Joseph Mogul
@joseph-mogul.bsky.social
Writer, organizer and independent journalist. Newsletter: https://hereandtogether.substack.com/ Story tips: josephmogul@proton.me
In part nine of Ten Reasons to Resist AI, I wrote about AI and media/misinformation, covering the proliferation of AI deepfakes and uncovering the alliance between Big Tech and corporate media.
AI and the Compounding Misinformation Crises
Making sense of the media's disastrous AI response
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In the eighth installment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI,” I wrote about AI and education, covering the education institutions — from public school systems to private universities — enthusiastically adopting AI products in the classroom.
Degenerative AI Does Not Belong in Schools
The question of AI in education merits a one-word answer: No
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In the seventh installment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI,” I covered AI and art/music. I wrote about the cultural implications of AI image and sound generators, and how they debase the labor of artists and musicians.
The AI Art Conspiracy
Why we’re force-fed AI slop
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Ten ways to resist AI #6: There is a growing movement to enact government policy regulating AI chatbots. California recently became the first state to regulate predatory AI companion behaviors. Now, companies must implement safety features like age verification and publicize self-harm protocols.
Big Tech Has Blood on Its Hands
The many ways AI puts our health in peril
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Ten ways to resist AI #5: AI resistance is inextricable from the movements for police and prison abolition. Addressing individual bias of cops and prosecutors does not alter the essential function of carceral systems — putting humans in cages. The same may be said for algorithms.
How AI Exacerbates Racism
The abolitionist imperative of AI resistance
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In the fifth installment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI," I wrote about how AI systems trained on large swaths of the internet mirror racist attitudes found in abundance online, and how the algorithmization of society — from court sentencing to hiring decisions — exacerbates systematic racism.
How AI Exacerbates Racism
The abolitionist imperative of AI resistance
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Ten (un)fun facts about AI #4: Many of the AI-surveillance systems used by Trump’s DHS at the U.S.-Mexico border were first approved by the Biden administration under the guise of “reasonable” criminal enforcement.
AI is a Force Multiplier in Policing and Surveillance
From license plate readers to facial recognition, AI-powered surveillance is perilous to all
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Ten ways to resist AI $4: Dystopian surveillance tech is animating resistance across the U.S. Organizers developed a digital resource called DeFlock, sourcing info on the locations of ALPRs and helping local communities build public pressure campaigns against municipalities with Flock contracts.
"[W]hen a country commiting a genocide clad in uniforms bearing the Star of David repeatedly claims that it acts at the behest of all Jews ... this conflation muddles the line of complicity."
Prism@prismreports.org · last mo.“Supremacy makes us less safe. Whether it’s the idea that we are the most vulnerable or we are the chosen ones … we are all less safe.” The Cuban & Jewish diasporas are fighting against the weaponization of their collective traumas, report @joseph-mogul.bsky.social & @alexmar.bsky.social.
“Supremacy makes us less safe. Whether it’s the idea that we are the most vulnerable or we are the chosen ones … we are all less safe.” The Cuban & Jewish diasporas are fighting against the weaponization of their collective traumas, report @joseph-mogul.bsky.social & @alexmar.bsky.social.
The Cubans and Jews fighting against weaponization of trauma
Some members of the Cuban and Jewish diasporas have used their painful histories to gain power in U.S. politics and advance imperialism. But many are pushing back
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In the fourth installment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI: A series of AI explainers for the left” I wrote about three AI surveillance tools used by federal and local police. Check it out!
AI is a Force Multiplier in Policing and Surveillance
From license plate readers to facial recognition, AI-powered surveillance is perilous to all
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Ten (un)fun facts about AI #3: Google, the company known for its former motto “don’t be evil,” backtracked on its 2018 pledge not to provide AI technology to militaries. Now, they work with the IDF and the Pentagon — just one instance of tech companies violating their previously stated guardrails.
Ten ways to resist AI #3: Local campaigns under the banner “Purge Palantir” emerged this year, pressuring Congress members to return donations from Palantir and businesses to drop Palantir contracts.
The Anatomy of an AI “Kill List”
For militaries, AI solves the problem of humanity
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In part three of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI: A series of AI explainers for the left,” I wrote about AI and militarism. Through a case study on Palantir “kill lists” I discuss Big Tech’s quest to automate war, and what it means for the future of the antiwar movement.
