Charles Logan

New preprint from me: 'AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum' zenodo.org/records/1890... - "This paper treats AI as a diagnostic for deeper, nihilistic changes in the existing order of things. It proposes instead decomputing as a decisive turn towards infrastructuring the common good."

Hey how’s bedtime going for all you caregivers out there so great right I love me some daylight savings 😩

I think one way you can celebrate International Women's Day every day is through your citation practices, which are political and pedagogical choices, and that's my addition to today's trending topic.

If you're wondering how to engage students and teachers with questions about technology and place, this lesson is for you. It explores how “sound journals, community, and placemaking invites students to compare the way they describe their community with the way AI describes their community.”

Dirty Data An ERC investigation looking into the cost of data center infrastructures powering AI and the people paying the price.

New to me: Dirty Data, a collaborative project featuring 40 journalists across Asia, Latin America, and Europe investigating data centers, their impacts, and how communities are fighting back against data center construction. The website includes original reporting and an interactive map.

AI and Ethics AI and Ethics seeks to promote informed debate and discussion of the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications that arise from the development of AI. It ...

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CfP: Topical Collection on AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation and Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

Also, I'm really curious to see how Disney/Pixar are going to softly critique Big Tech in Toy Story 5 while maintaining firm technological capitalist narratives.

One thing about Hoppers, which I took my kids to see today, is that it presents an opportunity to begin discussing settler colonialist logics that view success as shifting climate-destroying infrastructure elsewhere as a success rather than, say, destroying the unnecessary highway altogether.

An LLM does not need to pull a trigger or automate a missile to serve the cause of war. It can work to make obscene violence feel justified and rational — to give you the illusion that you have “thought the matter through.” 🧵

Gone are the days when “cloud” as a metaphor could hide the material impacts of data centers, so now they are sold with AI hype.

Children's Toys Are Shipping With Adult AI Inside Them Despite banning minors from using their chatbots, AI companies are happy to let their models be used in children's toys.

New report “suggests that leading AI companies are doing little to police how developers who pay for access to their AI models are using them. One consequence, the group warns, is that AI toymakers can ship products to children that are powered by AI models that are only intended for adults.”

OpenAI’s push to become crucial infrastructure in education should not and cannot be separated from its broader entanglements with the US military and mass surveillance that includes students and teachers.

Oracle and OpenAI End Plans to Expand Flagship Data Center Oracle Corp. and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand a flagship artificial intelligence data center in Texas after negotiations dragged over financing and OpenAI’s changing needs.

Today in who can destroy the planet fastest:

"The collapsed talks [between Oracle and OpenAI] created an opening for Meta Platforms Inc. to step in and consider leasing the planned expansion site...Nvidia Corp., the leading AI chipmaker, helped facilitate Meta’s discussions with the developer..."

pervert glasses. so apt

As I get older I’m coming to increasingly radical views like “eradicating peoples jobs is bad, actually” and “a necessary part of having skills is taking responsibility for the outcomes of those skills”

They want to get rid of faculty so bad, they are like slavering at the prospect

When the Future Feels Foreclosed: AI Resignation and the Power to Act This article develops the concept of ‘AI resignation’ to capture how young people encounter AI not only as a helpful or flawed tool, but as an overpowering and seemingly inevitable force that can for....

"The task of AI education, then, is not merely to teach technical competence, but to cultivate the political imagination and collective capacities necessary to contest and reshape technological power," write Jan‐Philipp Siebold, Annemarie Witschas, and Rainer Mühlhoff.

Haven Middle School students walk out to protest ICE - Evanston RoundTable Haven Middle School students walked out of school Thursday morning to protest federal immigration enforcement. The protest was organized by three eighth

Greg Bovino (eat shit!) and his fascist thugs paid several visits to Evanston in the past few months. I'm proud of these middle school students for organizing this morning's walkout, and I appreciate teachers and school administrators supporting students' civic actions.

MagicSchool uses a multi-model approach and pairs each tool with the model that performs best for its task. Today, we use multiple providers, including OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini, among others. We test models continually to ensure quality, safety, and reliability.

Also joke is on them because MagicSchool uses ChatGPT.

People Have the Right to Refuse AI Britt Paris is the author of Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up, a new book published by the University of California Press.

"If AI is inevitable, why is it being shoved down our throats? What options do we have?" writes @hellobrittparis.bsky.social in @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Refuse! Don't be a mark!

Both, I think!

I assume it's to centralize even more power and extend their surveillance capabilities?

If you can't attend a webinar, don't attend. Read the report or watch the recording. But don't send your creepy recording service. And hosts? Attendees can't meaningfully consent to that.

She’s like a liar gone to burning hell

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Nothing ruins your attempt to have a Very Serious and Moody Walk to campus through the fog while listening to Amnesiac like “Pyramid Song” being interrupted by Siri alerting you that Mom liked your message.

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