Notices by Alecs Ștefănescu [38c3] (catileptic@chaos.social)

@petrescatraian mă număr și eu printre persoanele din România foarte active aici

Respectiv, @arendt_we_all și @revolutionaryobject :) - au conturi noi, dar le menționez pentru că sper că îți vor face un cămin acilea

@boss e coleg de breaslă în zona de programare open-source cu naunțe civice

@apti e un cont de asociație - foarte demn de urmărit. :)

iar @Biro e jurnalist pentru publicația de investigație context.ro

Digital rights policy folx, is there any article published on how local authorities are preparing for their work ahead under Article 77 of AI Act?

(local language is fine, doesn't have to be EN)

Anything on them training staff, anything on them declaring explicitly "oh, we'll focus on this particular high-risk use"?

I'm considering FOIA-ing the ones nominated in #Romania, to ask how they're preparing.

#AIA #AI #digitalrights

We're going to need to get a lot more fluent in the nature of "chilling effects" and their uneven distribution

For example in my experience if you're in a highly resourced area like eng you usually have little idea how much other areas like research are fighting for funds you'd consider a coffee budget. Those funds will increasingly only be available for the least controversial work and people will perceive great social risk for even asking if they're available

Really enjoyed this dialogue between Yanis Varoufakis and Cory Doctorow. The title says it's about "Musk", but all that Musk is, here, is a name used to quickly and efficiently refer to the gradual capture and locking-in of public policy and political struggle as such, in the hands of that Varoufakis calls techno-feudalists.

https://www.youtube.com/live/I0kvjNh7czM

In 2025, activists, journalists and human rights defenders are looking ahead at high-stakes elections and a fraught legislative struggle between the EU and the USA. We've got our hands full.

So, I wanted to remind folx of the excellent lists of tools for investigations, OSINT, and data processing from the Global Investigative Journalism Network:

2023: https://gijn.org/stories/top-10-investigative-tools-2023/

2024: https://gijn.org/stories/top-investigative-journalism-tools-2024/

@holsta oh, I didn't know about this! :) thanks for not risking it

I just learned about Hildegard of Bingen, born in 1098, a nun who created her own covenant. She wrote Ordo Virtutum, a "musical morality play – a drama in which the characters are personifications of moral or abstract qualities" (J. Staines). Ordo contains only female parts.

One of my favorite albums in Ayreon's "Human Equation" (2004), with a plot that is similar, and a form that is pretty much the same.

Time to discover the woman who did it first, 1000 years before.

#womeninmusic

TED is one of the biggest enablers of this "AGI" scam, and one of the biggest ways to circle more money amongst more white dudes. Period.

Why not do an "interview" with the myriads of traumatized, exploited workers and those protesting genocide to discuss "safety"?

Those are not from populations TED is interested in. They don't fit the bill of "a scientist" or "innovator." There are only certain things that Black people are supposed to talk about in front of white saviors.

Claudia Șerbănuță published a study, in English, that reveals how public librarians in #Romania, who edit #Wikipedia in Romanian, perceive the Neutral Point of View.

https://revistatransilvania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/RT-10-2024-7-S%CC%A6erba%CC%86nut%CC%A6a%CC%86.pdf

She conducted informal interviews with 10 editors, 5 were public librarians, and found a tension between the impetus to maintain neutrality and their personal biases. The librarians expressed frustration at balancing personal beliefs with professional responsibilities when offering public services.

@denbib thanks for tagging me, i might have missed it otherwise! :)

First basic website to see the data https://te-k.github.io/telegram-transparency/

It is wild to see such a shift of all companies toward Trump and Musk far right values, Mark Zuckerberg's speech is really scary https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes/

Cybersecurity Program Lead (all genders):

🔒 Lead our Sovereign Tech Resilience program to enhance the security of open source software and developing strategies to manage vulnerabilities in critical digital infrastructure through audits, bug bounties and more.

https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/cybersecurity-program-lead

#FediHire #Jobs #OpenSource

@tek Romania done via GitHub :)

#Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users
https://www.404media.co/telegram-hands-u-s-authorities-data-on-thousands-of-users/

@ordinoides when i want this sort of "easy listening", i default to the French radio FIP, which has nonetheless introduced me to music i went on to listen in a focused way later: https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip

@maia thank you for publishing this version of your investigation! and, also, thank you for your methodical work

What's your favorite file format challenge / trick / bug / surprise / work / art ?
Bonus point if it's underrated or obscure!

#EffectiveAltruism folx should work on their reading comprehension.

I got an #AI in 2024 retrospective from 80,000 Hours, an Effective Ventures project (related to EA). In it, they mention that "the o1 language model [developed by OpenAI ][...] has the ability to deliberate about its answers before responding."

The OpenAI o1 release says: "We introduce deliberative alignment, a training paradigm that directly teaches reasoning LLMs [...] safety specifications..."

Quite the leap of faith...

@kevinrothrock i'm curious how far Russia has progressed towards their "sovereign internet" goal. curious whether there are accounts of technical uses who can see clearly the extent to which the attempt to block acces to "foreign" services disrupts their life.