Lorena Jaume-Palasí
@lopalasi.bsky.social
Founder The Ethical Tech Society | AlgorithmWatch | IGF Academy I @[email protected] on Mastodon
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Ahir hi va haver un tall d’electricitat massiu a San Francisco, com a dany col·lateral nombrosos cotxes autònoms de l’empresa Waymo es van quedar aturats al mig del carrer, causant un sonsiderable caos circulatori.
What a time to be alive.
What a time to be alive.
December 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Ahir hi va haver un tall d’electricitat massiu a San Francisco, com a dany col·lateral nombrosos cotxes autònoms de l’empresa Waymo es van quedar aturats al mig del carrer, causant un sonsiderable caos circulatori.
What a time to be alive.
What a time to be alive.
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NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 68: This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like
Tech bros say automation can strengthen democracy. @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social unpack their flimsy arguments about the democratic process.
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Tech bros say automation can strengthen democracy. @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social unpack their flimsy arguments about the democratic process.
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
December 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 68: This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like
Tech bros say automation can strengthen democracy. @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social unpack their flimsy arguments about the democratic process.
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Tech bros say automation can strengthen democracy. @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social unpack their flimsy arguments about the democratic process.
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
What big tech billionaires are doing isn't capitalism. It builds on capitalist markets,but is evolving into something else. Billionaires don't want a market with competition. Big tech wants to build empire. The references to roman emperors and thinkers,the creation of infrastructures as a strategy..
December 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
What big tech billionaires are doing isn't capitalism. It builds on capitalist markets,but is evolving into something else. Billionaires don't want a market with competition. Big tech wants to build empire. The references to roman emperors and thinkers,the creation of infrastructures as a strategy..
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In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
December 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
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Sie hieß vor allem „We still need to talk” ,weil es eine Veranstaltung gab unter dem Namen „We need to talk“, die 2022 abgesagt wurde documenta-fifteen.de/en/news/onli...
Online conversation series “We need to talk!”, May 8, 15, and 22, 2022 - documenta fifteen
We need to talk! Art – Freedom – Solidarity is a series of conversations hosted by documenta and documenta archiv on the role of art and artistic freedom in the face of rising antisemitism, racism, an...
documenta-fifteen.de
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Sie hieß vor allem „We still need to talk” ,weil es eine Veranstaltung gab unter dem Namen „We need to talk“, die 2022 abgesagt wurde documenta-fifteen.de/en/news/onli...
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Nur konnte die aus demselben Kreis organisierte Tagung „We still need to talk“ tatsächlich in Deutschland nicht stattfinden. Die Vorwürfe der Selbstgerechtigkeit und Peinlichkeit fallen zurück auf diejenigen, die das vergessen haben. bsky.app/profile/post...
Schon die Auswahl des Tagungsortes und die damit verbundene Suggestion, in Deutschland könne so etwas nicht mehr stattfinden ist deutlicher Beleg für die peinliche Selbstgerechtigkeit der Teilnehmer und Anlehnung an AfD Argumentationsmuster.
December 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Nur konnte die aus demselben Kreis organisierte Tagung „We still need to talk“ tatsächlich in Deutschland nicht stattfinden. Die Vorwürfe der Selbstgerechtigkeit und Peinlichkeit fallen zurück auf diejenigen, die das vergessen haben. bsky.app/profile/post...
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Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by @mgasia.bsky.social, who works impersonating an AI sex companion: data-workers.org/michael/
This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.
This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by @mgasia.bsky.social, who works impersonating an AI sex companion: data-workers.org/michael/
This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.
This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.
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In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
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One of the reasons I detest so many of these gAI companies and services is how much they erase and dehumanize actual human labor. It’s honestly terrifying and reason enough to shun them entirely.
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
One of the reasons I detest so many of these gAI companies and services is how much they erase and dehumanize actual human labor. It’s honestly terrifying and reason enough to shun them entirely.
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Bernie Sanders keeps saying the most wrong headed about AI and paling around with Geoffery Hinton. We write more about it here --
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buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
Bernie Sanders Falls for Mathy-Maths and Doomer Gloom
Bernie Sanders published an op-ed in The Guardian this week, warning of the existential dangers posed to civilization by AI.
buttondown.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Bernie Sanders keeps saying the most wrong headed about AI and paling around with Geoffery Hinton. We write more about it here --
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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I'm a bit late to the party and somehow missed this, but here's an open letter to Dutch Universities (both academic and of applied sciences) and their executive boards, to ask that they stop the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in higher education […]
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December 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I'm a bit late to the party and somehow missed this, but here's an open letter to Dutch Universities (both academic and of applied sciences) and their executive boards, to ask that they stop the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in higher education […]
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this will keep happening because:
guardrails and any other control over these models is a scam
guardrails and any other control over these models is a scam
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
this will keep happening because:
guardrails and any other control over these models is a scam
guardrails and any other control over these models is a scam
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Cosas que me preocupan de la estrategia nacional de salud en IA.
