Contemporary ideas about data and privacy are tied up inextricably with language choices.

The Data Workers' Inquiry is a global, radically participatory research initiative spanning nine countries across five continents.

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems’.

In an AI gold rush, those selling the proverbial pickaxes are surest to win: cloud companies provide scalable managed computational resources as a subscr

Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents

Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead investors to frame unprofitable, unsustainable, environmentally-damaging and mediocre cloud

Are we going to run out of electricity to power our data-driven future?

Attached: 1 image #LLMs are a fucking scourge. Perceiving their training infrastructure as anything but a horrific all-consuming parasite destroying the internet (and wasting real-life resources at a grand scale) is delusional. #ChatGPT isn't a fun toy or a useful tool, it's a _someone else's_ utility built with complete disregard for human creativity and craft, mixed with malicious intent masquerading as "progress", and should be treated as such. https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

The co-author of the forthcoming book explains what is wrong with data science and how we can effect positive change today

“Inanimate Species” by Joana Moll on June 13, 2024 at Hidden Layers - AI & Design Conference at Köln International School of Design, TH Köln In…