Porous Agitator · @kropotomaton
1 followers · 14 posts · Server kolektiva.socialHere's an idea: turn off all the large language models that exist right now because it's a waste of resources and time. They use way more energy than a simple Internet search. Just have it respond to every query with "That's a great question, but what about the looming climate disaster or the ever increasing threat of nuclear war?"
I think about the Thoreau quote "Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at."
Reflect on that for just a minute.
#criticaltech #largelanguagemodel #ai #chatgpt #resist #refuse #luddite #neoLuddism
#criticaltech #largelanguagemodel #ai #chatgpt #resist #refuse #luddite #neoluddism
Charles Logan · @charleswlogan
235 followers · 91 posts · Server mastodon.socialNew article of interest to #LearningSciences, #ScienceEd, #CriticalTech, #Design: "Jamming power: Youth agency and community-driven science in a critical technology learning program" by Dr. Sepehr Vakil, Ally Reith, and Natalie Araujo Melo.
Paywalled :( at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/tea.21843
And for more on the Young People's Race, Power, and Technology Project, visit: https://tree.northwestern.edu/projects/yprpt
#learningsciences #ScienceEd #criticaltech #design
Andrew Burrell · @ab
92 followers · 26 posts · Server aus.social
Documentation from the spoken word, slide performance at the "Visualising the Invisible" symposium recently.
cf: https://andrewburrell.net/blog/what-raven-saw-an-overground-understory for an initial framing of this series.
#machinelearning #speculativefiction #speculativedesign #climatechange #environment #designresearch #digitalhumanities #Worldbuilding #newmediaart #morethanhuman #criticaltech
#machinelearning #speculativefiction #speculativedesign #climatechange #environment #designresearch #digitalhumanities #worldbuilding #newmediaart #moreThanHuman #criticaltech
phatcontroller · @phatcontroller
537 followers · 177 posts · Server mastodon.social
Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy? The Death Match of Institutional Orders and the Politics of Knowledge
#Surveillance #democrscy #digitslrights #technopolitics #criticaltech #tech
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26317877221129290?s=09
#surveillance #democrscy #digitslrights #technopolitics #criticaltech #tech
phatcontroller · @phatcontroller
533 followers · 174 posts · Server mastodon.socialBias isn't the only problem with credit scores and no, AI can't help. The biggest-ever study of real people’s mortgage data shows that predictive tools used to approve or reject loans are less accurate for minorities. #surveillance #criticalAI #AIethics #digitalrights #digitaljustice #predictiveanalytics #criticaltech #technopolitics #criticaldatastudies
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/17/1026519/racial-bias-noisy-data-credit-scores-mortgage-loans-fairness-machine-learning/?s=09
#surveillance #criticalAI #aiethics #digitalrights #digitaljustice #predictiveanalytics #criticaltech #technopolitics #criticaldatastudies
phatcontroller · @phatcontroller
520 followers · 171 posts · Server mastodon.socialWhat other #digitalrights orgs are now here on Mastodon? So far I am seeing @eff @APC @awo @EngageMedia @citizenlab @digitalrights @privacyint @Privacymatters @privacylab @CriticalAI @criticaldatalab @digitalfreedomfund @DAIR @torproject @signalapp Who else is focused on #techopolitics #criticaltech #ict4d #digitalrights #surveillance #disinformation #onlinegbv #hatespeech ?
#digitalrights #techopolitics #criticaltech #ict4d #surveillance #disinformation #onlinegbv #hatespeech
Virginia Eubanks · @VirginiaEubanks
1052 followers · 25 posts · Server newsie.social
"ID.me Overstated Jobless Fraud to Win Contracts, House Finds,"
via Bloomberg.
"At least 25 state agencies collectively spent nearly $45 million on [ID.me]’s facial recognition technology, according to the [Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis], even though the software potentially blocked 'hundreds of thousands' of unemployed Americans from receiving federal help."
