@sansaldo.bsky.social
Lecturer and researcher UAH (Chile). PhD, University of Cambridge. Media, Education and Tech. Inglés and spanish.
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👀ICYMI: @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social warns the same switching costs that kept academics on Twitter/X could develop on Bluesky.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did
Commercial platforms and social media companies are designed to maximise switching costs in order to retain users. Reflecting on the rise of Bluesky, Mark Carrigan warns the same market dynamics co…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
👀ICYMI: @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social warns the same switching costs that kept academics on Twitter/X could develop on Bluesky.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
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An Israeli social media trend shows people prank-calling family members, pretending to seek donations for Palestinian children, to mock their suffering in Gaza.
March 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
An Israeli social media trend shows people prank-calling family members, pretending to seek donations for Palestinian children, to mock their suffering in Gaza.
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Theories I’ve seen for why Musk etc are cutting federal jobs so randomly & irresponsibly are mostly (a) to replace jobs with AI, (b) to force privatization by breaking everything, or (c) sheer ignorance/incompetence. I suspect a mix of all 3, but the disregard for lives in the meantime is sickening.
February 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Theories I’ve seen for why Musk etc are cutting federal jobs so randomly & irresponsibly are mostly (a) to replace jobs with AI, (b) to force privatization by breaking everything, or (c) sheer ignorance/incompetence. I suspect a mix of all 3, but the disregard for lives in the meantime is sickening.
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No country is immune to the far right.
No country is immune to the normalization of the far right.
No country is immune to the normalization of the far right.
January 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
No country is immune to the far right.
No country is immune to the normalization of the far right.
No country is immune to the normalization of the far right.
Mientras más conocemos sobre IA menos nos gusta.
This article about higher AI literacy leading to more skepticism is making the rounds.
This is why Humane Intelligence hosts public and expert red teaming. Critical thinking skills are developed when people are provided with the tools to critique. 1/
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is why Humane Intelligence hosts public and expert red teaming. Critical thinking skills are developed when people are provided with the tools to critique. 1/
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
EXPRESS: Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity - Stephanie Tully, Chiara Longoni, Gil Appel,
As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms society, understanding factors that influence AI receptivity is increasingly important. The current research investig...
journals.sagepub.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Mientras más conocemos sobre IA menos nos gusta.
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What is unique about our new dashboard for tracking media labelled as misleading or manipulated on X is its ability to display Community Notes that haven't yet met the criteria and are not visible to the public on the platform. cn.deepfakestracker.org
January 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
What is unique about our new dashboard for tracking media labelled as misleading or manipulated on X is its ability to display Community Notes that haven't yet met the criteria and are not visible to the public on the platform. cn.deepfakestracker.org
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A few weeks ago @emollick.bsky.social hyped this alleged study showing positive impact of AI in Nigerian education. Mercifully @ddmeyer.bsky.social has dug into what's really happening so I don't have to, and unsurprisingly, it's a crock. We need to do better. open.substack.com/pub/danmeyer...
January 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A few weeks ago @emollick.bsky.social hyped this alleged study showing positive impact of AI in Nigerian education. Mercifully @ddmeyer.bsky.social has dug into what's really happening so I don't have to, and unsurprisingly, it's a crock. We need to do better. open.substack.com/pub/danmeyer...
Este debate es complejo y de discusión polarizante, pero este es un buen artículo: "En lugar de afrontar la variedad de efectos de todo este cambio social, económico y tecnológico, Haidt nos ofrece un sentido estrecho y disecado de lo social".
I wrote about all the ways Jonathan Haidt gets it wrong and how early Haidt would not have been happy with later Haidt.
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health?
Jonathan Haidt once heralded an “ultrasocial” world. Now he’s one of social media’s most prominent critics.
newrepublic.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Este debate es complejo y de discusión polarizante, pero este es un buen artículo: "En lugar de afrontar la variedad de efectos de todo este cambio social, económico y tecnológico, Haidt nos ofrece un sentido estrecho y disecado de lo social".
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Si con la foto de la toma de posesión de Trump, donde los señoros billonarios de las Big Tech fueron colocados por delante del equipo de gobierno, nuestra clase política no entiende porque defendemos la necesidad de una #DigitalizaciónDemocrática, apaga y vámonos.
January 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Si con la foto de la toma de posesión de Trump, donde los señoros billonarios de las Big Tech fueron colocados por delante del equipo de gobierno, nuestra clase política no entiende porque defendemos la necesidad de una #DigitalizaciónDemocrática, apaga y vámonos.
La táctica es inundar de tonteras para poder hacer las maldades.
6,000 stories about Trump's fake invasion of canada
4 stories about Trump's concrete, court-approved plan to dismantle the entirety of U.S. consumer protection
4 stories about Trump's concrete, court-approved plan to dismantle the entirety of U.S. consumer protection
January 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
La táctica es inundar de tonteras para poder hacer las maldades.
