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dim-ah.bsky.social @dim-ah.bsky.social · 10h

I was beyond lucky (almost missed on it due to a health emergency) this summer to have spent a week learning Critical AI literacy approaches from&with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science & @marentierra.bsky.social now I hope to spread this knowledge further 🙏🏻🥰

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 13h

As a parent I will never forgive schools for pushing the use of LLM to children. Years of “read to your child” and now “literacy crisis” and “only bad parents give children phones” … .. while the TEACHERS tell the kids”use chat GPT to do your homework” Unforgivably dangerous and irresponsible.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Exactly. Political violence is as 'American' as apple pie and genocidal war

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

A good report but, zero mention of Biden, the real founder of the current phase of genocide and servant of tech capital

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

And in a functioning state, the executives would be arrested, not finer

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Precisely. What is missing from the legal strategy is an understanding of *power*

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Have these successful cases inhibited the tech industry in any way?

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Can anyone cite an example of a successful lawsuit against any US based tech firm, not related to monopoly but harm, that succeeded?

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

So far worse indeed, which is unsurprising.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

They don't 'have to' do anything; by signing the agreement, they lose the right to sue

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Were that true, Microsoft would not have included detailed indemnifying language in the EULA for Copilot (including agents) as I detail at the linked doc: padlet.com/verdigris21/...

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Microsoft 365 Copilot: An Analysis

An analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot: Risks and Issues

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

End User License Agreements or EULAs provided, as I'm sure you know, the legal framework for indemnifying tech firms from damage done to orgs by the use of their software. The 'AI has feelings' propaganda push is a mutation of this decades old strategem.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

It is very easy: GPUs, storage arrays, cooling and power systems are built things. How tiresome western idealism, which flees from a materialist understanding and reality itself, is.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

On the US' last day, there will be a group of people sitting around a barrel of roasted rats, trying to one up each other.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

This tendency to commandeer is usually followed by non sequiturs and attempts to teach you what you already know (which can be inferred from the original statement). You: cats are cute. Carbuncle reply: did you know cats have fur?

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

After some thought, it occurs to me that 'mansplaining' is the default social media mode for many US people generally and pale skins specifically. One can write: 'cats are cute' and as night follows day, some carbuncle will reply that cats are cute as if your statement doesn't exist

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

This is among the key works I recommend everyone, but particularly US people, study. Others: Settlers by J. Sakai readsettlers.org The Counter Revolution of 1776 by Dr Gerald Horne: nyupress.org/978147989340...

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READ SETTLERS

HTML and PDF edition of Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai, with additional material, interviews, and a linked library.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

In the case of China, yes, western voyerism which is always wrapped with racist orientalism. In the case of Cambodia, direct CIA culpability. I'm current in China and will have more to say about the Cultural Revo later

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

I don't think any westerner has the right to call out either the Cultural Revolution or the Khmer Rouge. Regarding the former, very few have the knowledge to say anything useful. And regarding Cambodia, Western powers are directly responsible for creating the conditions.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Truly. But is this not the nature of settler colonialists and imperialists (and fascism overall)? There is no space allowed for even a hint of resistance. These people are not merely folks with whom we disagree, they are enemies; this is what their behavior indicates

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Sigh. Now you're attempting to teach me about how to talk about political economy *and* Vidal. Tiresome.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Recently, I re-read one of my favorite essays by Gore Vidal in which he critiques F. Scott Fitzgerald's work. I suppose Vidal could've written this as a series of questions for the reader. That would not have been an essay however, but a quiz. Having and stating one's position is foundational.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

With all this in mind, we can define Zitron as a liberal reformer who provides some information about the chaotic financials of the 'AI' industry but whose limited range and allegiance to capital limits the usefulness of his work (not to mention his odiousness).

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

A left position, therefore, is anti capitalist and anti imperialist. This is the sine qua non of actual leftism

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

More recently, Ali Kadri's work, Accumulation of Waste details how and why the present system is built on death - brill.com/display/titl...

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The Accumulation of Waste

"The Accumulation of Waste" published on 01 Jan 2023 by Brill.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Luxemburg details the structure of capitalism and the imperialism that supports it, concluding that reform is impossible

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

This is expressed by, among other venerables, Rosa Luxemburg in her work, Reform or Revolution - www.marxists.org/archive/luxe...

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Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution (1900)

Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution (Chap.1)

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Losurdo argues and history shows that liberalism, from the start, has accepted and supported colonialism, slavery and genocide. We see this today. So much for liberalism. What then is an actual left position?

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

In the US context and the general western context, 'left' is conflated with liberalism. Domenico Losurdo dissects liberalism in his work, Liberalism, a Counter History archive.org/details/libe...

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Liberalism : a counter-history

viii, 375 pages ; 24 cm

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Zitron is not a leftist. Even so, this provides an opportunity to explore two topics: what is a left position and what is Zitron good for, if anything?

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Systems must be evaluated in their totality and not based upon how we want them to behave in specific situations

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

It is ahistorical and unrealistic to expect the media sector to do journalism about tech when it does not do journalism on other vital matters

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

I understand, but cannot share this frustration, which is born of idealism. US media lied about the invasion of Iraq and lies, to this day, about US supported genocide

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

I understand the frustration of scientists, scholars, techies, etc with the failure of media to accurately report on the 'AI' industry

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/10/2026

Happy Friday! Here's a site I've built because I've been thinking about it & want to see more of it in the world: a space for describing and sharing scholarly skills that I've picked up and nurtured over the years. Also this is a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it and no using it.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

With the help of their partners in Washington and other western elite circles.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Evil never dies, it merely assumes newish forms. As applied to 'the west' this means that Nazism and its tenets are still embedded: www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/t...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026

As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

To this, I will only add that these fantasies are nurtured by all capitalists. The tech sector, however, being essentially finance capital (and, therefore, especially parasitic) is the most self destructive manifestation: monroelab.com/2026/09/29/t...

monroelab.com

The Tech Industry: An Autopsy

The tech Industry, and the fields that grew from it, are dead. The Industry, which, as Yasha Levine details in his book, ‘Surveillance Valley’, was always a tool of oppression, and never &#82…

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/10/2026

Also labour from the people mining rare Earth minerals, the people in the Global South who toil to clean the data and supervise models live as human-in-the-loop, the people building/ cleaning data centers... the labour theft is so extensive it's not realistic that this would have been feasible.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't think fascism has ever been defeated bureaucratically. The systemic work comes after the Reichstag is in ruins

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

There are indeed. The less said about these cretins, the better

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

In the spirit of this counter push, I'll share this strategy guide I created for understanding and resisting the imposition of MS Copilot in your org: padlet.com/verdigris21/...

padlet.com

Microsoft 365 Copilot: An Analysis

An analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot: Risks and Issues

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

I fondly recall text based games and 'Hitchhiker's Guide...' if memory serves, was appropriately arch

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/10/2026

One of the most upsetting things for people trained in formal computational theory, who are not AI boosters, to witness is how claims about the outputs of systems with no formal specification are taken as if they are indicative of formally linked capacities, such as the ability to add; see thread:

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