"Silicon Valley leaders are no longer merely building tools for the battlefield; they are being formally integrated into its command structure"
"AI for War: Big Tech Empowering Israel’s Crimes and Occupation", by Marwa Fatafta for Al-Shabaka: https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/ai-for-war-big-tech-empowering-israels-crimes-and-occupation/ @palestine
#dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #StartUpNation #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #strikes #DefundIsrael #patriotism #JewishSupremacy #MilInt #military #army #IDF #Unit8200 #Gaza #warOnGaza #israel #tech #technology #AI #data #Microsoft #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #militaryAI #Cloud #OpenAI #IDF #genocideSupport #entanglement #complicity #complicityInGenocide #AlShabaka
'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
• Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
• Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
• Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.
'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.
'Why This Has Consequences
'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
[…]
'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.
'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'
https://www.agustinvstartari.com/post/who-gave-the-order-when-ai-issues-commands-without-a-speaker by @agustinstartari
#responsibility #accountability #ethics #authority #technique #risks #assessment #algorithms #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #justiceSystem #judiciary #genAI #generativeAI
A reflection on how artificial language exerts control through structure, not speech1. What This Article ExaminesConsider the sentence:"All credentials must be verified before access is granted."It appears normal. It sounds official. But a basic question remains:Who is supposed to verify them?Who gave the instruction?This question anchors the published article Syntax Without Subject. The study examines how artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), generates institutiona
‘It is not a Sunday in the countryside that we need, but a less artificial life.’
—Bernard Charbonneau, in « Le sentiment de la nature, une force révolutionnaire », 1937
It is our disconnection from nature that gives rise to the feeling that we lack something, that an essential part of our existence is missing.
#tourism #nature #wilderness #BienVivir #wellLiving #SilentSunday #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #postDevelopment #beliefs #degrowth #philosophy #quote #quotes #citation #citations #EstelleSays #technique #technoCriticism
Here I am slowly spining a yarn of Bernard Charbonneau 🧶
#development #revolution #conformism #progress #personalism #State #nationState #anarchism #anarchy #technoCriticism #technique #bureaucracy #technocracy #industry #economy #capitalism #spectacle #property #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #goodLiving #city #rurality #historyOfIdeas #philosophy #politics #vote #elections #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #longThread #yarn
It is rational to trust your peers or positions of authority, but it is a mistake.
Here is a concise argument for technoCriticism, in four items: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/followup-on-trusting-your-own-judgement/ by @baldur
#validation #AIRisks #science #bias #cognitiveBias #technoCriticism #responsibleAI #tech #techBros #growth #ai #AIRisks
"The experiment begun in 1492 was accompanied by a new relationship with the world and with each other, based on the novel idea that the prosperity of human societies lay in the submission of a wild and free nature to the rational act of exploitation. From then on, the entire living world was put to work, and in this first planetary empire, people, plants and animals became commodities circulating from one corner of the hemisphere to the other."
wrote Sylvie Laurent in her book "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
#wilderness #progress #SylvieLaurent #capitalism #extractivism #capture #appropriation #grabbing #marchandization #Discovery #encounter #ChristopheColomb #Colomb #plantations #Antilles #America #Americas #history #slavery #agroBusiness #agriculture #NewWorld #quote #quotes #beliefs #belief #labour #technoCriticism
"Bender and Hanna show you how to spot AI hype, how to deconstruct it, and how to expose the power grabs it aims to hide. Armed with these tools, you will be prepared to push back against AI hype at work, as a consumer in the marketplace, as a skeptical newsreader, and as a citizen holding policymakers to account."
from the back cover of their upcoming #book
#AIHype #TheAICon #broligarchy #technoCriticism #techBros #tech #acceleration #growth #convergence #responsibleAI #enshittification
"Modern civilisation has a number of extremely delicate and highly interconnected components whose graceful degradation is effectively impossible."
It is "much easier to break things than to build them up. The government administrations of Britain, France and Germany for example, were set up at a time in the nineteenth century when the rising middle classes demanded a properly functioning state[…]. It took perhaps a generation for professional, neutral public services to fully emerge."
"Forty years of globalised neoliberalism have broken our societies, our economies and our political systems, and we no longer have the ability to put them back together."
https://braveneweurope.com/aurelien-the-end
#civilService #statehood #bureaucracy #complexity #risk #digitalization #quantification #technocracy #quantitative #repair #mitigation #redundancy #resiliency #Deregulation #Economics #politics #EUPol #EU #Europe #institutions #institutionsDeceive #finance #globalisation #NeoLiberalism #Privatisation #technique #technoCriticism
#Screens "train us in convenience, which is training in predictability, in the facade of certainty. And when that facade inevitably breaks, we often find ourselves at sea.
"In the brilliant and ever-relevant Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott outlines the many ways states fail; principle among them is an obsession with putting things in order, with simplification and efficiency. More often than not, that efficiency translates into brittleness and weakness, into systems so fragile they break the moment something unanticipated arises."
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/make-life-possible
#engineers #engineering #smartphones #iPhone #Android #Culture #development #creation #creatives #art #entertainment #distraction #alienation #screen #technique #tech #technology #technocriticism #phones #mentalHealth #capitalism #statehood #technocracy #fragility #progress
"Humanity has endured for 1 million years for one simple reason: it is bound by limits. It is effectively regulated, and it is this regulation that lies at the heart of its genius.
[…]
"Capital very quickly relied on the sciences, and this was not simply the result of cultural impregnation.
"Classical science separates and analyses. All capital relies on this powerful process and adds to it control through quantification. A principle of devitalisation at the heart of modern technique.
"This thanatocratic principle of capital, without which it is nothing, takes place in three stages: privatisation of the means, industrialisation of devitalisation, and being as a commodity."
Thread in French: https://piaille.fr/@Ciriaco/113083670282268574 by @Ciriaco
#acceleration #convergence #commoditization #commodities #accelerate #criticalTheory #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #tech #BigTech #technology #agriculture #science #supremacy #climateBreakdown #globalHeating #digitalization #engineers #separation #data #climateCollapse
Ce qu'Hegel, pré-systémicien, a vu, c'est que la forme historique est intelligible. Pour dire les choses au rabais, l'histoire, c'est ce qui est à l'image de la loi normale pour les événements aléatoires : un ordre émerge. Si l'humanité perdure pendant 1 million d'années, c'est pour une raison simple : elle est tenue par des limites. Elle est efficacement régulée, et c'est cette régulation qui est au fond de son génie. Ce n'est pas un hasard en effet si la prise de contrôle anthropologique (et thanatocratique, j'y reviendrai) par le capital via le dépassement des limites coïncide, très précisément à l'échelle, avec l'effondrement des sociétés.
Estelle Platini
Eric Maugendre about data
Eric Maugendre on collectives
