” It’s a common refrain: AI is neither good nor bad because that depends on how its used. Professor Anita Say Chan begs to differ. […]
Chan documents how the Big Data on which AI are trained are based on long-standing data infrastructures—sets of practices, policies, and logics—that remove, imperil, devalue, and actively harm people who refuse to conform to racialized patriarchal power structures and the priorities of surveillance capitalism—most pointedly immigrant, feminist, and low-income communities.
[…] Chan dedicates half of the book to amplifying and praising the small-scale, community-led projects of the past and present—from the legendary Hull House’s data visualizations to community data initiatives in Champaign, Illinois. There is much fuel for political outrage in this book and also fodder for solidarity and hope.” "—New Books in Critical Theory

Predatory Data - Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future >

https://newbooksnetwork.com/anita-say-chan-predatory-data-eugenics-in-big-tech-and-our-fight-for-an-independent-future-u-california-press-2025

#podcast #InformationSciences #interview #eugenics #author #surveillance_capitalism #third_reich #US #elitism #contaminants_conspiracy #solidarity #power_structures #alienation #patriarchy #Chinese_women #racism #books #tech #exclusion #tech #panopticon #policies #anti_pluralism #harm #toxic_digital_environment #data_extractivism

"I hope that #Italy hits #russia hard!"

Websites of about 20 #Italian institutions, including banks and airports, were targeted by a pro-#Russian hacker group. They claimed the reason for that is the speech of #Italian President #Sergio_Mattarella, in which he compared #Russia and its war on #Ukraine to the #Third_Reich before #WWII (see the brilliant speech below).

The cyberattacks targeted websites of #ntesa_Sanpaolo (ISP.MI), #Banca_Monte_dei_Paschi (BMPS.MI), #Iccrea_Banca and

Just like the #Third_Reich, the #Russians are fighting books. Recently, they saw a military target in a printing house. Thousands of books were burned. #RussianNazis propaganda declares that they are fighting against "#Nazism." But the recent events in #Kharkiv prove the opposite. History seems to be repeating itself.

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

"Just a warning from history?" 😆

How the propaganda sharks of #Nazi_Germany and #Africa ended

#Solovyov , #Skabeeva, #Simonyan, and other #Russian propagandists are guilty of the genocide of #Ukrainians.

We remind you how their predecessors, accomplices of criminal regimes, were punished

Ideologists and propagandists of the #Third_Reich (1933 - 1945)

✔️ #Joseph_Goebbels , head of the propaganda department of the #NSDAP, author of the recipe:

"Oops! He's saying the quiet part out loud!"

According to the ideologist of the "#Russian world" #Alexander_Dugin, there is no #Russian Empire without #Ukraine, so the war is aimed at eradicating #Ukrainian identity and culture in order to create a #Third_Reich called #Russia.

@liveukraine_media

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691