ron salaj

@ronsalaj@kolektiva.social
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o my body, make of me always a man who questions! because we are all watched over by machines of loving grace. | polymorphous worker | researching psycho-technopolitics. | meaningmaking.it
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said by Alex Karp, CEO of #Palantir

“when it’s necessary to scare enemies and on occasion #kill them”

#technofascism by #PayPalMafia

“alleged intellectual property theft”

ah really?

error minimization, profit maximization. #AI as a Ponzi scheme.

#Kroger has partnered with #microsoft to install #facialrecognition technology in stores to identify individual customers, which could allow individual shoppers to see prices calibrated specifically for them. The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile.
bit.ly/4gYUoBo

be careful of the (extreme) Centre as much as of the (extreme) Right.

bremmers, zuckerbergs, trumps and le pens are the different sides of the same coin.

the task is to get rid of the coin, completely.

#AI #geopolitics #EpistemiologiesOfIgnorance

#AI perversity in two pictures.

The business ethos of #OpenAI is to maximize profit on people’s bodies (read: surplus-life). Literally!

Sell services to #military in order to generate new clients to sell other services.

“However, Meta’s four person #AI advisory board is made up of four white men.”

shall we let them have what they want—supremacy in all domains: cultural, economical, political and social?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/meta-ending-dei-program?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Meta terminates its DEI programs days before Trump inauguration

Meta, fresh off announcement to end factchecking, follows McDonald’s and Walmart in rolling back diversity initiatives

The Guardian
Remembering Aaron Swartz!

We should wait two more weeks to announce this as the worsttweet of the year. But Yann is being brutally honest. the logic of the Silicon Valley Mafia is plain simple: enjoy suffering, enjoy (techno)capitalism, subjugate to us.

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missing text of Yann’s post:
“Free and open AI systems will constitute the repository of all human knowledge and culture.
Perhaps someone could draft a new content license to that effect: "you can use our content to train your AI system, but only if you make it freely available with open weights and open source inference code."

my new article aims to critically examine the role and implications of digital frontier technologies within the #DigitalDevelopment paradigm, as well as question the promises these technologies hold for advancing the #SDGs2030 Available here: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/junco/article/view/10219/8456
Guarda Digital development and digital frontier technologies: some cautionary notes