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Alexis J.

"Pour des motifs discutables, des individus, des groupes et des lieux sont étiquetés comme des menaces potentielles", écrit la Ligue des droits humains. "Cela peut conduire à des mesures préventives punitives, telles que des privations de liberté injustifiées. Cela érode le principe essentiel selon lequel les individus sont considérés comme innocents jusqu’à ce que leur culpabilité soit prouvée, et pose un grave risque d’erreurs judiciaires".

rtbf.be/article/une-boite-noir

Une "boîte noire" : la Ligue des droits humains dénonce la big data au service d’une police prédictive
RTBF.be · Une 'boîte noire' : la Ligue des droits humains dénonce la big data au service d’une police prédictive - RTBF ActusBy Par @marie-laure-mathot-186 et @melanie-joris-50
#bigdata#police#belgique
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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

From the Data Rescue Project: the Data Rescue Tracker. “The Data Rescue Tracker is a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you can use the tool to help reduce duplication of rescue efforts. The Data Rescue Tracker aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is backing up which dataset from […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/the-data-rescue-tracker/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · The Data Rescue Tracker | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#activism#bigdata#contentremoval
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Gytis Repečka

Attended an event Brewing Data with Snowflake yesterday in Vilnius :blobcatnerd:

Some of they key insights:

  • Medallion Architecture (good or bad) is widespread.
  • Snowflake and Databricks are clear competitors, targeting similar landscape.
  • Open formats are trending: file format, table format, catalog, etc. - the more of them are open source, the better.
  • Time travel feature is important, many users already used it for disaster recovery.
  • Clear distinction of Storage from Compute (generic cloud approach).

Full text of one of the slides presented:

Strategic Architecture Outlook

  • Agility & Future-Proofing - Open, portable data means you can adopt new technologies or switch platforms with minimal friction. No single vendor can hold your data hostage, so you can evolve vour architecture as needed.
  • Multi-Cloud and Hybrid - An open data layer can span clouds and on-prem seamlessly. You avoid cloud vendor lock-in and leverage best-of-breed services on different clouds using the same data. This flexibility is key for resilience and optimization.
  • Accelerating Innovation - When any team can access data with the tools of their choice, experimentation flourishes. Open data fosters Al/ML and cross-domain analytics since data isn't locked in silos - more innovation and insights from the same data.
  • Vendor Leverage - Strategically, using open standards increases your leverage in vendor negotiations. You car opt in or out of services more freely, pushing vendors to provide value (since you're not irreversibly locked to them).
Brewing Data with Snowflake event in Vilnius: Olli Ek presenting, Data Interoperability slide showing Medallion Architecture with Data Sources on left and Cobsumption on the right of Processing in the middle with Bronze, Silver, Gold layers
Brewing Data with Snowflake in Vilnius: Maris Svilans presenting, slide on screen showing Strategic Architecure Outlook (full text in main post)
#data#datalake#datalakehouse
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Christoph Schmees

Ein halbes Jahrhundert Microsoft

Die Firma Microsoft (MS) wurde von 50 Jahren gegründet. Das ging durch alle Nachrichten und Presse-Organe, sogar die lokale Tageszeitung berichtete. Die Tagesschau hat einen erstaunlich unkritischen Beitrag veröffentlicht.

pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2

www.pc-fluesterer.infoEin halbes Jahrhundert Microsoft | pc-flüsterer bremen
#Allgemein#Empfehlung#Hintergrund
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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Axios: NOAA research websites slated to go dark get a reprieve.”NOAA has averted the early cancellation of an Amazon Web Services contract that would have caused a slew of agency websites to go dark beginning at midnight, the agency said Friday. Why it matters: The outages mainly would have affected NOAA’s research division, and would have made numerous websites and data sets inaccessible to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/axios-noaa-research-websites-slated-to-go-dark-get-a-reprieve/

#bigdata#contentremoval#DataSets
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Mix Mistress Alice💄

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. >

vimeo.com/1059798497

#enshitification #monopsonies #twiddling #LockedUsers #LockedSellers #GAFAM #lecture #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination#speech #SurveillanceCapitalism #interoperability #competition #regulation #WorkersPower #BigData #sellers #users #TechnoFeudalism #employment #ratings #Uberisation #queries #JediBlue #profiling #enshitified #internet #abuse #DataBrokers #AntitrustLaw #TechLayoffs #RegulatoryCaptures #TechnologicalAbuse #privacy #value #GiantPileOfShit #TechnicalMechanism #rankings #unions #digitalisation #nursing #speech #lecture #video #coporatocracy #monopoly

Vimeo2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture: Cory DoctorowScience fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow presents the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture.
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

If you want to understand the horrifying future these tech billionaire nazis have in store for humanity, it helps to understand what parts of our "glorious past" as a species they're looking to recreate. This interview with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign information sciences and media studies professor Anita Say Chan talks a bit about the history of data and eugenics, what it means that guys like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (along with most of Silicon Valley's movers and shakers) are devout believers in eugenicist philosophies, and how that's reflected in their efforts to reshape society in horrifying, and objectively fascist ways. In terms of our discussion about the uber rich fascists who heavily influence the Trump regime they bought and paid for, I'm mostly including this here to point out that these guys have gone on record in support of a lot of openly fascist shit and for the most part, your media pretends we don't already know these guys are nazis; it's not a secret, it's just not "worth mentioning" when media orgs are fawning over technofascist billionaires destroying our planet and our lives.

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech

"Big Tech successors like Musk and PayPal billionaire-turned-arms dealer Peter Thiel have overtly promoted fraudulent race science, with Musk amplifying users on X who argue that people of European descent are biologically superior. In response to another user’s deleted post suggesting that students at historically Black institutions have lower IQs, Musk posted, “It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE”—diversity, equity, and inclusion, misspelled. In 2016, Thiel buddied up to a prominent white nationalist, and, the same year, was said by a Stanford dorm-mate to have complimented South Africa’s “economically sound” system of racial apartheid."

Mother JonesEugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in techA new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.
#Fascism#Trump#Musk
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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

STAT: Gold-standard maternal mortality database in limbo as CDC staff placed on leave. “As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, the entire staff that oversaw an annual survey to better understand infant and maternal health — and that was considered the gold standard in the field — was placed on administrative leave. The Pregnancy […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/stat-gold-standard-maternal-mortality-database-in-limbo-as-cdc-staff-placed-on-leave/

#bigdata#DataSets#healthcare
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Calishat

#research #science #BigData #DataAnalysis #datasets

'Two hundred forty-six researchers in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology — including two from Clemson University — worked in 174 teams to answer two different research questions based on the same unpublished data sets.

They came up with a strikingly variable range of answers, including some that were direct opposites of each other.'

news.clemson.edu/study-researc

Clemson News · Study: Researchers’ choices could result in different conclusions from the same dataThere is growing recognition among scientists that the many choices researchers must make — such as which statistical methods to apply — can lead to divergent conclusions even when the different options are all reasonable.  The leaders of the study say the results ring true to a growing recognition among scientists that the many choices researchers must make — such as which statistical methods to apply — can lead to divergent conclusions even when the different options are all reasonable. 
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