Yiannis Kalaitzis
@yianniskalaitzis.bsky.social
Having studied philosophy and political theory, preferring reading than writing, mainly interested in ideology, power, and digital environments.
A Haunting Masterwork From a Writer Who Is Reinventing Fantasy www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/b...
A Haunting Masterwork From a Writer Who Is Reinventing Fantasy (Gift Article)
“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to channel supernatural forces.
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"Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist — slack they may be — these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be." Gerard Manley Hopkins - Carrion Comfort
“The Decline and Fall of the ‘Spectacular’ Commodity-Economy “ dissent.art/sick-planet/
Sick Planet – dissent.art
A Sick Planet — Guy Debord Is racism an environmental threat? — Ghassan Hage The book argues that the classifications and the practices that constitute colonial racism and the practices that have gene...
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AI appears as a symptom in our too late capitalism era. It seems that we already possess all the answers to our problems. The issue is that we are running out of questions...
"AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine
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Not that old article (released in February) with very interesting conclusions... The title gives you the main point. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/
"As they scramble to keep their systems online, AI companies are making things expensive for the rest of us... The problem with generative AI, in the industry’s own jargon, is that it does not scale... By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.''
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
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"The ease with which Jameson moves through discussions of Lyotard and Foucault to Raymond Chandler or Laurie Anderson, often in rapid succession, is remarkable. The vitality of this constant movement is sometimes dizzying." againstthecurrent.org/atc236/fredr...
Fredric Jameson’s Innovative Marxism
Fredric Jameson SINCE HIS DEATH on September 22 of last year at the age of 90, Marxist theorist and cultural critic, Fredric Jameson has been the subject of numerous tributes and remembrances. Arri…
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and here in the north…along with more proposed pipelines😵💫 www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
Meta to build its first $13 billion data centre in Canada
Tech giant Meta announced it will build a massive data centre in central Alberta as it rapidly builds out computing capacity to support the global AI boom.
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The UK AI pushback: 42% of people are deliberately limiting their AI use and 70% of people think it would be difficult or impossible to avoid being exposed to AI even if they wanted to. New report from us at @kings-dfi.bsky.social : www.kcl.ac.uk/news/over-40...
Over 40% of people are limiting AI use, as popularity starts to wane | King's College London
People are increasingly choosing to limit or reject the use of AI tools, according to a new report published today by the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London and Responsible AI UK.
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This might actually become a reality.
1984 Movie: Big Brother Is Watching
ALT: 1984 Movie: Big Brother Is Watching
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404 Media@404media.co · 3mo agoAI lives and dies by its training data. Many of the leading LLMs have already scanned the entire internet and are still hungry for more. Meta’s patented system would give it unprecedented access to the movements, moods, and interactions of its users.
Let us begin by saying that what we mean by “existentialism” is a doctrine that makes human life possible and also affirms that every truth and every action imply an environment and a human subjectivity,’ Sartre tells the audience.
Skye Cleary@skyecleary.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy new essay for @aeon.co out today explores what Sartre got right & wrong about freedom and anguish in a lecture so packed that 30 chairs got broken & 15 people passed out! aeon.co/essays/re-re...
In a life that goes faster and faster, "slow science" is not only a way to survive, but an alternative mode of thinking.
My Ph.D. took a long time—and there’s no shame in that
“If I didn’t have the answer to my research question yet it was because the answer was complex, not because of personal shortcomings,” this scientist writes
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Apart from the electricity consumption, the heat release, now water contamination is an emerging new chapter in data centers’ manual.
Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rar...
The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.
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Sometimes you feel like living on the margins of your own life, not knowing what to do to align yourself with that role.
"in privation, lack is purely and simply in the real, as a real gap or limit. in frustration, lack can only be understood on the imaginary plane, as an imaginary detriment. in castration, there is a fundamental lack that is located, as indebtedness in the symbolic chain."
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3mo agochicago has a brand new third space! it also has a 15 years-and-running circle for experimental critical theory! join us monday the 29th interccect.com/2026/06/01/t...
hard not to love @safiyanoble.bsky.social pca.st/episode/2bbb... brilliant, smooth, funny
Episode 9: Algorithmic Bias, with Safiya Noble
This week, Adam talks with Safiya Noble, professor of social science at UCLA and author of Algorithms of Oppression. They talk about how algorithms reinscribe systemic biases, what a better tech…
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If you want a quick skim of the paper, I also wrote up a short, highly compressed gloss of it. mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-market-i...
Reading "The Market in the Model"
💡Nerd Alert: I have a new pre-print up, called "The Market in the Model." It was written as a preliminary outline of my PhD dissertation, which means it's dense, and this presents a stripped-down vers...
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Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn visual culture & media theory, images from diffusion models are often analyzed through data critique: comparing what's produced to what's ingested. In this pre-print, I propose to look at the digestive system too: the decisions built into the system that automate specific ideologies of seeing.
Excellent video on AI data centers, one of the rare examples of investigative journalism.
We Saw What AI Data Centers Don't Want You to See
YouTube video by PBS Terra
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The Automation of General Intellect: A conversation with Matteo Pasquinelli Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra portolan-journal.org?post=the-aut...
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maybe UN SCIENTISTS will get thru to the "environmental impact is negligible actually" slopboosters "A new investigation by U.N. scientists warns that AI’s water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3B people, power use triple that of population of 650M." www.democracynow.org/2026/6/12/ai...
“New Form of Imperialism”: Renowned U.N. Scientist on AI Boom’s Huge Water, Carbon & Land Footprint
The environmental toll of the artificial intelligence boom continues to mount as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers and enormous amounts of water for cooling. A new investiga...
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