NORRAG – Contradictory Resistance Amongst Students
Just sharing a quick piece I did for the intimidatingly (or joyfully?) named NORRAG blog on the challenges facing students and teachers in higher (and other) education…
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My Digital Self
I’ve invested quite a lot of time in trying to kill my digital Self. Frankly I don’t know the guy and I don’t trust him. VPNs, false names, anonymous spam e-mail accounts, cookies off, no sign ups, no streaming – even if I can’t describe him I at least know what he feeds on and […]
Your friendly local Zine man…
A little harvest of minizines today courtesy of the Nordic Summer University in Latvia this year, where I ran an impromptu (read: disorganised) zine workshop. All free to download, print and share you can check them out here. My own incredibly sloppy contribution can also be found here. A big thanks to everyone involved in […]
Righteous Indignation to AI
Like most of us who take a critical stance on AI (from abolitionist to reformist) I don’t spend a massive amount of time dwelling on the more religious objections to it. Something which, in my experience, is part of a reciprocal indifference from those airing those religious objections. My own experiences with the faithful have […]
Abolish AI Sticker Set
Just a quick update to share this set of designs created and shared by the Abolish AI. Ideal for any flat surface that looks lacking…
Latvian Adventure – Nordic Summer University
Just returned from my Latvia trip a couple of days ago. I was out there wallowing by the Baltic Sea for the Nordic Summer Universities ‘Circle 9’ – Low-Tech, Luddism and Liberation: reclaiming technology for the collective good. Overall it was a great week and well worth the travel. Met plenty of good people, some […]
Andy Burnham wants an AI friend…
While it’s probably the most predictable prophecy I could have made it looks like my guess that Burnham would be more of the same when it came to AI is being rapidly proven true. In one of the usual, gossipy information dumps from the British media (this time The Times) it sounds like Burnham, as […]
AI Freecast: Dylan Orchard
People generally seem to react pretty well when I speak in public, which is fortunate because since starting my PhD I’ve quickly discovered that I enter into an absolute memory hole the second I finish talking. I never seem to remember what I said or how it sounded. And recording a podcast (which was done […]
Petition: Stop the Home Office using experimental AI on asylum seeking children
A petition is seldom a very edifying thing, nor a very effective one for that matter, but where it does have value is as a point of highlighting and mobilising wider sentiments so I’m happy to recommend signing, or at least considering the issues behind, this one. Refugee and migrant communities have always been a […]
Automated Firings & Humans in the Loop
It’s a little light on details pending the no doubt arduous process of getting Meta to open up on their behaviour but this article on the use of AI surveillance to flag employees for firing certainly offers a useful example for the grim promises of automated decision making. Employees are claiming that this wonderful sounding […]