Austerity, AI, and 21st-century genocide are manoeuvres in the manifold but homogeneous operations of Predictive Capital -as articulated in this excerpt from the Dispossession & Disappearance chapter at the end of section 1 of my book Predictive Capital […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hardwired by Tracy Chapman: Your wants desires Needs and wishes Will be duly noted Processed filed and cataloged Labeled and encoded Turned into sitcom dialog And advertising slogans We've got a box to put in your brain Hard wired for downloading All the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hands down the best take on the assassination of Charlie Kirk https://youtu.be/89Z1Q7Q2cNk

It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.

Austerity, AI, and 21st-century genocide are manoeuvres in the manifold but homogeneous operations of Predictive Capital -as articulated in this excerpt from the Dispossession & Disappearance chapter at the end of section 1 of my book Predictive Capital […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hands down the best take on the assassination of Charlie Kirk https://youtu.be/89Z1Q7Q2cNk

Every output of an LLM is reached through the same operation. Labelling some as hallucinations falsely privileges certain outputs over others. Every output is, in fact, a computational hallucination; their perceived alignment or otherwise in relation to our world view is purely a hermeneutic […]

so it begins https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-gives-160-names-antisemitism-probe-21043760.php

Again we see a piece of art by Banksy where the final work includes its own erasure as initiated by the gavel under the command of Capital. In each case, the original works were brilliant but it is their planned erasure that elevates them to masterpieces.

The abundance “movement” is the promise of the abuser (Capital) —that they will turn over a new leaf; that their historical pattern of abuse will abruptly end, their refusal to share surplus-value will magically evaporate, and a gentle nature will spring from a history of violence.

When the FOMO hype around post-human tech is raised to the pitch of a survival level threat to those who reject it, it becomes a basilisk.

When Banksy’s Girl With Balloon was auctioned in 2018 its self-shredding began immediately the auctioneer’s gavel crashed down to accept the highest bid. Where the auctioneer’s gavel silences the transactional speech of bidders the judge’s gavel silences the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Signs of the coming criminalisation of critical speech calling out the fascistic policies of American Imperialism and its backing of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. The war on woke always was a pre-emptive strike in defence of brutal right-wing ideologies […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A nation awash with guns comes to be ruled by them. Isn't that obvious to everyone except the NRA and the gun nuts for whom it speaks? Now, I fear, the shooting will only escalate.

Astonishingly, I've discovered, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss's agenda are still operating at the heart of government. Remind me what we voted for again ... This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Turns out the stain of complicity in genocide leaves a mark no matter how hard you scrub.

Is this what it’s like trying to get an LLM to think for you? https://youtu.be/Bx2JA8KzV3s?si=usyBq0l9tOqbNOOq

Until the right learn how to do reasoned thought, they will continue to get everything wrong. Look up non sequitur, ask how behaviour emerges from environmental/societal conditions. Learn that there is no genetic basis for race, and that there is more genetic […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

When the FOMO hype around post-human tech is raised to the pitch of a survival level threat to those who reject it, it becomes a basilisk.

The abundance “movement” is the promise of the abuser (Capital) —that they will turn over a new leaf; that their historical pattern of abuse will abruptly end, their refusal to share surplus-value will magically evaporate, and a gentle nature will spring from a history of violence.

Has there ever been a more compelling advert for getting the hell off of software and platforms made by US monopolies? Just listen to this collection of absolute ghouls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYyaNm7UqFQ

I posted a link to this the other day. Am compelled to post it again. It’s that damn good. Hickel is an absolute master at clear lucid explanations of complex concepts. Can hardly recall nodding in agreement so hard as I did to every point Hickel makes here. Do find some time to watch and share […]

First they replace visits to actual news sites with search result summaries, in the process doing away with actual journalists, then they wrap this power grab in a machine that spreads bullshit at the speed of next-token prediction […]

The Tone of The Drone 💔🇵🇸 I cannot help but note that it is the same apparatus that guides the drones of their destruction that now disseminates and monetises the Palestinian people’s incredible spirit and refusal to give up hope. https://youtu.be/MtodtEKmYSE?si=lfZg2i4-F9AZVEYT

Of course Capital's reterritorialisation now happens at the speed of next-token prediction https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115140802818950357

I posted a link to this the other day. Am compelled to post it again. It’s that damn good. Hickel is an absolute master at clear lucid explanations of complex concepts. Can hardly recall nodding in agreement so hard as I did to every point Hickel makes here. Do find some time to watch and share […]

The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...

