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remixtures, 5 hours ago to journalism Portuguese

#Wikileaks #Assange #PressFreedom #Media #Journalism #USA #UK: "To my mind, Julian Assange is in some ways recognizably a journalist. He’s also a publisher, an entrepreneur, an activist, a whistleblower, an information anarchist and a hacker. That’s true of many of this new breed of net warriors.

But in the work we did together when I was editor of The Guardian and he was editor of WikiLeaks we collaborated on a series of groundbreaking stories which were absolutely journalistic.

However, to many journalists Assange is not a proper “journalist,” and they can’t really see what his fate has to do with theirs. I think that’s a mistake.

This week Assange may learn his fate when judges in the UK High Court consider final representations from lawyers on both sides over the bid to extradite him to the US — where he could face a lengthy spell in a maximum security prison."

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/19/opinions/julian-assange-extradition-hearing-alan-rusbridger/index.html

remixtures, 5 hours ago to philosophy Portuguese

Don't fool yourself: It's mostly just about family connections and pure randomness.

#Capitalism #Liberalism #Philosophy #MoralPhilosophy #Inequality #Poverty: "Rawls thinks agents designing a society from behind the veil of ignorance might nevertheless allow some inequality, in exchange for greater economic efficiency. But in navigating such tradeoffs they’d be guided by the principle that inequalities need to earn their keep by (a) making the better-off positions available to every qualified applicant under conditions of meaningful equality of opportunity and (b) only allowing inequalities, even inequalities that satisfy condition (a), when whoever is worst off would still be better off than they would be under a more equal alternative.

The resulting loophole for acceptable inequalities is much narrower than many readers of Rawls over the decades have realized. Rawls himself, who certainly wasn’t a radical firebrand by personal inclination, had reluctantly come to realize by the end of his life that even a form of capitalism modified by a generous welfare state couldn’t meet his demanding standard.

Meanwhile, one of Rawls’s most important critics, the Marxist philosopher G. A. Cohen, argued that even this loophole was too large for it to be appropriate to call any arrangement that passed Rawls’s test “justice.” Cohen acknowledged that economic efficiency matters, for much the same reason Rawls thought it did — the standard of living of even the lower classes — but he thought we should keep a more demanding notion of egalitarian justice as our north star."

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/random-factor-inequality-capitalism-review

remixtures, 5 hours ago to apple Portuguese

#Apple #AppleNews #Media #Journalism #News: "At the moment, Apple News is as good a partner in Big Tech as many media companies are going to find. Almost every publisher Semafor spoke to said that Apple paid well and directed eyeballs to their longer, more ambitious work. While some of the articles surfaced by the app are algorithmic and based on user behavior, the company also employs a team of journalists — led by editor-in-chief Lauren Kern, a well-regarded former New York Magazine editor — who seem to prioritize putting quality journalism front-and-center on the app. As a reader, it’s a nice product, and in many cases a better reading experience than publishers’ own homepages and apps.

But the partnership also raises some of the questions publishers avoided during the peak social media era. It incentivizes users to subscribe to Apple News+ rather than to publications directly, likely cannibalizing some potential revenue. It’s driving editorial decisions, meaning publishers are once again changing their content strategy to placate a platform. And of course the company could wake up one day and decide, like Facebook, that it no longer really wants to be in the news business, leaving news publishers stranded."

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/19/2024/as-clicks-dry-up-for-news-sites-could-apples-news-app-be-a-lifeline?utm_source=newslettershare&utm_medium=media&utm_campaign=semaforstory&s=09#a

remixtures, 5 hours ago to privacy Portuguese

#AdTech #DataProtection #Privacy #TargetedAds: "In April, attorney Christine Dudley was listening to a book on her iPhone while playing a game on her Android tablet when she started to see in-game ads that reflected the audiobooks she recently checked out of the San Francisco Public Library.

Her audiobook consumption, she explained, had been highly focused the previous month, focused on a specific subgenre that she doesn't believe would come up by chance.

"You don't coincidentally come across mobile ads [for that particular subgenre]," she told The Register. "Those ads made me extremely angry."

Concerns about the privacy of library reading material date back to the early 20th century, explained Dorothea Salo, academic librarian and library-school instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to The Register.

