Anis Rahman

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

Invited talk by Zeynep @zey.bsky.social Tufekci at @neuripsconf.bsky.social was really very good!
Title: Are We Having the Wrong Nightmares About AI?
Spoiler: yep! 😉
Very thoughtful! Thanks!🙏

'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

New publication alert! Thanks to Media, Inequality & Change Center at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Is Another AI Possible? Platforms, Political Economies, and Alternatives

Click here to access and download the report: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Agentic AI: the next generation NSA-PRISM system is in progress. Here is how it will work.

@anismedia.bsky.social: apps, digital platforms, and operations systems are inherently geopolitical artifacts emerging at a new frontier for inter-regional power conflicts among BRICS+ countries #udc2025

@anismedia.bsky.social: trade and geopolitics can't be divorced from the app banning conversation. What actors ultimately benefit from prolonging the conflict and high tech warfare in the short and long term? Turns to Benjamin Bratton's The Stack: On Software of Sovereignty and focuses #udc2025

Greatly looking forward to this ICA pre-conference event!

Decolonizing the Future: Karen Hao on Resisting the Empire of AI | TechPolicy.Press Hao's new book is Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, out now from Penguin Press.

Do you have a long drive, walk, or downtime ahead of you this holiday weekend? Consider listening to this podcast discussion with @karenhao.bsky.social about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, just out from Penguin Press: www.techpolicy.press/decolonizing...

Congratulations Lotte!

Loved the title, Chaitna, and well done with the article. Thanks for speaking with me. @chaitnad.bsky.social

I teach about the cultural impacts of information technologies in general, from political economy and critical race perspectives. Here is the syllabus. Would appreciate your thoughts drive.google.com/file/d/1AQ0E...

We want you as the next President of ICA! @jackqiu.bsky.social

SoftBank: empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism Venture capital (VC) firms in Silicon Valley have long enabled digital enterprises from Meta to Google. This article investigates SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate whose Softbank Vision Fund (SVF1)...

New pub 📢 "SoftBank: Empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism" New Political Economy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does your work involve #PublicMedia in any way? Only 24 hours left to submit your abstract at the Singapore IAMCR 2025 Conference. iamcr.org/singapore202...

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.

The AI arms race is getting ironic—OpenAI is mad that someone else might have done to them what they did to the internet. Data ethics only matter when it’s your data?

www.404media.co/openai-furio...

Do DeepSeek’s A.I. Advances Mean US Tech Controls Have Failed? DeepSeek’s A.I. models show that China is making rapid gains in the field, despite American efforts to hinder it.

"It’s not clear how DeepSeek obtained its Nvidia H800s, but it would have been legal for the company to buy them in late 2022 or 2023. Now, however, such purchases would not be."
Do China’s A.I. Advances Mean U.S. Technology Controls Have Failed? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

“OpenAI stole from the whole internet to make itself richer, DeepSeek stole from them and give it back to the masses for free I think there is a certain british folktale about this…”

Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.

SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.