- Que sólo se citen estudios de lobbies o de la CE, que es lo mismo.
- Que se diga que se va a usar IA como apoyo emocional
- Que se diga que se va a hacer optimización algorítmica del SNS (tenemos muchos antecedentes peligrosos)
- Que sólo se citen estudios de lobbies o de la CE, que es lo mismo.
- Que se diga que se va a usar IA como apoyo emocional
- Que se diga que se va a hacer optimización algorítmica del SNS (tenemos muchos antecedentes peligrosos)
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Cosas que me preocupan de la estrategia nacional de salud en IA.
- Que sólo se citen estudios de lobbies o de la CE, que es lo mismo.
- Que se diga que se va a usar IA como apoyo emocional
- Que se diga que se va a hacer optimización algorítmica del SNS (tenemos muchos antecedentes peligrosos)
- Que sólo se citen estudios de lobbies o de la CE, que es lo mismo.
- Que se diga que se va a usar IA como apoyo emocional
- Que se diga que se va a hacer optimización algorítmica del SNS (tenemos muchos antecedentes peligrosos)
The idea of digital sovereignty doesn’t make any sense to me. Sovereignty and infrastructure are mutually exclusive.
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The idea of digital sovereignty doesn’t make any sense to me. Sovereignty and infrastructure are mutually exclusive.
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I'm thrilled to see this piece in the world. Through it, Dr. Milagros Miceli and her team have put some language to the worker-led methodology which they have developed.
📣New paper!
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social
👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social
👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm thrilled to see this piece in the world. Through it, Dr. Milagros Miceli and her team have put some language to the worker-led methodology which they have developed.
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Your other favorite so-called "critic," Gary Marcus, threatened to sue me for publicly writing how he attacked me, unsummoned. For writing the things he said that people could very easily find themselves.
People were like "you're on the same side."
Hell no we're not. Its not a binary.
People were like "you're on the same side."
Hell no we're not. Its not a binary.
October 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Your other favorite so-called "critic," Gary Marcus, threatened to sue me for publicly writing how he attacked me, unsummoned. For writing the things he said that people could very easily find themselves.
People were like "you're on the same side."
Hell no we're not. Its not a binary.
People were like "you're on the same side."
Hell no we're not. Its not a binary.
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And for all folks bs they do not do the PRACTICAL and material work of ensuring safety or strategy
it’s not “enshittification ” it’s another example of white people ignoring something til it effects them
And as @anthonymoser.com dropped ina banger
Procrustean their way to erasure
it’s not “enshittification ” it’s another example of white people ignoring something til it effects them
And as @anthonymoser.com dropped ina banger
Procrustean their way to erasure
December 26, 2024 at 5:06 PM
And for all folks bs they do not do the PRACTICAL and material work of ensuring safety or strategy
it’s not “enshittification ” it’s another example of white people ignoring something til it effects them
And as @anthonymoser.com dropped ina banger
Procrustean their way to erasure
it’s not “enshittification ” it’s another example of white people ignoring something til it effects them
And as @anthonymoser.com dropped ina banger
Procrustean their way to erasure
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Reupping this today. For obvious reasons.
Also it's ~wild~ to see a topic you've written a whole book on, have cited mostly women and PoC authors, and yet a whole multi-thousand newsletter post only cites ... other substack bros.
If academics wrote books like substack bros.
“If you’ve been with me for a while you know that I like to go DEEP into a topic. That’s just who I am. Well this new book goes extra hard & I’ve written 90k words on my fave subject. But bear with me, folks, it’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up.”
“If you’ve been with me for a while you know that I like to go DEEP into a topic. That’s just who I am. Well this new book goes extra hard & I’ve written 90k words on my fave subject. But bear with me, folks, it’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up.”
October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Reupping this today. For obvious reasons.
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“Enshittification” created an imaginary space where the problems of social spaces starts when it hits their radar
Bluesky has been bad for marginalized folks and had to be insulted into moderation
And treats folks that remind them as pariahs
That’s the problem
Jay Graber has vowed to prevent enshittification. Allowing Jesse Singal on this site is the entrance ramp to the enshittification highway. The success of Bluesky is due, in part, to the early, heavy participation of trans people fleeing "X"/Twitter due to the harassment that Elon Musk allowed there.
