into a reckoning where solidarity is extended (and of course, solidarity must always begin at the position of relative privilege, it can't be demanded the other way around). Can we make this into a moment where we expand the potential for solidarity and use it to build political movements. 4/
This kind of workplace surveillance always starts in what Virginia Eubanks called "low rights environments" up. First it's the unemployed who get mass surveilled. Then it's delivery and warehouse workers. Now it's tech professionals. The problem is that there was too little solidarity from above. 1/
Total workplace surveillance. Coming now to a tech worker near you, and soon to workers everywhere
AI is the industrialization of the production of management and oversight itself
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
If you’re looking for an example of technofascism this is it: Palantir’s manifesto.
See also my article on technofascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commi
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.l. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese
Ein Softwareunternehmen ruft öffentlich zur Errichtung einer neuen Weltordnung auf, garniert mit Positionen, die man nur rechtsextrem nennen kann.
Diese Software hat in deutschen Behörden NICHTS verloren.
can you ask your students for examples to analyze collaboratively?
Your regular reminder iirc that at some point (a long long long time ago, like, pre iPhone) Apple was considering having ads in Mac OS
Amia Srinivasan’s “Sex as Pedagogical Failure” should be required reading.
Whenever a man in position of authority pursues a subordinate woman, he is changing her trajectory in that space forever. The research on how much even “consensual” affairs hurt the women involved is jaw dropping.
thänk yøü.
"It is not about whether AI will help itself to your job. It is about whether the people who make AI are helping themselves to your country."
This is how a proud supervisor looks!
Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work*
Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!
A tweet from Korona Warszawa, featuring a picture of a modern chinese city with dazzling skyscrapers and the caption: "When others are busy with wars, LGBT, green land, and refugees, China is building its power. What progress has the EU made in the last 10 years (besides bottlecaps).
The narriative that #Europe
is "falling behind" has become increasingly popular among its detractors, usually calling for deregulation, or trying to label Europe as a failed leftist project.
While Europe does face some challenges, what they are saying […]
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Small drone attacks are killing more civilians around the world than ever before.
I made a map about it:
Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide.
Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model.
We are in the wrong timeline.
when someone says "a whole civilization will die tonight" usually you lock them up in some facility. anyway, great job, media.
The AP is reporting that Sharif University in Tehran has been bombed.
This is Maryam Mirzakhani’s alma mater — the first woman to win a Fields Medal in math, and only one of two so far.
The university is also a leading center of opposition to the government.
apnews.com/video/ict-bu...
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
Thanks to the extremist agenda of the richest tycoons supporting the authoritarians agenda, American tech companies are going to see a collapse in revenues and growth in these markets. Was it worth it just to support a bunch of child sexual predators? techpolicy.press/almost-two-t...
And there is a great podcast episode on the interplay of brain and music. Crucially, the music that works best may not be the music one likes.
www.additudemag.com/webinar/how-...
when writing, I listen to »The Last Dawn« by MONO on repeat.
@dpgreen.bsky.social are you lost?
"What you made with Sora mattered" is one of the least true things that has ever been written
amazing to think that in just 20 years we've gone from an ostensible cognitive surplus to an overly leveraged sub-prime cognitive deficit crisis
The TV Station List has ~600 entries that you have to filter by »EXT«.
IAMA Professor of Human-Computer Interaction. Ask Me Anything.
Took me 12 minutes to switch my Dad‘s TV to HDMI.
I hope you like it & I am happy if you swing by.