Telling it like it is, and cutting through.

Real police state stuff, pre-emptively arresting people in Defend Our Juries, because they are organising a peaceful protest.

Yet another capitulation to Reform, when all the evidence shows that following the far right agenda is a disaster for centrist parties. Politics 101, which Starmer has once again entirely failed to grasp.

*I like monobloc chairs as a slop metaphor because humans have thousands of years of intense physical, emotional, cultural, aesthetic and intellectual engagement with chairs, and yet plastic monobloc chairs are one of the commonest, most ubiquitous things on this planet, from pole to pole

essential viewing. https://youtu.be/bjlqWHXrTak?si=AJt3aqe1gJXzyg_V

1. Out of curiosity, I went through the feeds of some habitual tuna tormentors. I found they’re big on: - fox hunting - Reform UK - antagonism to asylum seekers. In other words, the same few antisocial (psychopathic?) men, turning up in all the bad places. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 🧵

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.

This point, in this timeline, increasingly feels like one of those transitions in the parasite Capital's mission towards Universal Paperclips, towards the subordination of all resources to its self-maximisation, by escaping the limits of its carbon based hosts. When so much of the presumed […]

The recommendation algorithm, whether on the sans serif swastika, or any of the other attention monopoly platforms, always was a means of algorithmic differential abandonment. Now it is restricting the posts of starving Gazans pleading for money to buy food […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Technoviolence = when tech is used to control, surveil, and harm- especially the marginalized. It’s not the future. It’s happening now. #technoviolence #digitalsurveillance #algorithmicbias #haraway #eubanks #dnbl36

This point, in this timeline, increasingly feels like one of those transitions in the parasite Capital's mission towards Universal Paperclips, towards the subordination of all resources to its self-maximisation, by escaping the limits of its carbon based hosts. When so much of the presumed […]

Oh wow, Google is really sneaky with their AI Mode button on the new tab page in Chrome. Here's a very unintuitive way to disable it. 1. Open chrome://flags/ in your browser. 2. Look for "ntp-compose-entrypoint". 3. Switch to "disabled". 4. Restart your browser. #chrome #googlechrome #ai #aimode

Watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgBCgLF7890

"This is the new reality we call "Scamlexity" - a new era of scam complexity, supercharged by Agentic AI. Familiar tricks hit harder than ever, while new AI-born attack vectors break into reality. In this world, your AI gets played, and you foot the bill." […]

An advert for this company just interrupted a documentary I was watching. A young male (twenty something probably, though possibly late teens) declared: "If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, my hundreds of AI employees would carry on just fine without me." 🤦‍♂️

“ My point is that translating your language through AI is a lost opportunity to cultivate the sweetness within you. With your own words, connecting to the words of others, we can use stories for what they are for, which is to link ourselves with the stories of the people around us.” […]

Systematic injustice is not accidental. It’s built into laws, platforms, and power structures. From algorithmic bias to surveillance, these systems harm vulnerable groups by design. 💬 This term, grounded in the work of Iris Marion Young and Kimberlé Crenshaw […] [Original post on mastodon.bida.im]

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

Whose knowledge counts? We reject “universal” objectivity and instead center situated knowledge — grounded in lived, local, and embodied experience, especially from marginalized perspectives. 🧠 Part of the TECHNOVIOLENCE glossary series by Disruption […] [Original post on mastodon.bida.im]

“Palantir Cofounder Peter Thiel Might Write A Book About Ancient Prophecies, The Antichrist, And Armageddon— He Thinks We're Ignoring The Real Threat” The billionaire founder of a company set up to profit from war, says the real threat is authoritarianism […] [Original post on mastodon.social]