Dr Syed Mustafa Ali
@drsyedmustafaali.bsky.social
Lecturer & Convenor of Critical Information Studies (CrIS) @OpenUniversity. Transdisciplinary research into race, religion, politics & computing. Views my own.
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Episode 17: Decolonising Computing, Part 2 by Diversifying and Decolonising the University
In this episode (the second of two parts), Catarina Carvalho talks to Mustafa Ali about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big tech. This picks up from where the first part left off, s...
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"Get real": talking AI (ML/DL, LAWS), tech, regulation, political {economy, ecology, theology}, Luddism, abolitionism etc. | Listen to "Episode 17: #Decolonising #Computing, Part 2" by Diversifying and Decolonising the University | creators.spotify.com/pod/show/div...
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Surviving Israel's genocide. Please correct, @nytimes.com .
November 26, 2024 at 7:10 AM
Surviving Israel's genocide. Please correct, @nytimes.com .
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In the 21st Century Water and Electricity could and should be free.
Instead they are more expensive than ever.
Instead they are more expensive than ever.
November 24, 2024 at 12:00 PM
In the 21st Century Water and Electricity could and should be free.
Instead they are more expensive than ever.
Instead they are more expensive than ever.
"Belief in progress is the Prozac of the thinking classes." (John Gray, Heresies. Granta Books: London, 2004)
November 23, 2024 at 11:56 AM
"Belief in progress is the Prozac of the thinking classes." (John Gray, Heresies. Granta Books: London, 2004)
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The UK Media can have constant coverage for weeks of a 'farmers' protest with less than 10,000 people, and about 20 farmers.
But it ignores protests of hundreds of thousands or millions for Palestine or against Brexit.
They don't care about the truth.
But it ignores protests of hundreds of thousands or millions for Palestine or against Brexit.
They don't care about the truth.
November 21, 2024 at 8:44 PM
The UK Media can have constant coverage for weeks of a 'farmers' protest with less than 10,000 people, and about 20 farmers.
But it ignores protests of hundreds of thousands or millions for Palestine or against Brexit.
They don't care about the truth.
But it ignores protests of hundreds of thousands or millions for Palestine or against Brexit.
They don't care about the truth.
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An international arrest warrant has been issued for Netanyahu.
If you want him arrested, Like.
If it needs to be right now, RT.
If you want him arrested, Like.
If it needs to be right now, RT.
November 21, 2024 at 1:18 PM
An international arrest warrant has been issued for Netanyahu.
If you want him arrested, Like.
If it needs to be right now, RT.
If you want him arrested, Like.
If it needs to be right now, RT.
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The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for Gaza war crimes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes
Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:40 PM
The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for Gaza war crimes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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"Get real": talking AI (ML/DL, LAWS), tech, regulation, political {economy, ecology, theology}, Luddism, abolitionism etc. | Listen to "Episode 17: #Decolonising #Computing, Part 2" by Diversifying and Decolonising the University | creators.spotify.com/pod/show/div...
Episode 17: Decolonising Computing, Part 2 by Diversifying and Decolonising the University
In this episode (the second of two parts), Catarina Carvalho talks to Mustafa Ali about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big tech. This picks up from where the first part left off, s...
creators.spotify.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:03 AM
"Get real": talking AI (ML/DL, LAWS), tech, regulation, political {economy, ecology, theology}, Luddism, abolitionism etc. | Listen to "Episode 17: #Decolonising #Computing, Part 2" by Diversifying and Decolonising the University | creators.spotify.com/pod/show/div...
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Elric by Frank Brunner from Heavy Metal Feb 1979
November 20, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Elric by Frank Brunner from Heavy Metal Feb 1979
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I edit/produce this podcast, and we have an amazing two-parter with @drsyedmustafaali.bsky.social talking about computing, big tech, AI etc. Please subscribe on your fave app, and give these two a listen 🙏
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Episode 16: Decolonising Computing, Part 1
Diversifying and Decolonising the University · Episode
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November 21, 2024 at 8:31 AM
I edit/produce this podcast, and we have an amazing two-parter with @drsyedmustafaali.bsky.social talking about computing, big tech, AI etc. Please subscribe on your fave app, and give these two a listen 🙏
open.spotify.com/episode/0Lu9...
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Except that Columbus was no explorer. He was a self-styled Christian millennialist Crusader whose aim was to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem from the infidel Muslims, and who inaugurated the genocidal conquest of the so-called ‘New World’…
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Except that Columbus was no explorer. He was a self-styled Christian millennialist Crusader whose aim was to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem from the infidel Muslims, and who inaugurated the genocidal conquest of the so-called ‘New World’…
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Epistemicide/Scholasticide: Similar to the "Reconquista," when the Spanish destroyed hundreds of thousands of books in Al-Andalus, in 1948, Israel destroyed tens of thousands of books that were deemed 'inappropriate' for containing 'material against the state' (Maya Wind).
November 20, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Epistemicide/Scholasticide: Similar to the "Reconquista," when the Spanish destroyed hundreds of thousands of books in Al-Andalus, in 1948, Israel destroyed tens of thousands of books that were deemed 'inappropriate' for containing 'material against the state' (Maya Wind).
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Having read a bunch of really sharp critiques of AI, I’ve found myself assuming that AI entrepreneurs must have equally smart arguments. I’m always astounded to find that they don’t: it’s just easily disproven boosterism. But then, of course it is. It doesn’t matter, because capital is behind them.
This is not how it’s going to play out, no matter how many times people repeat it. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-c...
November 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Having read a bunch of really sharp critiques of AI, I’ve found myself assuming that AI entrepreneurs must have equally smart arguments. I’m always astounded to find that they don’t: it’s just easily disproven boosterism. But then, of course it is. It doesn’t matter, because capital is behind them.
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Check out my new substack post. I reflect on Maya Wind’s Towers of Ivory and Steel and make connections to the coloniality of curriculum.
open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...
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Towers of Ivory and Steel and the Coloniality of Curriculum
I’m currently re-reading Maya Wind’s Towers of Ivory and Steel, and this book has made me reflect on the geopolitics and coloniality of curriculum across disciplines.
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November 19, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Check out my new substack post. I reflect on Maya Wind’s Towers of Ivory and Steel and make connections to the coloniality of curriculum.
open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...
open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...
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Don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Don’t stop organizing.
Don’t stop fighting.
Don’t stop organizing.
Don’t stop fighting.
November 19, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Don’t stop organizing.
Don’t stop fighting.
Don’t stop organizing.
Don’t stop fighting.
The entanglement of settler colonialism, political theology, and white supremacy.
November 19, 2024 at 7:12 PM
The entanglement of settler colonialism, political theology, and white supremacy.