Ana Brandusescu
@anabrandusescu.bsky.social
Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
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lol we wrote this a year ago and things have just gotten more ridiculous ever since.
A thread on me losing my mind trying to buy basic stuff on the internet 🧵
A thread on me losing my mind trying to buy basic stuff on the internet 🧵
so I said we'd write something about "AI", well, here it is -
#DataBack Vol 2: Truth Before “Indigenous AI”. Understanding and Resisting Generative AI animikii.com/databack/und...
#DataBack Vol 2: Truth Before “Indigenous AI”. Understanding and Resisting Generative AI animikii.com/databack/und...
Understanding and Resisting Generative AI
— Animikii Indigenous Technology
Animikii empowers Indigenous communities with culturally informed technology solutions like Niiwin—our groundbreaking tool for Indigenous data sovereignty and community empowerment.
animikii.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
lol we wrote this a year ago and things have just gotten more ridiculous ever since.
A thread on me losing my mind trying to buy basic stuff on the internet 🧵
A thread on me losing my mind trying to buy basic stuff on the internet 🧵
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You gotta be kidding me
www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-est...
www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-est...
U of T establishes new Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence with support from Google
The University of Toronto has established the Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence with $10 million in funding from Google. This new chair will honour the extraordinary legacy of University Profess...
www.utoronto.ca
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
You gotta be kidding me
www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-est...
www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-est...
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The biggest challenge in AI governance rn is leaders who are scared of regulation and scared of Trump
Once again pointing at my giant neon "don't rely on governments to regulate AI" sign
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The biggest challenge in AI governance rn is leaders who are scared of regulation and scared of Trump
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We have to protect and support this woman
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have to protect and support this woman
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Even if this was true--and I question the premise that there are a lot of Jewish Americans who don't know what the Jordan River is--this kind of condescending "if you think murder is wrong name five of their albums" stuff is exactly why they lost the kids
Hillary Clinton sassing off "young Jewish Americans who don't know their own history" in a way that is disgustingly antisemitic. "They say from the river to the sea...they don't even know which river and which sea!" Fuck off.
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Even if this was true--and I question the premise that there are a lot of Jewish Americans who don't know what the Jordan River is--this kind of condescending "if you think murder is wrong name five of their albums" stuff is exactly why they lost the kids
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Must read:
Queering intelligence: A theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence by @blairaf.com
Queering intelligence: A theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence by @blairaf.com
Queering intelligence | 3 | A theory of intelligence as performance an
How intelligence is defined has a cascading effect on how artificial intelligence (AI) is defined, developed, managed, and governed. Intelligence is an
www.taylorfrancis.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Must read:
Queering intelligence: A theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence by @blairaf.com
Queering intelligence: A theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence by @blairaf.com
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Must-reads:
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence by @timnitgebru.bsky.social and @xriskology.bsky.social
Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI by Rua M Williams
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence by @timnitgebru.bsky.social and @xriskology.bsky.social
Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI by Rua M Williams
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence
| First Monday
firstmonday.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Must-reads:
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence by @timnitgebru.bsky.social and @xriskology.bsky.social
Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI by Rua M Williams
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence by @timnitgebru.bsky.social and @xriskology.bsky.social
Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI by Rua M Williams
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Not one mention of eugenics.
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Not one mention of eugenics.
My research shouldn't be investigative journalism.
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My research shouldn't be investigative journalism.
I wish The Logic would also report on the partnership Palantir has with Carahsoft to "to expand and accelerate delivery of Palantir’s operating systems across the Canadian Public Sector"
December 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I wish The Logic would also report on the partnership Palantir has with Carahsoft to "to expand and accelerate delivery of Palantir’s operating systems across the Canadian Public Sector"
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Canadians dish out violent civility and call themselves progressive.
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Canadians dish out violent civility and call themselves progressive.
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Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
Still asking!
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Still asking!
I MEAN
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I MEAN
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Sitting with Edward Said's words more and more
!["Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult and principled position, which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take.
You do not want to appear too political; you are afraid of seeming controversial; you want to keep a reputation for being balanced, objective, moderate; your hope to be asked back, to consult, to be on a board or prestigious committee, and so to remain within the responsible mainstream; someday you hope to get an honorary degree, a big prize, perhaps even an ambassadorship. For an intellectual these habits of mind are corrupting par excellence.
If anything can denature, neutralize, and finally kill a passionate intellectual life it s the internalization of such habits. Personally I have encountered them in one of the toughest of all contemporary issues, Palestine, where fear of speaking out about one of the greatest injustices in modern history has hobbled, blinkered, muzzled many who know the truth and are in a position to serve it. For despite the abuse and vilification that any outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights and self-determination earns for him or herself [or themself], the truth deserves to be spoken, represented by an unafraid and compassionate intellectual."
-Edward W. Said
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December 17, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Sitting with Edward Said's words more and more
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This book will change the world.
March 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This book will change the world.
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Advancing techno-fascism, the EO edition.
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Advancing techno-fascism, the EO edition.
Free Palestine
December 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Free Palestine
If you're talking and writing about Palestine, you should be critiquing Zionism. Anything less is a disservice to Palestinian freedom and justice.
December 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
If you're talking and writing about Palestine, you should be critiquing Zionism. Anything less is a disservice to Palestinian freedom and justice.
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Enter generative AI in general and ChatGPT in particular. If your idea of learning is scrolling through content and perhaps shuffling it around a little before submitting it back online for your credential, it must seem like a kind of liquid-metal coursework Terminator. Why *wouldn’t* it appeal?
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Enter generative AI in general and ChatGPT in particular. If your idea of learning is scrolling through content and perhaps shuffling it around a little before submitting it back online for your credential, it must seem like a kind of liquid-metal coursework Terminator. Why *wouldn’t* it appeal?
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I think back of all of it is credentialism, the idea that the degree and the GPA are the point, the insistence on the shortest path to both for market reasons; at the upper end university is a Student Experience and at the lower end it certifies you for data entry. This corrodes the desire to learn.
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I think back of all of it is credentialism, the idea that the degree and the GPA are the point, the insistence on the shortest path to both for market reasons; at the upper end university is a Student Experience and at the lower end it certifies you for data entry. This corrodes the desire to learn.
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