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• Post #3952120

  Okay I saw The #Odyssey. It is an impressive feat of film-making. Some scenes are absolutely breathtaking and stay with you long afterward. The casting is inspired, the acting is brilliant, the cinematography is astonishing. But I get the sense that Christopher Nolan only has one kind of hero. The dark, brooding, deep intellectual yet also strong guy who carries the weight of civilization on his shoulders. Dark Knight. Father of the Bomb. It's like he was hooked by the first line of Emil...

• Post #3890829

  Stop calling them the #canadianwildfires These are fires caused by American-led global inaction on #climate change Canada did not ask for them. Canada did not cause them. But Canada is paying for them. We are stretched thin picking up after our lazy neighbors. if only the US would take this moment as a wake up call to pick up their damn trash. But instead of realizing.they need to about face on.climate as the result is literally hitting them in the face, American governors are blaming Canad...

• Post #3796943

  For years I've been writing Op Eds and trying to get them in to mainstream media outlets. For years they have turned me down. Even if I'm writing about something topical, immediate and of the moment, it's always no thanks. I began to realize that because most of what I write is deeply critical of Big Tech, they just don't want to print what I have to say. If I tell people how easy it is to live without the tech giants or social media, if I tell them how much happier I am, then I...

• Post #3657721

  Apparently i have to rewrite books like five times before they're any good. The thing is, they are good to start off. Perfectly good enough. Just not yet PERFECT. Gah. (she says, writing version 5 of the Opt Out book this summer)

• Post #3561771

  It was never safe to put pics of your kids on social media. People thought I was crazy for taking such a hard line on this. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/03/ai-sexual-abuse-fears-uk-parents-warned-posting-images-children-national-crime-agency

• Post #3519395

  On this #CanadaDay I'm struck by how few Americans know their government and the Russians are involved in a psyop in Alberta to incite a separatist movement. The goal: force a populist referendum to leave #Canada and join the #USA. Albertans are being swayed by glitzy YouTube influencer videos, many of which are #AI generated abroad,, to suggest their lives would be better in the US. You know, Florida mansions, control over immigration, pristine health care, high valued US dollar, and other...

• Post #3510600

  If bots are running the #stockmarket with no grip on reality, well, it's no wonder the #AI bubble is so huge.

• Post #3430334

  Looking forward to speaking at #FAccT this morning about my new paper on the #politicaleconomy of #AI with the incomparable @zephoria@mastodon.social and fab friends. Hope to see you there -- or check out the OPEN ACCESS paper online: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3805689.3806739

• Post #3300788

  McSweeneys on #Ai#economics "Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from...

• Post #2479598

  Signed up to conduct a Tech Reclaimers public Teach-In at the Summer of Ludd in NYC! It's gonna be EPIC! Mark your calendars #nyc for either June 29 at 4pm or June 30 at noon ... More info coming soon! #summerofludd #techreclaimers #optout #bigtech #digitalresistance

• Post #2454212

  Happy Star Wars Day to one and all!!!

• Post #2117911

  All these ads for virtual agents show your personal, tireless secretary, always an AI generated attractive and serious looking young woman. I was starting to wonder if #AI assistants would ever be #gendered masculine, let alome middle aged... ... Turns out yes, they are. When they're a hot middle aged male LAWYER. :smh: #gender #fuckai #digitalresistance

• Post #2099976

  Check out this recording of my recent 🔥 🔥 talk at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7juOynisls How to identify and name the dangers of the political economy undergirding #AI and how to spot the decoys distracting us from the massive land grab taking place under our noses. Paper version, forthcoming at FAccT, is online as preprint at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16106

• Post #1742562

  #News sites run software that detects every visitor's clicks, scrolls, and shares. That's how they know which stories get our attention, which sell to more eyeballs, and which do not. That's how they know how many more of a certain kind of story, about a certain someone, they should run. Sometimes a certain event grabs all the headlines above the fold. Sometimes people aim to grab all the headlines above the fold. Sometimes individuals game the news so that it is all abo...

