It's about time we acknowledged that all technological progress isn't progress. Just because we can doesn't mean we always should. Easier isn't always better.
#decomputing
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" #AI performance is ludicrous, but its quite good at being distractive" @danmcquillan at #TechWontSaveUs
Learn more about #decomputing
https://danmcquillan.org/decomputing_as_resistance.html
Decomputing as Resistance
https://danmcquillan.org/decomputing_as_resistance.html
Great Text by @danmcquillan about #decomputing #ai and #degrowth
Decomputing as Resistance
https://danmcquillan.org/decomputing_as_resistance.html
Great Text by @danmcquillan about #decomputing #ai and #degrowth
I am curious if anyone would be interested in collaborating on a #DeComputing paper/talk and submitting it to a computing conference.
After an admittedly pleasant #PEARC25, I need to exist in a space where #MoarCompute isn't always the solution.
Lots of good writing on #DeComputing floating through my timeline these days. A good antidote to some of the boosterism I am likely to imbibe over the next week.
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@erikgrundmann.bsky.social @schlamp.de
#bluelz #KI #decomputing #AI #Gesellschaft #Zukunft
Join us in the next @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Online Seminar, where @danmcquillan.bsky.social from @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social will argue that having a responsible approach to #AI means #decomputing.
📅 Thu 24 Apr
⏰ 4 – 5pm
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟 edin.ac/40zUOao
Big tech is Ransomware. They've stolen all our data and hold all our vital services in the Cloud and at their mercy. We keep paying, or they pull the plug on society. Now is the time for #decomputing
@simon_brooke
"#Decomputing claims that the act of opposing AI's intensification of social and environmental harms is at the same time the assertion that other worlds are possible. It parallels contemporary calls for #degrowth, which also opposes runaway #extractivism by focusing on the […]