Investigating The #KillCloud brings together the research fellows of the #DisruptionNetworkInstitute and international experts investigating the impact of artificial intelligence on new technologies of war, automated weapons and networked warfare. 29 November - 1 December 2024 in Berlin & online. Learn more and get tickets now: https://dnlb.org/34.
Dr Matt سپهر Mahmoudi
📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks Head of the Silicon Valley Initiative @AmnestyTech. Assistant Professor @camdighum Views=own
A big thanks to Naomi Schneider and the team at University of California Press for their championship of this! More on the book soon
I am now speeding ahead towards a Feb ‘25 publication of ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’! 🙏🏽
If you’re interested in the ways in which Silicon Valley logics are bringing violent borders closer to cities, in service of racial capital, this one is for you 👇🏽
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/migrants-in-the-digital-periphery/paper
Head over to Inquest for @ruha9 stunning opening for #Resisting #Borders+#Tech
“these advancements scale #colonial efforts of times past to enclose and condemn communities to a life of performing free labor and generating value or capital”
We're hosting an online launch with our incredible contributors, @ruha9, @marwasf, J. Carlos Lara Gálvez, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Feb 15th, 7 PM GMT/2 PM ET, and you don't want to miss out on this one! 🔥 Indebted to these phenomenal thinkers
With advance copies in hand+severe disbelief, Mizue, Coline, and my dorky self invite you to check out our edited volume with @haymarketbooks https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2094-resisting-borders-and-technologies-of-violence
– in it we dialogue with activists across ponds who are chipping away at borders and their tech manifestations ✊🏽
In which @daminis@ohai.social and I join forces in an Avengers-level team-up ... to discuss where the AI discourse falls short, and why we should be asking whether certain tools should even be built, the policies they mask, and the rights they violate.
I'm reaching the end of the road on submitting a full draft... Any advice on last minute do's and don'ts from fellow travellers? 🙏🏽 #Academia #Publishing #Manuscript #CriticalRace #Migration #RacialCapitalism
Dr Matt سپهر Mahmoudi boosted:
Oh. my. god.
Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.
This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.
#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.
Using Amazon's #Rekognition technology, #Spotlight use the moralising narrative of humanitarian uses to extend #carceral networks, putting marginalised consenting #sexworkers at-large (and their networks) at further risk, while expanding policing powers. The excuse is stopping child trafficking, but the practical applications show an expansion of the hostile terrain–featuring tech-augmented police harassment–that endangers folx in the first place. Sarah is one of many.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/12/09/amazon-ashton-kutcher-sex-work-surveillance/
Look who I found chilling on a shelf with Ta-Nahisi Coates and Angela Davis at @Boghallen@twitter.com in Copenhagen, @alim1213@twitter.com 👀🔥
'Similarly, the role of private industry in research funding raises questions about the subtle and pernicious ways in which corporations exert pressure over academic work, even when funding is formally described as ‘no strings attached’. This. x1000.
Volume here: https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/EconomiesofVirtueINC2022TOD46-2.pdf
Just a @C___CS@twitter.com out here doing it again, with @farbandish@twitter.com, including reflections and dilemmas that will be far too relatable to a lot of us, and remain yet unspoken. A must read!
RT @C___CS@twitter.com
What does it mean for junior scholars to work in the heavily industry funded field of "AI Ethics"? - @farbandish@twitter.com & I draw from our PhD experiences to detail tricky choices, no-win situations, and friendship & feminist refusal as ways forward in this new paper.
Thank you, Etienne! And right back at ya! 🙏🏽🙏🏽@tek @yuan@techhub.social @lisa_dittmer @hypatia@octodon.social @casilli @spideralex @jasonli @mallory @lexis @daminis@ohai.social @U039b
Dr Matt سپهر Mahmoudi boosted:
The flight of NASA's Artemis (purple) uses two very close encounters with the moon's gravity (green) to changes its trajectory to get back to the earth (blue.) Amazing.
More details: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1
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musk fuckin up in public and crypto just absolutely tanking and self-driving cars clearly never coming together and "da metaverse" being its whole entire deal has me hopeful that fatuous tech futurism may be finally on the out. Maybe this can be replaced with envisioning a future worth living in
Dr Matt سپهر Mahmoudi boosted:
Hey new people and those thinking of joining, you do NOT need to sign up on huge servers!
You can follow and interact with people on any server from any server, the servers are connected.
It would really, really help the network right now if you could sign up on medium or small size servers. You will still be able to follow and interact with whoever you want, and the network as a whole will work much better.
A good safe place for beginners to find servers to join is https://joinmastodon.org/servers
This 👇🏽
RT @AlinaUtrata@twitter.com
I think that, of the tech companies, in the next 5 years, Facebook, Twitter and potentially Google may not be here (or at least exist in the way that we think of them now; FB as a video game company, for example).
But Amazon will.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata/status/1591036963200860161
In disbelief to share that I’ve signed a book contract (and am ecstatic to work with) @NaomiUCPress@twitter.com @ucpress@twitter.com to bring to life, ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control’. Huge tnx to @gdenyerwillis@twitter.com @alim1213@twitter.com and @DrEllaMcPherson@twitter.com 4 support and mentoring!!
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I don’t know how mastadon will develop but one of the things I like about it is that it feels like we can contribute something to change course or add to the features/type of community we want. I hope these aren’t famous last words 😂
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