If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

Anxiety

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

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Falsifying data in a statistical analysis is a fireable offence, but erasing women from the scientific record is business as usual olivia.science/cryptogyny/

Cryptogyny

On the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions.

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Weimer‘s Feldzug gegen freie, unabhängige Kunst und Kultur geht weiter.

Also AI with all its pollution causes cancer almost definitely Also see: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 5mo ago

Yes! Source is also why tobacco companies hide their continued (so-called) scientific contributions to cancer research and source is why their research is banned in journals "The AI and generally the technology industry is no different. Why should they be?" olivia.science/before/

This is *absolutely* bananas; the wildest (not complimentary) thing you'll read about education today. And the names in the story (both real and fake) are amazing.

Kevin Carey@kevincarey1.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ Important new investigative report from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social about "Maestro," advertised as "the AI University" on TikTok, that turns out to be a chatbot bolted onto a failing for-profit business school in order to illegally harvest Pell grants. www.newamerica.org/insights/the...

Duckduckgo even having an AI is so disappointing

Pause AI in BC Schools@aicaution.ca · last mo.

There are subreddits dedicated to "poisoning" AI, making it produce inaccurate results. It might seem trivial to block sites like this from training data, but what about sites that do it more subtly? tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/...

I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems. And today I learn it's happening *in my own city* www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Short 🧵>>

Seattle uses AI to help triage, divert 911 medical calls

The Seattle Fire Department started using AI technology during live 911 calls in 2023. There hasn't been any public review process.

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Women: if you think men have a poor understanding of female anatomy, just you wait until AI replaces your gynecologist. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

After Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson stoked anger over a horrific knife attack in Belfast, a youth group linked to a global neo-Nazi movement quietly orchestrated anti-immigrant riots. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

A White Supremacist Youth Group Helped Orchestrate the Belfast Riots

After Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson stoked anger over a horrific knife attack in Belfast, a youth group linked to a global neo-Nazi movement quietly orchestrated anti-immigrant riots.

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✉️En este episodio de Asalto analizamos la carta del papa sobre inteligencia artificial de la mano de dos expertos en tecnología, Ekaitz Cancela y Lorena Jaume Palasí.

Podcast | Anthropic, ciberguerra y lo que el papa no ha escrito en su carta sobre la inteligencia artificial

En este episodio de Asalto analizamos la carta del papa sobre inteligencia artificial de la mano de dos expertos en tecnología, Ekaitz Cancela y Lorena Jaume Palasí.

elsal.to

La encíclica del papa sobre la inteligencia artificial ha sido vista como un destello de luz, pero no os preocupéis, que ya estamos nosotros para bajar el suflé en el Asalto de esta semana. Con Lorena Jaume-Palasí y Ekaitz Cancela. elsal.to/48340

Podcast | Anthropic, ciberguerra y lo que el papa no ha escrito en su carta sobre la inteligencia artificial

En este episodio de Asalto analizamos la carta del papa sobre inteligencia artificial de la mano de dos expertos en tecnología, Ekaitz Cancela y Lorena Jaume Palasí.

elsal.to

FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery. Depraved. amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

These should be known as “Langley arrests.”

A Flock license plate reader linked a San Diego man to a violent crime. He was five miles away.

A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit, after San Diego Police misinterpreted a hit from a license plate reader.

timesofsandiego.com

“They said Anthropic disclosed it wants 5 gigawatts of new compute to help train its AI models by 2030 with a longer-term goal of 20 gigawatts – something that would significantly increase Australia's annual electricity generation.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

As big tech heads Down Under, some fear Australia risks giving up control

The world's biggest tech titans see Australia as a promising investment opportunity for their AI ambitions, but some fear the federal government's regulatory retreat could cause more harm.

abc.net.au

we can put the genie back in bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

2. the strange but often repeated cultish mantra that we need to "embrace the future" — this is so bizarre given, e.g. how destructive industry forces have proven to be in science, from petroleum to tobacco to pharmaceutical companies. (Section 3.2 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 4/n

Schadenfreude arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.

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Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Sam Altman wants an actual license to kill you. This bill: the "Artificial Intelligence Safety Act"😒 would give companies like OpenAI immunity for mass murder including nuclear, biological, and radiological attacks assisted by their bots. youtu.be/34bMvXOQfEM

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

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If you mean GOFAI: yes, so like basic programming. Automate away. Fabulous. If you mean AI like an LLM: no, it will get people killed. It's not able to do anything with basic guarantees and will do things like get people of colour and women killed by removing them from the list, for example.

The Rolling Stones makes a hero of the pope. So marvel, so Disney, so white. Fuck that. It's all about communities. We all stand on the shoulders of a lot of people. And the Vatican stands on the shoulders of a lot of historical crimes that haven't been *fully acknowledged* and *repaired* yet!

Tolkien was a racist, quoting him isn’t a flex at all

Well, with this official Vatican + Anthropic mandate, I guess it was only a matter of time when the religion of effective altruism, worshipping so-called artificial general intelligence, merged with entrenched religious institutions.

El Papa León XIV ha elegido a Anthropic como su interlocutor del mundo de la IA, creyendo que es más ética que OpenAI o Palantir 🤦 No sorprende que la Iglesia Católica elija a la empresa que compra libros físicos para digitalizarlos, entrenar su IA y luego DESTRUIRLOS 🤨 futurism.com/future-socie...

Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal

Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

futurism.com

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

Well, with this official Vatican + Anthropic mandate, I guess it was only a matter of time when the religion of effective altruism, worshipping so-called artificial general intelligence, merged with entrenched religious institutions.

Did y'all know that the Vatican has a venture capital arm that invests in "AI"?

Yeah and like idc about no apology for slavery unless they're accompanied by reparations from the vatican specifically

Lorena Jaume-Palasí@lopalasi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And can the Vatican be transparent about how their total assets have been growing *so rapidly*? 2020 total assets were "2,2 billion eur", 2021 "3,9 billion eur" www.omnesmag.com/en/news/apsa... and according to IOR last report 2024= 5,7 billions eur en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu...

„AI needs to be disarmed“ doesn’t make any sense at all. These are computational infrastructures. Infrastructures have a defense duality in its core. They can be militarized anytime. They create both dependencies and thus vulnerabilities.This is why they should be questioned instead of normalized

Enjoy youtu.be/DRn3-MN92H4 @acollierastro.bsky.social is great

humanoid robots belong in the trash

YouTube video by Angela Collier

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On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org