Notices by ana vldv (ana_valdi@mastodon.social), page 2

Finally managed to get the book about the former Meta's employee that Zuckberg wants to block: "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Author is now facing bankruptcy:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/21/meta-expose-author-sarah-wynn-williams-faces-bankruptcy-after-ban-on-criticising-company

A la Rosalía, no le va la IA: "La IA es inexistente en este disco. En un momento pensé: mira, vamos a aprovechar que existe la IA, vamos a decirle que escriba un verso, a ver qué tal lo hace. El resultado fue absolutamente decepcionante. Muy interesante la IA, pero de momento este disco está hecho por humanos".

https://elpais.com/eps/2025-11-09/rosalia-habla-de-lux-no-me-atreveria-a-ponerle-palabras-a-mi-relacion-con-dios.html

@fanta yo te monto una regresión lineal en 8GB para analizarte la performance...

@pluralistic is coming to my department to give a talk on his recent book: enshittification.

Friday 14 November, 2025 at the Rewley House (Oxford, UK)

Come and join us in person or virtually!

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/

@fanta felicidades por esa vuelta al Sol cumplida! 💜

📚 Writing Chapter 3 for my book on the materiality of AI. It focuses on a genealogy of GPUs by deep diving into the fascinating world of the history of the semiconductor industry: capacitors, transistors, chips environmental impacts and more to come!

🤖 The politics of artificial intelligence supply chains

"These struggles demonstrate how AI supply chains are not neutral or purely technical arrangements, but sites of power where competing claims over resources, labour, and global hegemony unfold."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02625-y

First protest against data centers in Spain:

"Zaragoza is not for sale".

https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/economia/2025/09/27/manifestacion-zaragoza-contra-los-centros-de-datos-1857290.html

@fanta ojalá un teletransporte para poder estar ahí con ustedes!!

🤖 El pròxim 10 d'octubre a les 19:00 serem a Cerdanyola parlant sobre els impacts dels centres de dades al Parc de l'Alba i a Catalunya. Hi serem amb la gent de REFEM i d'Ecologistes en Acció.

⚡ Big and good news coming from Spain!

@civio and @jdelacueva have won an historic course case against algorithmic opacity. The Spanish government rejected few times to publish the source code of an algorithm implemented to decide public aid.

Bosco, the algorithm in question, has to be made public and accountable.

More: https://telegra.ph/El-Supremo-obliga-al-Estado-a-abrir-el-algoritmo-que-asigna-el-bono-social-09-17

@CorioPsicologia ¿conoces el curso de amiga date cuenta? https://ko-fi.com/s/52bf1ea5c9

Big techs are building a counter-narrative regarding AI environmental impacts by focusing on individual usage. Few drops, few watts so you can keep receiving stochastic responses.

One of the main critiques is that they provide market-based emissions that are misleading for several reasons and do not follow GHG reporting protocol.

Overall, this is very problematic because individual measures do not appeal to the scale of its infrastructure and supply chains.

More:
https://telegra.ph/Google-says-a-typical-AI-text-prompt-only-uses-5-drops-of-water--experts-say-thats-misleading-08-23

🌊 The UK government asks to remove old emails and images to save water, but how many L of water are we saving?

If 1GB uses 205L of water, we need to remove 100TB of emails and images to save the same water used to train one LLM.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall

Me entero por amigas que nos deja @osfa_2030. Tuve la suerte de conocerlo en persona en Granada, cuando empezaba con mi mentalidad crítica en un departamento que se subía al hype de la IA. Me alentó a que siguiera con mi manera de ver la tecnología.

Dado que muchas lo conocíais por sus recomendaciones literarias, aquí os dejo su propio libro "Máquinas rebeldes":

https://www.naoslibros.es/libros/maquinas-rebeldes-sore-arquitectura-ciudad-y-mundo-digital/978-84-128092-2-0/

"White House statement: Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/preventing-woke-ai-in-the-federal-government/

🌱 Finally, my paper on "Data Ecofeminism" is out at #FAccT2025:

"Data ecofeminism confronts GenAI technologies, which are presented as the latest technocentric experiment clearly contributing to the social-ecological crisis".

Join us on Thursday at 9AM for the Normative Challenges on AI panel on AI sustainability & Black Decolonial Frameworks.

⏩ Link to paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3715275.3732027

Ayer aprendí que si configuras tu whatsapp bajo una lengua "minorizada" desaparece la IA del chat.

Así que ahora que está configurado al Catalán, bye bye botoncito de la IA que nadie ha pedido.

@fanta en todo caso sería parturienta, no parienta, ¿no?

May I ask for some help here in the room? I am collaborating with a local community affected by e-waste, and we are in need of a chemical waste expert. Does anyone know whom we could contact?