Interesting stuff. "The new Foundation 'Expectation Fail' has just started their first call for projects against Tech Fascism. 10 "scores against tech fascism" can get 1500-7000 EUR each to work on this sadly very current topic". Details here:

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Terrifying. "Louis Mosley, the head of Palantir UK, met Keir Starmer that day. “You could see in his eyes that he gets it - the will is there”". Also admits they recruit sociopaths if they're 'brilliant'. NB. Mosley is the grandson of Oswald Mosley.

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Palantir Boss Louis Mosley: Keir Starmer

In a bid to boost growth, Labour has thrown open government’s doors to controversial US tech firm Palantir. In his first ever sit-down interview,...

'Questions for Anthropic (or any other LLM-pusher)'. Sharing the questions I prepared for a panel about Claude in education, in case they're useful to anyone else resisting the narrative of AI inevitability

Questions for Anthropic (or any other LLM-pusher)

Just a reminder that the corporation which proudly promotes its barely-concealed white supremacy on giant posters in the USA is the same company awarded £330m to run the NHS Federated Data Platform #PalantirOut

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Dropping at select colleges today.

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NHS England » Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

Seems like a good time to be exploring ways out of our current technofascist trajectory. Come and join the discussion next week. 📅 Thu 24 Apr ⏰ 4 – 5pm 📍 Online via Zoom 🎟

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BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar - Dan McQuillan

Thursday, 24th April 2024 [Inspace / Zoom]

The nonsense about 'agentic AI' is a diversion from the fact that AI has always been about removing agency from the rest of us.

The Unstitching Datafication series starts tomorrow with Gavin Mueller's talk on 'Luddite Futures', and closes in July with mine on 'Decomputing as Resistance'. Eight great sessions on deconstructing and resisting today's tech supremacism https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/unstitching-datafication/

This sack of shit has taken the critique from 'Resisting AI' and turned it into a sales pitch: 'fascistic solutionism' ☑️ , 'constituent power' ☑️, 'states of exception' ☑️, necropolitics ☑️ - "ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ " https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/

Going to be chatting 'decomputing' at an online BRAID seminar. All welcome! 📅 Thu 24 Apr ⏰ 4 – 5pm 📍 Online via Zoom 🎟

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BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar - Dan McQuillan

Thursday, 24th April 2024 [Inspace / Zoom]

Here's the full version of 'Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right'

Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right

. Why an obsession with 'growth' is already paving the way for environmental harms and DOGE-like, public service-smashing eugenics here in the UK, and what we can do about it.