yes! more evidence that people should be listening to linguistic anthropologists when talking about how AI works

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...

Negotiating Openness under Authoritarian Risk: Feminist Open Data Sharing in Hong Kong by Lucas Wong & Tak-Yin Yumi Wong in The Journal of Electronic Publishing 29(1). Charts the tension between visibility and vulnerability in open data. doi: doi.org/10.3998/jep....

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Petroleum station sign. Petrol NOK 15.99 a litre, diesel 19.59.

It’s kind of weird that petrol now costs significantly LESS in Norway after the Iran war started - because taxes were temporarily waived. This is 2018-2021 pricing. Sign from Bergen today. www.ssb.no/statbank/tab...

as @marietjeschaake.bsky.social has been arguing for a long time, the European answer can only be a European techno-infrastructure. However, that must be publicly owned and democratically accountable! Europe cannot simply build its own technofascist counterforce!

Democrats should develop an actionable agenda of democratic reform in case they return to power. This cannot be limited to institutional refoms, but must include reigning in the power and wealth of technofascist companies and individuals.

Wired reviews Meta’s glasses.

How Big Tech Lobbied the EU to Hide Data Centers' Environmental Toll The European Commission has adopted industry-drafted language shielding data center emissions data from public view, report Nico Schmidt and Ella Joyner.

US tech giants pressured the EU into making environmental data about the impact of individual data centres confidential - so journalists, activists and local politicians CANNOT know the actual environmental toll of the local data centres confidential. www.techpolicy.press/how-big-tech...

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If I was writing my book on Machine Vision today there would definitely be a chapter on fascist visual aesthetics. polity-books-backend.prod.politybooks.wiley.host/wp-content/u...

People are starting to write in the style of AI, adopting its voice as we always adopt the styles of speech and writing we are exposed to. Visual AI art changes the way we SEE. From the 1999 paper on Nazism here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Cinema and the identification of viewer with camera pov is entwined with this. Reading this today it is impossible not to see parallels to the AI-generated visual aesthetics of today's fascists, which @garethwatkins.bsky.social, @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and others have written about.

Nazi aesthetics Published in Renaissance and Modern Studies (Vol. 42, No. 1, 1999)

Just read a chillingly timely article from 1999 about Nazi aesthetics, and how Nazi art's "glorification of a reality yet to come" was a strategy to train popular visual perception to see the world in a particular way. doi.org/10.1080/1473...

Morgenbladet dukket ikke opp i postkassen i går men fordelen med det er at jeg har oppdaget at lydversjonene de lager av mange saker er utmerkede - lest opp av mennesker og i noen tilfeller med ekstra lyd og intervjuer som på radio. Supert når man skal rydde og bake og holde på i hagen.

Hang on, poetry camera? Ooh!

From the article: “in many cases, papers simply did not provide enough data or details for experiments to be repeated accurately”. That’s partly just changing expectations for how much documentation is required. It’s good people are including more of course.

Moving towards a more diverse software ecosystem is probably a good idea, though, isn't it, rather than a duopoly of Microsoft/Google for office suites?

France to ditch US technology. "The State can no longer simply acknowledge its dependence; it must break free. We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. .. Digital sovereignty is not optional." Daniel Amiel, ministre de l'Action et des Comptes publics

In 2003 the United States bombed Iraq and we followed blogs by Salman Pax, a civilian in Bagdad and Lt. Smash, an American soldier. Back then, social media connected us to one another. They were windows to other realities, unfiltered by PR and editorial constraints. jilltxt.net/details-and-...

I'm 40 been protesting and organizing since I was 16, I've organized a union consisting entirely of people in their late teens and early 20's, I professionally organized students for a decade.

I'm STILL around engaged young folks and families.

So here's my perspective (cont):

Also he tells us to speak up loudly about downsides to any changes.

I was not happy about the dept retreat focusing on how we need to manage time and get enough sleep to avoid burnout - but now we’re doing well, head of dept is telling us to call out newspeak like “win-win”, TINA (there is no alternative), requiring more efficiency without specifying how.

But the list posted above is different from what the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting. Who know what version they showed Trump to soothe his tantrum. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Trump's Iran threats spark protest plans in NYC; what to know now Donald Trump vowed that "a whole civilization will die tonight" if a deal was not met with Iran by his deadline.

Do they work all afternoon too? I guess some do. I found this but that seems to be it. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

There is such a disconnect in the USA between local politics - very participatory, maybe more so than in Europe - and national politics where the president has apparently absolute power and the people have no agency. Very strange system.

Ok here is a good example of sane Americans doing something about the fascists who are taking over their country. Lots of mums becoming politically active specifically to run for school board to get the book-banners off the board.