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We cannot forget the ways Big Tech will gladly jump in to support violence against our communities. Kairos’ senior campaigner on AI, Irna, said it best: “Ultimately, ICE is using cloud technology and AI to centralize power.”
Read the piece: www.techpolicy.press/how-ice-uses...
Big Tech is pitching AI as a climate savior—but this narrative hides the real environmental costs like data center pollution & regulatory erosion. Join us and @stand.earth for a discussion on real solutions for climate justice: stand-earth.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join @kairosfellows.bsky.social for “Magical Thinking and Greenwashing: Big Tech’s AI Takeover” on 24 Sept. Learn how tech giants are attempting to spin AI as a climate solution, while ignoring how it enables fossil fuel companies to increase extraction.
Today Amazon released its “Sustainability” report. Predictably, what it leaves out is vastly more important than what it says.
Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.
And check out the Guardian exclusive too
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Today, we published a new report. “Google’s Eco-failures” goes deep into the appendices of Google’s environmental report to bring you the truth about their skyrocketing emissions and speculative investments.
Read more here: noclimateresultsfound.com/report/
Users are choosing to pack their digital bags, but how do you know when it's time to go? And what steps do you need to take, especially if you organize a digital community? Our Digital Go Bag has everything you need to get started. www.kairosfellows.org/digitalgobag
We are witnessing the standards of our major social platforms be negatively altered like never before. Meta gutted fact checking. Meanwhile, X is overrun with disinformation, and TikTok is always teetering on the edge of existence in the U.S.
Big Tech's data centers have real impact: increased electricity prices, power outages, staggering cancer and asthma rates, fewer tax dollars for our schools, and even scarcer water availability in desert communities. Want to know how to fight back? Join us:
bit.ly/MJ_WTF_Series
Big Tech has been defrauding the public to rapidly expand data center construction across the U.S., to generate immense computing power for its hungry AI systems and cryptocurrency. WTF are data centers? RSVP to find out next week with our friends at Media Justice: bit.ly/MJ_WTF_Series
This webinar is part of our ongoing biweekly education series, “WTF: The Rise of the Tech Broligarchy,” aimed to expose and resist the agenda of the Big Tech executives in Trump’s first 100 days.
You can watch our four previous sessions on our YouTube playlist:
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We'll break down:
📈 Who and what is behind the exponential expansion of data centers
🏗️ How Tech Broligarchs are using public resources to fuel data center investments
💥 Our organizer guide on the REAL cost of data centers and how we can fight back
The new season of Black Mirror is here — and we’re not just talking about the Netflix show.
Join MJ & Kairos on 4/30 as we break down the power grab behind the dozens of insatiable, sprawling facilities - data centers - that house the supercomputers that power AI.
bit.ly/MJ_WTF_Series
From our friends at USCPR: Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University has been abducted by the Trump administration after protesting genocide. Demand that universities fight back against fascism and establish themselves as sanctuary campuses: actionnetwork.org/letters/prot...
New on ReOrganized 🔥 From BlackPlanet to Black Twitter to Blacksky: Learning from Black folks about rebuilding communities online. Read more & subscribe: buff.ly/sRIcjpn
Kairos’ work in pursuit of a world where tech works for all is now more important than ever. We are so excited to continue this work under Jacky’s leadership.
Over the last 5 years that Jacky has been with Kairos, they have showcased a balance of strategic insight, management skill, and clarity of vision that made Jacky an incredible candidate for ED.
We are thrilled to announce that Jacky Brooks is the new Executive Director of Kairos Fellowship and Kairos Action.
Meta is outright allowing people on to use hateful & false statements to harass, discriminate against, and enact violence against women, queer people, and Black and brown communities. The risks aren’t just digital, online threats often result in offline harms.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
"By abandoning fact-checking, Meta is opening the door to unchecked hateful disinformation about already targeted communities like Black, brown, immigrant and trans people, which too often leads to offline violence." -- our Campaign Manager, Nicole in @theverge.com
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