Dwayne Monroe
@cloudquistador.bsky.social
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Verdigris: Critique for the Age of Decline
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At monroelab.com I write about the tech industry's political economy, informed by Marx and Raymond Chandler. In January, a new team effort, for writers who want to look at the world and report what they see:
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This is a critically important conversation. Both because of the specific topic at hand and also because the story of US meddling in the region shows that socialism didn't fail, it is relentlessly attacked and sabotaged
NEW: The Return of Operation Condor (we talk Ecuador, general strike, US-backed narco-military regime lead by Daniel Naboa, & the imperialist revenge against Pink Tide governments)
millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-return-o...
millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-return-o...
November 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This is a critically important conversation. Both because of the specific topic at hand and also because the story of US meddling in the region shows that socialism didn't fail, it is relentlessly attacked and sabotaged
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Anti-genocide activists with Disarm Genocide rallied outside ILA headquarters in NJ as part of an international day of action to demand longshoremen leadership stop shipping weapons to Israel.
“This is just the beginning,” founder Chris Smalls says. “We will escalate. And we will be back.”
“This is just the beginning,” founder Chris Smalls says. “We will escalate. And we will be back.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Anti-genocide activists with Disarm Genocide rallied outside ILA headquarters in NJ as part of an international day of action to demand longshoremen leadership stop shipping weapons to Israel.
“This is just the beginning,” founder Chris Smalls says. “We will escalate. And we will be back.”
“This is just the beginning,” founder Chris Smalls says. “We will escalate. And we will be back.”
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On a related note, here's a useful book if people wanna understand more on EA doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
> It brings together a diverse group of activists and scholars to explore Effective Altruism’s failure to meaningfully address forms of human and animal suffering.
> It brings together a diverse group of activists and scholars to explore Effective Altruism’s failure to meaningfully address forms of human and animal suffering.
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
On a related note, here's a useful book if people wanna understand more on EA doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
> It brings together a diverse group of activists and scholars to explore Effective Altruism’s failure to meaningfully address forms of human and animal suffering.
> It brings together a diverse group of activists and scholars to explore Effective Altruism’s failure to meaningfully address forms of human and animal suffering.
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Reminder: the deadline to propose a paper for the "Fredric Jamesen & The Future of Critical Theory" conference is a little over 2 weeks away
To submit a proposal, please fill out the form below by 15 December
Keynotes have been announced! (see below)
We hope to see you there!
To submit a proposal, please fill out the form below by 15 December
Keynotes have been announced! (see below)
We hope to see you there!
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Reminder: the deadline to propose a paper for the "Fredric Jamesen & The Future of Critical Theory" conference is a little over 2 weeks away
To submit a proposal, please fill out the form below by 15 December
Keynotes have been announced! (see below)
We hope to see you there!
To submit a proposal, please fill out the form below by 15 December
Keynotes have been announced! (see below)
We hope to see you there!
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NEW: The Return of Operation Condor (we talk Ecuador, general strike, US-backed narco-military regime lead by Daniel Naboa, & the imperialist revenge against Pink Tide governments)
millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-return-o...
millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-return-o...
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
NEW: The Return of Operation Condor (we talk Ecuador, general strike, US-backed narco-military regime lead by Daniel Naboa, & the imperialist revenge against Pink Tide governments)
millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-return-o...
millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-return-o...
In this video, the first I've uploaded in quite a while to my channel, 'Microsoft a Materialist Approach', I briefly talk about the way the 'AI' push has mutated the marketing and sales techniques of Microsoft (and beyond): www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa7F...
The Impact of AI Marketing on Information Technology
YouTube video by Microsoft - A Materialist Approach
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November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In this video, the first I've uploaded in quite a while to my channel, 'Microsoft a Materialist Approach', I briefly talk about the way the 'AI' push has mutated the marketing and sales techniques of Microsoft (and beyond): www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa7F...
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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“When we critique AI, we should do so with intellectual honesty and in a principled way. Utmost care is needed to avoid ethics washing, greenwashing, and generally — what we dub — critical washing.”
“Reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.”
Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
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Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
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Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
zenodo.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“When we critique AI, we should do so with intellectual honesty and in a principled way. Utmost care is needed to avoid ethics washing, greenwashing, and generally — what we dub — critical washing.”
Paging @doughenwood.bsky.social
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Paging @doughenwood.bsky.social
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Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
A sober assessment, at last: www.blackagendareport.com/mamdani-and-...
Mamdani and The Liberal Repackaging of Power | Black Agenda Report
Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayor's race was significant, but liberalism succeeds by presenting a veneer of change where it may not exist.
www.blackagendareport.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A sober assessment, at last: www.blackagendareport.com/mamdani-and-...
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“I have little desire to talk about AI”
Go with that feeling. Embrace it. Apply it to your life outside of Bluesky.
Go with that feeling. Embrace it. Apply it to your life outside of Bluesky.
Well I didn’t intend on poking it and I have little desire to talk about AI here again.
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“I have little desire to talk about AI”
Go with that feeling. Embrace it. Apply it to your life outside of Bluesky.
