Reminded again of the exchange @fractalecho.bsky.social had w/ their student whose writing quality tanked, was noticed, and then, when asked what was going on, revealed they'd been using "AI" to rewrite papers to sound more white. Our trust in these systems does us real epistemic & hermeneutic harm

I don’t know. It seems consistent to me. If we have good public health, there is no reason to use AI. So destroying public health creates the problem they can have AI “solve.”

like you should believe people for what they literally do with their time when they engage in the most obscenely racist, eugenicist, statistics-brained (in the derogatory sense) work you can ever imagine, and their work reliably endears them to billionaires and authoritarian regimes.

we should stop pretending people in academia are aligned with our projected political imaginations of higher ed. many CS/AI "luminaries" are obviously engaged in political projects to unravel labor power, belittle human intelligence & creativity, and enhance capacities for state & corporate violence

This feels at odds with their other bet, “supporting administration that is killing public health.”

okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting

My 1974 HP calculator surpasses human intelligence in key tasks

People who rarely interact with anyone even resembling an average skilled worker claim some bullshit

As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work. LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.

(and this is why no one NO ONE should be using it out of curiosity, just for 'fun' or- worst of all- bc it happens to be there.)

any legal/policy experts who want to fact check my adult protective services know your rights mini-guide?

These are slave catchers. Their model is directly from slave catching . They are following the blueprint America BUILT for attacking racialized property

“…Suleyman has a vision for ‘humanist’ superintelligence…” The three pillars are “serving as an AI companion that will help people ‘learn, act, be productive, and feel supported,’ offering assistance in the healthcare industry, and creating ‘new scientific breakthroughs” in clean energy.’”

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I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries

Exactly. They are the same project.

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New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

See also, @theguardian.com which has a partnership with OpenAI, and routinely vomits out uncritical pieces on AI which are little more than PR pieces

Y'all have to understand: to center (and obsess) on business productivity like this is inherently a conservative position (and the conservation is around power consolidation). Tie that with the # of Black women laid off, services cut and you see where you're choosing to stand. Trump welcomes you.

IMO a lot of the problem with AI in therapy comes from the view of therapy as mechanical rather than relational (e.g. CBT). You wouldn't ever plausibly think that AI could be useful in therapy unless you thought a meaningful ongoing therapeutic relationship with another human being was unimportant.

Taking session notes for insurance reimbursement is the perfect use case for AI, yet I'd never trust an AI company to simply sell me that software without using sessions as training data, which is exactly what's happening.

Tired of getting updates about your community from people in your community? Now you don’t have to! We’re taking over all your personal connections so they can be mediated and filtered by a corporate robot! Pointless Tech Inc: If we could sell you a hug from your own mom, we would do that too!

So much wrong with this company. Some lows from this article: - instead of banning them, Meta charges suspected scammers MORE for their ads - Meta leadership has decided to crack down on scam ads only a little bit, so it won’t hurt the bottom line, and only in countries w tough regulators

Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.

“‘Audio updates are meant to be short and sweet (a few sentences here and there), tailored to your interests and your social graph, and designed to both inspire and inform you…The vibe we’re going for is more ‘Waze meets Gossip Girl,’ and less ‘Wikipedia in your ears.’”

I’m sure it’s just coincidence, but it really seems like once a publication partners with an ai company, they start featuring a lot more stories like this.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

NEW YORK CITY: I hear you're in a celebratory mood over there. Well how would you like to use some of that energy to help dismantle big tech? Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.

This is what happens when tech press decides to give up on any meaningful commitment to race and avoids handling conflict by just erasing it. Fake Black people online aren’t new Fake Black people are a cornerstone of America They REFUSE to acknowledge this beyond playing “spot the Bot”

That's what our upcoming book chapter is about. How they think it can tell the future: "Chapter 4. External Intelligence: Oracles, Divination and Animism, and the Use of LLMs/Generative AI; Michael D. Fischer, Sally A. Applin, and Sridhar Ravula" in bookstore.emerald.com/symbolic-int...

Correction: it's a two step process. First, relieve the user of the burden of making choices, then replace the user entirely. Wait for the coming press release where Tinder proposes having an "agent" find a mate for you. "No need to even be involved, our agent will go on the date for you!"

They were not fooled, tricked, manipulated, hoodwinked, or bamboozled. They posted the videos because it matches their ideology and illustrates their preferred narrative. That’s it.

Not a chance in the world I’d ever admit this.

surrender all human agency! it'll be fun!

chat is not feeding your armies bad? i feel like i read some book about this particular thing… it was pretty old…

“And while that might sounds like a rather invasive way to find a match, the dating app notes that it’s opt-in and will hopefully combat what it calls ‘swipe fatigue.’” One of ai boosters’ favorite pitches is the offer to relieve you of the drudgery of making choices.

In skimming this article I thought I saw: “You'll need the ring to access the future.” My initial thought was: yeah, that tracks with tech bro hubris—even if a bit over-the-top. as it turns out, it says: “You'll need the ring to access the app, though Fahmi says that could change in the future.”

This demonstrates how artists actually work: through relational thinking, discerning, critiquing, connecting as thinking, feeling people. I know where every reference comes from. When artists take from each other with acknowledgement, responsibility, and respect, we make each other stronger.

While we debate the future, AI-enabled deportations, surveillance, and deaths are increasing. The concentration of power in the hands of a few directly controls who live and who dies. The video is inspired by and supports the work of @danmcquillan.bsky.social -Read his Resisting AI

The collection is awesome, algorithms are a lot like an occult practice. Hexing white supremacists, casting spells, tarot, astrology and more featuring @emmaquilty.bsky.social @aketchum22.bsky.social @xrw.bsky.social @drs.bsky.social @thechristinet.bsky.social @jessrauchberg.bsky.social

Seance and Technology Studies is for real, read the intro published by @asapjournal.bsky.social as part of "Algorithms and the Occult, or Chatbots are the New Psychic Friends Network" edited by @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com 🔮 asapjournal.com/node/seance-...

New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen. vimeo.com/1116289621 🧵

Race science in the NFL.....that tracks.

Unpopular opinion : that I’m not even sure is safe to say Until we are able to have real discussions about how using Ai is always an attempt at control and domination And that using it without consent is just a violation ? We won’t get anywhere

"All the Players are Black. All the Owners are White. But Some of Have Pattern Recognition." -Coming out from Haymarket Press 2026

As someone whose dad played in the NFL for 10 years and had four Super Bowl rings, my response to this is: LOL

oh, interesting, NFL. tell me more about the "cognitive baseline" of Black athletes