Willis is now urging situating US software products at the heart of management and presumably decision making in the public sector, falsely implying households and businesses are already using US AI heavily, herself a mouthpiece for the generic exaggerations of Technological Determinism and Inevitablism.

It's not completely infeasible that the same gov would eventually propose replacing entire ministries with foreign chatbots.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/595655/nearly-9000-public-sector-jobs-to-go-government-agencies-to-merge-nicola-willis-announces

Hey Covid cautious peeps, New Zealand is updating it's building code ventilation standards and when I asked them what papers they were checking, they said "We're doing a bit, but if you've got anything else, we'll take a look".

Does anyone know of good academic papers on the topic? I have a few, but I'd love more.

Feel free to boost for reach.

#NZ #CovID19 #Ventilation #GovernmentStandards

For the last time:

Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into

Please stop screaming into the abyss we are not insured for that

The true meaning of Easter, by Stephen Collins (who writes his own amazing #AltText)

"PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!

BECKY: You mean … Jesus …?

PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky."

Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about what happens when a Black feminist theorist's words get borrowed, stripped of context, and made to do work they were never meant to do.

https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/ #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy