ubiquity75

@ubiquity75@dair-community.social

Professor, researcher, writer, teacher. I care about #contentmoderation, #tech, #digitallabor, the state of the world. I like animals and #synthesizers and games (#ttrpg; #boardgames; #videogames). On the internet since 1993. Mac user since they came out. I like old computers and OSes. I love #cooking. Siouxsie is my queen.

Los Angeles/Tovangaar-based white settler. Gay lady.

I wrote an entire book on content moderation called Behind the Screen. Now might be an interesting time to read it.

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emilymbender, to random
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This article by @willknight has some good points in it, but also some real howlers.

Starting with the good: A clear take-down of the ridiculous interactive fiction session at the UN's "AI for Good" (ugh) conference where people "spoke with" robots.

Knight writes: "But despite the well-known limitations of such bots, the robots’ replies were reported as if they were the meaningful opinions of autonomous, intelligent entities."

>>

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-dont-ask-dumb-robots-whether-ai-will-destroy-humanity/?

ubiquity75,

@emilymbender @willknight Basic unpacking of what it means to think or to be sentient seems to be eluding many.

ubiquity75, to random

Does anyone know how I might access a copy of the “Orecchio” article from Red Herring’s April 1999 issue (an April Fool’s edition)?

aral, to random
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

If there is even a single gram of truth to this…

Any instance that goes along with such a thing will be lost to surveillance capitalism. I don’t care how large they are or who they are, any instance that becomes Meta’s bitch should be defederated immediately by all others. Let the largest few get swallowed up whole by Silicon Valley if they’re dumb enough to do it. The rest of us will rebuild.

I really hope no one is stupid enough to take Meta up on this if it’s true. https://beach.city/@vantablack/110594120842443355

ubiquity75,

@aral This is awesome.

ubiquity75,

@aral Well, that’s something that would be interesting to discuss!

ubiquity75, to random

The simplified Mandarin edition of Behind the Screen is out, and it’s lovely. It’s been released by the Guangdong People’s Publishing House.

The epigraph page, with the Mandarin translation of the English-language epigraph. It reads, “‘Human-Computer Interaction’ — I mean, what other kind is there? —Dr. Christine Pawley, 2009”
A two-page spread from inside the simplified Mandarin edition of Behind the Screen.

ubiquity75, to random

It’s important to keep the internet full of erroneous information, conspiracies, and confusion ahead of the next federal elections; otherwise, Jim Jordan’s allies don’t stand a chance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/technology/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html

ubiquity75, to random

These Governors should be arrested for human trafficking.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/busload-of-migrants-arrives-in-los-angeles-from-texas/3170652/?amp=1

ubiquity75, to random

These governors are criminal human traffickers.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/busload-of-migrants-arrives-in-los-angeles-from-texas/3170652/?amp=1

ubiquity75, to random

It doesn’t take much of anything to threaten the powers that be. So very little, in fact, that it makes me have hope - probably the very opposite of what was intended by the destruction of this public artwork.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/chevron-destroyed-public-art-piece-richmond-california-1234671032/

ubiquity75,

@tomstoneham That didn’t go unnoticed. Despicable.

ubiquity75, to random

The first 15-20 minutes of doing email is deleting crap emails.

ubiquity75,

@ferricoxide s a t a n

ubiquity75, to random

“You don’t know what it was like with Adam and I.” —the first few minutes of The Crowded Room. groan

ubiquity75, to random

Reply guy syndrome is worse here than elsewhere.

tamigraph, to random

Text from a friend: “What is female heterosexuality if not Berlant’s cruel optimism”

ubiquity75,

@tamigraph APPLAUSE

ubiquity75, to random

As usual, NPR’s reporting on Erdogan’s “re-election” is an absolute joke.

ubiquity75,

@marquisedewhat Yep. Fear.

ubiquity75,

He’s just a regular president guy, presidenting once again, calling for all Turks to unite, which is definitely not a call for ethnic animus against, oh, I dunno, the Kurds. And definitely isn’t heard as a threat by many dissidents. Cool.

ubiquity75,

@marquisedewhat @every “Quick! It’s coming over the wire!” runs to machine to watch the teletype compose the message as it received it

ubiquity75, to random

Capital’s project and fundamental tendency is to extract the most production from workers for the LEAST POSSIBLE remuneration. To the point of absurdity. To the point of wage slavery. This is just a fact. The only way to stop it is to resist it. Think about digital tech automation in these terms. It’s not intended to render people unemployed, it is intended to shift the nature of their work, devalue their contribution and therefore place them, ultimately, into subsistence employment.

ubiquity75,

@atax1a If you have to say it…

ubiquity75,

@schalken That is…my entire point.

ubiquity75,

@schalken You are reading into it. Being forced to move into a different type of work is not unemployment. My entire point is to articulate that this is classic capitalism. I’m not really interested in you continuing to describe my own point to me.

ubiquity75, to random

ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/02/ai-taking-jobs/

ubiquity75,

@nazgul I disagreed with that fully. That guy has to read Braverman.

ubiquity75,

@nazgul Wharton. 🙄

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