complete self-defense against surveillance. @eff.org has been maintaining these resources for years: ssd.eff.org
November 26, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Signal alone is not enough. If you are an activist, you need a complete self-defense against surveillance. @eff.org has been maintaining these resources for years: ssd.eff.org
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Delighted to share the 2nd of 3 faculty openings in the Dept. of Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado Boulder. If you're focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA, please consider applying. It's a tenured or tenure-track OPEN-RANK search. Deadline: Dec. 10 |
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Professor in Environmental Media Studies
jobs.colorado.edu
November 16, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Delighted to share the 2nd of 3 faculty openings in the Dept. of Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado Boulder. If you're focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA, please consider applying. It's a tenured or tenure-track OPEN-RANK search. Deadline: Dec. 10 |
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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Published today, my insight for GNET analyzing the alarming growth of Neo-Nazi ideology among Brazilian youth :)
gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/t...
gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/t...
Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil’s Online Extremist Landscape - GNET
gnet-research.org
November 22, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Published today, my insight for GNET analyzing the alarming growth of Neo-Nazi ideology among Brazilian youth :)
gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/t...
gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/t...
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Lesley Stahl reports on the growing market of “humans in the loop” — workers around the world who help train AI for big American tech companies. They say they face poor working conditions, low pay, and undertreated psychological trauma. Sunday on 60 ⏱️
November 22, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Lesley Stahl reports on the growing market of “humans in the loop” — workers around the world who help train AI for big American tech companies. They say they face poor working conditions, low pay, and undertreated psychological trauma. Sunday on 60 ⏱️
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An Update on Research Data Management at the Institute
After a fruitful open access week (4 events with Catherine Brendow, including a discussion with department heads about a future policy), it is time for us to focus back on Open Data and Research Data Management. Here is what's happening at the…
After a fruitful open access week (4 events with Catherine Brendow, including a discussion with department heads about a future policy), it is time for us to focus back on Open Data and Research Data Management. Here is what's happening at the…
An Update on Research Data Management at the Institute
After a fruitful open access week (4 events with Catherine Brendow, including a discussion with department heads about a future policy), it is time for us to focus back on Open Data and Research Data Management. Here is what's happening at the Institute around research data support, mostly through the collaboration of the Library and the Tech Hub.
libraryblog.graduateinstitute.ch
November 22, 2024 at 9:05 AM
An Update on Research Data Management at the Institute
After a fruitful open access week (4 events with Catherine Brendow, including a discussion with department heads about a future policy), it is time for us to focus back on Open Data and Research Data Management. Here is what's happening at the…
After a fruitful open access week (4 events with Catherine Brendow, including a discussion with department heads about a future policy), it is time for us to focus back on Open Data and Research Data Management. Here is what's happening at the…
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Musk Tracker:
• Elon Musk Is Positioning X Behind the New Trump Presidency (NYT)
• Elon Musk Net Worth Tops $300 Billion (Bloomberg)
• How tech leaders tied to Musk hope to steer the Trump administration (Washington Post)
• Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky (Axios)
• Elon Musk Is Positioning X Behind the New Trump Presidency (NYT)
• Elon Musk Net Worth Tops $300 Billion (Bloomberg)
• How tech leaders tied to Musk hope to steer the Trump administration (Washington Post)
• Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky (Axios)
Tracking Elon Musk’s Political Activities | TechPolicy.Press
A roundup of articles and information related to the billionaire owner of X's political activities since his endorsement of former President Donald Trump.
www.techpolicy.press
November 9, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Musk Tracker:
• Elon Musk Is Positioning X Behind the New Trump Presidency (NYT)
• Elon Musk Net Worth Tops $300 Billion (Bloomberg)
• How tech leaders tied to Musk hope to steer the Trump administration (Washington Post)
• Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky (Axios)
• Elon Musk Is Positioning X Behind the New Trump Presidency (NYT)
• Elon Musk Net Worth Tops $300 Billion (Bloomberg)
• How tech leaders tied to Musk hope to steer the Trump administration (Washington Post)
• Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky (Axios)
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Of course this would happen
New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action www.404media.co/someone-put-...
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home...
www.404media.co
October 2, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Of course this would happen
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New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action www.404media.co/someone-put-...
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home...
www.404media.co
October 2, 2024 at 1:34 PM
New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action www.404media.co/someone-put-...
