@mttaggart Current state of AI Adoption

Just out: 'Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing?' https://berlinergazette.de/resisting-the-techno-fascist-takeover-are-we-ready-for-decomputing/ in which I diagnose DOGE as institutional cyberattack and argue that the way to stop it spreading is to revive an alternative technopolitics.

Bob Vylan coming on after Kneecaps set was not broadcast on BBC.

PSA: Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr., so Scientific American published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new administration.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-vaccine-recommendations-backed-by-science-in-these-handy-charts/

The privileged jackasses who told creatives all along that what we do isn't worth paying for are hoovering it all up without consent and charging for it.

Never let some "learn to code" fuck tell you that your artwork, your writing, your visual storytelling isn't worth a living wage/fair price.

#showyourstripes
#massachusetts
https://showyourstripes.info/

Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting

But the real problem is even dumber

-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes
-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes
-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup
-will it ruin countless organizations who think they're buying their way to cheap labor? That too

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Here’s a maybe unpopular and humorless take: We need more message discipline, less content creation.

Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

"Why are so many children getting Long COVID?"

We pretended COVID is gone. We've avoided masks. We've done nothing to clean the air in classrooms. Very few children are getting vaccinated. We do nothing to change kids' activities to keep them safer during surges.

Yes, it sure is a mystery why so many children are getting Long #COVID19. Get your children vaccinated, opt for more outdoor activities, and ask about ventilation and filtration in your children's classrooms.

https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-so-many-children-getting-long-covid-2080950

Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’”: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/followup-on-trusting-your-own-judgement/

“Providers are no longer going to follow the CDC [vaccination] schedule,” the individual predicted. “The CDC has lost credibility in the vaccination space. … It adds a lot of uncertainty for care for children and adults.”
#vaccines #antivaxxers https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/rfk-jr-fires-every-member-of-cdc-vaccine-expert-panel-acip/

@stux@mstdn.social

I think people should protest, but you may want to be careful what is on your phone. As you may recall, I work for Meta. We're currently spying on people.

We are helping the government to identify people who were in the protest. We are currently helping identify people who want to protest. We are currently helping government agents know where and when protest may happen.

If you have any Facebook apps - Facebook Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, Instagram -- Uninstall the app.

Razorbill print done!

#MastoArt #FediArt #Printmaking #Woodcut

"The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian." #Michigan #Umich #AnnArbor #Education #Academia #Palestine #CityShield #USPol https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand."

"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."

https://themindfile.substack.com/p/against-ai-literacy-have-we-actually

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Do you know someone with extensive experience using PHP as a systems language? Someone who has gardened a petabyte-scale system under high load? Is this person a player/coach engineering manager who enjoys helping other people succeed?

If you do know someone like this, or someone close, I would love to talk to them.

Apply at this link and drop me a line:
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#mosstodon #adirondacks

Against #AILiteracy: have we actually found a way to #ReverseLearning?

Miriam Reynoldson
Apr 19, 2025

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think '#AI literacy' is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

"I don’t like that declaring this will immediately turn off half my audience, but I think it’s only fair to say it up front.

"This has a lot to do with my feelings about generative AI technologies, their developers, their #BloodDiamond genesis, and their ugly consequences for those who use them and those who are impacted by their use.

But it has a lot more to do with what literacy is."

Read more:
https://themindfile.substack.com/p/against-ai-literacy-have-we-actually

#AIColonialism #AISucks #HumanCreativity #NoNukesForAI #WaterIsLife #DumbingUsDown #NoAI #Enshittification #AIPollution #NoisePollution #DataCenters #Terminator #Skynet