"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."

"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
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“I find it disheartening that instead of a society that once valorized translators as intercultural communicators and professionals who could uphold a bilingual society, we're flattening culture with AI systems that don't allow for a more organic exchange between languages.”

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment.

Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

“Governments welcoming ‘OpenAI for countries’ will lose expertise and capabilities at home, while becoming structurally dependent on US technology and, by extension, captive to presidential policy priorities.”

AI companies operate like a religious cult.

Check out the new Factually! episode with @karenhao.bsky.social wherever you get podcasts.

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This is a thousand times the entirety of VAF's (Flemish gamefund) budget for 2024.

It's over two thousand times the entirety of Stimuleringsfonds' games budget for 2025.

It's roughly twelve thousand indie budgets (500k) or thirty thousand micro indie budgets (200k).