The Anatomy of an AI “Kill List”
For militaries, AI solves the problem of humanity
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Ten ways to resist AI #2: As corporations attempt to introduce AI into more and more industries, unions are the most important frontline of resistance to AI. Leading organizations on this front include the Luddite Lab, The Tech Workers Coalition and No Tech for Apartheid. Read more here!
The Hidden Labor Implications of AI Proliferation
How AI disempowers workers
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In the second installment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI," I wrote about AI and labor, examining discourse about projected job replacement, while honing in on the under-discussed topics of “ghost labor” and worker surveillance. hereandtogether.substack.com/p/the-hidden...
The Hidden Labor Implications of AI Proliferation
How AI disempowers workers
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Ten (un)fun facts about AI: #1 One application of AI that works as intended is digital software that identifies fossil fuel reserves and makes extraction more efficient. AI models developed by Google, Amazon and Microsoft locate previously inaccessible deposits of oil and gas for Exxon and Chevron.
Generative AI is Degenerative for Our Planet
Everything you need to know about AI and the environment
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Ten ways to resist AI #1: While the environmental consequences of AI are grim, we are not powerless in the face of these behemoths. Across the U.S., communities are rising up against those looming figures in their backyards, unplugging data centers.
In the first instalment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI: A series of AI explainers for the left” I wrote about the catastrophic environmental consequences of AI data centers, both atmospheric and local.
Generative AI is Degenerative for Our Planet
Everything you need to know about AI and the environment
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One way of understanding AI is that it is an intensifier of all things. The efficient processing of information is a potent form of power, currently harnessed by the ruling class of tech billionaires.
I am beyond excited to launch a new series called Ten Reasons to Resist AI: A series of AI explainers for the left. You can read the series intro here! hereandtogether.substack.com/p/ten-reason...
Ten Reasons to Resist AI
A series of AI explainers for the left
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The New School student senate unanimously voted to sanction "Hillel at The New School" following ties to a program which sent students to serve and assist a foreign military, the Israel Defense Forces. Further investigation found multiple potential violations of international law.
New School Student Senate Sanctions Hillel Over Program With Israeli Military
Hillel has come under fire for coordinating programs that send students to Israel to volunteer with the military.
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When ICE began terrorizing entire neighborhoods in the Twin Cities, mutual aid organizers who support unhoused people banded together to respond. Read the full story from Joseph Mogul on The Progressive. progressive.org/magazine/the... #Minneapolis #Activism #Community
The Revolutionary Neighborliness of Minneapolis
When ICE began terrorizing entire neighborhoods in the Twin Cities, mutual aid organizers who support unhoused people banded together to respond.
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Elbit also developed border surveillance systems crucial to the maintenance of Israeli apartheid, and repressive immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border, where the DHS awarded Elbit with $23.9 million to install surveillance towers in 2023.
Elbit Systems supplies the Israeli military with weapons such as MPR 500 bombs, which are specifically designed for “densely populated urban warfare.”
Protestors showered the floor of a Capital One offices in Manhattan with blood stained money, demanding the bank end loans to Elbit Systems, days before a $90 million loan is due to expire. Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, is one of most complicit actors in Israel’s genocide.
Protest Targets Capital One to Demand Bank Ends Loans to Israeli Weapons Company
Activists are urging the bank to not extend additional credit to Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
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Protesters with a coalition of 18 movement organizations block the entrance to Senators Chuck Schumer’s and Kirsten Gillibrand’s offices, chanting: “Fund people, not bombs,” as the Senate is poised to vote on resolutions that would block over $650 million in weapons sales to Israel.
Mass Action Targets Schumer and Gillibrand Ahead of Senate Vote on Israel Aid
The Senate is poised to vote on resolutions that would block over $650 million in weapons sales to Israel.
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In a handful of cities across the United States and Europe, Jewish socialists are reviving a storied early-twentieth-century institution. progressive.org/latest/the-b...
The Bund Is Back
In a handful of cities across the United States and Europe, Jewish socialists are reviving a storied early twentieth century institution.
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So much Bundism. Thanks to Joseph Mogul & @theprogressivemag.bsky.social for letting us share our thoughts and for lifting up the great Bundist organizing happening around the world.
The Bund Is Back
In a handful of cities across the United States and Europe, Jewish socialists are reviving a storied early twentieth century institution.
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After 17 months of campaigning, Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard won its first victory, setting its sights on the future. buff.ly/q1jEj28
Inside the Grassroots Campaign That Pushed a Drone Company Out of Brooklyn
After 17 months of campaigning, Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard won its first victory, setting its sights on the future.
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