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Deeply creepy move on the part of Meta. The vibes are horrible. Like something out of a horror movie, and especially with a side of actual POC, or queer folks, or queer POC getting replaced by bots that are presumably supposed to puppet identities in stereotyped/stereotyping or superficial way.
Meta is testing, or has started to ship, its AI generated profiles, here on Instagram
www.instagram.com/himamaliv
#SocialWeb
www.instagram.com/himamaliv
#SocialWeb
January 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Deeply creepy move on the part of Meta. The vibes are horrible. Like something out of a horror movie, and especially with a side of actual POC, or queer folks, or queer POC getting replaced by bots that are presumably supposed to puppet identities in stereotyped/stereotyping or superficial way.
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Meta is testing, or has started to ship, its AI generated profiles, here on Instagram
www.instagram.com/himamaliv
#SocialWeb
www.instagram.com/himamaliv
#SocialWeb
January 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Meta is testing, or has started to ship, its AI generated profiles, here on Instagram
www.instagram.com/himamaliv
#SocialWeb
www.instagram.com/himamaliv
#SocialWeb
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I don't want my fridge to have a camera or Wi-Fi. I don't want my dishwasher to be smart. I don't want my washing machine to text me.
In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.
In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.
January 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I don't want my fridge to have a camera or Wi-Fi. I don't want my dishwasher to be smart. I don't want my washing machine to text me.
In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.
In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.
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Pivoting to video, then metaverse, then AI destroyed more trust than they’ve created but I’m not a billionaire capitulating to the dumbest fucking authoritarians history has ever seen.
"We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the U.S," Mark Zuckerberg announces
He asserts that "the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S."
He asserts that "the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S."
January 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Pivoting to video, then metaverse, then AI destroyed more trust than they’ve created but I’m not a billionaire capitulating to the dumbest fucking authoritarians history has ever seen.
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“It simply becomes accepted that rights are not bestowed by humanity, but by the parties who decide who is human… If they must die, let it be a crime.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik
It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 3:21 PM
“It simply becomes accepted that rights are not bestowed by humanity, but by the parties who decide who is human… If they must die, let it be a crime.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I made a couple of explainer images about AI you can send to the old people in your family. Ask them to write letters to their MPs telling them to stop rolling out the red carpet for these grifters.
December 19, 2024 at 11:50 AM
I made a couple of explainer images about AI you can send to the old people in your family. Ask them to write letters to their MPs telling them to stop rolling out the red carpet for these grifters.
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📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature
A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...
nature.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM
📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
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Taylor Owen, Director of The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University, writes that the merger of state and tech power is a fundamental challenge to democratic governance in the digital age.
On the Coming Merger of Tech and State Power | TechPolicy.Press
Taylor Owen writes that the merger of state and tech power is a fundamental challenge to democratic governance in the digital age.
www.techpolicy.press
November 27, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Taylor Owen, Director of The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University, writes that the merger of state and tech power is a fundamental challenge to democratic governance in the digital age.
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I am glad I left when I did.
"Elon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X." www.mediaite.com/news/elon-mu...
"Elon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X." www.mediaite.com/news/elon-mu...
Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links — Effectively Limiting People From Reading News
Musk confirmed that posts containing links are deprioritized, renewing criticism that the platform is restricting access to external sources of information.
www.mediaite.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:07 PM
I am glad I left when I did.
"Elon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X." www.mediaite.com/news/elon-mu...
"Elon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X." www.mediaite.com/news/elon-mu...
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New article with @jnelz.bsky.social, where we make the case for labour-focused journalism education: shorturl.at/4tLW9
November 27, 2024 at 2:41 PM
New article with @jnelz.bsky.social, where we make the case for labour-focused journalism education: shorturl.at/4tLW9
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Harari (2024): "Throughout this book, 'truth' is understood as something that accurately represents reality"
Four pages later:
"No account of reality is 100 percent accurate"
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Four pages later:
"No account of reality is 100 percent accurate"
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November 30, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Harari (2024): "Throughout this book, 'truth' is understood as something that accurately represents reality"
Four pages later:
"No account of reality is 100 percent accurate"
🤷♂️
Four pages later:
"No account of reality is 100 percent accurate"
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Researchers working in critical edtech studies - just over 2 weeks to send proposals for our conference in Zurich next June. Help build a community of critical edtech research. Especially hope it appeals to doctoral and early career researchers www.de.ed.ac.uk/news/call-ab...
November 28, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Researchers working in critical edtech studies - just over 2 weeks to send proposals for our conference in Zurich next June. Help build a community of critical edtech research. Especially hope it appeals to doctoral and early career researchers www.de.ed.ac.uk/news/call-ab...
Estaremos hablando de políticas educacionales, comunicación y mediatización. No se lo pierda! fcei.uchile.cl/agenda/22299...
November 28, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Estaremos hablando de políticas educacionales, comunicación y mediatización. No se lo pierda! fcei.uchile.cl/agenda/22299...