Alaa Abd El Fattah
@alaaosh
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APC"When I question whether AI can ever be ethical or feminist (...) it doesn’t come from cynicism for the sake of it, but from years of watching patterns repeat. The promises to do better, the carefully crafted language of responsibility, the performance of listening, none of it has meaningfully shifted how these systems are built or who they serve."
New piece by Hija Kamran, part of the series "Don't ask AI, ask a peer," an initiative by APC, GenderIT and Global Voices.
https://genderit.org/feminist-talk/ai-work-us-it-will-have-stop-pretending-be-us
A civilization did die last night, never to return.
Perhaps it used to be a good idea. Perhaps we should mourn its deadly, destructive demise.
Yet last night we saw a people flood their city's streets—not seeking martyrdom, but refusing to let the very idea of civilization perish.
Sometimes blood triumphs over the sword. There are no guarantees, only struggle.
Someday we'll tell the unheroic stories of those who chose life and living against the pull of death and profit.
Today: 1st act of public speaking since 2019 & 1st English podcast, With the awesome @FarahBarqawi
For @PalFest
This moment is so dark our words feel useless. But in a possible future they may be appreciated and appropriated by comrades yet to be born
The PalFest Podcast: Alaa Abd el-Fattah in conversation with Farah Barqawi
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Oh, how they mock us—these gods and these men who think they are gods.
And we are forever doomed by our pettiness, which compels us to tear each other apart for all the silly reasons, and our privilege, which allows us to ignore all the real fights.
To see it coming is our curse: never early enough to make a difference, never late enough to avoid guilt.
Except your tears were there, and I was the only one to see them…
https://ghostofspring.com/2013/07/19/7bb3
حوار طويل حول السجون. محاولة اولى لتخطي خبرتي الشخصية و التفكير في اثر السجون على بلادنا.
عقبال ما نعيش في عالم بلا سجون.
https://youtu.be/g41uJrzHArU
عقبال ما نعيش في عالم بلا سجون.
https://youtu.be/g41uJrzHArU
من وراء القضبان: شهادات تفكّك معنى السجون السجون | الحلقة الاولى مع علاء عبد الفتاح
Urbicide is a crime against humanity..
Against all of humanity.. against the memory of those who passed.. against the possibility of those yet to be born...
They hate our cities, for the city is witness to our unique paths through modernity. They hate our cities for the city is keeper of our struggles.
They actually hate us for a kind of freedom that never made sense to them. Much of it lived despite our home grown torturers because the city nurtured it.
Urbicide is a crime against humanity.
In Pink Floyd's High Hopes there is the image of a ragged band following in their footsteps.
The specter of who they were always a few steps behind.
I feel I'm being chased, pushed to move faster, to run. I look behind and it is only my specter chasing me.
PentaSynth can now be played by wiggling fingers in front of the camera.
https://alaaosh.github.io/pentatonic
Khaled’s OCD makes him avoid smudging touchscreens, so I set out to build an air synth mode. This is an early prototype, but it’s already fun to play with.
https://alaaosh.github.io/pentatonic