cyberlyra

cyberlyra, 3 days ago to random

Zomg they just went ahead and ingested McSweeneys, the Onion, and all the Reddit shitposts…. Hold my beer, Google “A.I.” 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

cyberlyra, 16 days ago to space

As someone who keeps her children (born and unborn) away from data detection, I know how catastrophic the #MOMS bill’s national #pregnancy database is.

But I am also a scholar who studies #NASA, so I know a government handout bill when I see one.

Look past the website to Title II, section 1a, eligibility for government grants for maternal support.

This is a #handout for pro-life nonprofits, with restrictions against funding for orgs like #PlannedParenthood , dressed up as maternal support.

cyberlyra, 17 days ago to canucks

Go #Canucks!! #HNOM #StanleyCupPlayoffs 🏒 🥅 🍁

cyberlyra, 19 days ago to stackoverflow

In the history of data, reuse is a constant. In human history, regime change is a constant.

Hence the extractive repurposing going on at #stackoverflow, #github & #reddit to feed AI and take over your jobs. (And countless injustices, like DACA used for ICE, Nazis using invaded country birth records to find Jews, etc).

This is the true “tragedy of the commons”: upon hostile acquisition, what was once a gift indicating membership, care, and community is liable to unethical extraction.

cyberlyra, 29 days ago to random

The age of Google is over. The next great search engine must needs filter out LLM-generated sludge and actually privilege information instead of content.

cyberlyra, 1 month ago to random

Start here by deleting everything Google thinks it knows about you.

https://www.theverge.com/24141741/google-data-delete-how-to

Then pick up with my tips for Google free living.

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-best-non-google-search-engine/

It’s so much better out here without a data-sucking behemoth controlling everything you see, flooding your search results with spam and injecting the internet with LLM-generated sludge. Bonus, if you leave, your data stops contributing to serious ethical problems.

Thanks for @Em0nM4stodon for passing The Verge’s How To along.

cyberlyra, 1 month ago to random

Just read @Wolven ‘s great essay, “What it’s like to be a bot.” A terrific post-phenomenological take down of the Turing Test drawing on STS, epistemology and ethics.

“If there is no one configuration of physical form and experiential knowledge that gives rise to consciousness, there cannot be any single test for consciousness either.” [insert Philosophy mic-drop]

https://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/

cyberlyra, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Triste nyheder fra Danmark— København, vi elsker dig! 💔🇩🇰 🐉

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68824189

cyberlyra, 1 month ago to random

Ham radio meets 5G connectivity. How much do I want to set this up? So, so much.

FYI @inquiline

https://winlink.org/

cyberlyra, 1 month ago to random

My new op Ed in @techpolicypress

AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced companies and workforces for decades, writes Princeton University sociologist Janet Vertesi:

https://www.techpolicy.press/dont-be-fooled-much-ai-is-just-outsourcing-redux/

cyberlyra, 1 month ago to random

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68727857

Google may charge for access to “premium” AI-generated content? 😂😂😂

I mean, how much would you pay to avoid all that garbage? Personally, I just bought an encyclopedia…

On the bright side, now “Premium AI-generated content” has become my new favorite oxymoron. Up there with jumbo shrimp.

cyberlyra, 1 month ago to opensource

#hci peeps, who's written about the capture of #opensource systems by industry and for-profit companies? Asking for a grant application ...

cyberlyra, 2 months ago to random

Wrote a paper today.
Still got it.

cyberlyra, 2 months ago to random

So excited to see this excerpt (and book) from my colleague Ben Shestakovsky. His work among VC unicorns is exemplary for sociologists looking to study tech firms ethnographically to see how they tick.

And, surprise surprise, in this case hypergrowth took over the firm's day-to-day operations such that they hired Philippine workers offshore to simulate the AI that the system was supposed to include...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/unicorn-startup

cyberlyra, 2 months ago to NextLevel

Your shoe needs a firmware upgrade.

Please hold while we establish an insecure Bluetooth connection and share your contacts and local network access details to UnderArmour.

(Rofl @pluralistic #nextlevel #enshittification officially unlocked)

cyberlyra, 2 months ago to random

On Pi day I remember my lifelong friend, Peter Borwein, who along with his brother Jon was a leader in computation of π‘s many decimal places using algorithmic tools. Peter babysat for me as an infant, I babysat for his kids, and his daughter babysat for mine. Jon gave me a summer RA job in history of math as an undergrad. Peter died in 2000 of MS, which he battled his whole life, Jon passed unexpectedly a few years before. Gone too soon, and dearly missed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Borwein

cyberlyra, 2 months ago to random

So happy to see all this great work on cars and data brokerage by @mozilla and @kashhill ! I fully intend to drive my old, pre-connected, non-cloud-or-gps-enabled, simless stick-shift into the ground, and when I go electric it will be because I finally retrofitted a classic VW Beetle with batteries. Not adverse to environmentally friendly options, just the surveillance and “connectivity” that comes with today’s data-tracking excuses for “cars.” 😮

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

cyberlyra, 2 months ago to random

Attendees of Princeton’s decentralized social media conference last week may enjoy this piece, by my colleague (and former grad schoolmate) the incomparable @inquiline

@andresmh @mako @ntnsndr @evan etc

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

cyberlyra, 2 months ago to random

@zephoria and I wrote a joint paper about our work at NASA and at the Census bureau, on how withholding resources to govt technical agencies under the banner of “efficiency” undermines their legitimacy, even without a major catastrophe. #STS scholars and #sociologists, it’s #Failure in New Institutionalism meets Failure in #sociotechnical systems.

This one is open access — enjoy :)

https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/18894

cyberlyra, 3 months ago to random

Our new #encyclopedia just arrived and the kids and I are giddy with excitement. Enough AI generated garbage is sludging up the internet that Google is no longer a research tool, just a portal to BS. #optout #neoLuddism

cyberlyra, 3 months ago to random

It is dawning on me that getting older is hard in a lot of unexpected ways, and also that it appears to get harder as you get older.

cyberlyra, 3 months ago to random

https://therecord.media/broker-sold-planned-parenthood-data-wyden

cyberlyra, 3 months ago to random

I am writing a book about nasa and funding mechanisms and I keep slipping up and typing OMG instead of OMB, the Office of Management and Budget. In case this eventually makes it past proofs and copy edits, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

cyberlyra, 3 months ago to random

#hachyderm what is our server’s position on federation with Bluesky and Threads? Can someone point me to the conversation if I have missed it? Thx

cyberlyra, 3 months ago to random

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/san-francisco-polices-live-surveillance-yields-almost-200-hours-spying-including

Apparently San Franciscans have an opportunity to vote against this kind of activity? Please exercise your democratic right to ensure we still have some democratic rights.