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🗞️ Today in Government Officials Who Don't Understand how Data Processing Works (And Are Allowing it to be Used to Harm Americans). Let's take a look at the claim "data doesn't lie", shall we? 🧵

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This is today! Gathering today's batch of Fresh AI Hell links this morning....

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Join us tomorrow, Monday February 24 at 12pm pacific. Head over to www.twitch.tv/dair_institute.

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Tomorrow!

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On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, @mmelibrarian.bsky.social will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to explore what expertise in systems of information tell us in this moment when so many systems are under attack. Join us here: Monday, Feb 24, noon Pacific

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Please help get the word out to our friends who were working in the Federal Government: Some friends & I created this site to track the impacts of the Trump Admin's attack on the federal service, and we're trying to gather as many stories as possible. trumpcostsamerica.com

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On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, @mmelibrarian.bsky.social will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to explore what expertise in systems of information tell us in this moment when so many systems are under attack. Join us here: Monday, Feb 24, noon Pacific

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Also available as video on PeerTube! peertube.dair-institute.org/w/w44a84zLAn...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

No more political activism, just boot licking.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

🎉 Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 has reached Ep 50 🎉 Dr. @tamigraph.bsky.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social & me to look into tech bros’ unhinged ideas about energy & the environment & the techno-fascism of it all. www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Thx to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Lmao the title of this episode: “Petro-masculinity versus the planet” Thanks to @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social for having me on the show!

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Also available as video on PeerTube! peertube.dair-institute.org/w/w44a84zLAn...

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🎉 Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 has reached Ep 50 🎉 Dr. @tamigraph.bsky.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social & me to look into tech bros’ unhinged ideas about energy & the environment & the techno-fascism of it all. www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Thx to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

Kirkus Reviews calls the new book by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna — The AI Con — "A refreshingly contrarian take on AI and the clouds of hyperbole surrounding it." Read the full review here www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... And learn more about Emily & Alex here » www.brightsightspeakers.com

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No more political activism, just boot licking.

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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

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Someone asked me if there is a page that collects all the weird bullshit "AI" products currently being pushed to the market. That page exists. It's called linkedin dot com. But nobody there knows that they are in the asylum.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Et tu, The Guardian???

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I'm frequently struck by the phrase "unintentional bias" which comes up frequently in work on LLMs. Whose intentions are in question? Why do we have to absolve those people all the time?

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"A refreshingly contrarian take on AI and the clouds of hyperbole surrounding it."

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Proud to see this review at Kirkus! w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Kirkus calls THE AI CON "a refreshingly contrarian take on AI and the clouds of hyperbole surrounding it." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... @emilymbender.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Proud to see this review at Kirkus! w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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I really appreciate Meghna Chakrabarti and the crew at On Point on @wbur.org covering this story. The enviromental impacts of "AI" are terrible and need to be exposed. At the same time >> www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

I really appreciate Meghna Chakrabarti and the crew at On Point on @wbur.org covering this story. The enviromental impacts of "AI" are terrible and need to be exposed. At the same time >> www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

“African Tech Workers Rising is organising for better wages, mental health protections and professional standards in Kenya and beyond. We are doing this because AI is not magic. Behind every algorithm are thousands of hidden workers labelling, training & moderating data under precarious conditions.”

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