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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 20h

Video can capture what is between the lines in a way no article could. I see no difference between any of the major AI companies. We can not trust these systems because we can not trust these institutions or their mechanisms for accountability. www.youtube.com/live/hetzIrL...

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Trump speaks after meeting with AI tech titans

YouTube video by The Hill

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Stop AI was a flop. Pause AI was a bust. But oh now “Pace AI” that’s what they are going with? What next? Tickle AI? Don’t text back right away wait five minutes so you don’t seem so eager AI? Why not support existing lawsuits? Why not join existing movements already fighting the good fight?

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty AGI optimist: We have to pour a gajillion gallons of water a minute into this cup or else it’ll never be sentient!

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Somedays the headlines are like 1984, some days like the parable of the sower.

A San Francisco Chronicle newspaper dated Friday, August 21, 2026, held up in a store entrance display among groceries. Visible headlines include “Crackdown sought on firings by AI” and “Homes in fire zones face limits on plants.”

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Meanwhile in San Francisco: What do we want? AI Safety! When do we want it? Whenever you get around to it after we cash out our stock options!

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It's really disturbing how the white supremacist are emboldened over on xwitter over Arday's suicide. It's scary.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026

Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Effective Altruists scaled the ideology among AI researchers using crypto $. At one point, EA civil society was worth $40b. Rest of civil society is hopeful for IPO donations. Together these normalize a lot of sci fi ideas via cog biases capturing resources + attention from reality-based governance.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

make some research norms more difficult as an inherent affordance of the technology and as a a corporate strategy. (I am fleshing this out in a paper on "algorithmic agnotology" that I am finishing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRJ...

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Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power – Alondra Nelson | IASEAI '26

YouTube video by International Association for Safe & Ethical AI

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Lots of PR from tech companies promoting AI lately. How they view public opinion is out of touch &condescending. "Oh these users think AI is bad, they don't know it's good actually. I'll tell them." Don't empires often start their collapse when their power isolates them from learning/strategizing?

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Super Cool. Dine artist and mathematician weaves computer chip designs and shines a light on indigenous labor in the computing industry which is unrecognized and extractive. forgeproject.com/collection/e...

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Researchers w different AGI beliefs agree on pacing agreements, a more palatable pause/stop AI. But the narrative is captured away from power they already have to organize, quit, unionize, whistleblow. Could we coordinate in the pandemic? climate? Depoliticization builds a big tent without stakes

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The visual metaphor of this article's book chop video captures the current epistemic trashing by LLMs. I have seen so many book scanners before that are gentle and preserve books. I can't tell if it's real, it ought to be I guess? But unbelievably on the nose www.news.com.au/technology/o...

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AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Effective Altruism is ramping up social media influencing for their ideology as... effective use of $ to fear monger for future lives saved in speculative fictitious futures but there is an EA event in SF every 3 days or so: picnics, walks, parties. Imagine the $ once Anthropic stocks are cashed out

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A lot of AI enabled violence and harm has come to pass but I have to say I did not expect the public to reject AI at this level nor did I see how fast the momentum against data centers would build. Neither did the companies. Scrambling

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

open-source project mapping surveillance and you can find routes around cameras. deflock.org

deflock.org

DeFlock

Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Our model escaped and hacked! Unprecedented! Could there be anything incentivizing a nervous company as they lose their lead to a rival to make their tool sound so so naughty that it must be very smart. We can hardly control this monster AI! IPO coming soon! Sci Fi geeks doing PR again.

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Twilight Zone Nightmare

ALT: Twilight Zone Nightmare

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Do you think this was internal sabotage/joke or viral marketing. Cause no way an entire department of marketing chain of command just didn’t pay attention and zero people pointed out the issue. techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...

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Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Companies are hiring AI governance people again after having pivoted away from accountability in the wake of LLMs. Why this sudden bloom after the first harvest withered on the vine? Because the public does not trust these companies and their tools and does not want their data centers.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The arts & what culture is and serves is fundamentally being reshaped towards a politically economy that in reality serves the interests of the powerful and decimates the arts. The loss of CCA, this $ direction does not serve artists but is a co-option of our ecosystem www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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Nvidia CEO Gives Vanderbilt University $75 Million For San Francisco Campus

Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/10/2025

"While corporations urge us to embrace their supposedly inevitable tech-driven future, academics must take a principled stand and defend universities by barring toxic, addictive techn from classrooms." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... Tide is def shifting: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 9/n

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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Teens annoy a lot of people sure, but what next? Waymo facial recognition identifies immigrants, Waymo calls ICE, Waymo follows activist home, Waymo blocks traffic to aid in mass arrests at pro democracy protest www.mercurynews.com/2026/07/07/w...

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Waymo car delivers misbehaving teen passengers to San Mateo police

The 15-year-olds allegedly were drinking alcohol and shooting water beads from a toy gun as they rode in the driverless car.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Look to San Francisco, home of the tech booms & AI labs, to see how the febrile AI sector benefits ripple out to communities. My local CVS locks up the frequently shoplifted items: ramen noodles, baby formula, canned food. Rent for a 1bdrm apt nearby is $6500.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Do I have any colleagues with Jackson Mississippi connections or history? Queer community a +

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

2 signs in the Bay Area capture different kinds of anger at AI tools, consequences & forms of community education. Swanky neighborhood sign's AI is optional, harming others, call to action is read more. The other sign's AI is for jailing, control, fear. It warns for safety. AI hits different.