"There was a time when American libraries weren't sure what their stance on reader privacy should be," said Salo."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/18/mystery_of_the_targeted_mobile_ads/

remixtures, 5 hours ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #Media #News #Journalism: "More broadly, across news media coverage of AI in general, reviewing 30 published studies, Saba Rebecca Brause and her coauthors find that, while there are of course exceptions, most research so far find not just a strong increase in the volume of reporting on AI, but also “largely positive evaluations and economic framing” of these technologies.

So, perhaps, as Timit Gebru, founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR), has written on X: “The same news orgs hype stuff up during ‘AI summers’ without even looking into their archives to see what they wrote decades ago?”

There are some really good reporters doing important work to help people understand AI—as well as plenty of sensationalist coverage focused on killer robots and wild claims about possible future existential risks.

But, more than anything, research on how news media cover AI overall suggests that Gebru is largely right – the coverage tends to be led by industry sources, and often take claims about what the technology can and can’t do, and might be able to do in the future, at face value in ways that contributes to the hype cycle."

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-news-coverage-often-uncritical-helps-build-ai-hype

remixtures, 5 hours ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #ChatGPT: "This contradiction is at the heart of what makes OpenAI profoundly frustrating for those of us who care deeply about ensuring that AI really does go well and benefits humanity. Is OpenAI a buzzy, if midsize tech company that makes a chatty personal assistant, or a trillion-dollar effort to create an AI god?

The company’s leadership says they want to transform the world, that they want to be accountable when they do so, and that they welcome the world’s input into how to do it justly and wisely.

But when there’s real money at stake — and there are astounding sums of real money at stake in the race to dominate AI — it becomes clear that they probably never intended for the world to get all that much input. Their process ensures former employees — those who know the most about what’s happening inside OpenAI — can’t tell the rest of the world what’s going on.

The website may have high-minded ideals, but their termination agreements are full of hard-nosed legalese. It’s hard to exercise accountability over a company whose former employees are restricted to saying “I resigned.”" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai-departures-sam-altman-employees-chatgpt-release

remixtures, 5 hours ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #AIEthics: "Technology is built by humans and controlled by humans, and we cannot talk about technology as an independent agent acting outside of human decisions and accountability–this is true for AI as much as anything else. The integrity that Mann rightly envisions for AI cannot be understood as a property of a model, or of a software system into which a model is integrated. Such integrity can only come via the human choices made, and guardrails adhered to, by those developing and using these systems. This will require changed incentive structures, a massive shift toward democratic governance and decision making, and an understanding that those most likely to be harmed by AI systems are often not ‘users’ of the systems, but subjects of AI’s application ‘on them’ by those who have power over them–from employers, to governments to law enforcement. To truly ensure that AI systems are deployed in ways that have integrity, and uphold a dignified and equitable social order, those subject to AI’s use by powerful actors must have the information, power, and ability to determine what AI systems with ‘integrity’ mean, and the ability to reject or contest their use."

https://theinnovator.news/interview-of-the-week-meredith-whittaker-ai-ethics-expert/

remixtures, 5 hours ago to TechnicalWriting Portuguese

#TechnicalWriting #APIs #APIDocumentation #SoftwareDocumentation: "Your API is nearing completion and it’s time to let the world know about it. This means that it is time to complete your API documentation effort. But, where should you start? How do you know if you covered everything that your decision makers and developers will need to select your API and get started successfully?

This article provides a checklist to help you identify the documentation you will need for launching your API. We will also include some things to consider post-launch as well to help you continue to improve your documentation."

https://bump.sh/blog/api-documentation-checklist?utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=doc-checklist

remixtures, 15 hours ago to TechnicalWriting Portuguese

#TechnicalWriting #APIs #APIDocumentation #AsynchronousAPIs #AsyncAPI #EventDrivenAPIs #ApacheAvro #JSON: "Luckily there's a specification similar to OpenAPI but directed at defining event-driven APIs. I'm talking about AsyncAPI. It's a specification that lets you define an API that's asynchronous in nature. By using AsyncAPI you can define, among other things, the different topics where events will be dropped, and the shape of the messages that represent each topic.

And this is where things get interesting. The shape of messages or, in other words, its payload, can adhere to specific standards. Without messages, there's no way to communicate events. And, following standards helps to guarantee the correct publishing, transport, and consumption of messages. If messages don't follow any standards, it's hard for developers to understand the shape of the messages. In addition, it's easy for consumers to stop working because, suddenly, messages are being shared in a slightly different format.

