#AIpsychosis - this is whats driving our elites insane keanbirch.net?p=459

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Suresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/

#Assetization of #football - the #fifa debacle

surfdude29@surfdude29.ispost.ing · 5d ago

Gianni Infantino's senior adviser Carlos Cordeiro has quit in protest at FIFA's proposal with alt text 💫

Is the current #Odyssey argument that Odysseus was the Sea Peoples? Causing the late Bronze Age collapse

A massive giveaway from Carney to Big Tech. Elbows up to punch yourself in the face, I guess. www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/b...

BREAKING: Ottawa to scrap all contribution requirements for U.S. streamers - The Wire Report

In a recent letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, the government outlined its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding to repl...

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FINALLY!!!!

Gerald@xedregulus.bsky.social · last wk.

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social Looks like the CBC picked-up on the Shopify story, finally. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The first article of the Silicon Valley special issue I’m editing is out! @mrshoward.bsky.social shows how contrarianism isn’t genuine dissent but a performative strategy rooted in venture capital. The piece develops negative mimesis, how dissent is aestheticized, repackaged & stripped of politics.

i feel like shopify would have a worse reputation if tobi was interfering in US politics instead of canadian politics

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

The whole #AIbubble is an effect of investors convincing enough #elites that #genAI is a revolutionary technology - it has nothing to do with the technology itself (basically, tech = finance)

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

From the perspective of a cynical AI investor, the question isn't, "Can AI do your job?" The question is, "Can an AI salesman convince your boss that an AI can do your job?" 23/

Lucky me! #Google offers to boost my "creativity" with #genAI .... 🤔

This is quite an extraordinarily bad take on science by #Trump administration - at one point it basically argues for turning science into a tradable commodity & using wisdom on the crowds to decide on science funding (not peer review which is biased 🤷‍♂️)

Lisa Messeri@lmesseri.bsky.social · 2w ago

For no good reason, i'm reading this report closer than anyone should (it is not serious). Proven by the invocation of "scientific officialdom" to mount a greivance about school closings during COVID. but b/c i am reading this report (again! no one should! it's not serious!), AMA.

This is a great editorial, and I’m really happy to be part of this forum. Thanks for bringing us all together, Kean!

Kean Birch@keanbirch.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Science as Culture" (@sciasculture.bsky.social) has a new special issue on #TechOligarchy - you can find my introduction here and the rest of the papers under "Latest" articles || #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Science as Culture" (@sciasculture.bsky.social) has a new special issue on #TechOligarchy - you can find my introduction here and the rest of the papers under "Latest" articles || #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tech oligarchy

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Just out! My introduction to a new special issue in @sciasculture.bsky.social on "Tech Oligarchy" - go check it out and the papers in the special issue (under "Latest" articles) #techoligarchy #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tech oligarchy

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📢 Another interesting addition to the Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 The article "Brazil’s supreme court on content moderation: national sovereignty versus tech oligarchy," by @jamesfitz2.bsky.social, Carlos Eduardo Barros, Debora S., and Rose Marie Santini is now available! 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Brazil’s supreme court on content moderation: national sovereignty versus tech oligarchy

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Toronto's apocalyptic sky - this is midday

The lie (or delusion) that is carbon capture & storage #canada #cdnpolicy

WPGChief@wpgchief.bsky.social · 3w ago

From projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

Just out w/ @jacobhell.bsky.social - "Cloud assets and the “unit of compute”: Market dominance in commercial computing" #assetization #cloudcomputing #datacentres #bigtech || journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Think this says a lot about #generativeAI bubble

Nils Gilman@nilsgilman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Only in the U.S. are there people needing to justify spending $5,000,000,000,000 on AI capex this decade — which does require a pretty wild narrative.

More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt, authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenka, a man who is often called "the last Soviet dictator." 1/

‘Literally growing the future’: volunteers help save Scottish rainforest by collecting 11m seeds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carney Under the Sway of the Broligarchs thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Carney Under the Sway of the Broligarchs | The Tyee

Build Canada’s advocates are wealthy, aggressively pro-tech and piling up wins in Ottawa. First in a series.

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After SpaceX’s huge IPO, Americans’ financial future will be bound to AI

They’re about to get more AI rammed down their throats, stuck into their pension plans and investment portfolios

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Is #artificialintelligence profitable yet? Go check it out! isaiprofitable.com

A new opening in our department. If this is something you would consider and have questions, please get in touch! www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-o...

📢 Forum on Tech Oligarchy welcomes a new piece! 📜 "Tech-oligarchic visions of automated science: lessons from Franz Neumann’s Behemoth," by Frank Söderberg. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

#Assetization of football players, sounds super interesting

Bristol University Press@brisunipress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Assetization transforms workers into income-generating assets, reshaping employment, shifting financial risks onto labour, and blurring the boundary between people and the value extracted from them. https://ow.ly/wYkO50YVY9k

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Carney assures Canadians that AI the fastest way to give all our money to US billionaires

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark has unveiled his new federal AI strategy, promising Canadians that artificial intelligence technology is the most advanced, efficient way to surrender all of our collectiv...

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This sounds great for people doing work on #assetization

Philipp Golka@pgolka.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Incredibly happy and relieved that our special issue Asset Struggles co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social is now accepted for publication at NPE! More on the issue soon. For now: a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has been involved in this over the past few years – you are the best!

This is a pretty awesome graph - uselessness of #GenAI

Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please enjoy this graph from a FT article explaining that AI hasn’t added any value (no, debt and circular investment isn’t value) It has produced More Stuff, it’s just the Stuff isn’t useable or fixable. Welcome to the age of everyone making apps no one uses

📣New article! 📄Our latest Forum on Tech Oligarchy article examines the mechanisms through which tech oligarchy takes shape in the field of urban mobility in China. "Tech oligarchy and urban mobility in China: the case of DiDi," by @taoyue.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Tech oligarchy and urban mobility in China: the case of DiDi

Taking DiDi Chuxing as its case, this Forum Article examines the mechanisms through which tech oligarchy takes shape in the field of urban mobility in China. Through a digital analysis of DiDi’s pl...

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