This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...

The Future Is Not Tech-Forward

On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.

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“‘No one cares what causes stock prices to go up as long as stocks go up,’ Horan writes. And since it is ‘far easier to boost stock prices by eliminating competition and exploiting workers and consumers than by developing new technologies,’ innovation declines while predatory extraction rises. +

Edward Ongweso Jr@edwardongwesojr.com · last wk.

This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...

At times I feel that the issue is more that the reactionary right often adequately diagnoses the failures of neoliberalism and then proffers a more extremified neoliberalism as antidote.

Kygosi@kygosi.bsky.social · 3w ago

A venn diagram of what right wingers think is wrong with academia and the real problems facing academia

“The undergraduate social-sciences division will also ban in-class audio or video recording and prohibit faculty members from using generative AI to assist in grading”

U. of Chicago Bans Tech, AI in Social Sciences Core Courses

The new restrictions apply to students and faculty members.

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what does @tonychemero.bsky.social's new book 'Intertwined Creatures' have to offer to the “AI consciousness” debate? here is my take on it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception

A book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: the body.

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Oh. My. God. The book galleys have arrived. And they are GLORIOUS.

The System From Nowhere is a media problem: What (the system) is optimized to do; what training data shapes it; what counts as a valid response: these are mechanisms put in place by human decisions. Good reporting on AI would discuss them. Instead, they “no-sides” it, as if it weren’t designed.

The System From Nowhere

When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i...

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If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...

​Now is the correct time for institutions of higher education to invest in cross-disciplinary centres, institutions, initiatives, and curricula focussed on ethics and artificial intelligence, data and society, humanity and emerging technologies, etc.

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FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last mo.

NVIDIA HAS PARTNERED WITH APOLLO, BLACKROCK, BLACKSTONE, BROOKFIELD, GOLDMAN SACHS AND KKR TO ESTABLISH AI COMPUTE INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING PLATFORMS AIMED AT MOBILIZING OVER $500 BILLION IN THIRD-PARTY CAPITAL.

I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.

Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra

We were wrong about the Uncanny Valley.

nsaphra.net

My contribution to the Diverse Intelligences Workshops at Princeton can be viewed here. I talk about objectivity, induction, AI for science, and the theory-free ideal youtu.be/JXZ4IOekPxI

Mel Andrews - Perspectives on scientific objectivity

YouTube video by Princeton Natural and Artificial Minds

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Templeton World Charity Foundation@templetonworld.bsky.social · 2mo ago

While the primary Diverse Intelligences Summit was hosted at @princeton.edu, the Diverse Intelligences Down Under conference took place at the Minds and Intelligences Research Center at Macquarie University – the Oceania hub for the TWCF Diverse Intelligences (DI) Initiative.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but never in human history have those who burned books been the good guys.

A State dept map misplaced every African country it named. Reuters found a watermark made by OpenAI. x.com/ReutersAfric...

The AI industry is prone to massive, frequent, and intensifying narrative mood swings. Part of this is typical of a boom. But I think it's also intrinsic to the tech itself nymag.com/intelligence...

Updated yesterday's Substack after news broke of Trump's teleprompter making $100k on Kalshi. This administration has certainly set a new low bar for self-dealing, but prediction markets are supercharging anonymous corruption at the highest levels of government. open.substack.com/pub/jonippol...

This is the weirdest request for input that I've seen in a while. It's almost like the ACM is sitting at the table with the "change my mind" sign. So, let's do it. Short thread with the input I gave them:

Association for Computing Machinery@acm.org · 2mo ago

If you would like to share your thoughts, please use this link (buff.ly/fnANR1x). ACM leadership will take your feedback into account while we develop and implement our AI content strategy over the coming months.

“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 444 - June 28th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

This neat site assembles all kinds of ancient OSs (more like window managers) which reminded me of the hyper-obscure one that I learned Desktop computing on, called GeoWorks Ensemble. It pretends to be Windows but if you poke anything it crumbles back into DOS. Glorious. www.typewritten.org/Media/

I posted my History of Games keynote: - A materialist reexamination of the canonical game crises from a developer's POV - Thoughts on the ongoing game industry restructuring - Indiepocalypse, AAApocalypse, deprofessionalization, games at the knitting stage www.molleindustria.org/HistoryOfGam...

A History of Games Through Mass Extinctions

A transcript of Paolo Pedercini’s History of Games Conference keynote (2026).

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As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy

*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...

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The Supreme Court just effectively gutted two key laws for suing tech over human rights abuses, says Tech Justice Law's Madeline Batt. The result in Doe v. Cisco leaves companies and executives "less constrained by liability fears"—and victims with fewer pathways to redress.

Supreme Court Decimates Key Remedies for Tech Complicity in Human Rights Abuse

Following the ruling in Doe v. Cisco, victims are left searching for new pathways to redress, writes Tech Justice Law legal fellow Madeline Batt.

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good piece that quietly undercuts the naive and self-mythologizing narrative these two have been pushing for years

Spencer Kornhaber@skornhaber.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Understanding the case for openmindedness about AI and art took me from Berlin to Venice, from a nightclub to a hypnosis booth to an "upside-down parliament." Here's my profile of Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, the art world's most compelling anti-doomers— www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

So one I would emphasize that these kinds of people talk the same behind closed doors as they do in public. What was, in fact, the striking thing was how much a rich or powerful person talk like they tweet.

Industry is parasitic on academia for research, innovation, and training. The sweeping attacks on academia currently underway in the US are going to gut industry in the years to come. hbr.org/2026/06/the-...

The U.S. Research Talent Pipeline Is in Trouble

Policy shifts, funding instability, and visa uncertainty are causing a sharp decline in the willingness of young scientists trained in the United States to stay in academia—or even remain in the count...

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Today, for the third time in my mother's life and for the second in my own life, we lost a home due to it being bombed by the Israeli army.

"I would position AI as a post-enlightenment project. Stripped of an enlightenment telos and shorn of its commitment to absolute knowledge, what remains is a logocentric husk which reveals a distinct mode of explanation that stubbornly resists universalisation." @cavvia.bsky.social just brilliant.

great article about the failure of the US media chomping at the bit and believing every single piece of bullshit said by CEOs and the billionaire class

"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism

"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

karlbode.com

New US Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows: Pentagon used untested missiles in combat in deadly attack that struck civilian sites near military compound, according to visual evidence examined by The Times and weapons experts. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

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