I sat down with @alixdunn.com to talk about the lethality of nonsense probabilities AKA. How AI is collapsing the Kill Chain, outsourcing decision-making, and dehumanising targeted communities, from Palestine, to Lebanon and Iran.
Listen to this convo here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/comp...
Chatbots are collapsing the kill chain in war. Letâs talk about what that really means.
I spoke with @docmattmoudi.bsky.social for the first episode in our new series, Computer Says Kill.
Listen to the conversation here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/comp...
For the first episode, @alixdunn.com sits down with @docmattmoudi.bsky.social to break down exactly how the US and Israel wield AI to outsource decision-making, hide accountability, and remove the last shreds of humanity out of war-making.
Listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/comp...
Clearview argued that it should benefit from exceptions to data protection law meant for government law enforcement agencies. Judges disagreed.
But now itâs appealing, so the fight is on again.
privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...
just this week:
-- OpenAI killed Sora
-- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI
-- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content
...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?
New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me
We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms
arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter...
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In some very unexpected news, my book with @ucpress.bsky.social has been shortlisted together w. 2 fantastic titles of finalists for the @britsoci.bsky.social's Philip Abramâs Memorial Prize 2026! Thank you to the BSA and UC Press!
*promethean gap widens*
Facial Recognition Error Prompts Police to Arrest Asian Man for Burglary 100 Miles Away
UK police run about 25,000 monthly searches against around 19 million police mugshots held on the UK-wide police national database.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
Important story:
"The chair of the competition watchdogâs cloud inquiry has quit, saying he is frustrated at the slow pace of action against Microsoft and Amazon, while also citing concerns about its wider independence."
The Govt recently confirmed Amazon's former UK chief as head of the CMA.
Iranâs assault on the UAE is forcing a new question for tech firms: if data centers are strategic assets, are they now military targets? restofworld.org/2026/amazon-uae-data-cen...
I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people
OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths
apnews.com/article/isra...
Important piece from @catebrown.bsky.social, just as UN officials warn that this particular dystopian biometric hellscape will be 'built on the graveyards of countless unidentified Palestinians'.
Appalling display of neo-colonial management, with webs of complicity that have webs of their own.
Palantir's covid-era entanglements with the NHS by NoTechForTyrants and Privacy International: privacyinternational.org/sites/defaul...
More from @amnesty.org on what states and companies must do to stop fueling Israelâs genocide, apartheid and unlawful occupation, here: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
@zackpolanski.bsky.social is right; Palantir has powered ICE's terror against migrant communities for a decade; Palantir also sells AI tools to Israel for use in their objectives in Gaza amidst a genocide.
As per @amnesty.org states must divest from Palantir and offer no safe harbour or platform!
(2/4) - Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (ed. by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Coline Schupfer w/ foreword by Ruha Benjamin)
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- The Palestine Laboratory by Anthony Loewenstein
- Instead of Education by John Holt
- Give Children the Vote by John Wall
the luddites would have beaten every ai server farm into small pieces with large hammers i can tell you that much
an actual case of 'tech for good' but none of the so called "AI/tech for good" proponents that often shout the loudest nowhere to be seen
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The surge of AI slop, deceptive synthetic videos & images flooding our feeds, is driven in large part by Agentic AI Accounts (AAAs). aiforensics.org/work/agentic...
Key findings:
-Over 43,000 mostly AI-made posts generated 4.5 billion views
-More than 65% of accounts were created in early 2025
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Classic reply.
We spoke to Flock safety, the manufacturer of these cameras, about privacy concerns.
"How is that being addressed?" ABC7 News reporter Luz Pena asked.
"If you're not involved in a crime, you shouldn't be concerned about privacy," said Lily Ho, Public Affairs for Flock Safety.
"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
A little advent calendar of #ComputerSaysMaybe episodes coming your way.
The first is an episode beautifully cut by our team to give you an overview of my time at @mozilla.org Festival in Barcelona, including some interviews with amazing folks.
www.themaybe.org/podcast/comp...
I cannot even begin to describe how deeply cursed this is⌠sure, why donât we treat AI with the same predatory neocolonial kick-away-the-ladder resolve of the BW institutions..
âWe are in a Bretton Woods moment [âŚ] In 1944, democratic nations came together to create a financial system based on democratic values.â
- A first year International Relations college studentâs takiest take for an essay / Lehaneâs pitch for âOpenAI for Countriesâ
