"All of history has been a struggle between private interest and collective power. Even in the hope brought about by the Enlightenment and the ideas around the sanctity of the individual, we find the origins of corporate greed and economic strife. Is Neoliberalism just bureaucracy with more steps?"—The Institute of Art and Ideas

How neoliberalism created a bureaucratic monster | David Healy >

https://youtu.be/16VhIZBKbEI?si=h2_vZROUIGMKuVmr

#David_Healy #speech #presentation #economical_models #neoliberalism #bureaucrats #economy #collective #economics #society #wellbeing #goods #service #finance #greed

“Responsible” development of “AI” is … having refugees annotate data for the US military??

@alex and I take that apart with Niamh McIntyre on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, episode 75:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/19022825-uber-for-military-surveillance-with-niamh-mcintyre-2026-03-30

It is ironic that the European Commission has introduced a verification method by which its citizens must have their smartphones with them all the time.

https://theprivacydad.com/a-first-look-at-the-eu-age-verification-app/

#eu #ageverification #mobilephones #privacy @vonderleyen @EUCommission

Wolt couriers are striking here in Denmark. It is significant, because workers are using the algorithmic control against itself - by continually rejecting orders, they drive up the price. Fediverse, I know we have a lot of skilled tech people here. Can we explore together more options on how people might use a system like that against itself?

#WoltStrike #Hacktivism #DeliveryApps #Technofeudalism

If you program, you should read this piece.

"Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly, in buffer overflows and null pointer exceptions and data races and security vulnerabilities, generated the discourse. [Ada did not]"

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html