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Dwayne Monroe
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I think a lot of people (academic colleagues inclusive) have forgotten why some of us became academics. Unlike them we did not do it for the prestige and the chance to be a comprador for companies and other pathetic anti-intellectual vested interests, but because we wanted to do this actual job. 1/
> AI centrists assume that splitting the difference between exalting AI and rejecting it means accepting the technology—because, as their reasoning often goes, “AI is here to stay.” [And] concerns about AI’s potential harms are supposedly satisfied by a vague commitment to “responsible” practices.
I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society broadly too.
"Models" doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Thanks @carvalhais.org for inviting me to write this.
Exactly. These systems are the only technology that people, aided by propaganda, deliberately misunderstand IN DEFIANCE of the careful, repeated explanations of scientists, engineers and technologists
The Perils of a Politics of Freedom: For Iran & the Anti-War Movement with Mahdis Azarmandi (@mahdismaki.bsky.social )
Wednesday at 5 PM EDT
youtu.be/12rHPVkMT5s
Moreover...
* Abandon chatbots
* Start planning now to leave Google, Microsoft etc
* Act on those plans
* Seek out and build technical expertise
* Treat social media as enemy terrain
Meta pervert glasses and social media “lives” are a safeguarding issue that we have to address
Imagine a child, in witness or police protection. They are on a school trip or filmed by a passer by on their way home from school. That recording, uploaded to social media is used to locate them. Imagine
how long will usamericans be welcome anywhere else?
Thus announcing an effort to create a group of techies to form a computational mutual aid collective. The goal: help individuals and activist orgs leave US-based tech which is a threat vector. More info here: monroelab.com/2026/06/06/c...
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Dwayne Monroe
US-based tech companies dominate the global technology space, in commercial, government and personal markets (Microsoft, for example, commands approximately 70 percent of the Dutch corporate and go…
BY MARTHA LINCOLN AND MARTHA KENNEY Earlier this spring, we published an essay in Academe about the California State University’s secretive and costly initiative to provide ChatGPT Edu, a general-p…
