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  1. Xamanismo Coletivo @[email protected] ·

    #FiduciaryDuty: “…what made this nonsensical #shareholdersupremacy standard so damned attractive to corporate leaders?

    Well, what if the #ambiguity of shareholder supremacy was a feature and not a bug? What if the function of shareholder supremacy was to absolve the cruelest people for indulging their most sociopathic instincts? What if this "bright line test" was actually a universal excuse, an all-purpose #accountabilitysink that could be used to justify any cruelty or cowardice?”
    @pluralistic
    pluralistic.net/2026/06/13/min

    #fiduciaryduty #shareholdersupremacy #ambiguity #accountabilitysink
  2. Alexander Goeres 𒀯 @[email protected] ·
    here in this piece @Cory Doctorow is describing the relation between human workers and ai. in particular what he calls "reverse centaurs" or other authors have named "accountability sinks".
    there are lots of great insights in this article but one stood out for me: working with ai is not easy. people often think that having ai create texts for them is an innocuous thing. like OCR just more modern. but it isn't. errors made by ai can be very hard to spot. and doctorow here describes, why:

    And because AI is just a word guessing program, because all it does is calculate the most probable word to go next, the errors it makes are especially subtle and hard to spot, because these bugs are literally statistically indistinguishable from working code (except that they're bugs).
    [...]
    And you, the human in the loop – the reverse centaur – you have to spot this subtle, hard to find error, this bug that is literally statistically indistinguishable from correct code.

    as john oliver recently said:
    welcome to the demise of our mutually shared reality! isn't it fun?!


    #computer #CoryDoctorow #JohnOliver #ReverseCentaur #AccountabilitySink #AI #KI

    #^Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow



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    #accountabilitysink #reversecentaur #corydoctorow #johnoliver #computer #ai
  3. ScottMGS @[email protected] ·

    Via @pluralistic

    '...it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur" called an "accountability sink."

    And

    'Automation blindness is the Achilles' heel of "humans in the loop."'

    pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop

    Long but worth the read.

    #ReverseCentaur #AccountabilitySink #AI

    1/3

    #reversecentaur #accountabilitysink #ai
  4. Joe Rojas-Burke @[email protected] ·

    ShotSpotter tech sent cops racing into NYC neighborhoods 62,000 times in 9 years after noises never confirmed as gunshots, an 83% false alarm rate.

    It's stop-and-frisk dressed up as techno-fix, giving cover for over-policing Black neighborhoods. NY has spent $45 million on it.

    bds.org/assets/files/Brooklyn-

    cc @pluralistic #AccountabilitySink

    #accountabilitysink