#TechnoPolitics #CriticalTech #unemployment #FacialRecognition @DAIR
#technopolitics #criticaltech #unemployment #facialrecognition
Nathan Rambukkana · @N_Rambukkana
36 followers · 27 posts · Server mastodon.socialOkay, here's hashtag #introduction: #digitalintimacies #platformintimacies #platformstudies #platformcapitalism #platforms #criticalintimacystudies #intimacy #spaceintimacies #spaceexploration #queertheory #sexualitystudies #criticalracetheory #intersectionality #nonmonogamy #polyamory #STS #criticaltech #robots #AI #machinelearning #algorithms #fandom #MAR #discourseanalysis #culturalstudies #gamestudies #criticalgamestudies #communicationstudies #twittermigration #aoir #cca #cacs #cjc #topia
#introduction #digitalintimacies #platformintimacies #platformstudies #platformcapitalism #platforms #criticalintimacystudies #intimacy #spaceintimacies #spaceexploration #queertheory #sexualitystudies #criticalracetheory #intersectionality #nonmonogamy #polyamory #sts #criticaltech #robots #ai #machinelearning #algorithms #fandom #mar #DiscourseAnalysis #culturalstudies #gamestudies #criticalgamestudies #communicationstudies #twittermigration #aoir #cca #cacs #cjc #topia
phatcontroller · @phatcontroller
498 followers · 168 posts · Server mastodon.socialIf you are wondering who to follow on #digitalrights #STS #technopolitics #ict4d #criticaltech #tech #digitaltheory #twittermigration then allow me to suggest @zararah @abebab @madianou @mariafarrell @nanjala @safiyanoble @VirginiaEubanks @ethanz @jilliancyork @danmcquillan @alex @timnitGebru @rachelcoldicutt @nandoodles @surliminal @ubiquity75
#digitalrights #sts #technopolitics #ict4d #criticaltech #tech #digitaltheory #twittermigration
Annie Ring · @anrah
33 followers · 5 posts · Server mastodon.socialI've written an essay with my colleague Emily Baker about whether the pandemic lockdowns made us all into cyborgs 🤖🤖
It's in this book, Lockdown Cultures (edited by Bruzzi and Biriotti), which can be downloaded free. Our piece is on p. 58
#pandemic #culture #haraway #AI #criticaltech #feminism
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/ro_homepage_products/products/206915
#pandemic #culture #haraway #ai #criticaltech #feminism
Dan Kotliar · @dankotliar
229 followers · 8 posts · Server mastodon.social#criticalalgorithmstudies #criticaldatastudies #datafication #culturalsociology #STS #AIethics #microbiome #criticaltech #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #qualitativeresearch #ethnography #sociology
#criticalalgorithmstudies #criticaldatastudies #datafication #CulturalSociology #sts #aiethics #microbiome #criticaltech #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #qualitativeresearch #ethnography #sociology
Andrew Burrell · @ab
54 followers · 13 posts · Server aus.social
co-imagined transitional Diprotodon.
#machineLearning #speculativeFiction #speculativeDesign #climateChange #environment #designResearch #digitalHumanities #WorldBuilding #newMediaArt #moreThanHuman #criticalTech
#machinelearning #speculativefiction #speculativedesign #climatechange #environment #designresearch #digitalhumanities #worldbuilding #newmediaart #moreThanHuman #criticaltech
Leonardo Fabián Sai · @leonardosai
16 followers · 34 posts · Server red.niboe.info
"La actualidad del ensayo es la actualidad de aquello anacrónico. Los tiempos le son más adversos que nunca. Se encuentra aniquilado entre una ciencia organizada donde todos creen controlar todo y a todo el mundo... y una filosofía que se contenta con lo demás vacío y abstracto que la actividad científica le deja...".
El ensayo como forma, Theodor Adorno.
