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Runette Kruger

@runettekruger.bsky.social

Distopia. the Undercommons. Researching Liberatory SpaceTime. Autistic.

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Lea Fink@strassenverlauf.bsky.social · 5d ago

Gerda Taro, geboren als Gerta Pohorylle am 1. August 1910 in Stuttgart, musste - als Jüdin und Sozialistin verfolgt - 1933 nach Frankreich fliehen. Nach dem Militärputsch 1936 ging sie nach Spanien und fotografierte mit Robert Capa den Spanischen Bürgerkrieg. 🧵

Woman training for a Republican militia in Spain, August 1936. Foto zeigt eine Frau fast als Silhouette im Profil gegen den grauen Himmel. Sie kniet bzw. richtet sich auf und zielt mit einer Pistole. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

Runette Kruger@runettekruger.bsky.social · last mo.

My paper titled "When the revolution comes, tell them it was craft: A sociopolitical critique of AI" has dropped. Because fomenting revolution and critiquing AI can never cease, you may find it here journals.co.za/doi/full/10.... I'll post the open source link soon. 🥊

When the revolution comes, tell them it was craft: A sociopolitical critique of AI | Image & Text : a Journal for Design

In this essay, I aim to explore artificial intelligence from a sociocultural and sociopolitical perspective within the context of visual culture. In “The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility” (1936), philosopher and cultural critic ...

journals.co.za

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Protests in Albania grow over Jared Kushner-backed luxury resort

Protests in Albania grow over Jared Kushner-backed luxury resort

Conservation groups say work has begun in protected coastal area, while prime minister insists project will bring jobs and investment Protests in Albania over a proposed luxury resort backed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are set to intensify after opponents rejected an offer from the country’s prime minister “to discuss solutions”. Thousands took to the streets of Tirana for a third straight day on Wednesday, some of them brandishing inflatable flamingos in a nod to feared environmental damage, amid mounting calls for the project to be blocked. Continue reading...

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