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the onion article in science & tech on HmmAI, headline: ai chatbot that only responds 'huh' valued at $200 billion

Link here or send me a DM - happy to share a PDF to those who need!

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Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more

All the love and light your way <3

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Huxley the dog is laying on a fuzzy blanket on the couch with sunlight coming in through the balcony window in the background

sunpilled & cozymaxxing

Research - Blair Attard-Frost My research is qualitative and interdisciplinary. I combine theories and methods from social sciences, humanities, management, and engineering to produce unique frameworks and actionable insights.

Finally updated my Research page for the first time since April so you can peruse all my latest rants all in one place www.blairaf.com/research/

Instead of calling Big Tech companies for what they are -- fascist -- we have abstracted the language about them to "hyperscalers"? I see.

OpenAI has been grantwashing for a long time. Hope we take it more seriously now.

In 2025, wearables made a hard pivot to AI If you want to put AI on someone 24/7, wearables are the best bet.

Tech companies are actually pretty explicit about this: The point is to have a device that you can’t escape, one that always has access to you and makes you a constant source of data beyond what a phone does. Surveillance-first devices.

Is it racist to bar visas for international adoption *only* for Black/brown children?

Yes.

Is it racist for an industry to move children from the global south to mostly white homes, stripping them of their family, culture, language and even the right to know who they are?

Also Yes.

Read more about Charlie and the CRA in the 2025 Report of the Auditor General of Canada to the Parliament of Canada:

The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.

The Canada Revenue Agency's chatbot mostly generates wrong answers and is expensive.

"The agency says the bulk of cost is salaries ($13.67 million), though that doesn’t include costs related to employee benefits and travel. Another $3.21 million was spent on IT consultants for the project."

people who think they're being discreet by saying nothing (and quietly policing those who do speak up) will come out of the woodwork in due time. they'll make us all sick with their rancid morality.

in 10 or 15 years, when it requires no courage whatsoever (indeed, when styling oneself as "human-centered" and avoiding speaking out about it are incompatible), they'll cite dead palestinians and lament the genocide and say zionism is bad.

Participating in the dumbest and most violent timeline.

Imagine if all the tech critics actively spoke out against zionism.

If Copilot is what innovation looks like, I don't want it.

Frankly, I'm not sure why anyone in the Canadian tech policy space is surprised at Microsoft's latest $7.5 billion investment in data centre expansion, premising "Canadian sovereignty."

How are we taking digital sovereignty seriously?

lol we wrote this a year ago and things have just gotten more ridiculous ever since.
A thread on me losing my mind trying to buy basic stuff on the internet 🧵

U of T establishes new Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence with support from Google The University of Toronto has established the Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence with $10 million in funding from Google. This new chair will honour the extraordinary legacy of University Profess...

You gotta be kidding me
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The biggest challenge in AI governance rn is leaders who are scared of regulation and scared of Trump

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fluffy black smoke cat sleeping on lounge chair

Even if this was true--and I question the premise that there are a lot of Jewish Americans who don't know what the Jordan River is--this kind of condescending "if you think murder is wrong name five of their albums" stuff is exactly why they lost the kids

Palantir, Carahsoft Expand Partnership to Deliver Mission-Critical Software to Canadian Public Sector | Carahsoft Palantir Technologies Canada Inc. and Carahsoft Canada, have partnered to expand and accelerate delivery of Palantir’s operating systems across the Canadian Public Sector.

Palantir continues to roll out partnerships left, right, and centre with the Canadian federal government: www.carahsoft.com/news/palanti...

Queering intelligence | 3 | A theory of intelligence as performance an How intelligence is defined has a cascading effect on how artificial intelligence (AI) is defined, developed, managed, and governed. Intelligence is an

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Queering intelligence: A theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence by @blairaf.com