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At a moment when the largest AI companies are all openly aligning with Trumpism, I'm proud to share a new report:

*AI Commons: nourishing alternatives to Big Tech monoculture*

By Joana Varon, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Mariana Tamari, Berhan Taye, and Vanessa Koetz

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THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

We must continue to expose this stuff.

It’s not normal.

The Nazis seem to think he’s a Nazi 🤔

the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days.

if *your* resolve is weaker than baby knees, just say that.

Scale AI CEO says China has quickly caught the U.S. with the DeepSeek open-source model Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, said Thursday that the AI race between the U.S. and China is an "AI war."

Scale AI’s CEO states DeepSeek rivals or matches the top AI models from American companies. Trained for just $6M (10-100x cheaper than big tech models), it runs on older chips due to chip bans and is open source.

This is a paradigm shift and makes $500B spend on Project Stargate feel misguided.

The most successful piece of American propaganda that people mindlessly parrot is that TikTok is some special Intel-harvesting app that's extracting information that Meta somehow can't.

When in reality, it's just the only major entertainment platform that the U.S. doesn't control.

Why I am fine with Eat the Rich:

Jeff Bezos announcing that he's marrying his next wife, Lauren Sanchez, in a lavish $600m ceremony. They live in Florida. $600m would cover 2 years of FL k-12 free lunch programs. Last year the state discontinued the office that helped schools file for free lunches.

Backing Blacksky was such an easy decision.

(opencollective.com/blacksky)

Speaking of THC..

Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities The growing size of data centers is raising questions about power, land and the environment.

AI data centers could end up using more electricity than entire cities… 😩https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/23/data-centers-powering-ai-could-use-more-electricity-than-entire-cities.html

Cover of The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property by Eunsong Kim. Cover features an edited imaged of an individual's arm hanging over something with their hand reaching downward. Orange, red, and brown hues are overlaid atop the image along the righthand side of the cover.

In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Read the introduction for free now.
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The smarter MAGAs are showing up trying to disrupt organizing and conversation by wanting "rational debate" or "to be heard out" yeah, you don't owe them any of that.

Cover of Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape, surrounded by blue, that is slightly offset in the middle. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

Read the free intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social for the second Alchemy Lecture, "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World," featuring work from Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
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