thejapantimes (@thejapantimes@mastodon.social)
Elon Musk has voiced support for an anti-immigration demonstration in Japan, commenting "Good" on a video posted on X by an account called The British Patriot. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/02/japan/anti-immigration-support-musk/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #elonmusk #socialmedia #sanseito #immigration
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feedle (@feedle@mastodon.social)
š From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:
Building a machine-translated railway news aggregator - https://jonworth.eu/building-a-machine-translated-railway-news-aggregator/?ref=feedle.world
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See other stories like this one here: https://feedle.world/digital-crossroads
#web #internet #socialmedia #blogging
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aibay (@aibay@mastodon.social)
š® Will Smith accusato di utilizzare l'IA nei suoi concerti - Fatto reale o semplice sensazionalismo? Una nuova alba per la tecnologia nella musica? #WillSmith #AIinConcerts #socialmedia #artificialintelligence #technology
š https://aibay.it/notizie/will-smith-accusato-di-usare-lai-per-i-concerti-2025-08-29
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pupuweb (@pupuweb@mastodon.social)
Falsely accused by an algorithm? Instagram's AI is wrongfully banning innocent users for serious violations, wiping out accounts & memories in an instant. Uncover the story behind this digital witch hunt and learn why itās happening. #InstagramBan #AI #SocialMedia
https://pupuweb.com/why-does-instagram-keep-banning-innocent-accounts-for-sexualizing-minors/
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trendsZA (@trendsZA@mastodon.africa)
The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:
#Allergies
#spring
#australia
#socialmedia
#dreamed
#Wordle
#wordle1536
#aiart
#music
#ovariancancerawareness
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Fitnessfoundry (@Fitnessfoundry@mas.to)
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ā”ļøTo learn more about their mission: https://chervona-kalyna.org
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Slava Ukraini šŗš¦
#Ukraine #Food #nonprofits #foodbank #hunger #HumanitarianAid #networking
#socialmedia #StandWithUkraine
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aibay (@aibay@mastodon.social)
š¤ "Accogliamo l'alba dell'intelligenza artificiale: siamo pronti a gestire i nuovi AI? #AI #FuturoDigitale" #socialmedia #artificialintelligence #technology
š https://aibay.it/notizie/i-nuovi-ai-siamo-pronti-a-gestirli-2025-09-01
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media (@media@eicker.news)
Ā»How Australiaās anti-immigration rallies were amplified online by the global far rightĀ« https://theconversation.com/how-australias-anti-immigration-rallies-were-amplified-online-by-the-global-far-right-264269?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
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medien (@medien@mastodon.social)
Ā»Gaza-Aktion, KI-Nachahmung verletzt Rechte, Zwangshaft fĆ¼r RTL-Bosse?Ā« https://bildblog.de/150457/gaza-aktion-ki-nachahmung-verletzt-rechte-zwangshaft-fuer-rtl-bosse/?Multiplikator.in #Medien #SocialMedia
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trendsZA (@trendsZA@mastodon.africa)
The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:
#australia
#socialmedia
#dreamed
#Wordle
#wordle1536
#aiart
#music
#Allergies
#spring
#ovariancancerawareness
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2025 (@2025@markcarrigan.net)
LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism
I have a strange relationship to LLM-criticism. I often agree with what critics say, even if I pedantically insist on reframing claims about LLMs as claims about interaction between LLMs and organisational settings. But I also use them daily and support others in using them. There are intellectual reasons for this given that, if you started from the assumption that diffusion of the technology was pretty inevitable given the material forces underlying it, mitigating harms came to seem vastly more helpful than saying ādonāt do itā. The extent to which late 2022 was a point in my life when I felt politically (and personally) defeated also contributed to this outlook. Even allowing for all those elements however there was a sense that much, though by no means all, LLM discourse just failed to move me on a more affective level for reasons I didnāt quite understand. It felt like there was a surplus to the criticism, some additional animating factor, which didnāt translate for me.
Iāve been rereading Sherry Turkleās Second Self (originally published in 1984) recently and I was struck by this observation she makes about video game criticism on pg 66:
And so, for many people, the video game debate is a place to express a more general ambivalence: the first time anybody asked their opinion about computers was when a new games arcade applied for a license in their community or when the owner of a small neighborhood business wanted to put a game or two into a store. It is a chance to say, āNo, letās wait. Letās look at this whole thing more closely.ā It feels like a chance to buy time against more than a video game. It feels like a chance to buy time against a new way of life.
Could this āgeneral ambivalenceā be the surplus I intuited which I donāt feel? A sense in which LLM criticism becomes an occasion to stage a more generalised expression of discomfort with platform capitalism? I would argue we have to understand LLMs in terms of a genealogy of platform capitalism in order to make sense of how a technological innovation is being commercialised in increasingly destructive forms, accelerating an infrastructural project which is environmentally devastating. It again feels pedantic but too much LLM-criticism seems to start with the LLM rather than start with platform capitalism in a way that is analytically unhelpful. I wonder reading Turkle if thereās also an impulse to ābuy timeā by focusing on the object and/or the infrastructure associated with it rather than the deeper factors which have led it to emerge and take the form it has at the moment that it has?
If this seems dismissive itās sincerely not my intention. Iāve tried to document my own orientation to LLMs at length, being honest about the tensions and contradictions in the role they play in my work and my life. Underlying this is an attempt to grapple with the fragile resurgence of some social and political hope in my psyche following an initial phase of post-pandemic doom. Itās also a period of time in which Iāve pretty much entirely left social media, largely because of my discomfort with platform capitalism, which makes my orientation to LLMs appear prima facie even more contradictory. So if it looks like Iām imputing tensions and contradictions to other people, Iām doing so in a way tied up with working out the even deeper tensions in my own position.
#hope #LLMs #platformCapitalism #postNeoliberalCivics #postPandemicCivics #SocialMedia #techCriticism
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GoWeaponsHot (@GoWeaponsHot@mstdn.party)
"The prank allegedly committed in #Houston is similar to what's being dubbed the "#DoorKickingChallenge," a national trend based on an old prank called "#DingDongDitch," in which groups of kids record videos of themselves kicking and banging on doors of homes and apartments before running away and then posting the videos on #socialmedia platforms such as #TikTok."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/11-year-houston-boy-shot-door-knocking-prank/story?id=125141773
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