DisruptionNetworkLabInvestigating The #KillCloud brings together the research fellows of the #DisruptionNetworkInstitute and international experts investigating the impact of artificial intelligence on new technologies of war, automated weapons and networked warfare. 29 November - 1 December 2024 in Berlin & online. Learn more and get tickets now: https://dnlb.org/34.
Dr Matt سپهر Mahmoudi
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📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks Head of the Silicon Valley Initiative @AmnestyTech. Assistant Professor @camdighum Views=own
A big thanks to Naomi Schneider and the team at University of California Press for their championship of this! More on the book soon
I am now speeding ahead towards a Feb ‘25 publication of ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’! 🙏🏽
If you’re interested in the ways in which Silicon Valley logics are bringing violent borders closer to cities, in service of racial capital, this one is for you 👇🏽
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/migrants-in-the-digital-periphery/paper
Head over to Inquest for @ruha9 stunning opening for #Resisting #Borders+#Tech
“these advancements scale #colonial efforts of times past to enclose and condemn communities to a life of performing free labor and generating value or capital”
We're hosting an online launch with our incredible contributors, @ruha9, @marwasf, J. Carlos Lara Gálvez, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Feb 15th, 7 PM GMT/2 PM ET, and you don't want to miss out on this one! 🔥 Indebted to these phenomenal thinkers
With advance copies in hand+severe disbelief, Mizue, Coline, and my dorky self invite you to check out our edited volume with @haymarketbooks https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2094-resisting-borders-and-technologies-of-violence
– in it we dialogue with activists across ponds who are chipping away at borders and their tech manifestations ✊🏽
– in it we dialogue with activists across ponds who are chipping away at borders and their tech manifestations ✊🏽
In which @[email protected] and I join forces in an Avengers-level team-up ... to discuss where the AI discourse falls short, and why we should be asking whether certain tools should even be built, the policies they mask, and the rights they violate.
I'm reaching the end of the road on submitting a full draft... Any advice on last minute do's and don'ts from fellow travellers? 🙏🏽 #Academia #Publishing #Manuscript #CriticalRace #Migration #RacialCapitalism
Evan Greer 🏳️⚧️Oh. my. god.
Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.
This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.
#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.
Using Amazon's #Rekognition technology, #Spotlight use the moralising narrative of humanitarian uses to extend #carceral networks, putting marginalised consenting #sexworkers at-large (and their networks) at further risk, while expanding policing powers. The excuse is stopping child trafficking, but the practical applications show an expansion of the hostile terrain–featuring tech-augmented police harassment–that endangers folx in the first place. Sarah is one of many.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/12/09/amazon-ashton-kutcher-sex-work-surveillance/
Amazon, Ashton Kutcher And America’s Surveillance Of The Sex Trade
Huge police databases armed with Amazon’s facial recognition are harvesting online sex ads of exploited children and consenting sex workers alike. Forbes finds that even when wielding a mass surveillance arsenal, cops can and do fail to keep sex workers and trafficking victims safe.