We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
07.03.2026 05:03
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We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
Silicon Valley runs on erasure of consent. Consent is friction. Inefficient and not binary. It does not compute. It’s tech’s kryptonite.
As @hypervisible.blacksky.app would say: "Today in #LuxurySurveillance" ... "Oakley's Meta Vanguard smart glasses combine the brand's iconic look with a plethora of AI features for athletes." www.zdnet.com/article/oakl...
“To date, the company's tech has been deployed to identify activists, track abortion visits, stalk women, and reinforce racial profiling. Security issues further exacerbated privacy concerns after activists discovered Flock accidentally exposed live camera feeds on the internet.”
The law “hasn’t caught up to it” now annoys me
It has , it always had
The law focused on Black , Indigenous and incarcerated people
The law ACCELERATED it
The people now shaken by what’s happening are the ones who keep separating the origins of America and race from the law
Some of these authors that are listed are already suing other companies like OpenAI!
All of this stuff is fundamentally about the erasure of consent. At the core of these products is the assertion that your very existence is a tacit agreement to feed the machine.
Please let me know where it ends up!
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And for my next piece: "I consider the impact of generative AI, particularly the use of LLMs, on students from the perspective of a disabled Black feminist ethic of care. This perspective sees literacy as an avenue for liberation and care work as both ceremony and necessity."
Can’t wait to see this. Been ruminating on similar ideas for a while now.
Working on my talk a little before it's time to make dinner, and just so I make myself perfectly clear: "I am making a moral case against AI, not a practical one."
Love it when people answer a question by answering a different question.
Consultants Are Going To Love This!
“The Verge found numerous other tech journalists named in the feature, as well, including former Verge editors Casey Newton and Joanna Stern, former Verge writer Monica Chin, Wired’s Lauren Goode, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Jason Schreier, the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill…”
“When asked if Superhuman considered notifying the people named in its AI feature, or requesting their permission, Gay [vice president of product and corporate marketing at Grammarly] said, ‘The experts in Expert Review appear because their published works are publicly available and widely cited.’”
“I’m also really offended by the type of Black music that’s coming out of AI. Weird, stereotypical struggle music.”
she’s right and she should say it
there is nothing the white-dominated music industry would love more than to make a minimally marketable approximation of Black music without involving any Black people in any way
Make it stick and get these banned at your favorite local business and other public access spaces using some of our tools.
You can find those here: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/glas...
“SZA lamented that the AI creep is happening ‘disproportionately with Black music…’”
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
When @vicmsong.bsky.social and I talked about how covering fitness and wearable tech meant her beat now included wellness... well, I told her it was going to get bad and weird fast www.theverge.com/column/88992...
This 100%. Public Health research consistently shows that just dunking on people who are vaccine resistant will get you absolutely nowhere. You might get clicks and views, but you are not helping. But absolutely, we must blame and dunk on RFK jr and the rest.
America is recommitting itself to fossil fuel vehicles, meanwhile Chinese cars will soon be able to recharge in the same time it takes to fill up at a gas station
Imagine being a soldier dying to amuse the whims of the pedophile king and all your family gets out of it is a semiliterate "an army believed to be dead?" headline and the pedophile spending exactly 2 seconds pretending to give a fuck before changing subjects to his magnificent Epstein ballroom
good work here. lots of context its easy to miss while doomscrolling.
If we are being honest: Claude didn't do any of those things.
People USING Claude as an excuse for greed extraction are.
• Claude didn't choose to work for the military.
• Claude didn't build data centers.
• Claude didn't defund mental health.
• Claude didn't refuse security protocols.
Humans did.
