"What social groups are classified, corralled, coerced, and capitalized upon
so others are free to tinker, experiment, design, and engineer the future?
How are novel technologies deployed in carceral approaches
to governing life well beyond the domain of policing?" 

Ruha Benjamin (2019) Captivating Technology. Race, Carceral Technoscience, and liberatory imagination in everday life. p.4 
#technoimperialism
#carceraltech
#captivatingtech
#ruhabenjamin
#ethicaltech
#ecofeministrech
#racistai

Techno Colonialism is the next tool to implement an extractivist social order.

#ecofeminism
#stopextractivism
#ceasefire
#technoimperialism
#digital_colonialism
#datacolonialism
#technocolonialism
#ethicaltech
#degrowth
#Permacomputing

"In her book 'Dark Matters', for example, sociologist Simone Browne examines how surveillance technologies coproduce notions of blackness, explaining that "surveillance is nothing new to black folks"; from slave ships and slave patrols to airport security checkpoints and stop-and-frisk policing practices, she points to the "facticity of surveillance in black life".
Benjamin (2019) Captivating Technology.

#techocolonialism
#technoimperialism
#carceraltech
#captivatingtech
#ruhabenjamin

Tech-washing / Google quietly building Trump's AI surveillance wall

Despite previous assurances from #Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in 2020 that Google was "not working on any projects associated with immigration enforcement at the southern border," contract documents show Google is now central to a #CBP project upgrading video surveillance towers in #Arizona.

https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/google-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/

#techwashing #ai
#sureveillancecapitalism
#usa #technoimperialism