Go with that feeling. Embrace it. Apply it to your life outside of Bluesky.
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Yeah. No shit.
We watched them do it every day. I'm sorry, but this after-the-fact "Scathing" opinion being the thing that is taken seriously, rather than the actual lived experiences of the people being attacked is police state horseshit.
PLUS, what will a "scathing" opinion even fucking do?
We watched them do it every day. I'm sorry, but this after-the-fact "Scathing" opinion being the thing that is taken seriously, rather than the actual lived experiences of the people being attacked is police state horseshit.
PLUS, what will a "scathing" opinion even fucking do?
The feds repeatedly lied and misled the public during Chicago's immigration crackdown, a federal judge ruled in a scathing opinion. blockclubchi.co/3JVoFWJ
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Yeah. No shit.
We watched them do it every day. I'm sorry, but this after-the-fact "Scathing" opinion being the thing that is taken seriously, rather than the actual lived experiences of the people being attacked is police state horseshit.
PLUS, what will a "scathing" opinion even fucking do?
We watched them do it every day. I'm sorry, but this after-the-fact "Scathing" opinion being the thing that is taken seriously, rather than the actual lived experiences of the people being attacked is police state horseshit.
PLUS, what will a "scathing" opinion even fucking do?
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Weds at 12 PM EST! @omarzahzah.bsky.social will join us to discuss his book: Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, & Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle
www.youtube.com/live/NtOgQJx...
www.youtube.com/live/NtOgQJx...
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Weds at 12 PM EST! @omarzahzah.bsky.social will join us to discuss his book: Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, & Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle
www.youtube.com/live/NtOgQJx...
www.youtube.com/live/NtOgQJx...
For those (all five - okay, maybe 20 of you) who're interested in the sorts of films I'm referring to: mad in intent yet calm in presentation, here is a playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For those (all five - okay, maybe 20 of you) who're interested in the sorts of films I'm referring to: mad in intent yet calm in presentation, here is a playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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I will say though that I noticed awhile ago that the Black women that the U.S. tech industry actually did hire were not African American, or of they were, they were light skinned + had exotic names
& I think this has something to do with why me and @sassycrass.bsky.social never got jobs ourselves.
& I think this has something to do with why me and @sassycrass.bsky.social never got jobs ourselves.
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I will say though that I noticed awhile ago that the Black women that the U.S. tech industry actually did hire were not African American, or of they were, they were light skinned + had exotic names
& I think this has something to do with why me and @sassycrass.bsky.social never got jobs ourselves.
& I think this has something to do with why me and @sassycrass.bsky.social never got jobs ourselves.
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
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The late Shafiqah Hudson, aka @sassycrass.bsky.social, and @sotreu.blacksky.app were the ones who started #YourSlipIsShowing. I ask that you remember Shafiqah and Ra’il as the originators.
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The late Shafiqah Hudson, aka @sassycrass.bsky.social, and @sotreu.blacksky.app were the ones who started #YourSlipIsShowing. I ask that you remember Shafiqah and Ra’il as the originators.
A note to say @blackamazon.bsky.social and her colleagues warned about this sort of thing many years ago.
"The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a f*ck about this."
Our attention is the product
There are tutorials in many languages on how to exploit that for profit, not just to stir the pot
AI makes it so easy to exploit now and everyone wins but you
Our attention is the product
There are tutorials in many languages on how to exploit that for profit, not just to stir the pot
AI makes it so easy to exploit now and everyone wins but you
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A note to say @blackamazon.bsky.social and her colleagues warned about this sort of thing many years ago.
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“Mother Fletcher carried 111 years of truth, resilience, and grace and was a reminder of how far we’ve come and how far we must still go”
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“Mother Fletcher carried 111 years of truth, resilience, and grace and was a reminder of how far we’ve come and how far we must still go”
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It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord
Nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate summit reached a deal that didn’t include a road map to curtail use of fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
To this, I'll add a personal reflection. The mostly Black schools I attended before Uni were run and staffed by Black educators who understood, to one degree or another, that we are at war against a society that wants us dead. Education was a sword and shield. The tech industry seeks to destroy this
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
To this, I'll add a personal reflection. The mostly Black schools I attended before Uni were run and staffed by Black educators who understood, to one degree or another, that we are at war against a society that wants us dead. Education was a sword and shield. The tech industry seeks to destroy this
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You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
A reminder, if one is needed, that these platforms should be considered a threat vector. I suggested alternative plans in this essay and, once again, volunteer to provide guidance: monroelab.com/2025/01/22/s...
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A reminder, if one is needed, that these platforms should be considered a threat vector. I suggested alternative plans in this essay and, once again, volunteer to provide guidance: monroelab.com/2025/01/22/s...
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classrooms as large scale, profit maximisation experiments
Microsoft's latest warning has set off a familiar response from security-minded critics: Why is Big Tech so intent on pushing new features before their dangerous behaviors can be fully understood and contained?
Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?
arstechnica.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
classrooms as large scale, profit maximisation experiments