I wake up to more emails advertising university jobs, but not lecturers (or senior lecturers). No, these grade 6/7 salaries are for 'study advisors' or god forbid 'success partners'. As if Capita replaced Faculty, unis can now can look forward to being success managed, student to staff to redundancy. And its all decided with the big data imaginary.
This morning’s lecture: #Anthropocene #Technosolutionism essentially spends an hour defining these two terms, their interrelations, and sampling some artistic projects past and present that relate to them.
It’s also grown into an opportunity to bring Patricia Johanson’s practice out of obscurity (look her up!)
And, it’s the first time in years that I have impulsively chosen a lecture topic that successfully builds on my own research, making it so much easier to write!
Hype driven vapoware, isn't it?
Sundar Pichai says Google will start building data centers in space, powered by the sun, in 2027
> Google announced Project Suncatcher earlier this month. CEO Sundar Pichai now says it could begin building data centers in space as soon as 2027.
#capitalism #technosolutionism #ai #llm #google #gafam #killedByGoogle #vaporware
„Technosolutionism means we’re often manufacturing band-aids out of the blood of our wounds, rather than confronting what’s wounding us.“ #TechnoSolutionism
https://vsanchezgomez.substack.com/p/technosolutionism-part1
“Whenever a company or public office faces a new challenge, the first question must be: How can #AI help?” @EUCommission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the Italian Tech Week in Turin.
What a dumb piece of advice.
Five years ago, when construction began in Iceland on the world’s largest system for capturing and storing carbon dioxide directly from the air, the project was seen as a ‘springboard’ for larger, global-scale projects with ‘megaton removal capacities.’ However, the project’s failure reveals the misguided nature of climate engineering: The advancement of technological solutions involving large-scale interventions in the Earth’s geochemical and biogeochemical cycles distracts from the systemic causes of the climate catastrophe and exacerbates the problem. Annette Schlemm takes stock.
And in today's installment of #Technosolutionism #AI #AIHype #Ethics #Philosophy:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglzrklp8jyo
Could someone PLEASE explain to the minister that the law and regulation has sharp, age-related boundaries for various things not because people suddenly become responsible or less vulnerable on their 18th birthday but because the law needs to appeal to something verifiable rather than the ethically significant but fuzzily-boundaried concepts like 'adult' and 'child'. (1/2)
Open Risk
Dr Pen
Stephen Cornford
dallo
Nico
Jan Penfrat
meme⸱chelou
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