Serife (Sherry) Wong
@serife.bsky.social
Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | ORCAA | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | ORCAA | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
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Trailer for my new video: The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance. It's on how AI culture functions like historical spiritualism using our collective grief and fear to shape beliefs that enable greater extraction, violence and the concentration of power. asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
Diversify your portfolio moments. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
Google’s Sundar Pichai warns of “irrationality” in trillion-dollar AI investment boom
Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Diversify your portfolio moments. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
Follow up news from @krisshrishak.bsky.social and @abeba.bsky.social on the letter asking President of European commission to retract his hype (Superintelligence ) and the buzz that privacy protections are threatened because of this excitement for "agi" www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
www.techpolicy.press
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Follow up news from @krisshrishak.bsky.social and @abeba.bsky.social on the letter asking President of European commission to retract his hype (Superintelligence ) and the buzz that privacy protections are threatened because of this excitement for "agi" www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
Anyone else watching pluribus? Cause Samsung did not... this is more of an adbusters style detournement using the tool against itself IMHO www.reddit.com/r/assholedes...
From the assholedesign community on Reddit: Apparently my samsung fridge has ads now...
Explore this post and more from the assholedesign community
www.reddit.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Anyone else watching pluribus? Cause Samsung did not... this is more of an adbusters style detournement using the tool against itself IMHO www.reddit.com/r/assholedes...
ICCL has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission for its use of generative Al in public documents, which likely violates its own guidelines and its obligation under the treaties.
www.iccl.ie/news/europea...
www.iccl.ie/news/europea...
www.iccl.ie
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
ICCL has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission for its use of generative Al in public documents, which likely violates its own guidelines and its obligation under the treaties.
www.iccl.ie/news/europea...
www.iccl.ie/news/europea...
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Trailer for my new video: The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance. It's on how AI culture functions like historical spiritualism using our collective grief and fear to shape beliefs that enable greater extraction, violence and the concentration of power. asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Trailer for my new video: The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance. It's on how AI culture functions like historical spiritualism using our collective grief and fear to shape beliefs that enable greater extraction, violence and the concentration of power. asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
My local library is featuring native authors and skimming through their plots was heartbreaking because so many over and over are about murders. Write what you know. Native women are murdered at 10x the national rate a direct legacy of colonialism creating extreme vulnerability
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My local library is featuring native authors and skimming through their plots was heartbreaking because so many over and over are about murders. Write what you know. Native women are murdered at 10x the national rate a direct legacy of colonialism creating extreme vulnerability
The student surveillance company proctorio which boomed during the pandemic had sued this university employee for critical tweets it said shared confidential info but just exposed their sketchy practices. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The student surveillance company proctorio which boomed during the pandemic had sued this university employee for critical tweets it said shared confidential info but just exposed their sketchy practices. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
If algorithms work so well how come my ads are all
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
If algorithms work so well how come my ads are all
Trailer for my new video: The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance. It's on how AI culture functions like historical spiritualism using our collective grief and fear to shape beliefs that enable greater extraction, violence and the concentration of power. asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Trailer for my new video: The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance. It's on how AI culture functions like historical spiritualism using our collective grief and fear to shape beliefs that enable greater extraction, violence and the concentration of power. asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
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Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
There are a lot of efforts like this meant to educate on techs lean to authoritarianism but too often they cut out important people & orgs because they are considered more left even though if you follow the money it's the same crowd. Look at all the missing ppl here www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
There are a lot of efforts like this meant to educate on techs lean to authoritarianism but too often they cut out important people & orgs because they are considered more left even though if you follow the money it's the same crowd. Look at all the missing ppl here www.authoritarian-stack.info
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My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s <em>Little Eyes</em>
In recent years, a range of commercial home surveillance products have emerged that foreground ‘cuteness’ as a selling point. From small cat-shaped cameras with detachable ears to ‘pocket robots’ equi...
c21.openlibhums.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
@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...
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.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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vimeo.com/1116289621
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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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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...