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Yes, but as I explained to students in my Phil of Science class, “truth” and “objectivity” in Journalism are NOT the same things as “truth” and “objectivity” in the sciences (both of which are Not Good) and the cultural conflation of the two is very dangerous.
I think that’s why the one time Vance panicked was when it seemed like they would fact check him, because their party fact checking is death to a liar. Luckily for him the modern American press no longer really sees establishing truth as their job. It was a whim that passed.
October 2, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Yes, but as I explained to students in my Phil of Science class, “truth” and “objectivity” in Journalism are NOT the same things as “truth” and “objectivity” in the sciences (both of which are Not Good) and the cultural conflation of the two is very dangerous.
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“…researchers found some models flagged videos for police intervention relatively less often in neighborhoods where most residents are white, controlling for other factors. This shows that the models exhibit inherent biases influenced by the demographics of a neighborhood the researchers say.”
Study: AI could lead to inconsistent outcomes in home surveillance
MIT researchers find large language models apply different norms when deciding whether similar home surveillance videos show a crime and whether the police should be called. The models often recommend...
news.mit.edu
September 19, 2024 at 11:33 AM
“…researchers found some models flagged videos for police intervention relatively less often in neighborhoods where most residents are white, controlling for other factors. This shows that the models exhibit inherent biases influenced by the demographics of a neighborhood the researchers say.”
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Following the most significant far-right violence in the UK in a decade, sparked by the Southport attack, new research from ISD and CASM Technology provides a quantitative analysis of the role of far-right Telegram channels in mobilising riots. www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
Quantifying extremism: A data-driven analysis of UK riot-related far-right Telegram networks
This Dispatch demonstrates how far-right extremists leveraged a range of mainstream and smaller ‘alt-tech’ social media platforms in the wake of the Southport attack to grow their following, promote h...
www.isdglobal.org
September 13, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Following the most significant far-right violence in the UK in a decade, sparked by the Southport attack, new research from ISD and CASM Technology provides a quantitative analysis of the role of far-right Telegram channels in mobilising riots. www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
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Tal trabalho heteromado é muitas vezes tornado invisível para a não devida compensação dos seus trabalhadores, como é o caso do Amazon MTurk, ou por ações que beiram a ilegalidade como é o caso da Infraestrutura Humana da Desinformação. +
September 11, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Tal trabalho heteromado é muitas vezes tornado invisível para a não devida compensação dos seus trabalhadores, como é o caso do Amazon MTurk, ou por ações que beiram a ilegalidade como é o caso da Infraestrutura Humana da Desinformação. +
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Eu e o @alexandreorrico.nucleo.jor.br bolamos uma lista de 5 ferramentas imperdíveis pra usar com o Bluesky, coisas que nós mesmos utilizamos no dia a dia.
nucleo.jor.br/recomendacoe...
nucleo.jor.br/recomendacoe...
5 ferramentas show de bola para usar com o Bluesky
Dá pra fazer muita coisa legal quando plataformas digitais permitem que outras aplicações acessem seus dados
nucleo.jor.br
September 11, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Eu e o @alexandreorrico.nucleo.jor.br bolamos uma lista de 5 ferramentas imperdíveis pra usar com o Bluesky, coisas que nós mesmos utilizamos no dia a dia.
nucleo.jor.br/recomendacoe...
nucleo.jor.br/recomendacoe...
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"By linking [magic and technology] deliberately in how they talk about algorithms, the tech industry tries to manipulate people’s perceptions of algorithms in order to deflect attention and calls for accountability away from their own already immense power." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Conjuring algorithms: Understanding the tech industry as stage magicians - Peter Nagy, Gina Neff, 2024
In this article, we introduce the term “conjuration of algorithms” to describe how the tech industry uses the language of magic to shape people’s perceptions of...
journals.sagepub.com
September 1, 2024 at 7:32 PM
"By linking [magic and technology] deliberately in how they talk about algorithms, the tech industry tries to manipulate people’s perceptions of algorithms in order to deflect attention and calls for accountability away from their own already immense power." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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NEW WORK ALERT! We (me + Isadora Cruxên, Angeles Martinez Cuba, Helena Suárez Val, Amelia Dogan & Natasha Ansari) are thrilled to announce the publication of our paper 📢📢Geographies of missing data: Spatializing counterdata production against feminicide 📢📢 dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263... 1/11
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September 8, 2024 at 11:26 AM
NEW WORK ALERT! We (me + Isadora Cruxên, Angeles Martinez Cuba, Helena Suárez Val, Amelia Dogan & Natasha Ansari) are thrilled to announce the publication of our paper 📢📢Geographies of missing data: Spatializing counterdata production against feminicide 📢📢 dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263... 1/11
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Pensando aqui
Dá pra sonhar com Vini Jr ganhando a Bola de Ouro e o filme da Fernanda Torres (ou ela) ganhando um Oscar.
