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Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar

@pr-c.bsky.social

🇨🇴 Research Scientist @Robotics and AI Institute (RAI). Former MIT Media Lab. Ethics of Tech | Participatory Design | HCI | Ancestral Technology

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a simple, dark green flier with a bold, white text header: From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing The flier includes the following text and details: Hybrid Workshop @ Aarhus - Tuesday August 19, 8:30–11:30 am EST / 2:30–5:30 pm CEST Computing is a field plagued with presentism, oriented towards the new in ways that limit our design and research practices - as well as our capacity to understand and collectively respond to emerging crises. To improve our sensemaking and strategizing about today's crises, this workshop explores what Tamara Kneese has deemed the last decade's shift from "techlash" to "tech fash". What have we learned from the era of misinformation and bias, of "surveillance capitalism" and tech worker organizing that can inform our struggle against the increasing power of a techno-fascist oligarchy? We will also look towards previous generations of computing professionals and activists, who likewise sought to address the harms of emerging automated systems and the complicity of computing within violent, imperialist projects. This workshop will create space for participants to explore these questions collectively, bridging past and present moments in an effort to devise strategies moving forward. RSVP by Aug 12 https://tech-organizing-reflections.github.io/

a simple, dark green flier with a bold, white text header: From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing The flier includes the following text and details: Hybrid Workshop @ Aarhus - Tuesday August 19, 8:30–11:30 am EST / 2:30–5:30 pm CEST Computing is a field plagued with presentism, oriented towards the new in ways that limit our design and research practices - as well as our capacity to understand and collectively respond to emerging crises. To improve our sensemaking and strategizing about today's crises, this workshop explores what Tamara Kneese has deemed the last decade's shift from "techlash" to "tech fash". What have we learned from the era of misinformation and bias, of "surveillance capitalism" and tech worker organizing that can inform our struggle against the increasing power of a techno-fascist oligarchy? We will also look towards previous generations of computing professionals and activists, who likewise sought to address the harms of emerging automated systems and the complicity of computing within violent, imperialist projects. This workshop will create space for participants to explore these questions collectively, bridging past and present moments in an effort to devise strategies moving forward. RSVP by Aug 12 https://tech-organizing-reflections.github.io/

Very excited to share this workshop I'm helping to host on August 19: "From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing"
tech-organizing-reflections.github.io

23.07.2025 15:21 — 👍 38    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 1
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Elon Musk is sending DOGE after high-speed rail Donald Trump’s “first buddy” is using his position to revive personal vendettas

Elon Musk has been trying to kill California’s high-speed rail project for over a decade. It’s the only reason he started pushing the Hyperloop as an alternative.

Now he’s planning to use his influence with Trump to ensure its federal funding gets cut off.

06.12.2024 14:22 — 👍 1292    🔁 483    💬 55    📌 63
Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.

@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...

02.12.2024 14:23 — 👍 967    🔁 341    💬 25    📌 37

Hey Dan, can I please be added? Research Affiliate at MIT, HCI in Latin America, low-cost tech design in rural Colombia. Thanks!

27.11.2024 15:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

👋 So great to see you here, can you add me please

27.11.2024 15:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@pr-c.bsky.social Muchas gracias Ignacio!

27.11.2024 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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18.09.2023 11:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Interested, thanks for sharing. Would you mind suggesting a few places to start?

09.09.2023 01:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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