Link to an article by Gary Wilson:
“Tech Bosses Cut Nearly 150,000 Workers as Profits Pour into AI Machinery”
Bonus links: Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation and “$9 Trillion Collapse Machine”
Tag: Technology
Keep Android Open
Link to an article by F-Droid:
Bonus links: “With Developer Verification, Google’s Apple Envy Threatens to Dismantle Android’s Open Legacy” and When Google Met Wikileaks and Surveillance Valley and “Cookies, Identifiers and Other Data that Google Silently Stores on Android Handsets”
Wolfgang Messner – Is AI Sparking a Cognitive Revolution That Will Lead to Mediocrity and Conformity?
Link to an article by Wolfgang Messner:
“Is AI Sparking a Cognitive Revolution That Will Lead to Mediocrity and Conformity?”
Bonus links: “You Are Having Fun” and “Soft Surveillance and Control: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool of Gradual and Deep Political Repression in the Service of Contemporary Capitalist Hegemony” and “Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop”
Hamish van der Ven – AI is Bad for the Environment, and the Problem is Bigger Than Energy Consumption
Link to an article by Hamish van der Ven:
“AI is Bad for the Environment, and the Problem is Bigger Than Energy Consumption”
Bonus links: “What DeepSeek Says About Nuland’s Role in Ukraine War” and “MSM Bias on Russian Tanker & US Sanctions” and “Inescapable AI” and “Microsoft Won’t Save the Planet” and “Tech Giants Are Trying to Cover Up the Environmental Impacts of Their Data Centers” and “Want an AI Data Center in Your City? Sure, But First Sign this Non-disclosure Agreement.” and “The High-Tech Poorhouse” and Mathwashing
Ann Garrison – Social Media Beyond Corporate Control
Link to an interview of Tracy Rosenberg conducted by Ann Garrison:
“Social Media Beyond Corporate Control”
Bonus link: Some Critiques of Silicon Valley Exploitation
Prabhat Patnaik – AI and Employment
Link to an article by Prabhat Patnaik:
Bonus links: “Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits” and “AI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality” and Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation and Revolution at the Gates
Martin Hart-Landsberg – AI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality
Link to an article by Martin Hart-Landsberg:
“AI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality”
Bonus links: “AI Machines Aren’t ‘Hallucinating’. But Their Makers Are” and “The Hidden Costs of the AI Boom” and “AI is Bad for the Environment, and the Problem is Bigger Than Energy Consumption”
Prabir Purkayastha – Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly and the Rent Economy
Link to an except from the book Knowledge as Commons: Towards Inclusive Science and Technology by Prabir Purkayastha:
“Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly and the Rent Economy”
Bonus links: Mertonian Norms and “In Final Declaration, G77 Rejects ‘Digital Monopolies’ and Calls for ‘Reform’ of the Financial System”
Sonali Kolhatkar – Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits
Link to an article by Sonali Kolhatkar:
“Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits”
(isn’t interest in A.I. primarily that of a fantasy of legal slavery?)
Bonus links: “The Dystopian AI Future Some Fear Is the Present-Day Reality Others Live” and Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation
Naomi Klein – AI Machines Aren’t ‘Hallucinating’. But Their Makers Are
Link to an article by Naomi Klein: