Lorena Jaume-Palasí
@lopalasi.bsky.social
Founder The Ethical Tech Society | AlgorithmWatch | IGF Academy I @lopalasi@dair-community.social on Mastodon
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Your other favorite so-called "critic," Gary Marcus, threatened to sue me for publicly writing how he attacked me, unsummoned. For writing the things he said that people could very easily find themselves.
People were like "you're on the same side."
Hell no we're not. Its not a binary.
People were like "you're on the same side."
Hell no we're not. Its not a binary.
October 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Your other favorite so-called "critic," Gary Marcus, threatened to sue me for publicly writing how he attacked me, unsummoned. For writing the things he said that people could very easily find themselves.
People were like "you're on the same side."
Hell no we're not. Its not a binary.
People were like "you're on the same side."
Hell no we're not. Its not a binary.
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And for all folks bs they do not do the PRACTICAL and material work of ensuring safety or strategy
it’s not “enshittification ” it’s another example of white people ignoring something til it effects them
And as @anthonymoser.com dropped ina banger
Procrustean their way to erasure
it’s not “enshittification ” it’s another example of white people ignoring something til it effects them
And as @anthonymoser.com dropped ina banger
Procrustean their way to erasure
December 26, 2024 at 5:06 PM
And for all folks bs they do not do the PRACTICAL and material work of ensuring safety or strategy
it’s not “enshittification ” it’s another example of white people ignoring something til it effects them
And as @anthonymoser.com dropped ina banger
Procrustean their way to erasure
it’s not “enshittification ” it’s another example of white people ignoring something til it effects them
And as @anthonymoser.com dropped ina banger
Procrustean their way to erasure
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Reupping this today. For obvious reasons.
Also it's ~wild~ to see a topic you've written a whole book on, have cited mostly women and PoC authors, and yet a whole multi-thousand newsletter post only cites ... other substack bros.
If academics wrote books like substack bros.
“If you’ve been with me for a while you know that I like to go DEEP into a topic. That’s just who I am. Well this new book goes extra hard & I’ve written 90k words on my fave subject. But bear with me, folks, it’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up.”
“If you’ve been with me for a while you know that I like to go DEEP into a topic. That’s just who I am. Well this new book goes extra hard & I’ve written 90k words on my fave subject. But bear with me, folks, it’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up.”
October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Reupping this today. For obvious reasons.
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“Enshittification” created an imaginary space where the problems of social spaces starts when it hits their radar
Bluesky has been bad for marginalized folks and had to be insulted into moderation
And treats folks that remind them as pariahs
That’s the problem
Jay Graber has vowed to prevent enshittification. Allowing Jesse Singal on this site is the entrance ramp to the enshittification highway. The success of Bluesky is due, in part, to the early, heavy participation of trans people fleeing "X"/Twitter due to the harassment that Elon Musk allowed there.
Singal's ONLY reason for being on social media is to harass trans people and their friends. He doesn't even disguise the fact, he's been very open about his intention to harass trans people on this site. Any site that allows him to have an account is endorsing and encouraging that harassment.
December 11, 2024 at 2:54 PM
“Enshittification” created an imaginary space where the problems of social spaces starts when it hits their radar
Bluesky has been bad for marginalized folks and had to be insulted into moderation
And treats folks that remind them as pariahs
That’s the problem
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Enshittification is gentrification and colonialism for tech.
The fact that it came in the door terrible for certain people is considered the price of business
and folks want to separate it from most of history to justify having. fights with each other over listening to
The fact that it came in the door terrible for certain people is considered the price of business
and folks want to separate it from most of history to justify having. fights with each other over listening to
AI was born enshittified.
brother it *is* the trap
October 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Enshittification is gentrification and colonialism for tech.
The fact that it came in the door terrible for certain people is considered the price of business
and folks want to separate it from most of history to justify having. fights with each other over listening to
The fact that it came in the door terrible for certain people is considered the price of business
and folks want to separate it from most of history to justify having. fights with each other over listening to
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You mean Black slang which is exactly why I hate EFF / enshittification/ and the Doctrow recommendation of adding AAVE to LLM
And it’s something I’ve said for years in public and on stage and is in three Black books
But hey it matters now
And it’s something I’ve said for years in public and on stage and is in three Black books
But hey it matters now
Turns out all the major LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama 3) struggle to understand Gen Alpha phrases, like "let him cook", "ate that up", "got ratioed", "secure the bag" etc. Research paper written by a soon-to-be 9th grader www.404media.co/ai-models-an...
AI Models And Parents Don’t Understand ‘Let Him Cook’
LLMs are not familiar with “ate that up,” “secure the bag,” and “sigma,” showing that training data is not yet updated to Gen Alpha terminology.
www.404media.co
June 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
You mean Black slang which is exactly why I hate EFF / enshittification/ and the Doctrow recommendation of adding AAVE to LLM
And it’s something I’ve said for years in public and on stage and is in three Black books
But hey it matters now
And it’s something I’ve said for years in public and on stage and is in three Black books
But hey it matters now
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This week in Misfits, we head to the New York Botanical Garden to explore the herbarium's cryptogamic collections and discuss specimen storage, and how wily species — both alive and dead, male and female — defy neat classification
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October 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This week in Misfits, we head to the New York Botanical Garden to explore the herbarium's cryptogamic collections and discuss specimen storage, and how wily species — both alive and dead, male and female — defy neat classification
crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/por...
crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/por...
@malteengeler.bsky.social hat eine fulminante Kritik zum Buch "KI und der neue Faschismus". Kapitalismus & Faschismus stehen sich näher,als das Marketing uns erzählt. Auf diese systematische +historische Verbindungen weist das Buch nicht hin, sondern Malte www.structural-integrity.eu/convenience-...
Convenience Criticism: On Rainer Mühlhoff's book about "AI" and Fascism
Books about so-called “AI”, the hype around “AI” and the connection between “AI” and authoritarian and fascist forces are much needed these days. They are important resources for communities to unders...
www.structural-integrity.eu
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
@malteengeler.bsky.social hat eine fulminante Kritik zum Buch "KI und der neue Faschismus". Kapitalismus & Faschismus stehen sich näher,als das Marketing uns erzählt. Auf diese systematische +historische Verbindungen weist das Buch nicht hin, sondern Malte www.structural-integrity.eu/convenience-...
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reminder that continental critical minerals are not ours to give away - not for imaginary submarines, not for contemptible attempts at appeasing fascism - and Forrest is a top ten multi-generational coloniser.
overland.org.au/2025/10/colo...
overland.org.au/2025/10/colo...
Colonialism's new Gold Rush: how 80 per cent of Australia's critical mineral mines exploit Aboriginal land without true consent - Overland literary journal
This fight over the Pilbara mine is not an isolated spat — it hints at a much larger problem. A new study finds that nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous ...
overland.org.au
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
reminder that continental critical minerals are not ours to give away - not for imaginary submarines, not for contemptible attempts at appeasing fascism - and Forrest is a top ten multi-generational coloniser.
overland.org.au/2025/10/colo...
overland.org.au/2025/10/colo...
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“The case shows how American law enforcement can use ChatGPT prompts to gather data on users suspected of criminal activity.”
OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts
First known warrant of its kind reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide identifying information on anyone who enters specific prompts.
www.forbes.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“The case shows how American law enforcement can use ChatGPT prompts to gather data on users suspected of criminal activity.”
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The genocide continues.
BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.
Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire
Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The genocide continues.
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German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate
shorturl.at/OFfig
shorturl.at/OFfig
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate
shorturl.at/OFfig
shorturl.at/OFfig
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Honored to be invited on @dairinstitute.bsky.social's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 to talk about sci-fi, tech, and AI and whether it's true that "tech leaders just need to read better sci-fi." (Spoiler: I think no.)
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Building Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth), 2025.09.29 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Powerful AI boosters claim to love science fiction novels, but why do they always seem to take the wrong lessons from them? Reporter and writer Reo Eveleth joins us to discuss the ways tech leaders mi...
www.buzzsprout.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Honored to be invited on @dairinstitute.bsky.social's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 to talk about sci-fi, tech, and AI and whether it's true that "tech leaders just need to read better sci-fi." (Spoiler: I think no.)
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
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With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...
A Nobel prize is not a sign of moral or scientific prowess at all
October 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A Nobel prize is not a sign of moral or scientific prowess at all
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“Las tácticas de las grandes tecnológicas son las mismas que las de los imperios de antaño”. “Existen movimientos cuasi religiosos en Silicon Valley en torno a la IA, se ha convertido en un dogma que nadie cuestiona”. @karenhao.bsky.social en entrevista con @elpais.com
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
Karen Hao, periodista: “Las tácticas de las grandes tecnológicas son las mismas que las de los imperios de antaño”
La reportera estadounidense disecciona en un polémico libro la forma en que la industria está reconfigurando el mundo a todos los niveles
elpais.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Las tácticas de las grandes tecnológicas son las mismas que las de los imperios de antaño”. “Existen movimientos cuasi religiosos en Silicon Valley en torno a la IA, se ha convertido en un dogma que nadie cuestiona”. @karenhao.bsky.social en entrevista con @elpais.com
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
A bit late to the party, but I'm loving this blog post from @anthonymoser.com "the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals"... anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
October 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A bit late to the party, but I'm loving this blog post from @anthonymoser.com "the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals"... anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.
October 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
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This aerial image from the 1960s shows that the 'yellow line' of Israel's redeployment in Gaza is roughly matching with the border of the area's coastal sand dune, leaving Gaza without the absolute majority of its agricultural areas on the fertile soils in the east.
@forensicarchi.bsky.social
@forensicarchi.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This aerial image from the 1960s shows that the 'yellow line' of Israel's redeployment in Gaza is roughly matching with the border of the area's coastal sand dune, leaving Gaza without the absolute majority of its agricultural areas on the fertile soils in the east.
@forensicarchi.bsky.social
@forensicarchi.bsky.social
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Its like everyone is conspiring to shill for corporations plundering resources & mislead the public
OpenAI plants FOMO in the air
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Mainstream media interviews him about machine god
OpenAI plants FOMO in the air
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Mainstream media interviews him about machine god
October 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Its like everyone is conspiring to shill for corporations plundering resources & mislead the public
OpenAI plants FOMO in the air
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Nobel prize awards Hinton
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Mainstream media interviews him about machine god
OpenAI plants FOMO in the air
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Nobel prize awards Hinton
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Mainstream media interviews him about machine god
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The Daily show also interviewed "father" of effective altruism William MacAskill & promoted his book.
The billionaires gave him millions to promote his book so a PR person probably got him on the show.
All mainstream media shilling propaganda for the corporations claiming to build machine gods 🙄
The billionaires gave him millions to promote his book so a PR person probably got him on the show.
All mainstream media shilling propaganda for the corporations claiming to build machine gods 🙄
In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & Geoffrey Hinton discuss ⬇️:
>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons
NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...
>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons
NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...
AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Daily show also interviewed "father" of effective altruism William MacAskill & promoted his book.
The billionaires gave him millions to promote his book so a PR person probably got him on the show.
All mainstream media shilling propaganda for the corporations claiming to build machine gods 🙄
The billionaires gave him millions to promote his book so a PR person probably got him on the show.
All mainstream media shilling propaganda for the corporations claiming to build machine gods 🙄
Maria Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize Winner sees her politics aligned with Milei's (see e.g. www.clarin.com/mundo/maria-.... She's signatory of the Charta of Madrid -created by the think tank of Spain's right wing party Vox, whose leader introduced it to Trump. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_...
Madrid Forum - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Maria Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize Winner sees her politics aligned with Milei's (see e.g. www.clarin.com/mundo/maria-.... She's signatory of the Charta of Madrid -created by the think tank of Spain's right wing party Vox, whose leader introduced it to Trump. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_...