Claudette Lauzon

Straight up eugenics though

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters The fast food chain is reassessing its use of the tech after a number of errors were shared widely online.

One way or another, AI is taking all the water

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About the speaker:
@claudettelauzon.bsky.social is an associate professor of contemporary art history in the School for the Contemporary Arts at @sfu.ca | @scasfu.bsky.social.
She is currently completing a manuscript on the gods and monsters of technomilitary culture.

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges Podcast Episode · The Daily · 2025-04-11 · 44m

I generally hate when the NYT platforms this kind of hate-mongering asshole but this interview is worth listening to. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Thanks so much for this generous share. I’m also teaching a grad level course on art and AI next year, and will be happy to add some art-related material.

oops my bad

“Trump shares with Hitler more than just an affection for the prosaic, maudlin, and nationalistic. He also understands the strategic importance of controlling the arts.”

Never got into Twitter, decided to give Bluesky a try. Thanks for the crash course in doom scrolling.

“The expansion of forced abstinence has been a gold rush for…actors who profit from a system that strips people who use drugs of personal agency and even of the basic right to exist in public.”

Hear me out, Canada. A *good* neighbour would maybe become the 51st state, use our electoral college votes to tank the republicans in ‘26 & ‘28, get them free healthcare while we’re there and then back out slowly 👋🤞. As a parting gift they keep Pollievre & Alberta (with apologies to Paris Marx).

This is exactly it.

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