link dump - catching up on my online reading

While I am slowly getting back up on my feet after a tough time, I am catching up on emails (will still take a bit!), my RSS feed reader, and several newsletters that have accumulated in my inbox. Here's what I picked out to read and share: This Is Capitalism: Apple's Hidden Data Workers at the Shadows of the AI Boom - 19 page paper detailing what data workers actually do and what problems they deal with, written anonymously by a data worker interviewing their colleagues. Parts of the work descriptions remind me of the work in Severance. Is this really a good reason to triple datacentre capacity in Europe? - online blog post tracing where the idea to triple the EU's data centers comes from that is mentioned in several EU AI strategies. Turns out it's from be a blog post from Savills, a commercial real estate firm who profit off of data centers being built. Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda - AI slop meant to absolutely flood the web to be…