They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Such a hue and cry is made by some people that "bangla does not have gendered pronouns" -- umm, yeah, different languages encode the gender binary differently. Hundreds of places where Bangla reinforces the gender binary. So stop with the advertisement and confront the problems within our culture!

Eugenicists in AI education talk about building “youth futures” while enacting racism and casteism in programs, designs, pedagogies. They invoke ruha benjamin, but somehow wrap it up in their upper caste patriarchal colonialism. Learn to recognize the eugenicists in AI in Education.

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO AI ETHICS
Confronting the myths, hype, and harm associated with AI technologies.
WEBINAR 2: ADDRESSING HARMS FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES
How the production and use of AI technologies impacts people, communities, and the planet
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Patriarchy has never served women but so many women (cis- and trans-) cling to it for hope. Nah! Our liberation lies in flinging away whatever safety and gifts patriarchy offers. Because it is a system of slavery. All systems of slavery must be abolished. Now is a good day to start.

The transphobia is just letting more cis-men get into women’s restrooms. In the name of safety. This is a shame, and cis-women must stand with transwomen but many instead cling to patriarchy in false hope gomag.com/article/hote...

Abolish the death penalty.

Abolish borders.

Abolish Empire.

We are so powerful together that they are doing everything to keep us apart.

They are threatening unions, student organizing, neighbors, histories of movements, and our full identities that create powerful communities.

Join us for a #MAIHT3k livestream where @mmitchell.bsky.social will breakdown the latest "agentic AI" nonsense. See also the preprint she coauthored on the topic.

⏰ Tomorrow (Monday March 31st) at 12pm pacific
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📑 arxiv.org/abs/2502.02649

Point out things are illegal not from a belief that the courts will save us (they almost certainly won’t) but because it’s important to not shift toward an authoritarian mindset by allowing them to normalize illegal shit

E. Vickers (kyushu uni) at CESI2024: there is a push for making education scholarship “scientific” — an effort to depoliticize education and dehumanize learners

E Vickers at CESI 2024: the imperial univ in japan pre-1934 aimed at creating obedient technocrats…. (PS: this has also shaped Indian education systems)

CESI 2024 keynote by E. Vickers — “we are reducing educators and education researchers to technicians” and reduces citizens to consumers … even justice is rebranded into creating “fairness in meritocracy” rather than critical voices against power of the state! #technocracy #educationforliberation