So, here am I, in my ninetieth year, looking back on my career as a geographer interested in explaining, with a little help from Marx, how urbanization and uneven development work, finding myself obliged to some extraordinary scholars, such as Sraffa and Robinson;

You know a country is car-centric when everyone starts their company in a garage.

You know you are executive material when you believe a machine can use the same personality studies profile that you can use too, but it can actually look inside a person's head, like an X-ray machine or something. All hail the Oracle.

😂😂😂 me and Lacan

No? If you are vulnerable, yes, watch what you post. But if we start self-censoring what we post on social media right now, what are we even doing. Isn't that the 'obeying in advance' everyone's always warning about? Post, protest, organize—don't let them cow you

Data centre power consumption shouldn't be measured in megawatt hours but in future-power-cut-hours

What. April fool's is it?

i’ll never fully disconnect from US tech products, but i am planning to make a serious push to replace a lot of US software and services i use in the coming weeks (once i’m not travelling so much, basically)

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I was a COBOL mainframe programmer for large public universities for many years. Did a lot of database wrangling. The idea that people without deep knowledge and experience would even TOUCH that kind of code or data makes my head explode. EXPLODE. It could well be that they simply want to break it.

well yes "move fast break things" has been their way for very long

I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.

Sam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troubles pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/27/s... -text www.youtube.com/watch?v=38T8... - video

evergreen video of a disgusted Miyazaki telling off some AI-wannabe programmers on their terrible animation work. "i feel like we are nearing the end of times" youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...

the FT is complicit. @financialtimes.com

American tech companies’ idea of tech dominance is forcing everyone else to accept the toxicity and hate that they do.

Going further: If you're a radium art exhibition curator, or a radium artist that gets workers to produce your radium art, would you still continue being a radium art exhibition curator or artist if you knew the effects of radium art on workers & communities?

Tesla owners who put those stickers saying they bought their #deathmachine before this mofo went crazy just tell on themselves. this mofo was always a sick fk.

There are certain types of tech critics who avoid any mention of racism, sexism, colonialism, genocide & eugenics. If they do it is to attack those of us who expose these threads. Watch out for those discussing "polarization" rather than "white supremacy" Or "racial tensions" rather than racism 🙄

Hustle-productivity-sigma-grindset Execs and wannabes love it.

Okay so my lecture for the Edinburgh University studies on the Politics of AI is done. We'll investigate the question if AI has built-in politics and if yes, which politics those are. Spoiler alert: AI is structurally a right-wing project. It's not a tool for leftists.

A CCP production on Karl Marx, a proper tearjerker love story. A 7-episode emotional ride, i highly recommend, do watch. ☭ ✊ 🌹 ❤️ 领风者 / The Leader youtube.com/playlist?lis...

//Intelligent people have had their say It's time for the foolish to show the way Let's lead this world a merry dance Let's give stupidity a chance// Pet Shop Boys - Give stupidity a chance youtu.be/P9jEuHbB0GQ?...

Capitalism is a hell of a drug.

Silvia Federici on Crisis & Critique podcast with @agonhamza.bsky.social & Frank Ruda // Silvia Federici on feminism, primitive accumulation, bodies, magic, dance… // youtu.be/FBlfEj72vPg?...

Tip truck what a good idea

A big fuck you to J. L. Austin's double positive. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sidney_...

while it's unavailable, you can read the ebook here: libgen.is/book/index.p... the paper book is still widely available

This will be brilliant. 10th April, 2PM Central

the actual technology almost doesn't matter, the AI bubble guys were the crypto bubble guys and the metaverse bubble guys and wanna be the quantum bubble guys

We’ve been taught to fetishize convenience so thoroughly, and the costs have been hidden so effectively, that we seek convenience while unknowingly reinforcing the system that make us crave ease in the first place. We have to change this whole paradigm. My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/convenienc...

"Comes to America"?? Kuch bhi. Where'd it come from? @newyorker.com don't be so so modest, your US Masters literally created it & are fcuking the world with it as usual like you do with anything you come up with.

I have a question for a thing I'm working on: When you find yourself having to say "don't get me wrong, I love tech", what are the tech products that you love(d) that come to mind? (feel free to quote post)

this Mofo is a clickbait guy & has to be the b!tch of some yt conservative Senior Editor: he gets too much undeserved FT-airtime. As a fellow Indian-heritage person, i say, Upper Caste Indian males are reared on yt-adjacency. Sole aim of their Uni degrees is money/status & savouring b00tleather.

Do You Know How Much Energy ChatGPT Actually Uses?

People’s Tech For People’s Power. A guide to digital self defense & empowerment by Michael Kwet: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A mum posted about a school exploiting 10 y old girls including her kid for free labour (+ •only girls• are being exploited) & USians in the replies gushing about how these children deserve "trophies" for "great service", are so "smart & resourceful" & how organisations work. This is America, eh?

2 little Oppressor Caste Indian twerps selling cruelty-tech. Such boys are reared in a social hierarchy of caste & class that dehumanises entire sections of humans; an apathetic, amoral society that worships $$ & status. Back home, media & business/professional classes see them as success stories.

once again: death to america they can’t be allowed to get away with this

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They're "safety" coz they want to keep shitty systems that they profit from, safe from critique.

Dr. Birhane's succinct, clear words on #publicinterestAI.

Also - government is not a business. It is ultimately a collective that provides services to citizens. It does not need to be run like a for profit entity.

Tomorrow! // MS-Teams live stream for tomorrow's 'Resisting and Refusing AI' discussion bit.ly/43c7ZkI //

2 little Oppressor Caste Indian twerps selling cruelty-tech. Such boys are reared in a social hierarchy of caste & class that dehumanises entire sections of humans; an apathetic, amoral society that worships $$ & status. Back home, media & business/professional classes see them as success stories.

Did AI write this haha. But yeah, good to see UK rags say things in unison, that even "reputable" media doesn't in the US.

I'm frequently struck by the phrase "unintentional bias" which comes up frequently in work on LLMs. Whose intentions are in question? Why do we have to absolve those people all the time?

the perfect picture to illustrate what might well be the apex of plutocracy in human history