PhD Candidate in Critical AI Studies. @University of Amsterdam. deep-culture.org. He/him. All views shared are my own.
STS | critical AI studies | critical data studies | social theory
Louis Ravn
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Gute beschreibung des verhältnis von AfD und Restgesellschaft
…with deep gratitude to the editors of Science as Culture for invaluable guidance, thanks @keanbirch.bsky.social and Les Levidow.
Mich stört's eigentlich nicht, wenn die Faschisierungsthese als «linksradikal» bezeichnet wird, aber doch, wenn man glaubt, sie dadurch schon entkräftet zu haben. Linksradikale haben aus guten Gründen ein geschärftes Sensorium für Faschisierungsprozesse, gehören sie doch zu ihren ersten Opfern
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New from 404 Media: we've seen internal documents that show Microsoft is explicitly planning to "make people addicted" to its new AI assistant 'Scout' which the company just announced. It is a clear goal according to the documents, with addiction being the first phase www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...
If you 👍 the Pope's recent Encyclical, you'll 😍 our new paper, shifting the conversation about "ethics" to one about political economy. Catch it here in pre-print before its release next month!
#academicsky
The world’s "safest" AI provider now runs on the world’s dirtiest data centre: Musk’s Colossus. Powered by 35 methane generators, most unauthorised. A massive slap in the face to locals - led by @keshaunpearson.bsky.social & co - and to all those who thought Claude was the responsible choice 🙄🤢
The backlash to revelations of sexual torture of Palestinian prisoners aims to raise the cost of speaking out | Yuli Novak
Rich Sutton warned that computational scale ultimately outperforms human expertise.
Does his "bitter lesson" hold true when reproducing our own custom methods with LLMs?
We find: the bitter lesson is sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter, and sometimes inapplicable.
deep-culture.org/the-occasion...
Publication alert!
New article out in Big Data & Society on digital phantoms and synthetic data in medical physics. We explore the making of digital reference objects for human bodies and how they are used in construction of ground truths, as known, & even perfect truths.
doi.org/10.1177/2053...
🚨 New piece “Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure“
Together with Bokar N’Diaye, @ktmac.bsky.social, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, and @dmuravyov.bsky.social, we trace how tech oligarchs access, merge, and dismantle public data infrastructures.
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