Flyer on pole in bubbly script reads "How i sleep knowing I'm better than people who use Chatgpt & Waymo" Above a pencil colorful illustration of cartoon orange cat napping by cozy bookshelves on a pink armchair. below it reads Waymo, Chatgot, and other AI (inquotes) programs rely on the labor of exploited and underpaid workers in the 3rd/majority world. educate yourself Read Empire of AI by Karen Hao

Underneath parking sign in parking lots that shows partial sign of camera laptop cellphone icons Remove valuables from sight. Someone in sharpie has scribbled These cameras use flock (underlined) on the pole.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Well that's a first. Customer Service I called made me prove I was human before helping me. (After the AI agent hung up on me twice)

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

How can I share in progress work with people if it is work I would not want put in an LLM. What kinds of thinking or creativity are accelerated while what kinds are thwarted? And more interestingly, what kinds of new forms will work need to take pushing new sociotech frictions?

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I don't know how visible it is to those wealthy enough to not feel consequences but San Francisco is shifting in its politics towards the right. I don't mean elections, those are one signal among many. What's dominant? What is criminalized and how? Who is leaving? What orgs are out of funds?

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Companies are like: Hey teach this AI agent how to do your job! For funsies only, we swear. Heard two stories this week from friends this actually happened to. Its a mess in many ways. AI agents really can't do these jobs, but workers are expected to make it work, so they are in trouble either way.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'd like to give this talk again. Its even more relevant. But what artists and the orgs that support us want is money. It's a crisis: orgs closing, jobs are few, rent is higher, I know the arts are drowning but that tech hand isn't there to pull us out. We gotta swim in this flood.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

according to the spacex filings, their valuation is justified entirely by grok, which will be 90% of enterprise ai, and ai will be 90% of the us economy

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Another successful day listening to someone compare AI to a tool in that it's neutral and can be used for good or evil & not ending my disagreement explaining AI political economy with "but you might be a tool, though". 🍦 #punkdiplomacy

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Art & critical AI discourse: I see a beam from a lighthouse bright but still, illuminating the ocean as our boat steers right into the rocks of totalitarian AI. Our discourse burns at both ends, But oh what waves! & oh snap, friends, it casts a beautiful light. www.totei.com/story/trevor...

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Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on Making Art with AI and What the Discourse Is Missing

The artists talk process, slop, and why optimism and pessimism don’t quite cover it.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes and also this. Scraping and legal action stuff here is a two way st, that can sound like common sense until you get deep in the history of it. Same re harms by social media giants where we might accidentally cheer against encryption cause it may hurt corporate only to find out it hurts us more.

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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 31/05/2026

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International

This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Reading this in context of how "skeptical" of their company anthropic employees must have been finding about Claude use in Venezuela by the US military. They are screened to do so and encourage friction. www.implicator.ai/at-anthropic...

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Anthropic's Culture Interview Is Its Top Hiring Gate

Anthropic pays up to $850,000 and just passed OpenAI at a $965 billion valuation. Its toughest interview round involves no code at all. Recruiters say the culture interview is where most strong candid...

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Bernie@sanders.senate.gov has surprised many with his shift towards Xrisk speculation. Many policymakers have, perpetuating false AI narratives. These beliefs aren't organic & need to be to contextualized with how much EA lobbying has happened. From 2023: www.politico.com/news/2023/10...

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How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington

A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/05/2026

Outcry is a chatbot “designed specifically as a ‘private, on-device AI mentor for activists, organizers and movement builders.’”

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Occupy Wall Street Co-Founder Built an AI App to Help Activists Seize the Means of Computation

A chatbot with a library of activist literature in your back pocket.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is unbelievable. The AI boom is now piggybacking on green colonialism, eating up any contribution to emissions reduction while causing harm to Indigenous communities. The Yakama Tribe has been fighting this pumped storage project for years, only to learn it would primarily power…a data center.

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

One Vatican is worth at least 3 superbowls re narrative capture the flag. I like a lot of what is said in speeches from both the Vatican and Anthropic. Doesn't everyone want good and not bad? And so what? The actual uses and contracts sing a different tune. Beats drop before IPOs. Crowd goes wild

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 25/05/2026

If you're wondering why Chris Olah, the cofounder of AI company Anthropic, was sitting on the stage with Pope Leo today as the pontiff unveiled his new encyclical on AI, well ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN. religionnews.com/2026/05/22/w...

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Inside the unlikely Vatican-Anthropic relationship that's reshaping the AI ethics debate

(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical on AI is set to be released Monday (May 25), with Chris Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, at his side.

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 25/05/2026

One *cannot* just move on from the Anthropic question when the very substance of this encyclical letter was written with the tech industry talking point. One simple example below: 👇 www.vatican.va/content/leo-....

98. It is appropriate to preface this discussion with two considerations. First, any statement regarding Al risks becoming quickly outdated, given the remarkable pace at which these systems are developing. Second, all of us, including those who design them, possess only a limited understanding of their actual functioning. Indeed, current Al systems are more "cultivated" than "built," for developers do not directly design every detail, but instead create a framework within
which the intelligence "grows." As a result, fundamental scientific aspects — such as the internal representations and computational processes of these systems — remain, at present, unknown. There thus emerges an urgent need for a twofold commitment: on the one hand, a deepening of scientific research; on the other, the exercise of moral and spiritual discernment.

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...

blue grey octopus with big eyes on brown bottom

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