Aí é ponto facultativo no país
Bandeira amarrada no corpo e “eeeeeeeuuuu sou brasileirooooooo”
Dá pra sonhar com Vini Jr ganhando a Bola de Ouro e o filme da Fernanda Torres (ou ela) ganhando um Oscar.
Aí é ponto facultativo no país
Bandeira amarrada no corpo e “eeeeeeeuuuu sou brasileirooooooo”
September 6, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Pensando aqui
Dá pra sonhar com Vini Jr ganhando a Bola de Ouro e o filme da Fernanda Torres (ou ela) ganhando um Oscar.
Aí é ponto facultativo no país
Bandeira amarrada no corpo e “eeeeeeeuuuu sou brasileirooooooo”
Dá pra sonhar com Vini Jr ganhando a Bola de Ouro e o filme da Fernanda Torres (ou ela) ganhando um Oscar.
Aí é ponto facultativo no país
Bandeira amarrada no corpo e “eeeeeeeuuuu sou brasileirooooooo”
Muito louco escrever isso, mas na quarta-feira eu defendo minha tese de doutorado.
O nome dela é “Prefiguration and GIS Interfaces: affects, politics and decision-making”. Se você estiver interessado, a defesa vai ser híbrida e pode ser acompanhada pelo link disponível no endereço abaixo.
O nome dela é “Prefiguration and GIS Interfaces: affects, politics and decision-making”. Se você estiver interessado, a defesa vai ser híbrida e pode ser acompanhada pelo link disponível no endereço abaixo.
The thesis defences are open to the public
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September 2, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Muito louco escrever isso, mas na quarta-feira eu defendo minha tese de doutorado.
O nome dela é “Prefiguration and GIS Interfaces: affects, politics and decision-making”. Se você estiver interessado, a defesa vai ser híbrida e pode ser acompanhada pelo link disponível no endereço abaixo.
O nome dela é “Prefiguration and GIS Interfaces: affects, politics and decision-making”. Se você estiver interessado, a defesa vai ser híbrida e pode ser acompanhada pelo link disponível no endereço abaixo.
A democracia brasileira foi atacada em 8 de janeiro de 2023. No meu novo artigo para Tactical Tech, exploro como as plataformas da Meta desempenharam um papel crucial na disseminação de desinformação antes, durante e depois das eleições de 2022. Leia mais:
Um conto cautelar: A Democracia Brasileira, distúrbios antidemocráticos
e as plataformas da Meta
O pesquisador Pedro Maia, utilizando o Influence Industry Explorer
como base, discute as conexões entre as plataformas da Meta, as eleições
presidenciais brasileiras de 2018 e 2022 e a democracia no B...
influenceindustry.org
June 5, 2024 at 12:18 PM
A democracia brasileira foi atacada em 8 de janeiro de 2023. No meu novo artigo para Tactical Tech, exploro como as plataformas da Meta desempenharam um papel crucial na disseminação de desinformação antes, durante e depois das eleições de 2022. Leia mais:
Proud to share my latest article for Tactical Tech on January 8, the Brazilian democracy and the anti-democratic riots. In this piece, I investigate how Meta's platforms contributed to the spread of misinformation leading up to these events and during the 2022 elections
A Cautionary Tale: Brazilian democracy, anti-democratic riots, and
Meta’s platforms
Researcher Pedro Maia relates, using the Influence Industry
Explorer as a foundation, the role of Meta platforms during the 2018 and 2022
presidential elections in Brazil.
influenceindustry.org
June 5, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Proud to share my latest article for Tactical Tech on January 8, the Brazilian democracy and the anti-democratic riots. In this piece, I investigate how Meta's platforms contributed to the spread of misinformation leading up to these events and during the 2022 elections