AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.
3 Amazon software engineers advocated that the city of Seattle pause data center buildouts leading to a unanimous vote for a 1-year moratorium on new data centers in the area.
Amazon initiated disciplinary action and now the workers are suing for retaliation.
Did they cross the line or did Amazon?
The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...
Five Amazon employees testified at Seattle City Council meetings where officials sought feedback on a year-long data center new construction pause.
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The afterlife of thought has been privatized: an infrastructure built out of accumulated dead cognition … the new haunted cemetery is the data server farm.
The full #openaccess article is freely available:
mavmatrix.uta.edu/fastcapitali...
#DataCenter #AcademicChatter #UBI #Sociology
"royalty-free knowledge" repackaged as "intelligence"
aka plagiarism.
Mar Hicks
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app was really generous with her time when i asked her for this interview for @sciam.bsky.social #sciamyoungscientists. she has a lot of prescient things to say here. take a look. www.scientificamerican.com/article/timn...
my keyboard burning because I'm sending this to so many people
napinillos.substack.com/p/the-honest...
DiveDoc
At the University of Adelaide, you can apparently do a masters in mansplaining.
A friend texted to let me know his library just got my book in, after he made a purchase request. If you can, please ask your university or local library to also purchase the book!
dukeupress.edu/the-business...
The great American brain drain could define science for a generation
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This essay presents a novel Marxist theory of artificial intelligence (AI) as the latest expansive form of dead labor. Drawing on Marx’s Grundrisse (1993 [1973]), I argue that modern AI systems functi...
1/ Large language models are "dead cognitive labor" … reanimated. These models are built from years of collective thought; a stockpile of uncredited and uncompensated work. And then the output of this reanimated labor is sold back to us. 🧵 @scottsantens.com #UBI #agenticAI
