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@sensor63.bsky.social

artist-researcher-educator “Is this how I am? Is this how I will be? Is this how it will be? I don’t know.”

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Latest posts by sensor63.bsky.social on Bluesky

I shall raise another glass to @bonstewart.bsky.social I am reminded of a song from Cabaret. Both beautiful and terrifying. « Tomorrow belongs to me » youtu.be/SDuHXTG3uyY?...

18.06.2025 10:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Against Technofeudal Education Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

RESISTANCE TO
TECHNOFEUDALISM IN ÉDUCATION #Highered from @mattseybold.bsky.social via @bonstewart.bsky.social

theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...

18.06.2025 09:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye

07.03.2025 21:12 — 👍 27290    🔁 5841    💬 459    📌 177

« Intro]
Ground Control to MAGA Tom
Ground Control to MAGA Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
(Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to MAGA Tom (Eight, seven)
(Six) Commencing (Five) countdown, engines on
(Four, three, two)
Check ignition (One) and may God's love (Lift off) be with you..

👋

08.03.2025 02:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

QUANTIFICATION OF REPARATIONS FOR TRANSALANTIC SLAVE TRADE. BRATTLE REPORT.

www.brattle.com/wp-content/u...

24.02.2025 16:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Kara Swisher on the Radicalization of Elon Musk | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show Kara Swisher on the Radicalization of Elon Musk | The Ezra Klein Show

TECHNOBROS NERDS HE MAN COSPLAY

youtu.be/2xXLycFv5Gc?...

19.02.2025 16:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Broken Webs of Knowledge Among the myriad negative reactions to the recent release of the Chinese AI model DeepSeek, one of the most common involved what was an obvious “gotcha” query: questioning the chatbot about the 1989 s...

@audreywatters.bsky.social Broken webs of knowledge. Censorship and autocratic regimes …

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/broken-webs-...

17.02.2025 13:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

D.

16.02.2025 20:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I met the ‘godfathers of AI’ in Paris – here’s what they told me to really worry about | Alexander Hurst Experts are split between concerns about future threats and present dangers. Both camps issued dire warnings, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

"we seemed to be using an incredible amount of energy and other natural resources to race headlong into something we probably shouldn’t be creating in the first place" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

14.02.2025 09:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Coup That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some directi...

"Computing technology has never not been the tool of the powerful, the oppressor, the imperialist, the cop."
- @audreywatters.bsky.social
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/r/0d733ff4?m...

07.02.2025 12:33 — 👍 19    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

“Well we have to start somewhere…”
So wtf does #AI mean?

05.02.2025 18:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s all about the kash

04.02.2025 15:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Keeping the Faith in the Fight to Defend Democracy (w/ Anne Applebaum) | How to Fix It w/ John Avlon
YouTube video by The Bulwark Keeping the Faith in the Fight to Defend Democracy (w/ Anne Applebaum) | How to Fix It w/ John Avlon

Keeping the faith. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

youtu.be/qtlnzy9IhJU?...

03.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
MAGA is Telegraphing How They'll End Democracy (w/ Anne Applebaum) | The Michael Steele Podcast
YouTube video by The Bulwark MAGA is Telegraphing How They'll End Democracy (w/ Anne Applebaum) | The Michael Steele Podcast

Get up, stand up for your rights. This is the nightmare
How democracy has ended/ends/is ending ? @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

youtu.be/GczGQ-hXrlM?...

03.02.2025 16:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.

"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
nymag.com/intelligence...

03.02.2025 09:24 — 👍 9320    🔁 3372    💬 260    📌 197
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The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

02.02.2025 18:50 — 👍 11022    🔁 5275    💬 345    📌 744
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

01.02.2025 00:58 — 👍 33331    🔁 12324    💬 494    📌 589

DENIAL-OF-SERVICE
US UNDER ATT AXXX

31.01.2025 23:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

X ACT
A LIE NATION
X TERM I NATION

31.01.2025 23:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

COUP D’ÉTAT

31.01.2025 23:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It seems like an unelected, non-Senate-confirmed billionaire who recently gave a Nazi salute onstage is directing private citizens in a takeover of U.S. federal workers' personal information? Is this okay with everyone? What am I missing

31.01.2025 20:14 — 👍 3234    🔁 1101    💬 119    📌 45

COUP
DÈS
ETATS
[DÈS]
UNIS

31.01.2025 22:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Beyond here and now.

31.01.2025 22:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Er well it rather depends…lots of parameters…

29.01.2025 18:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Piles of stuff. These sentences in the CLMOOC make 4 introduction caught my attention: " A pile of bicycle tires is not a system. If you remove ...

RATIONALISATION
A LIE NATION
X TERM I NATION

tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2015/07/pile...

29.01.2025 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’ The AI researcher on how natural resources and human labour drive machine learning and the regressive stereotypes that are baked into its algorithms

Reading @katecrawford.bsky.social ATLAS OF #AI makes me realise how pertinent studying Victorian history in 1980’s remains in 2024

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

29.01.2025 17:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stillness in frenesy. Crowd scenes It is a cinematic standard, a lone figure, caught up in a chaotic crowd, moving in the other direction... It is the...

Never have past reflections appeared so essential to present musings on #ai futures.

“Stillness in frenesy”

tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2014/09/stil...

29.01.2025 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside the race for Greenland's mineral wealth The territory's untapped mineral wealth has caught the eye of both mining firms and Donald Trump.

X TRACTION
www.bbc.com/news/article...

29.01.2025 14:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OUT RAGE

29.01.2025 09:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ponzi Power Purge?

28.01.2025 07:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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