#transparancy — Public Fediverse posts

Our information landscape and opaque black box systems

The AI Con, debunking myths of the AI revolution, a review

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
"But that is precisely why some in power want to hand decision‑making capacity to computers: it promises a sunlit utopia of profit without blame. Once AI is mainlined into our veins, we may be too doped up to care."
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna by Bodley Head
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/19/the-ai-con-by-emily-m-bender-and-alex-hanna-review-debunking-myths-of-the-ai-revolution
#AI #LLMs #KMS #DigitalHumanities #OpaqueBlackBox #SyntheticTextExtruding #machines #PoliticalSubjects #accountability #transparancy #language #extractivism #DataEconomy #technopolitics

Our information landscape and opaque black box systems

The AI Con, debunking myths of the AI revolution, a review

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
"But that is precisely why some in power want to hand decision‑making capacity to computers: it promises a sunlit utopia of profit without blame. Once AI is mainlined into our veins, we may be too doped up to care."
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna by Bodley Head
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/19/the-ai-con-by-emily-m-bender-and-alex-hanna-review-debunking-myths-of-the-ai-revolution
#AI #LLMs #KMS #DigitalHumanities #OpaqueBlackBox #SyntheticTextExtruding #machines #PoliticalSubjects #accountability #transparancy #language #extractivism #DataEconomy #technopolitics

Our information landscape and opaque black box systems

The AI Con, debunking myths of the AI revolution, a review

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
"But that is precisely why some in power want to hand decision‑making capacity to computers: it promises a sunlit utopia of profit without blame. Once AI is mainlined into our veins, we may be too doped up to care."
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna by Bodley Head
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/19/the-ai-con-by-emily-m-bender-and-alex-hanna-review-debunking-myths-of-the-ai-revolution
#AI #LLMs #KMS #DigitalHumanities #OpaqueBlackBox #SyntheticTextExtruding #machines #PoliticalSubjects #accountability #transparancy #language #extractivism #DataEconomy #technopolitics

Our information landscape and opaque black box systems

The AI Con, debunking myths of the AI revolution, a review

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
"But that is precisely why some in power want to hand decision‑making capacity to computers: it promises a sunlit utopia of profit without blame. Once AI is mainlined into our veins, we may be too doped up to care."
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna by Bodley Head
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/19/the-ai-con-by-emily-m-bender-and-alex-hanna-review-debunking-myths-of-the-ai-revolution
#AI #LLMs #KMS #DigitalHumanities #OpaqueBlackBox #SyntheticTextExtruding #machines #PoliticalSubjects #accountability #transparancy #language #extractivism #DataEconomy #technopolitics

Our information landscape and opaque black box systems

The AI Con, debunking myths of the AI revolution, a review

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
"But that is precisely why some in power want to hand decision‑making capacity to computers: it promises a sunlit utopia of profit without blame. Once AI is mainlined into our veins, we may be too doped up to care."
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna by Bodley Head
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/19/the-ai-con-by-emily-m-bender-and-alex-hanna-review-debunking-myths-of-the-ai-revolution
#AI #LLMs #KMS #DigitalHumanities #OpaqueBlackBox #SyntheticTextExtruding #machines #PoliticalSubjects #accountability #transparancy #language #extractivism #DataEconomy #technopolitics

Another Trump style authoritarian power grab from this Labour Government, giving another victory to the Tories as well.....fucking amateurs.

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #UKCourts #Journalism #Authoritarianism #Transparancy #Labour #Tories

I'll leave that here without comment.

Just one thing:
I'm really fascinated by our British friends.

I love Europe.
We are so different in many ways, yet so close.

#mastodon #fediverse #YouWinAgainSi #palantir #world #britain #uk #eu #europe #transparancy #democracy #freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvDF7Z18Anc

#Wisconsin #Transparancy #opengovernment

Privatized government transparency is problematic when private funding falls short.

Wisconsin Blind Eye https://www.cogdis.me/2026/01/wisconsin-blind-eye.html

Cloudflare Reports Surge in Streaming Piracy Takedowns, Removes 20k+ Storage Accounts

https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-reports-surge-in-streaming-piracy-takedowns-removes-20k-storage-accounts/

#transparancy #Anti-Piracy #Cloudflare #DMCA

German Pirate Site Blockades Target Anna’s Archive, FitGirl and RPG Only

https://torrentfreak.com/german-pirate-site-blockades-target-annas-archive-fitgirl-and-rpg-only/

#SiteBlocking #siteblocking #transparancy #Anti-Piracy #germany

PoliDashboard Launches Major Update to Advance Transparency in Political Advertising On Facebook and Instagram - Social Media Lab https://socialmedialab.ca/2025/07/29/polidashboard-launches-major-update-to-advance-transparency-in-political-advertising-on-facebook-and-instagram/

What a gob smackingly fascinating resource!

