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Sarah Abel

@drsarahabel.bsky.social

Philosopher and anthropologist of science, works on racism and sexism in genomics/visual culture/AI. She/her. https://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/sitio/sarah-abel

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Revista Común@revistacomun.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hoy día no se puede hablar de la IA sin hablar de tecnopolítica. Digo “hoy día”, aunque en realidad el concepto de #inteligenciaartificial ha sido político desde sus inicios. En #Perspectivas, @drsarahabel.bsky.social en su primera entrega sobre #tecnopolítica. revistacomun.com/blog/tecnopo...

Tecnopolítica de la IA: inteligencia, ignorancia e imaginación

Sobre cómo los imaginarios eugenésicos de los líderes tecnológicos impulsan una carrera de armas, cuyo fin es crear una “superinteligencia” artificial.

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QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · last yr.

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵

Logo of the Department of Education. Title: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Subtitle: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. Dated July 2025
The Conversation ES@es.theconversation.com · last yr.

🗣️ #Entrevista a la filósofa @carissaveliz.bsky.social‬: "No debemos caer en el error de poner toda la responsabilidad sobre los hombros de los individuos". 

Carissa Véliz, filósofa: “Muchos adolescentes ni siquiera alcanzan a imaginar cómo es vivir con privacidad”

La profesora hispano-mexicana-británica de filosofía y ética, especialista en los dilemas éticos que plantea la economía de datos, confía en los más jóvenes para crear tecnologías más respetuosas y éticas que hagan del mundo un lugar mejor.

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Sarah Abel@drsarahabel.bsky.social · last yr.

A great new series by @datasociety.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social cutting through the bullshit of #AI hype and its implications for #democracy and #governance in the #US

alice e marwick@alicetiara.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨NEW SERIES ALERT🚨 My incredible @datasociety.bsky.social team with @techpolicypress.bsky.social just launched a series on "Tech Power and Democratic Crisis" (aka technofascism). The 1st piece by Jake Metcalf & Meg Young is out now: www.techpolicy.press/tech-power-a...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

nazi germany & physics Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD Department of Physics,University of Washington, Seattle APS April Meeting, January 2017 Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

LAWLESS NSF: Every NSF employee who is following the director on this funding freeze and fishing expedition is in violation of US code. per the post below, this language has been reauthorized twice, most recently by Biden in 2022 as the CHIPS Act. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... 🧪

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · last yr.

"CBP swabbed the cheeks of between 829,000 and 2.8 million people...that number includes as many as 133,539 children and teenagers. These figures mark a sweeping expansion of biometric surveillance—one that explicitly targets migrant populations, including children." www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

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WIRED@wired.com · last yr.

NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

wired.com

Sarah Abel@drsarahabel.bsky.social · last yr.

“It is as if suddenly no one were able to account for all the inhabitants of Arizona — only to learn they had been shipped off to #ElSalvador ’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or #CECOT in Spanish.” 😦 @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/04/22/t...

The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America

By shipping immigrants to Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador, Trump is drawing on a deep history of U.S. involvement in Latin America.

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Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · last yr.

Flattering nod to “Because of You” here from @milenaivanova.bsky.social — may not sound like praise but definitely is, in context: “The value derived from BECAUSE OF YOU is possible because of the moral flaws of the ingredients it is constructed with.“ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

AI, art and morality - AI and Ethics

After ‘Théâtre D’opéra Spatial’ won a prize in the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition in 2022 there was a very strong outcry in the media that this signified the ‘end of art’. Allen himself ...

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Sarah Abel@drsarahabel.bsky.social · last yr.

“By rooting misogyny in women’s ‘shared biology’, rather than our shared oppression under #patriarchy, the #SupremeCourt relies on incredibly conservative ideas about gender as a naturalised phenomenon”

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · last yr.

The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-court-rules-that-trans-women-arent-women-under-the-equality-act-2010/

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2y ago

Where we have lost hope in institutions, hype declares that AI can do the work of those institutions based on their data. But while AI tools can complete tasks and follow orders, they cannot replace collective decision-making — and must not be allowed to do so, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press

To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

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Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 2y ago

at this stage, there's a robust body of work exposing the unreliability and limitations of llms but what will it take for governments, businesses, and other large institutions to rid critical social infrastructure off llms

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 2y ago

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

How to Survive the Broligarchy

Three months ago, I warned we were entering the age of technoauthoritarianism. It's now here. We can and must fight back.

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