Mich Spieler
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Queer Swiss in Tiohtià:ke/YUL. Passionate about ⚽️, 🐕 and anti-oppression work in and through tech.
I have to admit, I've been discussing risks and harm of AI for a while, but did not have this on the radar. Quite the dead spot.
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Hypervisible
6 months ago
It’s patently false, but notice that “humans won’t be needed” to these people is identified as the desired future rather than the deeply dystopian vision that it actually is.
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Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed ‘for most things'
Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed "for most things" in the world, says Bill Gates.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/bill-gates-within-10-years-ai-will-replace-many-doctors-and-teachers-humans-wont-be-needed-for-most-things/3706507/
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A useful list!
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Northern Super League
6 months ago
Standing with our players. There is no place for racism or sexism in our sport or our community.
#SayNoToRacism
#SayNoToHate
--- Solidaires de nos joueuses. Le racisme et le sexisme n’ont pas leur place dans notre sport ni dans notre communauté.
#Nonauracisme
#nonalahaine
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Northern Super League
6 months ago
The countdown is on. Are you ready? ⚽️ 🔥
#BeWhereItAllBegins
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I’ve come to terms with the fact that rambling is part of podcasts. But I draw the line at eating while rambling on podcasts. Please don’t.
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Naomi Klein
7 months ago
watch the whole interivew
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I remember reading the Swiss guidelines bracing for bad stuff and being pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be pretty sensible.
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Existential question: are orange the colour and orange the fruit the same word in every language? And if not, then is it carrot?
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Ruha Benjamin
7 months ago
“WTF! The Rise of the Tech Broligarchy”—I encourage everyone to watch the first in this series + tune into to the 2nd ep. tonite, analysis + action, hosted by
@mediajustice.bsky.social
👈🏾https://youtu.be/K7RxYRMM2bg?feature=shared
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Highly recommended read!
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Anyone else worried about how Canadians are willing to erode citizenship rights for a gotcha moment with Musk?
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Jesse
7 months ago
So many good points in this, well worth a listen. Here is a podcast link btw if you don't want youtube ads
on.soundcloud.com/MZpguPMQ5Zva...
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Nora Loreto
7 months ago
The Canadian establishment that lost its mind over a protest passing by Mount Sinai hospital has been entirely quiet over a Canadian company selling Nazi T-Shirts for the English world's most famous, out Nazi. I wrote about this and asked the question: why?
noraloreto.substack.com/p/instrument...
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Instrumentalizing antisemitism (again)
Why did a Spiderman who climbed up a scaffold with a Palestinian flag get so much more attention (and condemnation) than Shopify selling a Nazi T-shirt?
https://noraloreto.substack.com/p/instrumentalizing-antisemitism-again
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Another example of every accusation being an admission. When they accuse people of cheating and stealing and grifting, it’s because that is what they are doing.
www.wired.com/story/faa-do...
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Tune in to “The Corporate Coup in Global Context: An Emergency Town Hall” with Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Chenjerai Kumanyika.
www.youtube.com/live/iyLiNN_...
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The Corporate Coup in Global Context: An Emergency Town Hall
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
https://www.youtube.com/live/iyLiNN_NMO4?si=IIqd4unZziN_PTsb
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It is scary, but not that surprising, how ready white women are to do fascism's bidding.
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We are so ready for this!
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âpihtawikosisân
7 months ago
Far too many of you fail to understand you can resist fascism without demanding a deepening loyalty to the nation-state...especially since extreme nationalism is literally one of the hallmarks of fascism. Indigenous Ppls are not the enemy, and we are not going to be forced to reify our colonizers.
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almost looks like everyone watches women’s sports
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Surprise, surprise.
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8 months ago
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Awesome. I just wish more players of this team would speak out.
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Fraud detection measures have always been austerity measures, no matter what the technology. AI is no different in that regard.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
8 months ago
READ THIS ASAP: “If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/trump-sadism-judith-butler?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
8 months ago
Funny how a little bit of complicity doesn’t save your ass … as we’ve been saying because Germany already ran this experiment
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Sophie Labelle
8 months ago
Now more than ever.
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Naomi Klein
8 months ago
The corporate coup is global. Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it. They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule. They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.
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Funny how all of the sudden BDS is an acceptable strategy.
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One more reason to delete your Shop app.
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Honest question: are mainstream media folks really oblivious to the fact that what they’re doing is laying out a red carpet to fascism? Or are they just doing it anyway?
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Timnit Gebru
8 months ago
Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
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Karen Hao
8 months ago
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Scottish PEN
8 months ago
Scottish PEN joins UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in expressing grave concern regarding the arrest of journalist Ali Abunimah in Switzerland and the climate surrounding freedom of speech around Europe.
electronicintifada.net/content/eis-...
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EI's Ali Abunimah arrested in Switzerland
Prominent journalist detained amid crackdown on Palestine speech in the West.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/eis-ali-abunimah-arrested-switzerland/50333
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Al Jazeera English
8 months ago
UN human rights experts have condemned the arrest of prominent Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah in Switzerland, saying it raised concerns about freedom of speech.
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UN experts slam Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah’s arrest in Switzerland
They call the arrest of Electronic Intifada website’s founder ‘shocking’ and urge the Swiss government to release him.
http://aje.io/cdksae
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Sometimes I am like a Ricola commercial. Listening to Filterworld by
@chaykak.bsky.social
, and I am really enjoying it. And then we get to the passage about "the German manufacturer USM".
youtu.be/nSSBhrxnTgo?...
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Ricola Werbung 1999 - Australien
YouTube video by mseuhde
https://youtu.be/nSSBhrxnTgo?si=MNqS-dIIiTo1z077
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This Ursula Franklin quote is from 1989.
www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
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Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸
8 months ago
Free Ali Abunimah, sign this petition. Europe is totally losing the plot
chng.it/kHDcty6WWB
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Release Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah from Swiss detention
https://chng.it/kHDcty6WWB
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Rachel Gilmore
8 months ago
Wear a Keffiyeh and half of Canadian columnists will call you Hamas Throw literal Nazi salutes and you’re an “anti immigration protester”
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Zora O'Neill
8 months ago
The new Switzerland isn’t neutral, it seems, and even picked the side of genocide: letting Herzog attend Davos, despite incitement to genocide charges against him, and arresting Ali Abunimah. For shame.
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This Liverpool defence isn’t not looking good. Unmarked players all over the box.
#LEILIV
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mla.green
8 months ago
Le journaliste Ali Abunimah du média Electronic Intifada a été arrêté à Zurich, en pleine rue. PALESTINIAN-AMERICAN JOURNALIST ALI ABUNIMAH ABDUCTED IN SWITZERLAND TODAY AND HELD IN ARBITRARY DETENTION TO BE DEPORTED:
www.swissactionforhumanrights.org/news
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Blog 3 — Swiss Action for Human Rights
https://www.swissactionforhumanrights.org/news
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Amazing night indeed!
@nlights-sg.bsky.social
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
8 months ago
“Palantir, the provider of data-analysis tools that was co-founded by the billionaire Peter Thiel, received more than $1 billion over the past four years. Venntel, a provider of location data, had seven contracts with ICE totaling at least $330,000 between 2018 and 2022.”
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