Serife (Sherry) Wong
@serife.bsky.social
Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com
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Serife (Sherry) Wong
@serife.bsky.social
· Sep 11
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November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@eff.org Gen AI Panel Thursday: EFF Director of Policy and Advocacy @ktrendacosta.bsky.social EFF Staff Attorney Tori Noble, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Co-Director @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social and Icarus Salon Artist @serife.bsky.social -- sign up: www.eff.org/event/effect...
Lobbyist have done their jobs and civil society needs to yell and push back here. It's a nasty precedent to loosen data privacy because the EU has AI FOMO, especially when this fear is marketing and cultural and not evidence based.. www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom
Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Lobbyist have done their jobs and civil society needs to yell and push back here. It's a nasty precedent to loosen data privacy because the EU has AI FOMO, especially when this fear is marketing and cultural and not evidence based.. www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! How could this even get published!??The kind of person in an office who would say something no longer can say it in this climate of fear. www.economist.com/business/202...
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
www.economist.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! How could this even get published!??The kind of person in an office who would say something no longer can say it in this climate of fear. www.economist.com/business/202...
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
vimeo.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
Leaks everywhere most of all with the business model which doesn't hold water
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacentre owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Leaks everywhere most of all with the business model which doesn't hold water
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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This is a classic line!
“It’s not a ‘partnership,’” Professor Kenney said. “If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”
“It’s not a ‘partnership,’” Professor Kenney said. “If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”
This is one of our biggest arguments: that OpenAI is vampirizing universities for the cachet and legitimacy that affiliation with higher education affords
October 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is a classic line!
“It’s not a ‘partnership,’” Professor Kenney said. “If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”
“It’s not a ‘partnership,’” Professor Kenney said. “If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”
You gotta go through your family's social media, my scammy ads are much higher quality. Meryl Streep says she has alzheimers and this one easy trick can cure it. It's very poor quality but targeted demo can't tell.
October 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
You gotta go through your family's social media, my scammy ads are much higher quality. Meryl Streep says she has alzheimers and this one easy trick can cure it. It's very poor quality but targeted demo can't tell.
Yeah but from up close it looks more like the new world is dying and the old one is struggling to be reborn.
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Yeah but from up close it looks more like the new world is dying and the old one is struggling to be reborn.
Between high solid wall and an egg that breaks against it. I will always stand on the side of the egg - Haruki Murakami
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Between high solid wall and an egg that breaks against it. I will always stand on the side of the egg - Haruki Murakami
Caught this by luck on a TV.
October 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Caught this by luck on a TV.
They have these chat with Jesus bots now that market themselves to Christians to get closer to God and we probably haven't heard the last of how that's going to go wrong
October 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
They have these chat with Jesus bots now that market themselves to Christians to get closer to God and we probably haven't heard the last of how that's going to go wrong
this group built a data center tracker www.distilled.earth/p/these-data...
October 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
this group built a data center tracker www.distilled.earth/p/these-data...
The International Trade Union Confederation annual list has Amazon, Anduril, Meta, Palantir, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX and vanguard as companies that violate rights and are anti-democratic ituc-csi.org/corporate-un...
Corporate Underminers of Democracy 2025
The report Corporate Underminers of Democracy presents an annual selection of emblematic companies that violate trade union and human rights, consolidate industry power, evade taxes and social respons...
ituc-csi.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The International Trade Union Confederation annual list has Amazon, Anduril, Meta, Palantir, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX and vanguard as companies that violate rights and are anti-democratic ituc-csi.org/corporate-un...
This parody project has a billboard up in SF. Anyone know where the funding came from and who is behind it? It's a surprisingly large budget for a parody site... replacement.ai
Replacement.AI
Humans are no longer necessary. So we’re getting rid of them.
replacement.ai
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This parody project has a billboard up in SF. Anyone know where the funding came from and who is behind it? It's a surprisingly large budget for a parody site... replacement.ai
I've often said my city is where we are experimented on by tech companies: launching cars, apps, services and also shifting our culture in ways that serve tech elite. It's getting scarier too www.currentaffairs.org/news/democra...
Democrats’ New Abundance Platform Isn’t Playing Out Well in San Francisco
Under billionaire rule, the city’s so-called abundance means more for the rich—and less for everyone else.
www.currentaffairs.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I've often said my city is where we are experimented on by tech companies: launching cars, apps, services and also shifting our culture in ways that serve tech elite. It's getting scarier too www.currentaffairs.org/news/democra...
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we are in a self-awareness crisis
October 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
we are in a self-awareness crisis
Using partiful for your event planning and organizing? I saw the Andreeson requires his events to use partiful. nyc-noise.com/drone-party/
we don't use partiful
NYC experimental live music calendar • noise, improv, jazz, new music, avant-electronics, weirdos • performance against corporate interests!
nyc-noise.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Using partiful for your event planning and organizing? I saw the Andreeson requires his events to use partiful. nyc-noise.com/drone-party/
Salesforce thread. Board member and friend resigns. A lot of people are surprised by Benioff but these politics have been evident in his Twitter posts for many years all those rogan andreeson retweets fortune.com/2025/10/16/r...
Ron Conway skewers Marc Benioff in board resignation after 25 years: ‘I now barely recognize the person I have so long admired’ | Fortune
“San Francisco does not need a federal invasion because you don’t like paying for extra security for Dreamforce,” Conway said.
fortune.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Salesforce thread. Board member and friend resigns. A lot of people are surprised by Benioff but these politics have been evident in his Twitter posts for many years all those rogan andreeson retweets fortune.com/2025/10/16/r...
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today’s hot take: most machine learning research, particularly that touches on any human phenomena (attempts to “solve” any human related problem) is conceptually and methodologically hollow
October 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
today’s hot take: most machine learning research, particularly that touches on any human phenomena (attempts to “solve” any human related problem) is conceptually and methodologically hollow
I see your $10k meme contest on tech optimism and I raise you the 100k essay ( in total prizes) contest on positive agi futures.
October 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I see your $10k meme contest on tech optimism and I raise you the 100k essay ( in total prizes) contest on positive agi futures.
SF using humor to educate and protest on Salesforce contracts with ICE. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/d...
Dreamforce protesters urge Salesforce to drop its Border Protection contract with feds
Protesters dressed in trench coats, some with fake noses and “Snatchforce” buttons, handed out “missing person” flyers outside of Dreamforce, with photos of individuals detained by ICE.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
SF using humor to educate and protest on Salesforce contracts with ICE. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/d...
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High school students are using the Media Cloud database to map ICE activity around the US via news reports at icemap.dev
ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/16/t...
ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/16/t...
ICE Map
ICE Map - Visualizing ICE activity
icemap.dev
October 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
High school students are using the Media Cloud database to map ICE activity around the US via news reports at icemap.dev
ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/16/t...
ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/16/t...
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The increasing proliferation of facial recognition systems which often fail to properly capture and categorize disabled users with facial differences As Faces At All is leading to mischategorization, inaccessible systems, personal tech lockout, & other harms, & like… Yeah, dawg: we told you it would
When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.
www.wired.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The increasing proliferation of facial recognition systems which often fail to properly capture and categorize disabled users with facial differences As Faces At All is leading to mischategorization, inaccessible systems, personal tech lockout, & other harms, & like… Yeah, dawg: we told you it would
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It's worth noting that Trump and Republicans repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for pressuring social media companies into removing content in the past.
Trump admin pressured Facebook into removing ICE-tracking group
Pam Bondi claims Facebook group was used to “dox and target” ICE agents.
arstechnica.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It's worth noting that Trump and Republicans repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for pressuring social media companies into removing content in the past.