“victims of nazism & other dictatorships never stopped repeating fascism had not died, that it was still lurking, waiting for the moment to resurface. That is why it will be so important to be aware of history. Looking back is the best way to face the present” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I tell someone new about this every few days. Everyone needs to understand that the utility commissioner in Arizona got up there and said "it's not my job to keep you alive" on X. Well, what if it was? That's what the future of the electricity system is. It's public power. It's universal service.

But the denial of return is a textbook violation. It’s a tool of ethnic cleansing this isn’t even a new finding ? This has been a finding for years …

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

„Taken together, Bach’s communications with Epstein reveal an entire architecture of thought increasingly common among Edge participants: biological hierarchy; racial destiny; gender determinism; genetic optimisation; population culling; fascism as efficiency.“

If you have an easier time having certified eugenicists like Bostrom on stage discussing safety of non-existent "superintelligence" while having a hard time having people who're NOT white dudes, who actually know what so-called "AI safety" means, my conclusion is that you're in with the eugenicists.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Attorney General Pam Bondi said today that she ordered the arrests of journalist Don Lemon and 3 others in connection with the demonstration at a church: Georgia Fort, an independent journalist; and Trahern Jeen Crews and Jamael Lydell Lundy, both activists. More: capitalbnews.org/nekima-levy-...

Generative KI als überall anwesend+unvermeidbar und dswg grundsätzl. für legitim zu deklarieren, ist buchstäblich vgl. mit dem kolonialen Argument "Sklaverei ist überall und unvermeidbar und es ist dswg nicht sinnvoll,ihr zu widerstehen". Das hat nichts mit Nuance,Wissenschaft oder Ethik zu tun.

Thinking about how David Golumbia warned and wrote books about this years ago but was largely ignored before he died.

“I really wish people would mask in public.” Monkey’s paw curls…

Wäre ich Sprecher des CCC oder Rep von Wikimedia Deutschland würde ich mich im Grund und Boden schämen, Semantik und Narrativen wie „digital independence day“ als Nachkomme eines Landes mit einer LANGEN KOLONIALgeschichte zu nutzen #DiDay

Wer mit einem blauen Pass aufwächst, wer an Grenzen auf dem Weg zum Weihnachtsfest mit der Familie zurückgeschickt wird, wer jahrelang all die Schikanen & Erniedrigungen als Andersgemachte erlebt hat, lässt sich nie wieder von ignoranten Menschen ihren beiläufigen Rassismus gefallen.

Ahir hi va haver un tall d’electricitat massiu a San Francisco, com a dany col·lateral nombrosos cotxes autònoms de l’empresa Waymo es van quedar aturats al mig del carrer, causant un sonsiderable caos circulatori. What a time to be alive.

NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 68: This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like Tech bros say automation can strengthen democracy. @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social unpack their flimsy arguments about the democratic process. www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

What big tech billionaires are doing isn't capitalism. It builds on capitalist markets,but is evolving into something else. Billionaires don't want a market with competition. Big tech wants to build empire. The references to roman emperors and thinkers,the creation of infrastructures as a strategy..

In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read. They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.

Sie hieß vor allem „We still need to talk” ,weil es eine Veranstaltung gab unter dem Namen „We need to talk“, die 2022 abgesagt wurde documenta-fifteen.de/en/news/onli...

Nur konnte die aus demselben Kreis organisierte Tagung „We still need to talk“ tatsächlich in Deutschland nicht stattfinden. Die Vorwürfe der Selbstgerechtigkeit und Peinlichkeit fallen zurück auf diejenigen, die das vergessen haben. bsky.app/profile/post...

Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by @mgasia.bsky.social, who works impersonating an AI sex companion: data-workers.org/michael/ This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.

In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science. The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.

One of the reasons I detest so many of these gAI companies and services is how much they erase and dehumanize actual human labor. It’s honestly terrifying and reason enough to shun them entirely.

Bernie Sanders keeps saying the most wrong headed about AI and paling around with Geoffery Hinton. We write more about it here -- buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

I'm a bit late to the party and somehow missed this, but here's an open letter to Dutch Universities (both academic and of applied sciences) and their executive boards, to ask that they stop the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in higher education […]

this will keep happening because: guardrails and any other control over these models is a scam

Cosas que me preocupan de la estrategia nacional de salud en IA. - Que sólo se citen estudios de lobbies o de la CE, que es lo mismo. - Que se diga que se va a usar IA como apoyo emocional - Que se diga que se va a hacer optimización algorítmica del SNS (tenemos muchos antecedentes peligrosos)

The idea of digital sovereignty doesn’t make any sense to me. Sovereignty and infrastructure are mutually exclusive.

I'm thrilled to see this piece in the world. Through it, Dr. Milagros Miceli and her team have put some language to the worker-led methodology which they have developed.

Your other favorite so-called "critic," Gary Marcus, threatened to sue me for publicly writing how he attacked me, unsummoned. For writing the things he said that people could very easily find themselves. People were like "you're on the same side." Hell no we're not. Its not a binary.

And for all folks bs they do not do the PRACTICAL and material work of ensuring safety or strategy it’s not “enshittification ” it’s another example of white people ignoring something til it effects them And as @anthonymoser.com dropped ina banger Procrustean their way to erasure

Reupping this today. For obvious reasons.

“Enshittification” created an imaginary space where the problems of social spaces starts when it hits their radar Bluesky has been bad for marginalized folks and had to be insulted into moderation And treats folks that remind them as pariahs That’s the problem

Enshittification is gentrification and colonialism for tech. The fact that it came in the door terrible for certain people is considered the price of business and folks want to separate it from most of history to justify having. fights with each other over listening to

You mean Black slang which is exactly why I hate EFF / enshittification/ and the Doctrow recommendation of adding AAVE to LLM And it’s something I’ve said for years in public and on stage and is in three Black books But hey it matters now

This week in Misfits, we head to the New York Botanical Garden to explore the herbarium's cryptogamic collections and discuss specimen storage, and how wily species — both alive and dead, male and female — defy neat classification crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/por...

@malteengeler.bsky.social hat eine fulminante Kritik zum Buch "KI und der neue Faschismus". Kapitalismus & Faschismus stehen sich näher,als das Marketing uns erzählt. Auf diese systematische +historische Verbindungen weist das Buch nicht hin, sondern Malte www.structural-integrity.eu/convenience-...

reminder that continental critical minerals are not ours to give away - not for imaginary submarines, not for contemptible attempts at appeasing fascism - and Forrest is a top ten multi-generational coloniser. overland.org.au/2025/10/colo...

“The case shows how American law enforcement can use ChatGPT prompts to gather data on users suspected of criminal activity.”

The genocide continues.

German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate shorturl.at/OFfig

Honored to be invited on @dairinstitute.bsky.social's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 to talk about sci-fi, tech, and AI and whether it's true that "tech leaders just need to read better sci-fi." (Spoiler: I think no.) www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...

A Nobel prize is not a sign of moral or scientific prowess at all

“Las tácticas de las grandes tecnológicas son las mismas que las de los imperios de antaño”. “Existen movimientos cuasi religiosos en Silicon Valley en torno a la IA, se ha convertido en un dogma que nadie cuestiona”. @karenhao.bsky.social en entrevista con @elpais.com elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

A bit late to the party, but I'm loving this blog post from @anthonymoser.com "the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals"... anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization 1/

I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”