Among different message standards, there's one particularly interesting to me. Apache Avro isn't just a theoretical standard. It's also a serialization format. You can say it's a competitor to JSON but specialized in working with event-driven APIs. In the same way you can use JSON Schema to define the shape of JSON data you have Avro Schema to help you specify what Avro message payloads look like."

https://apichangelog.substack.com/p/how-to-document-event-driven-api

remixtures, 1 day ago to news Portuguese

#News #Media #Journalism #DigitalMedia #SocialMedia #Participation: "Digital media are often praised for having offered new ways to participate with news. But how has participation with news changed in recent years? A pre-registered analysis of survey data from 2015 to 2022 in 46 countries (N = 577,859) shows that participation with news has declined. This decrease is observed in most countries and for most forms of participation, including liking, sharing, commenting on news on social media and talking about the news offline. The only form of participation that has increased is news sharing via private messaging apps. Overall, participation with news was higher among younger people, the university-educated, those with high interest in news and those with low trust in news. Over time, participation has declined more for those with lower trust in news, those without a bachelor’s degree and for women. Within countries, increases in political polarization were associated with lower participation."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448241247822

remixtures, 1 day ago to random Portuguese

RT @PrivacyMatters
It is disproportionate & unnecessary to surveil everyone’s bank account to combat benefit fraud. The UK gov slowly pushing the UK to becoming a surveillance state. Resist.

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202405/uk-plans-to-review-identity-verification-bank-data-to-reduce-benefits-fraud

remixtures, 1 day ago to random Portuguese

#DigitalArchiving #DigitalPreservation #DigitalDecay: "The internet is an unimaginably vast repository of modern life, with hundreds of billions of indexed webpages. But even as users across the world rely on the web to access books, images, news articles and other resources, this content sometimes disappears from view.

A new Pew Research Center analysis shows just how fleeting online content actually is:

• A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023. In most cases, this is because an individual page was deleted or removed on an otherwise functional website.

• For older content, this trend is even starker. Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today, compared with 8% of pages that existed in 2023.

This “digital decay” occurs in many different online spaces. We examined the links that appear on government and news websites, as well as in the “References” section of Wikipedia pages as of spring 2023."

https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

remixtures, 1 day ago to random Portuguese

RT @matthew_d_green
Apple iOS resurfacing deleted photos on the same device struck me as a pretty mundane bug. For those same photos to resurface on wiped device seems extremely nuts.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/17/ios-17-5-bug-wiped-devices-photos-resurfacing/

remixtures, 1 day ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #ChatBots: "What I love, more than anything, is the quality that makes AI such a disaster: If it sees a space, it will fill it—with nonsense, with imagined fact, with links to fake websites. It possesses an absolute willingness to spout foolishness, balanced only by its carefree attitude toward plagiarism. AI is, very simply, a totally shameless technology.
(...)
I must assume that eventually an army of shame engineers will rise up, writing guilt-inducing code in order to make their robots more convincingly human. But it doesn’t mean I love the idea. Because right now you can see the house of cards clearly: By aggregating the world’s knowledge, chomping it into bits with GPUs, and emitting it as multi-gigabyte software that somehow knows what to say next, we've made the funniest parody of humanity ever. These models have all of our qualities, bad and good. Helpful, smart, know-it-alls with tendencies to prejudice, spewing statistics and bragging like salesmen at the bar. They mirror the arrogant, repetitive ramblings of our betters, the horrific confidence that keeps driving us over the same cliffs. That arrogance will be sculpted down and smoothed over, but it will have been the most accurate representation of who we truly are to exist so far, a real mirror of our folly, and I will miss it when it goes."

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-totally-shameless/

remixtures, 1 day ago to random Portuguese

#Capitalism #Monopolies #Antitrust #Competition: "Capitalism's theory proceeds from the idea that we are driven by our self-interest, and that competition turns self-interest into communal sentiment. Take away the competition, and all that's left is the self-interest.

I think this is broadly true, even though it's not the main reason I oppose monopolies (I oppose monopolies because they corrupt our democracy and pauperize workers). But even if capitalism's ability to turn greed into public benefit isn't the principle that's uppermost in my mind, it's what capitalists claim to believe – and treasure.

