I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

ideally, the only places i want to be in AI are spaces for resistance, refusal and community organising in reality, i find myself in spaces where AI governance, regulatory or institutional/scientific decisions are made where either i my input is paid lip service or entirely ignored

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

You don't hate Elon Musk enough

Saleh Al-jafarawi was just killed, despite a ceasefire, by a militia group affiliated with Israel. Friends of his are coming out saying he's been a target of this group for a while, and he suspected they would come after him. Rest in peace, martyr of Palestine. 🇵🇸

#pixelflotilla As Italy goes on strike, we all stand with Sumud, with humanity, against the g3nocide and corrupt politicians. Together we sail. I know for sure that some heroes definitely like One Piece. If you want to join the flotilla as a collab, more details in the first comment.

Pittsburgh folks! Join us for bookclub tomorrow when we'll be discussing BLOOD IN THE MACHINE with a special guest visit for Q&A from author @bcmerchant.bsky.social ! www.staygoldbooks.com/events Everything is Fine Book Club 1104 S. Braddock, Pittsburgh PA Thurs 10/2, 10 am #bookclub #AI #PGH

Adara has been intercepted, expecting them to be boarded any moment.

Important 2023 piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on the inhumane and arrogant ideology of AI fanatics. I urge everyone to read it. www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

⭕️Update: Drop Site News reporter Alex Colston (@recolston.bsky.social) said the Israeli navy contacted their boat, the Sirius, about 30 minutes ago and told the captain if they kept going they would be breaking what they said was a “lawful blockade,” they mentioned Oct. 7, and said if the boat...

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

The Adara feed went dark a little while ago, but it's back again. Listening to Kieran Andrieu on the Adara speak now. Some of the boats have reported being surrounded by Israeli vessels. All eyes on the floatilla.

Here’s the official live, with over 60k people watching. Please join us, western witnesses are the only thing that may stay Israel’s hand. www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

Made these back in 2023. Feels more relevant now than ever.

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

AI crawler user agent bot list has been updated. WP "Simple NoAI" plugin update to come with the new bots on it.

OpenAI, one of the most prominent AI companies in the world, just released a model trained BLATANTLY on stolen IP. It's obvious that rights are being violated, and it's also obvious that existing enforcement is not preventing these violations: they press onward. The EU must enforce its rules

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Israel is using drones to drop chemicals and bombs on the Global Sumud Flotilla right this second.

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NRK, the National broadcasting service of Norway, should stand in solidarity with Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland, Netherlands, Spain and Palestine, and demand that Israel is banned from Eurovision 2026. It is the only moral choice to make.

I had to give a big speech to our school's freshmen class on Wednesday and my big takeaways were a) Fuck Gen AI, b) this is an opportunity to find something you love that will enrich your life, so don't just outsource the process to the planet-killing autocorrect app.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Thank you Brian for getting these testimonies and first-hand accounts. Harrowing reading on how AI impacts artists.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all firing any dissenting voice, and anyone who dares to ask these corporations stop fuelling genocide www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I art directed and did graphics on this game. I promise it's something special

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

Really compelling and validating for those of us who teach people, not disembodied minds

no shit

It starts: “Our research centers lived experiences from communities which are not typically represented in AI research. We strongly believe in a bottom-up approach, supporting & prioritizing research & researchers that emerge from the communities that we center in our work and their specific needs.”

🎉🎉🎉 Friends, I’m going to take ask a minute of your time to celebrate @milamiceli.bsky.social who I met through @alexhanna.bsky.social in 2022, just a couple of months after we launched @dairinstitute.bsky.social 🧵

"ChatGPT's sycophantic design led it to validate his most dangerous thoughts. When he expressed suicidal ideation, instead of challenging these thoughts or redirecting the conversation, the system would affirm & even romanticize his feelings." centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/the-raine-...

Can UK citizens hold up placards that say "I support PALESTINE and ACTIONS to stop the genocide" without going to jail?

"Palestine Action is NOT a terrorist organisation" Christian minister, James Grote, was arrested outside his church, for holding a sign opposing genocide and the Palestine Action ban.

WHO’S AFRAID OF GENDER?

Most (good) solutions are proposed not by newcomers, but by people who understand an issue deeply. There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think. 🧵

One of Silicon Valley's foundational myths is that newcomers to a field are uniquely equipped to solve its problems because they're not weighed down by biases and habits that make "experts" overlook obvious solutions. "The most dangerous phrase in the language is: We've always done it this way." 🧵

also, i would describe him as a core member of the dubious EA movement and a close associate of Sam Bankman-Fried, the person behind the FXT financial scandal. a more factual description i'd say if a I (or any PoC) was found in the middle of such a scandal, that'd have been the end of my career

Great piece in the Globe today about the Air Canada strike

Remember, kids! Hating on workers who want better working conditions is boot licking 101. Flight attendants are literally not paid until the doors close on the plane. If you showed up to work at 9am but didn't start getting paid until 11am, you'd feel some kinda way, too.

I've lost count of how many people (overwhelmingly racial minorities) were convicted or went to jail due to errors in frt

rinse and repeat

where is the “llms as power centralising enshittificators regressing society, knowledge, culture to the mediocre” position cuz that's where i'd fit

Here's Archery, Badminton, and 100meters. I made this in 4 weeks. Handled everything from code to character design, from background art to animations to gameplay. It was a promotional sports game for a big advertising agency.

I love this next iteration of making climate an individuals responsibility, rather than a systemic issue. This blame game benefits corporations that want to run AI models. Data storage is "cold"🧊: the heat it generates is marginal. Active computing for AI GPUs is hot. 🌡🔥 It needs tons of water.

There used to be this deal between Google (and other search engines) and the Web: You get to index our stuff, show ads next to them but you link our work. AI Overview and Perplexity and all these systems cancel that deal.

Maybe the last few days have made more people realize that GitHub is not your friend and not there to facilitate Open Source but to accumulate power for Microsoft. Anything GitHub says or does needs to be understood in that light.