Dani Shanley

Thanks for the shout-out, Brian! (and this zine looks amazing. Definitely going to print out some copies for our event) You can still submit today or DM me!

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...

applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome

pls share with your networks

"There are more tech lobbyists than MEPs."

Live from Brussels:

(It's a good study. Check it out.)

I have an article coming out soon in Science & Engineering Ethics which shows how ethics guidelines suppress and background ethical agents. One of the tactics is instrumentalization, which gives agency to AI and hides the true agents. Will update with link to the article once it is published.

Techno-Negative A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimis...

*very* excited about @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social’s new book, out next year w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social 🤖 🚫

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...

We're going to have people like @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social with us talking about his book.

How could I not be excited?

there's still time to submit something... www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal

He's come to maas to talk about in Feb ☺️

Every time I see a new submission I get even more excited for this 👇

it's gonna be 🔥

Super! I'll keep an ear/eye out for possible contributors and send them your way!

‘No & ...’ : A Forum on Technological Refusal - Home

probably some people applying for our event: www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal - what's the timeline for the series? If it extends beyond Feb, happy to put presenters/panellists in touch with you (will also have a proper program soon, with themes/topics)

Friends choose your so-called "critics" carefully.

Its not a binary.

If people do circular citations and happen to never cite the women who laid the groundwork for decades and pay the price, there's a problem.

A frank essay on what sustainability (or lack thereof) looks like in AI research. What is described here by my friend @natolambert.bsky.social, a CS researcher, is true of social researchers of AI as well. Worth reading by anyone thinking about the human costs of the AI race, which are far reaching.

@sallywyatt.bsky.social

your timely reminder that AGI is neither clearly defined/described nor amenable to scientific or engineering principles... it remains an ideology that is rooted in white supremacy, racism and eugenics

One week left to submit something!

What's come in already is 🔥

The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.

(in addition to the great refs already mentioned) lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

@posteurope.bsky.social @triciagriffin.bsky.social @floralysen.bsky.social @judithcampagne.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

‘No & ...’ : A Forum on Technological Refusal - Home

We're organizing an event on technological refusal in Maastricht, Feb '26 and I'm super excited about it. Details below 👇 Deadline for contributions Oct 31st. Come join us!

www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal

‘No & ...’ : A Forum on Technological Refusal - Home

Here you go! www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal

praise kier

Al Wants to Col Human Interac S They're trying to colonize all human interactio WAVE

fun fact: you make an entire career out of repeating the work of women of colour tech critics in the full knowledge that you as a white guy will get the big slots and they won't

For people interested in this list, we are organizing a small event on tech refusal in February in Maastricht, NL. DM me if you'd like the details! :)

That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times. Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

"That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times."

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Editors' notes — HELIOTROPE

Ongoing CFP:

Heliotrope is seeking submissions on a rolling basis. This a space for short think-&-feel pieces... www.heliotropejournal.net/editors-notes

this!!!

The AI Safety Debate Needs AI Skeptics | TechPolicy.Press The language used by AI risk communities to describe the technology may contribute to the very problems it aims to curb, Eryk Salvaggio writes.

While there is value to foresight and anticipating risks, writes Tech Policy Press fellow
@eryk.bsky.social, could the language used by AI risk communities to describe the technology contribute to the very problems it aims to curb?

Here's a video explaining how Chat Control surveillance would work by the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy...

fair.tube/w/72DCPMByyS...

#speirgorm