Here For The Music | Weekstarter 14-2026
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There is a version of authoritarianism that is easy to recognize: the declared emergency, the suspended constitution, the strongman consolidating power in plain sight. We have built our entire vocabulary of democratic resistance around that version because history provided the blueprints. The version we are less equipped for arrives without announcement. It accretes through product...
Pluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher (17 Mar 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/technopolitics/

Our information landscape and opaque black box systems
The AI Con, debunking myths of the AI revolution, a review
“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
"But that is precisely why some in power want to hand decision‑making capacity to computers: it promises a sunlit utopia of profit without blame. Once AI is mainlined into our veins, we may be too doped up to care."
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna by Bodley Head
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/19/the-ai-con-by-emily-m-bender-and-alex-hanna-review-debunking-myths-of-the-ai-revolution
#AI #LLMs #KMS #DigitalHumanities #OpaqueBlackBox #SyntheticTextExtruding #machines #PoliticalSubjects #accountability #transparancy #language #extractivism #DataEconomy #technopolitics
Tomorrow I'll be #lectureship on #DigitalRights & #DigitalCitizenship in 5th ed Digital Global Humanities at @MondragonUnibertsitatea
This module is grounded in a research trajectory developed across 4 books on #SmartCities #technopolitics #AI
📚 #ActionResearch→Teaching→Practice
New #Book just arrived!
#DatafiedDemocracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged: #TechnoPolitics in #SmartCities & Datafied #NetworkStates
Proofs submitted!
My new #book Datafied Democracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged @springernature_ct is forthcoming by 1/1/2026 🚀
Explore how AI, data governance, and #technopolitics are reshaping democracy and political economy
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LLM tools used in medicine found to be loaded with white male bias.
"The findings by researchers at leading US and UK universities suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less “empathy” toward Black and Asian ones."
Every time someone says 'AI', ask 'whose AI?'
TY @Christina