Lo podés leer en Revista Espectros
www.espectros.com.ar
#sociología #theory #critica #criticaltech
#sociología #theory #critica #criticaltech
Andrew Burrell · @ab
54 followers · 13 posts · Server aus.social
Trailer for the spoken word / slide performance of "What Raven Saw [an] overGround:underStory". Performed under the 48:9 screen at UTS Central (Broadway, Sydney) for the School of Design's, Visual Knowledges research group's- " Visualising the Invisible: Image making in climate communication symposium".
The visuals depict an excerpt from the performance exploring co-imagined (with a machine learning diffusion model) unremembered transitory forms of now-recognisable species.
(cf., https://andrewburrell.net/blog/what-raven-saw-visualising-the-invisible )
#machinelearning #speculativefiction #speculativedesign #climatechange #environment #designresearch #digitalhumanities #Worldbuilding #newmediaart #morethanhuman #criticaltech
#machinelearning #speculativefiction #speculativedesign #climatechange #environment #designresearch #digitalhumanities #worldbuilding #newmediaart #moreThanHuman #criticaltech
Meryl Alper · @meryl
222 followers · 45 posts · Server mastodon.social
Final proofs submitted for KIDS ACROSS THE SPECTRUMS: GROWING UP AUTISTIC IN THE DIGITAL AGE, coming out Fall 2023 with MIT Press! Excited to highlight #ActuallyAutistic young people (and some parents) with diverse racial/ethnic/gender backgrounds, talking about the role of media/tech in their daily lives, and how the social study of technology more broadly can benefit from their insights on what it means to "be social" in a hypermediated age.
#actuallyautistic #disability #criticaltech #commodon #sts #sociology
phatcontroller · @phatcontroller
312 followers · 81 posts · Server mastodon.socialIf like me you are new here but over there you followed #civictech #tech4dev #ict4d #criticaldata #technopolitics #STS #digitalrights #disinfo #surveillance #criticaltech #surveillancecapitalism then do yourself a favour and follow these folk plus the people that they follow: @emmalbriant @emilymbender @eff @downey @kharijohnson @abebab @profcarroll @emax @ubiquity75 @sarahjamielewis @atg_dbp @anands @madianou @alex @axz @billt @aral @Niloufar @glynmoody @shiwali @fsf @ooni @torproject
#civictech #tech4dev #ict4d #criticaldata #technopolitics #sts #digitalrights #disinfo #surveillance #criticaltech #surveillancecapitalism
katta · @katta
364 followers · 26 posts · Server hci.social
The city of Vienna gave me an award. Wheee! https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2314 #tuwien #HCI #criticalTech
Tamara Kneese · @tamigraph
736 followers · 397 posts · Server mastodon.socialHi there! I never formally introduced myself here. I’m a media studies + feminist STS scholar who writes about the mortality and afterlives of people and technologies. Most of my work focuses on histories and cultures of platform labor and user/worker resistance to Big Tech. I live in Oakland and work for a tech company, where I research green software and open source communities #introductions #twittermigration #criticaltech #mediastudies #STS #academic #platforms #deathstudies #laborstudies
#introductions #twittermigration #criticaltech #mediastudies #sts #academic #platforms #deathstudies #laborstudies
phatcontroller · @phatcontroller
312 followers · 81 posts · Server mastodon.socialIt can take a while to build a feed for #criticaltech #STS #ICT4D #tech #techpolitics #digitalrights #disinformation #surveillance
My tip is to follow @ruha9 @FrankPasquale @SallyWyatt @APLKadiri @infini @nanjala @JKrueckeberg @parismarx @RobynCaplan @stevesong @zararah @jilliancyork @gleemie @meowtree @ethanz @zephoria @missiggeek @ubiquity75 @histoftech @mariafarrell @cjcolclough @TimnitGebru @cyberlyra @hypervisible @re_vbrakel @reclaimyourface @cgfoz
#criticaltech #sts #ict4d #tech #techpolitics #digitalrights #disinformation #surveillance