I think that most of the right's defense of monopolies stems from cynical, bad-faith rationalizations – but there are people who've absorbed these rationalizations and find them superficially plausible. It's worth developing these critiques, for their sake."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/18/market-discipline/#too-big-to-care

remixtures, 1 day ago to Bulgaria Portuguese

#EU #BigTech #DMA #Interoperability #Competition #Antitrust #GDPR #DataProtection: "After decades of regulatory indifference to tech monopolization, competition authorities all over the world are taking on Big Tech. The DMA is by far the most muscular and ambitious salvo we’ve seen.

Seen in that light, it’s no surprise that Big Tech is refusing to comply with the rules. If the EU successfully forces tech to play fair, it will serve as a starting gun for a global race to the top, in which tech’s ill-gotten gains - of data, power and money - will be returned to the users and workers from whom that treasure came.

The architects of the DMA and DSA foresaw this, of course. They’ve announced investigations into Apple, Google and Meta, threatening fines of 10 percent of the companies’ global income, which will double to 20 percent if the companies don’t toe the line.

It’s not just Big Tech that’s playing for all the marbles - it’s also the systems of democratic control and accountability. If Apple can sabotage the DMA’s insistence on taking away its veto over its customers’ software choices, that will spill over into the US Department of Justice’s case over the same issue, as well as the cases in Japan and South Korea, and the pending enforcement action in the UK."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead

remixtures, 1 day ago to France Portuguese

#France #SocialMedia #TikTok #NewCaledonia #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech: "In a first-of-its-kind move within the European Union, the French government has moved to block TikTok in one of its overseas territories amid widespread protests.

A French draft law, passed Monday, would let citizens vote in local elections after 10 years' residency in New Caledonia, prompting opposition from independence activists worried it will dilute the representation of indigenous people. The violent demonstrations that have ensued in the South Pacific island of 270,000 have killed at least five people and injured hundreds.

In response to the protests, the government suspended the popular video-sharing app — owned by Beijing-based ByteDance and favored by young people — as part of state-of-emergency measures alongside the deployment of troops and an initial 12-day curfew.

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal didn’t detail the reasons for shutting down the platform. The local telecom regulator began blocking the app earlier on Wednesday."

https://www.politico.eu/article/french-tiktok-ban-new-caledonia-overseas-territory-dangerous-precedent-macron-eu/

remixtures, 1 day ago to random Portuguese

RT @parismarx
This is so dishonest and I find it hard to believe the head of CSIS doesn’t know that. If China wants the data of random Canadians, it can buy it from data brokers — as many others do. Why doesn’t Vigneault warn about other apps that collect and sell data?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csis-tikok-vigneault-1.7206000

remixtures, 1 day ago to random Portuguese

RT @theaiblock
‘The Daily Show’ mocks the horn*ness of ChatGPT’s AI voice assistant.

In the clip above, she plays a section of the GPT-4o demonstration video, which shows a man in an OpenAI hoodie chatting to a female-voiced AI who seems very happy to be talking to him.

https://x.com/theaiblock/status/1791845860390863180

remixtures, 1 day ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #Slack #AITraining #Copyright: "It all kicked off last night, when a note on Hacker News raised the issue of how Slack trains its AI services, by way of a straight link to its privacy principles — no additional comment was needed. That post kicked off a longer conversation — and what seemed like news to current Slack users — that Slack opts users in by default to its AI training, and that you need to email a specific address to opt out.

That Hacker News thread then spurred multiple conversations and questions on other platforms: There is a newish, generically named product called “Slack AI” that lets users search for answers and summarize conversation threads, among other things, but why is that not once mentioned by name on that privacy principles page in any way, even to make clear if the privacy policy applies to it? And why does Slack reference both “global models” and “AI models?”

