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Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar

@pr-c.bsky.social

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🇨🇴 Research Scientist @Robotics and AI Institute (RAI). Former MIT Media Lab. Ethics of Tech | Participatory Design | HCI | Ancestral Technology

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Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Very excited to share this workshop I'm helping to host on August 19: "From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing" tech-organizing-reflections.github.io

a simple, dark green flier with a bold, white text header:
From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing

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Hybrid Workshop @ Aarhus - Tuesday August 19, 8:30–11:30 am EST / 2:30–5:30 pm CEST
Computing is a field plagued with presentism, oriented towards the new in ways that limit our design and research practices - as well as our capacity to understand and collectively respond to emerging crises. To improve our sensemaking and strategizing about today's crises, this workshop explores what Tamara Kneese has deemed the last decade's shift from "techlash" to "tech fash". What have we learned from the era of misinformation and bias, of "surveillance capitalism" and tech worker organizing that can inform our struggle against the increasing power of a techno-fascist oligarchy? We will also look towards previous generations of computing professionals and activists, who likewise sought to address the harms of emerging automated systems and the complicity of computing within violent, imperialist projects. This workshop will create space for participants to explore these questions collectively, bridging past and present moments in an effort to devise strategies moving forward.

RSVP by Aug 12 https://tech-organizing-reflections.github.io/

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/12/2024

Elon Musk has been trying to kill California’s high-speed rail project for over a decade. It’s the only reason he started pushing the Hyperloop as an alternative. Now he’s planning to use his influence with Trump to ensure its federal funding gets cut off.

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Elon Musk is sending DOGE after high-speed rail

Donald Trump’s “first buddy” is using his position to revive personal vendettas

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

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Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature

A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...

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