#advertising #transparancy #meta

"i may not be the one to really do this since im not Knowledged and cant provide sources but people need a #reminder that #blur #filters over faces is an #outdated means of #hiding #identities. basically, what's done #algorithmically (the #blurring) can be #reversed algorithmically. just use plain black ovals or squares. and not with some marker #tool or anything with #transparancy, which can be undone by messing with levels and shit. just plain, pure #black."

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/789099981954072576

"i may not be the one to really do this since im not Knowledged and cant provide sources but people need a #reminder that #blur #filters over faces is an #outdated means of #hiding #identities. basically, what's done #algorithmically (the #blurring) can be #reversed algorithmically. just use plain black ovals or squares. and not with some marker #tool or anything with #transparancy, which can be undone by messing with levels and shit. just plain, pure #black."

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/789099981954072576

"i may not be the one to really do this since im not Knowledged and cant provide sources but people need a #reminder that #blur #filters over faces is an #outdated means of #hiding #identities. basically, what's done #algorithmically (the #blurring) can be #reversed algorithmically. just use plain black ovals or squares. and not with some marker #tool or anything with #transparancy, which can be undone by messing with levels and shit. just plain, pure #black."

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/789099981954072576

"i may not be the one to really do this since im not Knowledged and cant provide sources but people need a #reminder that #blur #filters over faces is an #outdated means of #hiding #identities. basically, what's done #algorithmically (the #blurring) can be #reversed algorithmically. just use plain black ovals or squares. and not with some marker #tool or anything with #transparancy, which can be undone by messing with levels and shit. just plain, pure #black."

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/789099981954072576

"i may not be the one to really do this since im not Knowledged and cant provide sources but people need a #reminder that #blur #filters over faces is an #outdated means of #hiding #identities. basically, what's done #algorithmically (the #blurring) can be #reversed algorithmically. just use plain black ovals or squares. and not with some marker #tool or anything with #transparancy, which can be undone by messing with levels and shit. just plain, pure #black."

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/789099981954072576

Pretty content with myself, today.

I used the one-way street called "single-blind peer review" in the wrong direction and reviewed the reviews in a (prob. pointless) letter to the editor.

You struggle hard to keep to the word-limit of the journal, just to get blamed for having a too short Materials and Results, "concealing" the many weaknesses of one's work. And nobody minds the 30p long Suppl. M&M and 113p long Suppl. R&D

#FightTheFog #PeerReview #Transparancy

Pretty content with myself, today.

I used the one-way street called "single-blind peer review" in the wrong direction and reviewed the reviews in a (prob. pointless) letter to the editor.

You struggle hard to keep to the word-limit of the journal, just to get blamed for having a too short Materials and Results, "concealing" the many weaknesses of one's work. And nobody minds the 30p long Suppl. M&M and 113p long Suppl. R&D

#FightTheFog #PeerReview #Transparancy

Pretty content with myself, today.

I used the one-way street called "single-blind peer review" in the wrong direction and reviewed the reviews in a (prob. pointless) letter to the editor.

You struggle hard to keep to the word-limit of the journal, just to get blamed for having a too short Materials and Results, "concealing" the many weaknesses of one's work. And nobody minds the 30p long Suppl. M&M and 113p long Suppl. R&D

#FightTheFog #PeerReview #Transparancy

Pretty content with myself, today.

I used the one-way street called "single-blind peer review" in the wrong direction and reviewed the reviews in a (prob. pointless) letter to the editor.

You struggle hard to keep to the word-limit of the journal, just to get blamed for having a too short Materials and Results, "concealing" the many weaknesses of one's work. And nobody minds the 30p long Suppl. M&M and 113p long Suppl. R&D

#FightTheFog #PeerReview #Transparancy

Pretty content with myself, today.

I used the one-way street called "single-blind peer review" in the wrong direction and reviewed the reviews in a (prob. pointless) letter to the editor.

You struggle hard to keep to the word-limit of the journal, just to get blamed for having a too short Materials and Results, "concealing" the many weaknesses of one's work. And nobody minds the 30p long Suppl. M&M and 113p long Suppl. R&D

#FightTheFog #PeerReview #Transparancy

#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #DOGE #Transparancy

From Alt NPS on FB: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that DOGE is subject to government transparency laws, allowing the public to access government records—a legal defeat for the White House, which had designated DOGE as an office exempt from open records laws. We’re awaiting Musk’s response to our FOIA request. Thank you, Judge Christopher R. Cooper.

This makes perfect sense if you are an autocrat/oligarch who wants to enrich himself. Kill the Corporate Transparancy Act.
#Trump #DOGE #corruption #fraud #Musk #transparancy #politics

Transparency kritisiert Parteienfinanzierung in Deutschland

Es geht nicht voran mit der Korruptionsbekämpfung in Deutschland - zu diesem Urteil kommt Transparency International in seinem neuen Jahresbericht. Ein großes Problem sei die undurchsichtige Parteienfinanzierung.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/transparency-korruption-index-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Transparancy #Korruption #Parteispenden

✅ #Spenden überwiesen.

