Politico Europe (owned by Axel Springer) publishes an opinion piece by Mathias Döpfner (CEO of Axel Srpinger) in which he argues that wokeness, immigration, tackling climate change and the EU are causing AfD success. Politico‘s independent journalism politico.eu/article/afd-al…

#FollowtheMoney Ist dezentral gleich demokratisch, wie es bei #Blockchain & Kryptowerten häufig heißt? Diese Frage könnt ihr mit tante im Einzelgespräch diskutieren! Zu buchen am 16.9. im FrankfurtLAB beim Markt für nützliches Wissen und Nicht-Wissen: zevedi.de/performance-fo…

the economic costs or benefits of these programs has never really been the issue, sadly. conservatives would rather pay a thousand times as much money to persecute homeless people than to house them. kicking at people lower than them on the ladder is the whole point

again and again, the underlying discourse of AI product evangelism is "i don't want to learn anything" 404media.co/kaedim-ai-star…

Wow that’s crazy... What else did you say about Musk in 2022 nymag.com/intelligencer/…

ThePirateBay set to keep their price at $0 monthly

The newest Elon Musk hagiography is out tomorrow. Brian Merchant did the essential task of identifying not just what Walter Isaacson left out of the tale, but the deep flaws in the genre of “great man” biographies that are undeniable in “Elon Musk”. latimes.com/entertainment-…

We really need to get over the vulgar materialist idea that capitalists act they way that they do because they're rational homo economicus value maximizers. This Mekon-looking honkey doesn't care if line go up - he wants to feel like a big man by hurting people.

In Ep 188, "How Capital Repackages Substandard Products for the Poor as 'Increasing Access'" we break down the popular dystopian media convention of taking false austerity for granted & praising corporations for throwing crumbs to the poor w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton soundcloud.com/citationsneede…

The Cultural Logic of Computation is not talked about enough as a canonical piece of tech-criticism adept at dealing with capitalism, race and the MI complex

What an immense loss.

I see 'responsible AI' has completely eclipsed 'ethical AI' as the liberal justification for continuing to support violent and necropolitical technologies.

David Golumbia, 1963-2023 davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/202…

Man, this preprint is really the gift that keeps on giving. In case people missed my previous PSA : you can't compare the carbon emissions of people and objects. Humans are more than just the work that they do. (Also, that paper makes a lot of false assumptions in general)

All die Warnungen von Holocaust-Überlebenden waren nie für Schönwetterlagen mit einer 1,1%-NPD voller sozialer Außenseiter gedacht, sondern präzise für Situationen, in denen man sinnvolle eigene Ziele nur erreichen kann, indem man Extremisten und Menschenhassern Macht zubilligt.

Heute Abend in Bremen: Hallo KI? Tschüß KI! rosa-luxemburg.com/event/hallo-ki… Die Mythen rund um ChatGPT und „Künstliche Intelligenz“ aushebeln! Mit Tante tante Jürgen Geuter Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2023, um 19 Uhr in Bremen, Kulturzentrum Kukoon im Buntentor

remember: the purpose isn't the replace competent people, the purpose is to change their role to a secondary """quality control""" step which can be treated as not as important and thus not paid as highly, preferably in a way that can be contracted out and thus disempowered

Thementag "KI, Demokratie und Nerds": welchen Einfluss hat Technologie auf unsere Demokratie? am 21.1. veranstalten wir einen Thementag u.a. mit E L H O T Z O, Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, Merzmensch Kosmopol🧑‍🎨🤖 (Vladimir Alexeev), Jürgen Geuter tante und Theresa Züger. Infos berliner-ensemble.de/ki #BEki

Had to log in to check a DM someone sent me here. Very disappointed to see how many of you gladly stay in this nazi bar.