New OA book: Fictions, Frictions & Evictions: Housing Data Stories. Available for download at: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/21... The book is a collection of 208 drabbles – stories of exactly 100 words – that shine a spotlight on the data politics of housing, property and planning data

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This is getting a lot of quotes, so I feel I should correct this a bit (sorry @anildash.com!) “AI” was 100% born toxic! The first AI workshop was born from the field of “automata studies”, and…1/ (Pictured: the folks who convened for the first workshop. Notice anything notable here?)

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It was named “Artificial Intelligence” in 1955 to get funding for a 1956 workshop. The naming was an act of branding: Something that sounded exciting & positive, without needing to be clearly defined. It was also a “line in the sand” to exclude Norbert Wiener, of cybernetics fame, in part because…2/

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🎵 Wave of distillation 🎵(sung to the tune of the Pixies) US labs say Chinese labs distill their models. And Europe's new “sovereign model” is fine-tuned on data generated by… GLM and Qwen.

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