Singal's ONLY reason for being on social media is to harass trans people and their friends. He doesn't even disguise the fact, he's been very open about his intention to harass trans people on this site. Any site that allows him to have an account is endorsing and encouraging that harassment.
December 11, 2024 at 2:54 PM
“Enshittification” created an imaginary space where the problems of social spaces starts when it hits their radar
Bluesky has been bad for marginalized folks and had to be insulted into moderation
And treats folks that remind them as pariahs
That’s the problem
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Enshittification is gentrification and colonialism for tech.
The fact that it came in the door terrible for certain people is considered the price of business
and folks want to separate it from most of history to justify having. fights with each other over listening to
The fact that it came in the door terrible for certain people is considered the price of business
and folks want to separate it from most of history to justify having. fights with each other over listening to
AI was born enshittified.
brother it *is* the trap
October 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Enshittification is gentrification and colonialism for tech.
The fact that it came in the door terrible for certain people is considered the price of business
and folks want to separate it from most of history to justify having. fights with each other over listening to
The fact that it came in the door terrible for certain people is considered the price of business
and folks want to separate it from most of history to justify having. fights with each other over listening to
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You mean Black slang which is exactly why I hate EFF / enshittification/ and the Doctrow recommendation of adding AAVE to LLM
And it’s something I’ve said for years in public and on stage and is in three Black books
But hey it matters now
And it’s something I’ve said for years in public and on stage and is in three Black books
But hey it matters now
Turns out all the major LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama 3) struggle to understand Gen Alpha phrases, like "let him cook", "ate that up", "got ratioed", "secure the bag" etc. Research paper written by a soon-to-be 9th grader www.404media.co/ai-models-an...
AI Models And Parents Don’t Understand ‘Let Him Cook’
LLMs are not familiar with “ate that up,” “secure the bag,” and “sigma,” showing that training data is not yet updated to Gen Alpha terminology.
www.404media.co
June 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
You mean Black slang which is exactly why I hate EFF / enshittification/ and the Doctrow recommendation of adding AAVE to LLM
And it’s something I’ve said for years in public and on stage and is in three Black books
But hey it matters now
And it’s something I’ve said for years in public and on stage and is in three Black books
But hey it matters now
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This week in Misfits, we head to the New York Botanical Garden to explore the herbarium's cryptogamic collections and discuss specimen storage, and how wily species — both alive and dead, male and female — defy neat classification
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October 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This week in Misfits, we head to the New York Botanical Garden to explore the herbarium's cryptogamic collections and discuss specimen storage, and how wily species — both alive and dead, male and female — defy neat classification
crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/por...
crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/por...
@malteengeler.bsky.social hat eine fulminante Kritik zum Buch "KI und der neue Faschismus". Kapitalismus & Faschismus stehen sich näher,als das Marketing uns erzählt. Auf diese systematische +historische Verbindungen weist das Buch nicht hin, sondern Malte www.structural-integrity.eu/convenience-...
Convenience Criticism: On Rainer Mühlhoff's book about "AI" and Fascism
Books about so-called “AI”, the hype around “AI” and the connection between “AI” and authoritarian and fascist forces are much needed these days. They are important resources for communities to unders...
www.structural-integrity.eu
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
@malteengeler.bsky.social hat eine fulminante Kritik zum Buch "KI und der neue Faschismus". Kapitalismus & Faschismus stehen sich näher,als das Marketing uns erzählt. Auf diese systematische +historische Verbindungen weist das Buch nicht hin, sondern Malte www.structural-integrity.eu/convenience-...
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reminder that continental critical minerals are not ours to give away - not for imaginary submarines, not for contemptible attempts at appeasing fascism - and Forrest is a top ten multi-generational coloniser.
overland.org.au/2025/10/colo...
overland.org.au/2025/10/colo...
Colonialism's new Gold Rush: how 80 per cent of Australia's critical mineral mines exploit Aboriginal land without true consent - Overland literary journal
This fight over the Pilbara mine is not an isolated spat — it hints at a much larger problem. A new study finds that nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous ...
overland.org.au
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
reminder that continental critical minerals are not ours to give away - not for imaginary submarines, not for contemptible attempts at appeasing fascism - and Forrest is a top ten multi-generational coloniser.
overland.org.au/2025/10/colo...
overland.org.au/2025/10/colo...