Between people being confused about where Slack is applying its AI privacy principles, and people being surprised and annoyed at the idea of emailing to opt-out — at a company that makes a big deal of touting that “Your control your data” — Slack does not come off well."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/slack-under-attack-over-sneaky-ai-training-policy/?guccounter=1

remixtures, 1 day ago to Europe Portuguese

#Austerity #Populism #Europe #Globalization #Inequality: "Governments have repeatedly adjusted fiscal policy in recent decades. We examine the political effects of these adjustments in Europe since the 1990s using both district-level election outcomes and individual-level voting data. We expect austerity to increase populist votes, but only among economically vulnerable voters, who are hit the hardest by austerity. We identify economically vulnerable regions as those with a high share of low-skilled workers, workers in manufacturing and in jobs with a high routine-task intensity. The analysis of district-level elections demonstrates that austerity increases support for populist parties in economically vulnerable regions, but has little effect in less vulnerable regions. The individual-level analysis confirms these findings. Our results suggest that the success of populist parties hinges on the government's failure to protect the losers of structural economic change. The economic origins of populism are thus not purely external; the populist backlash is triggered by internal factors, notably public policies."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12865

remixtures, 1 day ago to Cybersecurity Portuguese

#CyberSecurity: "Sherbrooke said he was sitting on the floor of his basement laundry room in the early hours one January morning with his laptop in hand and “suddenly having an ‘oh s—’ moment.” From his laptop, Sherbrooke ran a script of code with instructions telling the machine in front of him to start a cycle despite having $0 in his laundry account. The machine immediately woke up with a loud beep and flashed “PUSH START” on its display, indicating the machine was ready to wash a free load of laundry.

In another case, the students added an ostensible balance of several million dollars into one of their laundry accounts, which reflected in their CSC Go mobile app as though it were an entirely normal amount of money for a student to spend on laundry.

CSC ServiceWorks is a large laundry service company, touting a network of over a million laundry machines installed in hotels, university campuses, and residences across the United States, Canada and Europe."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/csc-serviceworks-free-laundry-million-machines/

remixtures, 1 day ago to marketing Portuguese

#Fauxtomation #Marketing #SelfDrivingCars #AI : "Rather than getting angry with marketers for tricking them, reporters are ventriloquized into repeating the marketing claim that these aren't lies, they're premature truths. Sure, today these are faked, but once the product is refined, the fakery will no longer be required.

This must be the kinds of Magic Underpants Gnomery the credulous press engaged in during the jetpack days: "Sure, a 21-second rocket belt is totally useless for anything except wowing county fair yokels – but once they figure out how to fit an order of magnitude more high-explosive onto that guy's back, this thing will really take off!"

The AI version of this is that if we just keep throwing orders of magnitude more training data and compute at the stochastic parrot, it will eventually come to life and become our superintelligent, omnipotent techno-genie. In other words, if we just keep breeding these horses to run faster and faster, eventually one of our prize mares will give birth to a locomotive:"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/#twenty-one-seconds

remixtures, 2 days ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #AGI: "The reality is that no matter how much OpenAI, Google, and the rest of the heavy hitters in Silicon Valley might want to continue the illusion that generative AI represents a transformative moment in the history of digital technology, the truth is that their fantasy is getting increasingly difficult to maintain. The valuations of AI companies are coming down from their highs and major cloud providers are tamping down the expectations of their clients for what AI tools will actually deliver. That’s in part because the chatbots are still making a ton of mistakes in the answers they give to users, including during Google’s I/O keynote. Companies also still haven’t figured out how they’re going to make money off all this expensive tech, even as the resource demands are escalating so much their climate commitments are getting thrown out the window."

https://disconnect.blog/ai-hype-is-over-ai-exhaustion-is-setting-in/

remixtures, 3 days ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #SocialSciences #Humanities: "With Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer releasing a sweeping “roadmap” for AI legislation today and major product announcements from OpenAI and Google, it’s been a big week for AI… and it’s only Wednesday.

But amid the ever-quickening pace of action, some observers wonder if government is looking at the tech industry with the right perspective. A report shared first with DFD from the nonprofit Data & Society argues that in order for powerful AI to integrate successfully with humanity, it must actually feature… the humanities.

Data & Society’s Serena Oduro and Tamara Kneese write that social scientists and other researchers should be directly involved in federally funded efforts to regulate and analyze AI. They say that given the unpredictable impact it might have on how people live, work and interact with institutions, AI development should involve non-STEM experts at every step.

“Especially with a general purpose technology, it is very hard to anticipate what exactly this technology will be used for,” said Kneese, a Data & Society senior researcher."

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2024/05/15/ai-data-society-report-humanities-00158195