Organisational facilitation most often means (or should mean) facilitating a collaborative reconfiguring of socio-technical networks from hub-spoke to fishnet. You need to become a wide-bridge builder to achieve that.
Marc Burgauer
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No straight paths, many fires / Mapping constraint regimes / The Present of Work #socialpracticetheory #pluralism & Croissant-maker
CamerontwThis is why the magic of a magic show (as opposed to actual magical powers in some cultures) is a useful analogy for technology (and right now AI): it is only marvellous to those who convince themselves that what it is doing is the impossible; if you know that it can do this or that, and how (which is not just technical, but sociological), there is nothing wonderous or fearful about it - https://www.jstor.org/stable/44510883
felix stalder@Mer__edith on the ramifications of the #surveillance business model for #AI.
"First, AI is not a technical term of art, it is a marketing term that has been applied to a hodgepodge of data-centric techniques. Second, the sudden shift to AI in the early 2010s had everything to do with tech industry consolidation and the resources at the heart of the surveillance business model. We see this clearly when we recognize that what was new about AI in the early 2010s was not new innovations in machine learning indeed the methods that were applied to prove ai's Newfound utility date from the 1980s.
What was new were the significant amounts of available data used to train AI models and the power of the computational infrastructure available to conduct this training and calibration, resources concentrated in the hands of a few private tech companies care of the surveillance business model.
So if we look at it from this perspective we see that AI's primary role has been to expand what can be done with the massive amounts of surveillance data collected and stored by large tech firms. By sprinkling the magic and marketing of AI surveillance data could be used to create models of reality which are then applied far beyond surveillance advertising to make predictions and determinations across nearly every realm of human life from transportation to education to medicine to confidently offering the wrong answer in response to a prompt and so on.
And, it's worth noting that this too produces intimate data it may not be by direct surveillance but it still has power over us, it still shapes our lives, and it still shapes our profiles. So, in short, the marketing narrative of AI mystified, entrenched, and expanded the surveillance business model at the heart of the tech industry."
https://youtu.be/yBQ_2AqI7w0?list=PLGeR6jS_7N7cNmCv1vh5yTyc8nvr28FO1&t=29
#EDRi20 - Closing keynote by Meredith Whittaker, President, Signal Foundation
Molly White
Whenever you think you have a “what was first, the chicken or the egg” problem, you’re looking at parts from inside a system. To resolve the dilemma, you have to step outside and see how the system as a whole is interacting with its context. That outside context is what matters.
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)I've known for a long time that @mmitchell_ai is AWESOME so it's very satisfying to see her awesomeness validated in this way :)
Ruth — of systems & design“Noting this historical development, in our paper we hypothesize that if ‘leader’ is now a Burkean god-term, and is therefore about to turn turtle and take all its connotative trappings of celebrity wealth, power and social status with it, we may at last be ready to return to Follett. She writes not of a class of leaders but of the leadership that is enacted in different situations and at different times by diverse people.”
“almost a century ago Follett was denying the designation ‘leader’ all the celebrity status that has since accrued around it. Follett asked us to think less about leaders and more about the meaning of ‘leadership’. If we are ready, now, to listen to her voice then we may already be enacting a logological leap back towards recognition that leadership is a communal, not individual, achievement”
— Nanette Monin and Ralph Bathurst, Mary Follett on the Leadership of Everyman,
https://ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/8-4monin-bathurst.pdf
Andrea Junker 
We should name mass shootings the way we do hurricanes but after Republicans who accept payments from the NRA.