AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum. Dan McQuillan.
AI's hyperscaling and accelerationism are hegemonic power plays and the massive build-out of data centres is a manifestation of aggressive misogynist technopolitics.
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Anyone who critiques US disinformation or hate speech will be deported or denied visas
AI-enabled surveillance of public spaces across Africa is expanding rapidly - violating citizens’ freedoms and the fundamental human right to privacy, warns a new report published today by the African Digital Rights Network.
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Rise of smart city surveillance tech across Africa enables governments to spy on citizens. AI-enabled facial recognition surveillance systems supplied and funded by China and other foreign powers violate fundamental freedoms, researchers warn. www.ids.ac.uk/news/smart-c...
The Guardian covers our new report:
African governments have spent more than $2bn on invasive AI-enabled mass surveillance experts warn. Facial-recognition CCTV surveillance of public space is neither ‘necessary nor proportionate’, new report finds. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
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So much of the tech we use day-to-day has deep roots in military R&D, and we now have that R&D playing out in real-time. Thinking about this too deeply makes me want to vomit giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Just a couple of weeks ago I was trying to think of non-evil uses for AI, and I thought, "well Grammarly just checks your grammar, that's not too bad, right?"
lesson learned I guess.
Yes! The term human resources renders humanity as no more than a standing reserve of labour units to be graded and sorted, exploited and exhausted in the service of capital. Worse we are human resources that ultimately they seek to replace with automated, mechanical and algorithmic resources.
Great work critiquing Smart Cities across Africa by Wairagala Wakabi and Tony Roberts (@phatcontroller.bsky.social). Interestingly many countries cited have no oversight/ laws on what govs can do with the surveillance data (see Table 2 & Test 3). www.ids.ac.uk/publications...
We told Thatcher we didn't want to carry IDs. We told Blair that we didn't want digital-IDs and now we have to repeatedly tell Starmer that we don't want biometric digital-IDs. When will they fcuking listen to the public?
Relaunched digital-ID will make citizen more legible to the surveillance state and to surveillance capitalism said no Minister ever. 'It's in your own interests" they repeatedly lie. share.google/ATKcblGvWv6p...
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What is Wes thinking?
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Palantir exudes white supremacy
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Palantir is violence
Pivoting from mastering electronic circuits to designing policy for women in engineering.
Jewel Sunil
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Farage was denied an audience with the Führer at Mar-a-Lago. 😢 Farage always finds time for Russian state TV, his UAE and Thai-based funders, and to support Israel and US wars, but when will he put Britain first and hold his first ever surgery for his own constituents in Clacton? 🤔
Farage looking for candidates to stand in the upcoming local elections.
#Farage #ReformUK
Despite Iran never having any nukes & Iran agreeing to zero stockpiles & inspections the US-Israel are again asking us to believe the 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' pretext for war against yet a Muslim oil producing nation. They must think we are fools! Great explainer video.
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If you have instagram, watch a Muppet-like guy tell you about Oracle, Amazon, and Blackrock's woes with a very calming muzak background.
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Rules for life:
ChatGPT is resulting in lower-quality reasoning and argumentation skills; along with compromised critical thinking, reading, and writing skills
Well, congratulations to the US: after changing Taliban with Taliban, and Maduro with his VP, now they have changed Khamenei with Khamenei. Next time maybe improve your cover story for destruction of countries and killing people.
This is "our" Manifesto for a Free Internet. We are Iranian Women's Coalition for Internet Freedom. Happy International Women's Day!
initiated by @azadehakbari.bsky.social @farzdusa.bsky.social @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social @royapak.bsky.social & Afsaneh Rigot
Manifesto for a Free Internet.
Iranian Women’s Coalition for Internet Freedom
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BOOK LAUNCH: Join the Citizen Lab’s @penney.bsky.social @rondeibert.bsky.social, and Kate Robertson as they discuss Penney’s new book, "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age."
🕠 March 12, 5:30 pm
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