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Investigating the untold biases behind Big Data, policy-by-algorithm and Artificial Intelligence. Because The Algorithmic is Political
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Rained Out Radio Hour (runtime 6 minutes) is an audio sketch show that lives up to the name. A potpourri for the ears; providing the broadcasts, prose and advertisements craved by the curious mind. Inspired by all decades of radio, this variety show is sure to please everyone. From culture vultures to blue collar slobs, there is no better way to pass the storm. Starring Erin Island and Andrew McCammon. Produced by Neon Comedy. Part of The Trident Network
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DK_en 2x06 - Thoughts for the summer break
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As an end-of season treat, a bunch of questions that we'll meet again, as good as new, after the break. Good summer from Dataknightmare!By Runtime Radio
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DK_en 2x05 - The Italian Garante and chatGPT
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TL; DR: there is no "AI", only bullshit generators, and therein lies the rub. what the Italian Garante really decided (no, it did NOT block chatGPT, that was openAI's strong-arming choice), refutation of the most common objections and a few opinions as a bonus.By Runtime Radio
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Generative AI may be all the rage right now, but it's just a marketing name. A more appropriate name? Bullshit generators.By Runtime Radio
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"Dear EU, please change the GDPR because it does not suit our business models. XOXO, the US"By Runtime Radio
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DK_En - 2x02 Algojerks Towards the Thousand-Year Reich
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Lonmgtermism is a Nazi cult disguised as fashionable scientism for the megarich. Merry Christmas!By Runtime Radio
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DK 2x01 - Are there alternatives to Office365?
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DataKnightmare is back. And, following on the german DSK investigation report, has his own opinion on the age-old question: are there alternatives to Office365?By Runtime Radio
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This debut episode of the Rained Out Radio Hour features handmade American products, interesting facts about nature and a game show to help fill the void of everyday life. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★By The Trident Network
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First it was Project Maven, then Google Duplex, and now the Selfish Ledger. Google has become the Church of the Algojerks, and it is now clear that Silicon Valley is pursuing a fundamentally Leninist project.By Runtime Radio
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Do you, like me, have the impression that things are somehow accelerating? As if we were on a car careening downhill with no brakes --and no driver either? Seems to me, the brazenness with which Silicon Valley is churning out its "solutions" (often to nobody's problems) is fast reaching its slobness. Am I overreacting? Facebook wants our nude pics …
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The DataKnightmare has issues with the ongoing deification of disruption stars. Will our future really have the intellectually unencumbered face of a Mark Zuckerberg? Are Uber, AirBnB, Google really all that innovation is about? Are these kings of disruption really the gods of our times. No. We are already witnessing their twilight of these gods an…
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You thought the DeepMind/Royal Free NHS case was bad? Well, Italy has promised IBM the sum total of its 60 million citizens' health data for Watson health to train on. With no oversight, no guarantees, no financial return, and no defined goals. Welcome to the mother of all datagrabs.By Runtime Radio
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The Equifax breach, 143 million citizens' worth of credit rating data? Or Facebook having Nazis as a targetable demographics? Or the system an Italian party uses for its internal polls and elections, Rousseau, breachable with a trivial SQL injection? The data industry is a circus where the contest is between the "merely" incompetent and the crimina…
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Can AI really guess if you are gay? So far, it's a bullshit claim. Nonetheless, some are making it. They claim to be warning us, but with their bad science and their questionable ethics, they lend credibility to the practices they claim to fear. Welcome to a world where the algorithmic is politicalBy Runtime Radio
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