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Jonny-Bix Bongers
@jonnybixbongers.bsky.social
Digital Curation & Research
Silicon Valley billionaires betting billions on AI to crush tech workers’ bargaining power —it's a class war waged by people terrified of being dependent on the rest of us. Time to flip the script: If they don't need us, do we even need them?

jacobin.com/2025/02/tech...
Tech Workers Can Still Fight Silicon Valley’s Overlords
Don’t let the AI of it all fool you — tech workers can still bring Silicon Valley to a halt.
jacobin.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Dragging the Self: Phantasizing through drag, dreaming with deepfakes
– A workshop with Orhun Mersin aka Kekik
📅 March 22, 2–6 PM CEST | 💻 Online
Part of ATTENTION IS ALL I NEED @ HEK Basel
March 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Hey! I'm excited to announce the second workshop, "Inquiring a Digital Self", presented by @allapopp as part of our exhibition Attention is All I Need, HEK Basel and OnCurating!

Looking forward to meeting you there!
March 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“This is uncharted territory. It’s an unregulated sort of wild west climate of AI advancement …

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements
Authors asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’ system
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Join us for “The Self as a Data Trace”, a workshop with @kimay.bsky.social on March 8

Can art reclaim the story of our digital selves?

This is the first of 3 workshops leading up to an exhibition, ATTENTION IS ALL I NEED, I’m curating with OnCurating x HEK Basel.
March 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Reposted by Jonny-Bix Bongers
Vance und Trump haben Zelensky gerade auf ziemlich unsägliche Weise herabgewürdigt. Doch bei solchen Takes frage ich mich: Existieren Orte wie Kambodscha, Guatemala, Chile, Argentinien, Uruguay, Osttimor oder Gaza für manche Leute einfach nicht? Zählen deren Erfahrungen nicht?
March 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Reposted by Jonny-Bix Bongers
Trump to Zelenskyy: "Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. You're in no position to dictate that. You're in no position to dictate what we're gonna feel. We're gonna feel very good and very strong. You're right now not in a very good position. You're gambling with World War 3."
February 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM