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While Govt workers have been laid off by the thousands, pals of Kristi Noem gettin' paid off... The opaque Delaware corp PR firm of her pals that put her on a pony to rant against "illegal immigrants" during the govt shutdown just made $220m tax dollars...
https://www.propubli…

The very excellent “what happened last week” newsletter by @… focuses on “the A in AI stands for African” this week, namely on how Chinese AI companies are turning Kenya with its chronic unemployment of 67 percent into a hot spot of cheap AI labor.
More and more Kenyan students and recent graduates are hired to label thousands of videos a day through opaq…

The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
SIIE:
🎵 Opaque Couché
#SIIE
https://siie.bandcamp.com/track/opaque-couch
https://open.spotify.com/track/32Gal6GsrvXGEbw3oIqeZ9

An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/kenya-china-ai-workers/

The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.

A look at CollectiveMetrics.org, a new nonprofit founded by two ex-Meta ad executives that aims to bring more transparency to digital advertising to fight scams (Craig Silverman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/scam-ads-are-flooding-so…

Scam Ads Are Flooding Social Media. These Former Meta Staffers Have a Plan
Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Erik Klinga & Erik Klinga:
🎵 Opaque Stars
#ErikKlinga

Thank you to everyone who writes alt text on images.
I am not blind, but for some reason the images don't load in my feed. The images have been on or off for the last few days.
So if you skip ALT text, I'm looking at an opaque rectangle with rounded corners. No idea what's in it, so no reaction.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have turned on Attorney General Pam Bondi
and have reportedly begun drafting articles of impeachment
following the heavily opaque release of the Epstein files

Pam Bondi faces calls to be jailed as bipartisan articles of impeachment are drafted - NewsBreak
Several lawmakers accused Bondi of flouting the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated the government to provide full disclosure of the Justice Dep

I like to play around as an anonymous commenter in online newspaper columns. If you point out the biases of #AI systems, the comment gets deleted because it is considered too polemical.
The comment was addressing an article about AI in public service and the use in refugee applications 🫣

Resilient technologies aren’t retro—they’re ROOT: Robust, Open, Ongoing, Time-tested. In RDM, text-first small, composable tools beat opaque stacks. Emacs/Org(-babel) for literate workflows & provenance; Makefiles declare rebuilds; CLI atoms—curl, sed, awk, grep, diff, tar, rsync, cron, SQLite—keep steps inspectable, portable, rebuildable. DOI: https://

The collapse of two US firms, First Brands and Tricolor,
has shone a light on private credit and its growing influence in the global economy.
The failures have led to ballooning losses at traditional banks,
and, coupled with worries about the health of US regional banks,
have raised concerns about weak lending standards and potential threats from an opaque corner of the so-called "shadow banking" sector

submitted a #talk about practical threshold OPRF deployments (#klutshnik & #sphinx, and maybe a little opaque) to #39c3