Felix Bieker

Fakely Automated Luxury Fascism

Wired and Orbited: Reclaiming infrastructure for a resilient internet - ARTICLE 19 In the depths of the ocean and high above the Earth’s atmosphere, a quiet revolution is reshaping the internet as we know it. Far from the public eye, the physical infrastructure that powers our digit...

📢 NEW INITIATIVE: As tech giants claim ownership of subsea cables and satellite networks, who will protect our digital rights? @article19.bsky.social team digital launches "Wired and Orbited" to ensure internet infrastructure remains open and resilient for all.

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Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad

New: Israel is starving Palestinians, forcing them to beg for donations on sites like Bluesky. Their accounts keep getting flagged as spam. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Every Silicon Valley innovation in the consumer space has been "what if this software was my mom" which explains why ChatGPT's primary use is as a therapist, relationship substitute for lonely boys, and "personal operating system" to organize their life

“women are inferior at any kind of physical activity” is so built in to our culture that you dont even need to provide evidence for the claim, you can just assume it as axiomatic truth even in the most transparently ridiculous circumstances

The problem with AI summaries they don't engage with here is that 1) a company filters the results, so any critical work may be misconstrued, damaging academic freedom and 2) the summary is garbage in most cases because it's not actually based on the text.

This has been evident ever since the stories broke on the use of GPT-4, via Azure services, to create intelligence and target lists in Gaza by the IDF. Big Tech is complicit.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…

"One of my chefs mentioned that if they could cook the steak on the grill they could get it right the first time. This is not an acceptable attitude in the microwave era."

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Why do you think they pushing so hard into education? They get paid a lot of money and get to train the next generation to be wholly dependent on them. A win-win.

Salt is brightening and pepper is deepening, btw

Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

“Starting in July 2024, AI was suddenly everywhere all at once in Latin America after Meta Platforms started incorporating chatbots in its apps across the region. Whether users wanted them or not, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram became homes for a variety of AI bots.”

Must read. A fair portrait of the disgraceful and inhumane status quo we normalized — and will have to explain to our children, one day. The shame, the joyful complicity, the hatred. And yes of course, the racism.

"So, most AIs that are disseminated or deployed in the social space are there as a punishment mechanism, not as something that will help people. Instead of recidivism algorithms, imagine developing something that helps people rehabilitate into society when they come out of prison."

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

The Commissioner asks the German authorities to uphold freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in the context of the conflict in Gaza - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int Strasbourg 19/06/2025

Der Menschenrechtskommissar des Europarats schreibt an Dobrindt und warnt vor Einschränkungen der Meinungsfreiheit im Zusammenhang mit Protesten in Solidarität mit Palästina. Er thematisiert zudem den Missbrauch der IHRA-Definition.

I think the conclusion of this study is likely to be valid however it is worth noting that any attempts to localise cognitive tasks such as writing to a specific brain activation/connectivity is problematic because that's not how the brain works.

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Today's round of "is ChatGPT still racist AF"

I asked it to make a graph showing the effects of an illegal & dangerous skin lightening product. Chatbot knows it's dangerous, but thinks it makes you smarter. And overall: the boosts to intelligence, confidence, etc outweigh serious health risks.

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“Risk regulation is always shaped by pre-existing institutions, norms, resource distributions and power relationships. In practice, this more often than not means that risks are constructed in ways that favour powerful interests”
@rachelgriffin.bsky.social putting the issue with risk very concisely

„Und so stellt sich am Ende nicht nur die Frage, welche Arbeit es erfordert, gleichgültig zu bleiben, sondern auch, welche Arbeit diese Gleichgültigkeit leistet. Was macht das mit einer Gesellschaft?“
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Trump's segregationist agenda is a reaction to Obama And we need to talk about it.

Like I said in my podcast, we are not far away from the presence of any minority, Black, Latino, woman, disabled to be labeled "DEI", or a "diversity", in an organization.

The current regime is TRYING. TO. CRIMINALIZE AND PROSECUTE racial integration.

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Neoliberal capitalism got you to purchase and participate in building your own surveillance society for the techno fascist oligarchy all while fawning how cool it was to build the cage and its bars.

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The silence of Italy’s Guardia di Finanza on drones deployed in the Mediterranean They are capable of vertical take-off and will be deployed along the migrant routes. No one knows their true purpose. What we do know from the case of Frontex, however, is concerning, as the drones mi...

"The new drones will be deployed along the migrant routes. What we do know from the case of Frontex, however, is concerning, as the drones might be used to facilitate pushbacks to Libya and Tunisia."

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Yes, many devices technically can take care of reminders and to-dos. But have you considered having them done worse and less efficiently

In meme form

Some reasons we don’t build or maintain them anymore are expense, (perceived) need, & also because able bodied people, esp. doctors, generally dislike anything that takes up space—actual or visual—that helps disabled people live rather than eases them towards death, especially if it’s used lifelong.

The drive to make disability technologies smaller, less visible, & easier to hide is as much (or sometimes more) related to able-bodied ppl’s discomfort/fear as it is to making it more helpful for disabled users. Making prostheses mimic lost limbs visually, even when it hindered function, is one ex.

🔥 Now online! The 3rd episode of the EDPS/LSTS 'Oral history of #dataprotection': 'Becoming independent' with Waltraut Kotschy www.edps.europa.eu/press-public... #privacy #privacysky

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