ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

"AI" is an ideological project, not a technological phenomenon.

Part 2,530,000,000,000.

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.

I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

'A different set of rules': Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.

“We are a casualty of the whole data center race,” she said. “I feel that my voice doesn't matter.”

Footage shows Musk power plant flouting clean air regulations, while emitting pollutants linked to asthma, lung cancer and heart attacks.

floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

civil society and right groups orgs that often keep a tab on and organise campaigns against these evil corporations are overstretched and underfunded. this internal memo from Meta is insidious and sickening

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

It's devastating to me how much public money is being wasted in the British legal system purely on maintaining maximally destructive stances on human rights in service to the political ideology of the regime.

Not to get too much on my "as a taxpaying citizen" high horse, but we should be all fucking furious that they're taking money from us that most of us want to go towards healthcare and housing and fewer people ending up desperate or unsafe, and instead they're spending it on making us unsafe,...

2026. Executive Summary.

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful – live Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Technoableism:

"a classic form of ableism—bias against disabled people, bias in favor of nondisabled ways of life. Technoableism is the use of technologies to reassert those biases, often under the guise of empowerment."

@ashleyshoo.bsky.social via @stimpunks.org

Social workers’ AI tool makes ‘gibberish’ transcripts of accounts from children Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to wrongly indicate suicidal ideation

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Local Authorities using 'AI' in social work "...could lead to harm for the child and professional consequences for the social worker”

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

Coincidentally, surveillance backlash is my DJ name.

Unlawful, immoral, disgraceful

(See also: R (SG) Vs Haringey 2015
Local authority had failed to arrange for an independent advocate, assessment quashed)

YouTube video by ITV News Why are these learning disabled people facing huge cuts to their care? | ITV News

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The Luddites were right all along. 🤷

(The Luddites weren't anti-technology - they were anti-exploitation, using technology. 🤷)

I now identify as a proud Luddite.

#NewLudditesmovement

The OpenAI story

Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, speaking in house of lords: I would like to probe how the changes the noble and learned Lord has suggested relate to what was agreed in the other place. The amendments in the Commons were understood to introduce independent advocates as a mandatory safeguard. This is an area that many of us are concerned about, reflecting the fact that the individuals in scope may have substantial difficulty understanding the process or communicating their wishes. Under the noble and learned Lord’s amendments, a person is treated as having an independent advocate, even if the advocate is not present or involved in the decision-making process. The amendments do not require an advocate to be present when the co-ordinating or independent doctor meets with the patient, nor when the panel considers the case. Advocacy is therefore satisfied by instruction alone rather than active participation. In addition, advocacy is made conditional on request. The preliminary discussion may proceed without an advocate, and a qualifying person may refuse one.

Despite the concerns raised by Disabled people, and the trashing of what (should be) the principles of Independent Advocacy to support the *autonomy* of Disabled people, not a word from the advocacy sector.

I wonder who tender for these notional 'Independent Assisted Dying Advocacy' contracts 🤔

People with learning difficulties ‘could be collateral damage’ if assisted dying bill becomes law A disabled peer has raised fears that people with learning difficulties could be “collateral damage” if a controversial assisted suicide bill becomes law. The terminally ill adults (end of life) bi…

People with learning difficulties ‘could be collateral damage’ if assisted dying bill becomes law
#AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/people-with-...

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Meanwhile, local authorities in England are using public funds to pay for 'Magic Notes.'

Used in children and adult social work, court reports and 'best interest decisions' for people deemed to lack capacity to consent, and built using tech developed by the abhorrent Open AI.

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

YouTube video by TravisBickle1963 Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy Top Of The Pops

Also released 35 years ago today - Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack. We were truly spoilt for choice on 11 February 1991
youtu.be/yLViulwEZP4

There are safeguarding cases where health and social care workers have been threatened by racists, putting Disabled and older people at risk of neglect and harm.

Labour are actively promoting organisational abuse on a systemic level.

Labour's racist, Reform enabling policies will accelerate the breakdown of health and social care services, with Disabled people, migrant workers, older people and families hit the hardest.

#AbolishTheHomeOffice

Nurses’ families fear being torn apart in UK immigration crackdown, survey says Exclusive: Most people in charity’s study say they worry about being separated from relatives under Mahmood plans

Imagine being presented with these accounts of stark unfairness and insecurity caused by the earned settlement plans and your response being ‘It is a privilege not a right to settle in the UK and it must be earned’ - the Home Secretary needs to go www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Even the internet's favorite dog account calls out Ring video cameras what they are: Mass surveillance.

Huge if true:

Labour handing £187 million of public funds to fascism enabling surveillance oligarchs might have a downside.