I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
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anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral. signal -> @ali.01
New #AIES paper w/ @benzevgreen.bsky.social & @tisjune.bsky.social - "Deconstructing AI Hype: A Playbook for Resistance"! Read here: shreyachowdhary.net/files/decons... We argue that AI hype is a problem not because it misdescribes AI, but because it facilitates AI entrenchment.
don't have time to offer much commentary but here's this thing
Fact Sheet: Trump Administration Announces the Most Ambitious Set of Science Initiatives This Century
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, at the Science: A New Golden Age Summit, the Trump Administration launched the most ambitious set of
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ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 2y agohi, i wrote a post - "Defining AI". ali-alkhatib.com/blog/definin...
three years of genocide+ update: chuffed.org/project/crip...
Three Years of Genocide+: Alice Lives, So Does Gaza
Today marks the third year of what Palestinian poet Hala Alyan calls a "televised, boasted" genocide, accelerated from the last almost eight decades of occupation, and still contributing to mass death...
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · last mo.hi so this is a lot and we’re simply not keeping up with donations please let people in your life who have a lil extra know! this is for a hospital and for many students! #ConnectingGaza
how are matt bernstein's eyes so blue? what are they doing? is it lighting? are they wearing special contacts? it's baffling me. i'm sorry, i'll go back to watching the video.
Today I announced MERIP’s fall fundraising campaign with a special note. It’s been truly invigorating to be leading this small organization through a new period of growth and relevance, and to see support come from truly wide corners where friends and comrades are standing up for us.
Middle East Research and Information Project@merip.bsky.social · last wk.Today we announced our fall campaign with one goal--to bring our flagship publication Middle East Report back into print for the first time since 2020! Join us by making a recurring donation of $10 or more today! Read more in this note from our executive director. buff.ly/CzusxlP
this has gotta come soon unfortunately.
ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 3mo agowe must have a difficult conversation about the atlantic someday
it seems like it's ontologically impossible to call an israeli a terrorist, because if you can't call someone who was part of an organized group that snuck explosives in consumer electronics all over a country to detonate in hospitals, doctors' offices, grocery stores, etc..., then what else is he?
FYI if you're interested: the AI Skeptics reading group is starting "The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence" by Matteo Pasquinelli This week we're reading the Intro & chapter 1. next week we're reading Part I. the week after that we're reading Part II, finishing the book
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the qu...
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Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping
ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · last wk.shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
was horrified reading about the gang rape of the cornell victim, and somehow it manages to get worse as people are apparently doxxing her now.
attending this event with @tega.bsky.social and pretty excited
Tega Brain Artist Talk - The Museum of Human Achievement
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hey, at 3p ET we're going to discuss The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com one last time the last chapter in particular is worth reading if you just want to drop in today; it got me thinking a lot about imagination (citing @ruha9.bsky.social) and building an ambitious, inclusive future (w/o billionaires)
did someone write about how conspicuous and annoying it is that every tech intervention is like basically a chatbot these days? did i imagine that?
they're saying the AI can do math and science again, so it's time to reread Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, a lovely articulation of the social work of assembling understanding, i.e., the best reason to tackle hard problems. www.ams.org/journals/bul...
Free flu and COVID vaccines at YDL-Whittaker start tomorrow! Walk-ins welcome. 📅 Thurs, Sept 24 | 4–8:30pm 📅 Tues, Sept 29 | 10am–1pm 📅 Sat, Oct 3 | 10am–2pm On Sept 24 and Oct 3, onWHARD will also be here with free anemia screenings, period kits, and health resources.
I firmly believe that we (queer ppl and especially trans ppl) should never talk to the press about intra-community conflicts. I can’t see any way that it can benefit us, and it’s obvious how it can hurt us.
i keep seeing posts about zeynep tufecki and something or other about AI putting cancer researchers out of work or something, and like... did i miss something?