(Kontext #Geflüchtete / #Fluchtrouten, #ÄoG / #medico, #Natur / #Klima, #lokales und neu #Transparancy / #Correctiv)

... es ist immer schwierig, jemanden nichts zugute kommen zu lassen - brauchen tun es ja leider praktisch fast alle. Aber irgendwann ist halt das Budget zu Ende.

@gnuhealth @gnusolidario Nan non tout ekip #CEMEFCO a, n ap di #GNUSolidario mèsi pou Prim Medsin Sosyal pou enplemantasyon #GNUHealth. #SocialMedicine #GNUHealthHaiti #UserFreedom #Transparancy #Equity #GHCon2024

@gnuhealth @gnusolidario Nan non tout ekip #CEMEFCO a, n ap di #GNUSolidario mèsi pou Prim Medsin Sosyal pou enplemantasyon #GNUHealth. #SocialMedicine #GNUHealthHaiti #UserFreedom #Transparancy #Equity #GHCon2024

@gnuhealth @gnusolidario Nan non tout ekip #CEMEFCO a, n ap di #GNUSolidario mèsi pou Prim Medsin Sosyal pou enplemantasyon #GNUHealth. #SocialMedicine #GNUHealthHaiti #UserFreedom #Transparancy #Equity #GHCon2024

@gnuhealth @gnusolidario Nan non tout ekip #CEMEFCO a, n ap di #GNUSolidario mèsi pou Prim Medsin Sosyal pou enplemantasyon #GNUHealth. #SocialMedicine #GNUHealthHaiti #UserFreedom #Transparancy #Equity #GHCon2024

@gnuhealth @gnusolidario Nan non tout ekip #CEMEFCO a, n ap di #GNUSolidario mèsi pou Prim Medsin Sosyal pou enplemantasyon #GNUHealth. #SocialMedicine #GNUHealthHaiti #UserFreedom #Transparancy #Equity #GHCon2024

The Trust Project is an international consortium of news organizations implementing transparency standards and working with technology platforms to affirm and amplify journalism’s commitment to transparency, accuracy, inclusion and fairness so that the public can make informed news choices.

https://thetrustproject.org/

#journalism #media #transparancy #tech

Data on greenhouse gases and #emissions from the biggest companies in Sweden. If anyone wants to use it for analysis or #dataviz

#sustainability #transparancy #sweden https://www.klimatkollen.se/foretag/utslappen/lista

It's #FollowFriday , so let's share some accounts for #privacy and #transparancy

Our friends at @opentermsarchive a project to archive the terms of online services to view changes over time and assist regulators. The @EU_Commission also recently started using their tools to keep an eye on #BigTech !

@themarkup a non profit publication making awesome research in privacy and big tech.

Do you have some awesome accounts for us to follow as well?

~MB

Library Salary Scales for Selected Employers in Canada https://librarianship.ca/resources/salary-scales/

Salary information for library and information management roles in academic libraries, government departments, public libraries, and school libraries.

#Transparancy #Jobs #LISJobs

Nice overview of transparancy in foundation models, there is much improvement needed. Especially if governments want to use those models.
https://crfm.stanford.edu/fmti/
#AI #GenerativeAI #Transparancy #LLM #GPT

I know that it's a lot of work to develop valid & reliable scales. That's why I find it even more disappointing that you often can't access them, even if you have the full article or you have to💵. Why not #transparancy, #opendata #openscience? #education #psychology #reseach😠🫰

@fediversenews @atomicpoet @gdiak @peterkal

Ok I see the ‘explaination’ now. Now I would like to know how I can find out exactly what ‘nightly’ version has been deployed, if only for the reason I would like to also run that version on one of my test-servers. #transparancy please. 🙏🏻

For the people in and around Vienna: we are organizing an event about:

**Transparency of public performance data and trust of citizens.**

Come and join us on the WU campus!
Find the information here:
https://www.wu.ac.at/en/pubmgt/pmg-spotlight/

#Vienna #Science #Public #Transparancy

More lack of #transparancy from the
@PremierScottMoe gov. This time not approving data for @usask researchers trying to predict the # of people sick with COVID-19 would need a hospital bed in coming weeks.
Wasted opportunity. #skpoli
https://globalnews.ca/news/9345809/saskatchewan-covid-19-researchers-unable-to-get-hospitalization-data/

RT @InteroperableEU: Electronic Access to @EU_Commission Documents (#EASE) is a new✨ advanced one-stop-shop for #citizens to learn more about #access to Commission #documents and how to properly submit a request!

To learn more:
👉🏼https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-request/home

#Transparancy #Openness #EU

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_opendata/status/1596821144719757315