Annie Dorsen
@anniedorsen.bsky.social
Director/writer. Maker of algorithmic theater. #MacFellow. And unexpectedly, a lawyer. anniedorsen.com
Music - dance - theater people in the US! There is one more day to share your experiences with AI in the "Impacts of AI in the Performing Arts" survey. 👇
Annie Dorsen@anniedorsen.bsky.social · 2w agoMusic/dance/theater people: there is *one week* left to add your voice to the Impact of AI on the Performing Arts survey.
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
YES! We are extremely very very interested in hearing from technicians, engineers, backstage crew, designers, and all!
RavenMae@ravenmae.bsky.social · 2w agoThis includes all of us who have worked behind the scenes too, even as freelance. So if that's you too, please take 10 minutes & fill this out!
Music/dance/theater people: there is *one week* left to add your voice to the Impact of AI on the Performing Arts survey.
GenAI Usage in the Performing Arts
survey.alchemer.com
What if I told you AI was being used to kill people right now? arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
arstechnica.com
👁️ 👁️ Performers, choreographers, playwrights, musicians, designers, technicians! Lend me your eyeballs! 👁️ 👁️ There are only two weeks left to take the *Impacts of AI on the Performing Arts Survey*! Read all about it in the link below, take the survey, and please SHARE WIDELY with your colleagues.
GenAI Usage in the Performing Arts
survey.alchemer.com
Why does this person look like a Disneyland animatronic?
A new Medicare program uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests. New records obtained by EFF show that this program has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patients waiting in pain. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization
EFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of
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say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Listen up, anti-AI artists 👇 - this is the truth.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo agoYou don't have to believe AI "art" is good (I don't), nor do you have to that AI "art" *can* be good (I don't) to understand the reason that the capital markets are putting trillions into AI is *they* believe they can fire workers and replace us with AI: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 1/
I would like to watch a Netflix-y drama series about pet lawyers. Or a reality show about pet lawyers. Get on it, someone. (Please and thank you.)
Curators Anna Kornbluh and David Maruzzella are inviting Chicago-based artists to ask what political art can do now. Their Fall of Freedom exhibition will be held Oct. 2–4 at the In These Times offices in Chicago. Proposals due Aug. 10: interccect@gmail.com
Art In These Times – Fall of Freedom — In These Times Events
Authoritarian assaults on free thinking, fellow feeling, and creative making call for artists to unite in defiance. The 2nd annual Fall of Freedom festival convokes us to assemble, to curate,…
allyoufascistsboundtolose.com
Finally started reading The Perfect Moment by @isaacbutler.bsky.social and the introduction is so good I had to stop to say so.
Duchamp would not approve of this wannabe Surkov piece of shit
The Artist Matthew Taylor Is Helping Trump Reshape Washington
Matthew Taylor, a conceptual artist and political strategist, made influential ads and documentaries produced by Steve Bannon. Now he’s assisting the White House.
nytimes.com
Hey, NYC! If you wanna keep "A.i." out of the public schools, please come to the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social rally in Chelsea on 7/29! I'll see ya there! actionnetwork.org/events/ai-ou...
AI Out of Schools PEP Rally
Join the AIM Coalition for a brief rally outside and testimony inside at the July PEP (Panel for Educational Policy) meeting to demand a FULL moratorium on AI in NYC Schools.
actionnetwork.org
No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum
Monday at 7 we are screening the the excellent doc Ghost in the Machine by @valerieveatch.bsky.social at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social. Truly a not to be missed film.
Ghost in the Machine
This visceral documentary unearths the buried history of artificial intelligence.
bam.org
Deadline extended! Join EFF and the Queer Arts Collective in building a creative space at the intersection of digital justice and artistic expression. We're looking for works that convey the importance of digital liberation and ways of achieving it. Submit by July 10! www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Call for Submissions: Digital Pride
This Pride season, join EFF and the Queer Arts Collective in building a creative space at the intersection of digital justice and artistic expression. We’re looking for fresh, untold, historically
eff.org
Trumpsky rejects the Stalinist paradigm of "socialism in one country"; embraces internationalist strategy of permanent revolution ✊️🚩
For any Yalies who might see this, please join me in signing on to Stand Up for Yale's campaign. They're doing more than a petition but there's also a petition. Tell Yale: Don’t cave to Trump Administration demands.
Tell Yale: Don’t cave to Trump Administration demands
On Friday, the New York Times broke the news that Yale is in the midst of settlement negotiations with the Trump administration over an investigation into its admissions policies at the college, law s...
actionnetwork.org
John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."
I mean, look, in fairness to the AI industry, if you set aside the part where they eventually start charging for this stuff, and the disruption to the internal staffing of companies that use it that happens in the meantime, and the environmental consequences of needing massive new electricity /1
