Daniela Tafani @dt@social.cleverlibre.org

Bad news for #uber 👉Brazilian Labour Court orders the platform to formally employ all drivers, pay a fine equivalent to €200 million in collective moral damages, plus a daily fine of almost €2,000 for each driver on the platform who is not reclassified as employee. https://www.conexaopolitica.com.br/judiciario/justica-manda-uber-registrar-todos-seus-motoristas-pela-clt-e-fixa-multa-de-r-1-bilhao/

15 years of crisis “has left the average EU country poorer per head than every U.S. state except Idaho and Mississippi, according to a report this month by the European Centre for International Political Economy, a Brussels-based independent think tank. If the current trend continues, by 2035 the gap between economic output per capita in the U.S. and EU will be as large as that between Japan and Ecuador today”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/europeans-poorer-inflation-economy-255eb629

The robot vacuum cleaner is undergoing a renaissance this year. At the IFA 2023 tech trade show in Berlin this week, robot vacuums were literally roaming the halls. Never underestimate how much human labor is needed to make this robots seem "autonomous"…https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/1/23854843/robot-vacuum-ecovacs-dreametech-innovation-ifa-2023 (In our recent #DiPLab report on Microwork in Brazil, we interviewed several microworkers who took pictures to train the robot's "smart" cameras, for an average hourly wage of $1.80.https://diplab.eu/who-trains-the-data-for-artificial-intelligence-in-brazil-a-joint-report-diplab-latraps-on-micro-work-june-2023/)

Ecco il risultato di una bella chiacchierata con la giornalista e ricercatrice Rosita Rijtano pubblicato nella rivista La Via Libera – da anni impegnata nella lotta alle mafie, per l’ambiente e per la difesa dei diritti dei migranti. https://lavialibera.it/it-schede-1439-chatgpt_sfruttati_antonio_casilli #intelligenzaartificiale #chatgpt #datawork #humansintheloop #microlavoro #SchiaviDelClic

Apple's statement is the death knell for the idea that it's possible to scan everyone's comms AND preserve privacy.

Apple has many of the best cryptographers + software eng on earth + infinite $.

If they can't, no one can. (They can't. No one can.)

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/

If you're after a book for teaching about the sociotechnical foundations, political and economic dynamics, data-driven governance implications, and proposals for data justice, ethics and regulation of digital education, then suggest this to your library https://www.routledge.com/World-Yearbook-of-Education-2024-Digitalisation-of-Education-in-the-Era/Williamson-Komljenovic-Gulson/p/book/9781032417905#

Yet another reason to do away with the #publish_or_perish, especially when it gives an advantage to wealthy authors https://taylorandfrancis.com/partnership/commercial/accelerated-publication/?s=03 #predatorypublishing #Taylor&Francis

August 26 Podcast (16m) - interview for ABC NET RADIO, AUS: Assumptions and consequences: the politics of modelling, Guests: Ehsan Nabavi and Andrea Saltelli, Producer - Chris Bullock.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sundayextra/politics-of-modelling/102778646

“The 572,000 banana workers in India earn $90 a month on average, little more than half of the living rural wage in India. If they received an additional $180 a month to improve their wages, as well as better sanitation, housing, clean water and energy, healthcare, and education, it would add less than a penny per banana in increased cost.”
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/bananas-for-socialism/

Per salvare #NHS, sistema sanitario pubblico inglese, medici, personale sanitario, attivisti inglesi hanno messo in piedi una protesta massiccia, arrivando a fermare ambulanze.
Noi?
Non salveremo il nostro #SSN con inazione e iniziative blande
#SalviamoSSN

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=4ecad03018-briefing-dy-20230816&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-4ecad03018-45624838

Funding bodies in the EU could do more to speed the migration away from Twitter-X.

The book The Politics of Modelling is officially out today

https://academic.oup.com/book/46867?searchresult=1

Some of the chapters are open access here:

https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198872412.pdf

This is a good example of what AI systems like ChatGPT excel at—giving managers and administrators the ability to automate top-down, controversial and harmful decision-making while shielding themselves from accountability. They're a sort of authoritarianism accelerator

https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

Do not get distracted by the #AI hype: When the #commons meet a monopolist, they die - more or less slowly. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/google-search-generative-experience-content-creation/674674/

#acchiappacitrulli è finalmente entrato nella discussione sull'#AI #SALAMI :-) https://www.agendadigitale.eu/cultura-digitale/gpt-4-nel-paese-di-acchiappacitrulli/

SALAMI, Acchiappacitrulli e altre narrazioni. Uno sputo nel mare dell'inevitabilità tecnologica, di @dt https://btfp.sp.unipi.it/it/2023/05/sistemi-fuori-controllo-o-prodotti-fuorilegge/

Deve essere un #pescedaprile: un "filosofo di Internet" nonché cavaliere di gran croce non può ignorare che #chatGPT si è bloccato da sé, e non per ordine del Garante, e che esistono leggi sulla privacy (#GDPR) in vigore: https://www.huffingtonpost.it/economia/2023/04/01/news/luciano_floridi_chat_gpt_garante_privacy-11725205/