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Wikileaks’ original intent was not to become a kind of mirror to the NSA, but to break the whole machine. In 2006, in the very early days of Wikileaks, Julian Assange wrote an analysis of conspiratorial systems of government and how they can be attacked, entitled ‘Conspiracy as Governance’. For Assange, all authoritarian systems are conspiracies because their power depends on keeping secrets from their peoples....

*from indexed sources*:
Nasa adopts two spare spy telescopes, each maybe more powerfull than Hubble -Popular Science 5 June 2012

Technical possibility breeds political necessity, because no politician wants to be accused of not doing enough in the aftermath of some atrocity or exposé. Surveillance is done because it can be done, not because it is effective; and, like other implementations of automation, because it shifts the burden of responsibility and blame onto the machine. Collect it all, and let the machines sort it out.

Chapter 7
finally, so far, his 'inside knowledge' on chess matches with AI ( also hybrid matches) has proven satisfactory
How on earth, does he go about, with all these information tendrils.... Amazing work & insights ( from his POV) as well
esp, when he tried to 'tie it all in' with greek mythological figures

For example, a network trained on Japanese–English and English–Korean examples is capable of generating Japanese–Korean translations without ever passing through English.33 This is called ‘zero-shot’ translation, and what it implies is the existence of an ‘interlingual’ representation: an internal metalanguage composed of shared concepts across languages.

Things get stranger still when these dream images start to interleave with our own memories. Robert Elliott Smith, an artificial intelligence researcher at University College London, returned from a family holiday in France in 2014 with a phone full of photos. He uploaded a number of them to Google+, to share them with his wife, but while browsing through them he noticed an anomaly.30 In one image, he saw himself ...

AlphaGo’s engineers developed its software by feeding a neural network millions of moves by expert Go players, and then getting it to play itself millions of times more, developing strategies that outstripped those of human players. But its own representation of those strategies is illegible: we can see the moves it made, but ...

reading about 'deep dream' now

Half of police services in the United States are already employing ‘predictive policing’ systems such as PredPol, a software package that uses ‘high-level mathematics, machine learning, and proven theories of crime behaviour’ to predict the most likely times and places that new crimes can be expected to occur: a weather forecast for lawbreaking.

τεχνολογία, παρά τις επιμηθεικές και προμηθεικές της δηλώσεις αντανακλάει τον πραγματικό,και όχι τον ιδανικό κόσμο... όταν καταρρέι,μπορούμε να σκεφτούμε καθαρά, κι όταν είναι νεφελώδης, μπορούμε να αντιληφθούμε τη συννεφιά του κόσμου.

-στη πραγματικότητα αποπειράται να επικοινωνήσει το καθεστώς της πραγματικότητας.. ακόμα και άμα εμφανίζεται ως μια αδιαφανής περιπλοκότητα

But the technology of the Nikon Coolpix and the HP Pavilion masks a more modern, and more insidious, racism: it’s not that their designers set out to create a racist machine, or that it was ever employed for racial profiling; rather, it seems likely that these machines reveal the systemic inequalities still present within today’s technological workforce, where those developing and testing the systems are still ...

Once again, the encoded, and particularly racial, biases of visual technologies are not new. To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light, the title of a 2013 exhibition by the artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, refers to a code phrase used by Kodak when developing a new film in the 1980s. Since the 1950s, Kodak had distributed test cards featuring a white woman and the phrase ‘Normal’ in ...

Examples of encoded biases are easy to come by. In 2009, a Taiwanese-American strategy consultant named Joz Wang purchased a new Nikon Coolpix S630 camera for Mother’s Day, but when she tried to take a family photo, the camera repeatedly refused to capture an image. ‘Did someone blink?’ read the error message.

very engaging Chapter ~I have high hopes, I will pursue it further, with bibliography notes/links, that address a few seperate examples in detail

So much information densely packed in this one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxO...

humans working like robots* simply packing & transferring goods, in immense warehouse inside the UK, and for the time being, they're slightly more efficient than robots ( I wonder when that part was written)

And actually I'ld suspend disbelief, and accept the fact, that these Amazon stations/warehouses stationed in Stratford, would by now be 90% automated ~but back , they being monitored by machinery

finally Chapter 5 -περιπλοκότητα

I can't wait to witness, how he's going t tie in, all these examples he used about big data (survival of the fattest, in IT lingo) and climate abrupt changes, in this one! ^_~So far he's way more engaging, than I anticipated, A true craftsman , with unique narratives, on so difficult subjects- i just wish he had more up-to-date sources, stms they're from 2005/2015,or frm 1997.

416.2 τεραβατώρες ; ηλ/κου ρεύματος που κατανάλωναν τα κέντρα δεδομένων ανα την υφύλιο το 15 υπερέβησαν εκείνες ολόκληρου του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου κατα 300 τεραβατώρες

journalists & activists alike, have called the conflict at Syria as

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and in that way, the climate is tied in, horizontal with the immense number of refugees arriving in Europe. *then he goes in to describe* how Scientists, are a bit relactant, to make this connection btn the conflict and the climate, but still they're in agreement on the climate chan

that's really 'upsetting' ( but still not in a weird way) the 2nd supercomputer of the time, was displayed behind a mirror on NY, supossedly making calculations of 'weather patterns'
when it was really making simulations, of Hydrogen bomb explosions~haha, if only I was leaving on those times passing through cntrl avenue I would've never guessed it & probably I would be quite shacken from teh news later on