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w0bb1t, 5 months ago to Israel

When a 2,000-pound bomb detonates, it creates a blastwave that can harm pple up to 3,000 feet away ..

.. This visual investigation suggests #Israel routinely dropped this bomb in the area south of Wadi Gaza (the place it had told civilians in #Gaza to move to for safety) ..

👉🏻 https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000009208814/israel-gaza-bomb-civilians.html

"Using the platform #picterra, we trained the algorithm with many examples of the types of craters we were looking for. So that the training data most closely resembled the final imagery we would run the algorithm on, we used examples of craters from Gaza itself as training data."

w0bb1t, 5 months ago to random

AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism · 'Real AI isnt sci-fi but the precaritisation of jobs, the continued privatisation of everything & the erasure of actual social relations ..'

👉🏻 https://danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcherism.html

w0bb1t, 5 months ago to random

FA cross-referenced and analyze hundreds of reports, which describe attacks on, or near to, hospitals and medical infrastructure in north of the #Gaza strip ..

👉🏻 https://gaza-hospitals.forensic-architecture.org/

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w0bb1t, 5 months ago to random

CAPITALISMSXIT is an artistic research tht aims to build up a memory of th various narratives of the end of capitalism .. @NbYr

👉🏻 https://rybn.org/capitalismsxit/en/

w0bb1t, 5 months ago to France

#France, #Italy, Finland, #Greece, #Cyprus, #Malta, & Sweden aim to undermine the first European law aimed at protecting freedom & independence of media in EU ..

According t docs obtained by Disclose, these seven countries actively advocate for authorizing surveillance of journalists in the name of “national security” ..

👉🏻 https://disclose.ngo/en/article/france-and-six-european-states-unite-to-authorise-the-spying-on-journalists

w0bb1t, 5 months ago to random

By placing heating techn. in a historical context, Low-tech Magazine challenges the high-tech approach to sustainability & highlights the possibilities of alternative ..

👉🏻 https://www.lulu.com/shop/kris-de-decker/heating-people-not-spaces/paperback/product-zm52en6.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4

w0bb1t, 5 months ago to random

Oliver Ressler · Barricading the Ice Sheets · investigates global warming, the climate justice movement & the relation of the latter to the arts ..

👉🏻 https://we-make-money-not-art.com/oliver-ressler-barricading-the-ice-sheets/

w0bb1t, 5 months ago to random

#EURODAC is being expanded to enforce the EUs discriminatory & hostile asylum & migration policies: increasing deportations, detention & .. @statewatch

👉🏻 https://www.statewatch.org/news/2023/december/europe-s-digital-borders-must-fall-end-the-expansion-of-the-eu-s-eurodac-database/

w0bb1t, 5 months ago to random

A Short Incomplete History of Technologes That Scale: Th book explores how scale reconfigures relations, politics, & affects .. @aksioma x @transmediale

👉🏻 https://aksioma.org/scale-book

w0bb1t, 6 months ago to history

AI #Colonialism · To see more on the planetary scale of how #AI entrenches power, check out Karen Hao's series tracing AI and colonialism ..

.. From #surveillance in South Afrca, to data labelling in Venezuela, to ride-hailing in Indonesia, to alternative data models in Aotearoa ..

👉🏻 https://www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/ai-colonialism-supertopic

w0bb1t, 6 months ago to history

AI #Colonialism · To see more on the planetary scale of how #AI entrenches power, check out Karen Hao's series tracing AI and colonialism ..

.. From #surveillance in South Afrca, to data labelling in Venezuela, to ride-hailing in Indonesia, to alternative data models in Aotearoa ..

👉🏻 https://www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/ai-colonialism-supertopic

w0bb1t, 6 months ago to random

A comprehensive study of th Israeli military aircrafts that exert indiscriminate mass surveillance & intimidating noise on the millions of people living in Lebanon ..

The disturbing roar of Fighter jets & th persistent buzz of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have become a familiar part of the Lebanese soundscape ..

👉🏻 https://www.airpressure.info

w0bb1t, 6 months ago to random

According to internal docs obtained by @disclose, French police are using an Israeli facial recognition system, in total secrecy and illegally, since 2015 ..

👉🏻 https://disclose.ngo/fr/article/la-police-nationale-utilise-illegalement-un-logiciel-israelien-de-reconnaissance-faciale

w0bb1t, 6 months ago to ai

#AI -free Content · The Not By AI badges are created to encourage more humans to produce original content & help users identify human-generated content ..

👉🏻 https://notbyai.fyi/

w0bb1t, 6 months ago to AdobePhotoshop

#Adobe is selling AI-generated imgs of the siege on #Gaza via its stock img service and news outlets are using them (without marking them as# AI generated) ..

👉🏻 https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/11/01/israel-gaza-adobe-artificial-intelligence-images-fake-news/

w0bb1t, 6 months ago to ai

How much CO2 is emitted from training common #AI models? Partially training a 6 B. param. transformer emits about as much as the average US home in a year!

👉🏻 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.05229.pdf

w0bb1t, 6 months ago to random

Today th number of Palestnians killed in Israels vengeful war on Gaza hs exceeded 10,000. Over 4,000 of those killed are children .. #Gaza

Thousands are trapped under the rubbles—most likely dead. If this is not enough to call for a ceasefire, then what is? #CeasefireNOW

w0bb1t, 6 months ago to internet

Just a gentle reminder. "Behold the #Internet"

w0bb1t, 7 months ago to random

The carbon emissions of the computing industry already exceed those of the airline industry. " [..] data centers will draw up to 21 percent of the world's electricity supply by 2030 ..

👉🏻 https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-tools-available-reduce-energy-that-ai-models-devour-1005

w0bb1t, 7 months ago to random

Open letter frm th art community t cultural orgs · "We support Palestinian liberation & call for an end to the killing & harming of all civilians, an immediate ceasefire .."

"We, the undersgned, reject violence against all civilians, regardless of their identity & we call for ending the root cause of violence: oppression, & the occupation .."

👉🏻 https://www.artforum.com/columns/open-letter-art-community-cultural-organizations-518019/

w0bb1t, 7 months ago to random

New analysis shows strike tht hit civilian convoy yesterday killing 70 was on one of two "safe routes" for evacuation identified by IDF ..

Profound example documenting the punishing violence of the occupation forces, a crime against humanity foretold, condoned, enabled & supported by th 'interntional community' ..

👉🏻 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/14/gaza-civilians-afraid-to-leave-home-after-bombing-of-safe-routes

w0bb1t, 7 months ago to random

12th Oct.: Counter Cloud Action Day · Anti-colonial struggle intersects with Counter Cloud Action ..

👉🏻 https://diagram.institute/12o/

w0bb1t, 7 months ago to random

Data centers use 1-1.5% of global electricity, but MIT estimates they may use up to 21% by 2030 ..

👉🏻 https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/data-centers-are-booming/

Map can be found at https://baxtel.com/map. According to Cloudscene, there are now 5,375 data centers in the US.

w0bb1t, 7 months ago to random

Internal document from high-level meeting between Europol & Commisson, reveals Europol's vision for privacy in the future:

"All data" of EU citizens is useful & should be passed to it "without a filter" · Europol wants unfiltered access to #CSAM data to train AI algorithms ..

👉🏻 https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2023/09/2022-07-19_DG-Home_Europol_Visit_EU-Centre_CSA.pdf

👉🏻 https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/

w0bb1t, 8 months ago to random

Sea blindness · What lies beneath the waves · Situates th Mediterranean Sea at the heart of artistic, scientific & critical discussions ..

👉🏻 https://www.neme.org/blog/sea-blindness-press