Question: did the EU AI Act mention any aspect of AI's environmental and climate impacts?

Generative AI should be called Normative AI, as all it's doing is an endless rearrangement of elements according to the statistical norms it has learned from its training data. AI is the sedimentation of the status quo.

Momentarily weirded out by finding some neo-Malthusian comments in the intro to Haraway's 'Staying With The Trouble'. Am I misunderstanding it?

Updated with recent encampments Edinburgh Justice for Palestine (Edinburgh), Oxford Action for Palestine (Oxford) and Cambridge for Palestine (Cambridge).

#OtD 5 May 1970 100,000s of university students in the US walked out on a nationwide student strike against the Vietnam war and in protest at the killing of four students at Kent State by troops the previous day. Learn more in our podcast series: workingclasshistory.com/tag/vietnam-wa…

Generative AI should be called Normative AI, as all it's doing is an endless rearrangement of elements according to the statistical norms it has learned from its training data. AI is the sedimentation of the status quo.

I can get behind this statement from the German Computer Scientists Forum for Peace and Social Responsibility calling for 'the practice of targeted killing with supporting AI systems to be classified as a war crime'. Original statement [de] blog.fiff.de/warnung-senkun…

📍arrests underway at Sciences Po Paris

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Hundreds of protesters have blocked an attempt to collect asylum seekers from a #London hotel and take them to the Bibby Stockholm barge:
Arrests were made as police waded into the crowd blocking the road near a Best Western hotel in Peckham
theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

#OtD 2 May 1968 4000 workers in the Hamtramck auto plant in Detroit walked out against speedup. Several Black strikers met in a bar opposite and founded the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement to organise Black workers. More in our podcast on the group: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-th…

BREAKING: University College London (UCL) has begun an encampment on campus for Gaza.

UCL is the alma mater of the late poet and academic Refaat Alareer.

Key demands from students include divesting from “Israeli war crimes” and pledge to rebuild Gaza’s universities.

This is exactly the boundary drawing & exclusionary logic at the heart of deep learning, whose unfolding social impacts I explore in detail in 'Resisting AI'. As things stand, the Labour Party's commitment to AI will usher in intensified forms of algorithmic violence.

A decade ago we pushed back on the use of key cards at universities, especially for the kind managed through a central database. It was for privacy, labor rights and the limitation of executive control over the use of campus facilities. And, here we are.

Protestors have still blocked the entrances to the Department for Business and Trade. Activists saying building has been completely shut down.

Waiting for confirmation from DBT

Protests are also in support of civil servants who work for the Department of Business and Trade and requested to “cease work immediately” on arms licenses to Israel over fears they will be complicit in war crimes in Gaza.

BREAKING: Hundreds of workers have blocked the entrances to the Department for Business and Trade to oppose the UK’s continued arms sales to Israel.

Chignin: attack against Tesla anarchistfederation.net/chignin-savoie…
'And for the techno-bourgeois to get around peacefully, tapping away all day on their smartphones, the others have to massacre each other, because technology doesn’t just fall from the sky: wars are fought for it, and with it'

'Taking as our object of study the co-constitution of the social & technical allows us to make sense of how the operations known as AI can coagulate already-circulating micro-fascisms because it can ‘do’ states of exception, transformative violence & essentialised othering.'

'The molecular flux of lived identity is not simply made mathematically tractable by AI but essentialised into a machinic identitarianism that prepares the way for eugenic logics of eliminationism, filtered through systems of ranking and optimisation.'