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An underrated aspect of the rejection of Google glasses is everyone knew exactly who the glassholes were. As these proliferate in form and function (some workers will be forced to wear a version of them), that rejection will become less viable.

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The opening sentence to the first question is superb. And then it continues to be so.

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Thanks to POLITICO Pro Morning Technology UK for asking me to respond their weekly Q&A for the Friday 13th(!) edition. As they put it in the newsletter intro, "AI academic Dan McQuillan has some… strong feelings about the U.K.’s AI strategy". danmcquillan.org/mtuk_q_and_a...

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Thanks to POLITICO Pro Morning Technology UK for asking me to respond their weekly Q&A for the Friday 13th(!) edition. As they put it in the newsletter intro, "AI academic Dan McQuillan has some… strong feelings about the U.K.’s AI strategy". danmcquillan.org/mtuk_q_and_a...

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- Build Back Better (COVID) - Build Back Shitter (DOGE/AI)

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Your tax dollars at work, y’all! This native sister puts them tf in their place. I’ll take the catharsis wherever I can. www.reddit.com/r/chaoticgoo...

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convivial technology #Illich

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Nazis especially visible in my part of Berlin at the moment. Shaven heads and Helly Hansen tracksuit tops (HH for Heil Hitler); Ellesse tracksuit tops (worn so they can show off the SS symbol). It’s wild how in some German towns this is as natural a part of youth culture as hip-hop is in the US.

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

We feed you. They hunt us.

submitted 7 days ago • 1251 comments

"teaching away-day"

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We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Tomorrow, in-person and online.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Here we are- teachers being encouraged to work towards their own de-professionalisation. The BCS or consultants like Emma Darcy don’t care about you or your teaching job and are ignoring governance in edtech generally to please tech ceo

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People have been asking about what I think about GenAI in higher ed, so I put together a guide for students & educators that attempts to demystify what GenAI is & how it's bad. Very much a work in progress, so do let me know if you have feedback/updates! alinautrata.substack.com/p/the-anti-d...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Call for Papers - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=... We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Call for Papers - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=... We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!

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'll be giving an Illich-informed talk on Wed 11th June 16:00 UK time where I'll be proposing that the role of the university is to resist AI. There'll be plenty of time for discussion! Registration via docs.google.com/document/d/e... (scroll down) - more details danmcquillan.org/cpct_abstrac...

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The real problem of generative AI isn't hallucination but dissimulation

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Demonstrator ejected from Palantir's talk at DC AI expo while chanting 'Stop Palantir. Stop Killing Kids in Gaza. Stop Surveillance Here.' jackpoulson.substack.com/p/demonstrat...

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'll be giving an Illich-informed talk on Wed 11th June 16:00 UK time where I'll be proposing that the role of the university is to resist AI. There'll be plenty of time for discussion! Registration via docs.google.com/document/d/e... (scroll down) - more details danmcquillan.org/cpct_abstrac...

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The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?

submitted 18 days ago • 46 comments

For Jünger the essence of total mobilisation is the mode of ordering “through which the widely ramified and richly veined currents of modern life can be marshalled, with a single flick of the switch, into military energy" (forthcoming chapter: 'AI Infrastructures, Total Mobilisation & Decomputing')

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'For Jünger the essence of total mobilisation is the mode of ordering “through which the widely ramified and richly veined currents of modern life can be marshalled, with a single flick of the switch, into military energy"'

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'Labour’s AI gold rush gets stuck in the mud' www.politico.eu/article/labo... - confirms all the concerns I raised in Computer Weekly in January www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labo.... We are totally cooked and Labour's AI obsession will deliver us into the hands of the far right 💀

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

My plea to Canada's public sector workers and unions: Reject the use of AI, and save the soul of the public sector. #CdnPoli #AI thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

'Labour’s AI gold rush gets stuck in the mud' www.politico.eu/article/labo... - confirms all the concerns I raised in Computer Weekly in January www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labo.... We are totally cooked and Labour's AI obsession will deliver us into the hands of the far right 💀

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matildaarvidsson.com/knit-code-re...

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'Knit, code, resist - Exploring relations between coding as women’s knitted secret coded messages in the resistance movements during World War II, and everyday resistance to contemporary forms of surveillance through knitted anti-surveillance knitwear".

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Yes, I do find it weird that a journal titled 'critical AI' would choose to lead with an article by an Anthropic employee. (Even weirder, it's the same employee who posted about Claude snitching on you if try something 'egregiously immoral', although that was after publication)

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Every time I listen to 'Negro Terror - Voice of Memphis' www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYk... I think of Musk's methane-emitting and Grok-vomiting Memphis data centre and wish for the day that land is returned to skate parks and community gardens. #RIP Omar Higgins

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Yes, I do find it weird that a journal titled 'critical AI' would choose to lead with an article by an Anthropic employee. (Even weirder, it's the same employee who posted about Claude snitching on you if try something 'egregiously immoral', although that was after publication)

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

At the same time that he's describing the US descent into fascism he could also be describing the sociopolitical effects of LLMs...

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Every time I listen to 'Negro Terror - Voice of Memphis' www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYk... I think of Musk's methane-emitting and Grok-vomiting Memphis data centre and wish for the day that land is returned to skate parks and community gardens. #RIP Omar Higgins

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