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Last week I was reminded about this super-accessible article on 'The Seven Principles of Data Feminism' by Catherine d’Ignazio and Lauren Klein - especially for those who never got around to reading the book! https://responsibledata.io/anniversary/the-seven-pr…

The Seven Principles of Data Feminism
In November 2015, Catherine, who was based out of the MIT Media Lab at the time, was invited by Mushon Zer-Aviv to write a blog post for the Responsible Data Forum – an event he was co-organising for January 2016. At the same time, Lauren, who was working at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, was preparing to

Sources: the US government plans to let the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, which details standards for data center use and operations, expire in September (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-letting-a-key-data-center-re…

The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire
The federal government is planning to let a rule regulating federal data center operations sunset in September with no replacement.

If we let the orbital datacenter scams get to the point of launching, we deserve the Kessler Syndrome we get.
Sun-synch terminator-riders are in a limited orbital space. Many current residents belong to governments, as it’s a useful surveillance orbit. Once upon a time it’s the sort of thing that a U.N. body might regulate. Suggesting that now just seems like a joke…

TÜV zu MDR-Reform: Wir sollen Produkte zertifizieren, die wir nie gesehen haben
Warum weniger unangekündigte Audits die Patientensicherheit gefährden und warum erst etwas passieren müsse, bevor reagiert wird, erklärt Mark Küller vom TÜV.

TÜV zu MDR-Reform: Wir sollen Produkte zertifizieren, die wir nie gesehen haben
Warum weniger unangekündigte Audits die Patientensicherheit gefährden und warum erst etwas passieren müsse, bevor reagiert wird, erklärt Mark Küller vom TÜV.

Federal Communications Commissioner Olivia Trusty
cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media.
Now, the commissioner and a guest enjoyed the star-studded celebration thanks to tickets gifted to her by Paramount worth more than $12,000, according to ethics disclosure records obtained by ProPublica.
The other commissioner who approved the merger watched from a prized perch.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr and his wife sat in a privat…

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.

"Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future" by Edward Luttwak in the LRB from 1994. Opening and closing paras.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v16/n07/edward-luttwak/why-fascism-is-the-wave-of-the-future

Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of the company deploying its new humanoid robot in factories (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/the-fig

The Fight Over Humanoid Robots Has Shut Down a Car Factory for the First Time
Auto workers for Hyundai Motor in South Korea are on a partial strike worried about their future job prospects

Dynatrace agrees to acquire Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915M, including ~$815M in cash (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/insights/news/dynatra…

Dynatrace acquires Arize, accelerates AI observability efforts | Constellation Research
Dynatrace acquired Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, in a deal worth $915 million. The acquisition is just the latest data point indicating Dynatrace has momentum. Arize has a strong open source community and works across all major AI frameworks. Dynatrace, a leading observability platform, said Arize will give it the ability to continuously improve AI applications across the lifecycle and connect them to infrastructure health and business processes.

Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP suit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to US' military operations, including the Iran War (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/doj-lawyers-argue-xai-vital-national-secur…

DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.

OpenAI employees donated a combined $215K to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-employees-donations-guardrails-…

OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss
OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.