From a conceptual perspective, (not current-legal-interpretation), I think privacy can get some of the way. Assuming we define/understand privacy as extending to others' classification/definition of us/our world, not simply to 'objective' observation/monitoring (surveillance).
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Mophat and Richard launch nonprofit for African data workers rights
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Mophat and Richard who are featured in the WSJ piece have since formed a nonprofit organization Techworker Community Africa and are seeking new ways to support and advance labor rights and economic opportunities for Kenyan and African data workers. 10/ http://
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AI Industry Logic and Economic Inequality for the Majority
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In what universe is this the path toward beneficial AI for everyone? What’s happening here is a stark illustration of the logic of the AI industry and the long term economic precarity coming for all but a tiny few if we follow it to its conclusion. 6/
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Mental Health Quotient: Essential Business Metric for Companies
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Companies will soon recognize that the Employee Mental Health Quotient is as essential as revenue growth, EBITDA, and Net Promoter Score.
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Post-Singularity AI: Years Later, Confusion Continues
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Yes, we are now several years past an AI singularity, everyone is very confused, nobody seems to be able to make meaningful predictions, but things continue to happen
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Media Consensus on Deplatforming Elon Musk Raises Censorship Concerns
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In parts of the media world, there appears to be a consensus that Elon has to be completely deplatformed, and reporting positively about his companies and achievements is not acceptable
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AI is Technology Not Ideology
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You and I are saying the same thing. I just strongly disagree with the approach of telling people "Resistance is futile. Join us or die." AI is tech. It's not a cult.
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SXSW Audience Rejects Pro-AI Narrative Pushes Back
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I absolutely can't stand the narrative of "AI is here, stop resisting it and it get on board." I'm not saying there's no truth to the narrative. I just really dislike that approach to getting people on board. Here's a video of the audience at SXSW booing a pro-AI video that https://
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Beyond Enshittification: Accurate Naming for Platform Decay
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I thought the original “enshittificafion” idea was useful for illuminating a problem with platforms. I don’t think it is worth applying to everything as it obscures diverse reasons for decay: organizational inertia, AI spam, reduced capacity. Accurate naming helps solve problems
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Nuance as Bullshit: Rhetoric in Tech Discourse
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‘nuance’ is simply a French word for ‘bullshit’ (‘problematic’ = attack things we don’t want to explain, ‘nuanced’ = defend things we don’t want to explain)