‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/05/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai

Invisible labour behind 'intelligent' machines
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/the-invisible-labour-behind-intelligent-machines/

Exploited Data Workers in Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI”
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/27/data_workers

Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/27/ai_platform_extractivism

Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/14/kenya-shadow-scholars-paid-to-write-essays-for-uk-students

@Natouille joli!!!

Sam Aaron was a much loved part of the first Goatmire. He returns with more. Generally just more.

If you've followed his work, and you should, you will know he has been doing very interesting things. He will be speaking and the topic is a hard one. Time.

https://goatmire.com/talk/notes-on-the-synthesis-of-time
#goatmire #elixir

STATEMENT BY A/I COLLECTIVE ABOUT US SANCTIONS

‚We will not back down, we will keep doing what we have been doing all these years and we will do whatever is in our possibility to counter the false allegations made by a politically desperate administration with the sole intention of swaying people and media attention away from their own violence and warmongering.

Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity.‘

Collettivo Autistici / Inventati — “Socializzare saperi senza fondare poteri”

Stay human! 🖤

https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

Absolute solidarity! Please Share and Support @cavallette

#AutisticiInventati #Autistici #Inventati #Antifa #Repression #Italy #USA

RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/117168474495628474

“The systems through which people speak determine who can speak, who can listen, who owns the record and who can be silenced.”

Building privacy-preserving infrastructure is not itself an act of terrorism.

Read their story. Stay human.

#privacy #autistici #AutisticiInventati

@kepano Breezy Weather https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather

Ruští vyděrači obelhali agenta AI. Ten pro ně napadl několik firem
https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/veda/rusti-vyderaci-obelhali-agenta-ai-ten-pro-ne-napadl-nekolik-firem-377044

If your solution to the externalities of LLM-use is "open models run on local hardware," then you need to be thinking hard about how that works in a scenario where the cost of RAM continues to climb in tandem with the amount of memory required to run successive models effectively, because there's every indication that's how the industry wants it.

@zvinj שמעתי משהו מצחיק על הכנס. הגיעו לשם קשישים (בגיל שלנו) שחשבו שזה כנס למצביעים לראשונה לדמוקרטים, כי הם קודם הצביעו למפלגות אחרות. הם לא חשבו שזה למצביעים לראשונה בכלל. התפדחו אבל החליטו להישאר.

@andrewnez 🥲😢😭

🧵Cosmology’s Swampland

“Dr Vafa’s proposal is that the two swampland conjectures, paired with measurements of dark energy, point to a special region in string theory’s landscape: one that would wrap together three of the universe’s biggest mysteries—dark energy, dark matter and quantum gravity—into a single, neat package.”

Feeling proud of someone you care about has never felt so bittersweet.

Thankfully, I know Ethan will use the time and resources of this opportunity for the greater good, and I'm so heartened to see him do that.

still processing all the amazing shows at #NHAMFest26. theres not a lot of events where you get this level of variety and the "raid" format was really exciting

-Meta takes down accounts linked to surveillance vendors
-Most investigations require cross-border data requests
-New malicious Chrome and Edge extensions
-New ToxNetV2 botnet, Aurora ransomware, Miraak framework, PackClient RAT
-Russian disinfo op poses as a fake Israeli think tank
-New Dark Caracal, TortoiseShell, and BlueDelta ops
-DPRK remote workers expand beyond IT jobs
-New ZBT router backdoors
-PaperCut zero-day
-GPUThor Rowhammer attack
-Gitea bug exploited in the wild

@catsalad He‘s a very friendly and freedom-loving kitten who has always lived at the university

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117172155532057446

"agents.md" files "work" because they look so meaningful to humans which means adding them to the repo looks as if you explained something relevant. The misunderstanding is that "the agents reads the file and understands it". The file is just slapped into the prompt to manipulate which tokens it generates. That's why you can't even guarantee that the "tool calls" in agents.md files are actually being made: It's a stochastic process, you might be unlucky and the dice fell in a way that lead to something else happening.

Stanowczo potrzebujemy systemu domen wolnego od zależności od USA.

Nie rejestrujcie domen zależnych od USA, np. .com .org .net, bo jedną decyzją rząd USA was skasuje z sieci i odbierze głos.

To cenzura państwowa.

Przykład: domena autistici.org włoskiego kolektywu IT, o którym pisałem wczoraj została właśnie skasowana.

Trzeba przedłożyć niezależność i bezpieczeństwo nad "ładność".

Jeśli chcecie uzyskać dostęp do serwera www autistici.org musicie do swoich hosts dopisać ip 93.190.126.19 zarówno dla autistici.org jak i www.autistici.org

Na linux to /etc/hosts

cc @avolha @didleth @spoofy @mr_zvbr @rysiek @panoptykon

@BlowUpRadio so true

@mrundkvist congratulations 🎉