• Post #1601543

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116438525414891868 Fifteen years ago a Ph.D. student I worked with, Sarah Brayne (now prof at Stanford), was conducting her fieldwork at the LAPD into this new phenomenon, "predictive policing." It was early in the Big Data days. She came back with stories of this company, Palantír, backed by the CIA's Venture Capital wing (yes that's a thing apparently) that the LAPD was using to target pre-crime. They would purchase data sets...

• Post #1584343

  If you're working on the #cybercleanse this week and the data map is dragging you down, did you know you can look up all the SSO's that you use via Google? Apparently you can here: https://myaccount.google.com/connections A great opportunity to look these up and disentangle from Google, one login at a time. See if you can log in to the service and direct your account to a new masked email address and password. Save these in your password manager and -- voila! Does anyone have...

• Post #1539783

  A #haiku what if I just need to sleep for seventeen hours, not get it all done?

• Post #1257649

  Looking forward to #TakeBackTech in Atlanta this weekend! Don't miss: - Our totally 🔥 debate on "The AI Question" on Saturday afternoon, featuring many privacy and data justice luminaries - My #TechReclaimers #optout workshop at 11:45 on Sunday: "GOODBYE GOOGLE: Collective and Individual Techniques for Abandoning Big Tech" The whole schedule looks tremendous - thanks to Media Justice for an incredible event! https://www.takebacktech.com/workshops#su...

• Post #1219082

  RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116260091739160939 Indeed, data poisoning is a great way to hide your data trail, confuse those looking for traces, and make space for those who need to be less visible.

• Post #1132981

  Gratulálok és egészségedre, Magyarország!!

• Post #1049058

  "This is not a story about how AI works. It’s not about whether it is going to become sentient, make us rich, or redundant. It is a story about power. It is about how politicians became distracted by a shiny new thing, and failed to understand – or chose not to ask – what it might cost. It is not about whether AI will help itself to your job. It is about whether the people who make AI are helping themselves to your country." Every story about AI should start this way. See thi...

• Post #1016315

  Last month I visited Berkeley to speak about the Opt Out project and the video has just been posted online! Check it out!! How to Opt Out: Lessons from 14 Years of Evading Surveillance Capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilXLiH6Rdx0 #optout #reclaimtech

• Post #1016243

  #Samsung is shutting down its text messenging app and forcing people onto #Google for SMS and MMS. At #techreclaimers we have been discussing alternatives to avoid Google. Several Reclaimers recommend Fossify Messages and Fossify Contacts as a good alternative, others have used Textra, and we'd all love to know about more options that keep your data private and sovereign. If you're stuck, check these out and let us all know how you found the switch. If you're a super use...

• Post #1006106

  Ok everyone, gas up! We've only got a few days before they short the energy markets again!

• Post #987978

  Chag sameach to all who celebrate :)

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• Post #964559

  Mood: Remember when the #Boeing capsule failed so the #NASA #astronauts stayed up a few extra months at the #ISS? When they left in June '24, Biden hadn't debated Trump yet. When they returned in Feb '25, DOGE was already in full force... It's only a 10-day mission but let's hope #Artemis II crew recognizes the Earth they return to...

• Post #964470

  If you've never met an #astronaut they are incredible humans. Generous, kind, whip smart, 360 thinkers, both brilliant in a team and terrific in leadership, exceptionally skilled, and genuinely good, big-hearted people to boot. Thanks to my time working with #NASA I am convinced they actually do represent the best of us. All four of the #Artemis astronauts flying on this lunar mission are extraordinary human beings. Godspeed to them, whenever they launch.

• Post #938085

  If you're following along on the #optout #cybercleanse with #techreclaimers , this weekend we are onto Day 2--Switch up your browser! If you are on Chrome, Safari, or Edge - time to get off. If you already use a privacy centric browser, try another one out for fun. There are SO many great browsers out there and switching costs are exceptionally low. https://www.optoutproject.net/better-browsing/

• Post #888982

  For the next 21 weeks the Tech Reclaimers are going to walk thru the #cybercleanse one week (instead of day) at a time! join in via @TheBulletin or join our Signal or Discord groups by visiting https://www.reclaimcontrol.tech Week 1 is GET READY: make sure you have the hardware you need. I recommend an external drive to save your stuff locally, but you may also have your eye on repurposing an old laptop or switching up your phone operating system. Make sure you have what you need to proceed....