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anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
reading group will be chatting with @danmcquillan@kolektiva.social about Resisting AI in about an hour - please join if you'd like to get the info email about how to join the jitsi chat! https://buttondown.com/ai-skeptics-reading-group
hey, i'm sending my first email about this shortly (by the end of the hour)
if you don't have the book yet, that's okay; i'm including links to buy the book and have proceeds go to Palestinians via the Sameer Project. we'll start discussing readings this saturday, so there's time to catch up
if you're interested in reading Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton, my reading group (Thought Soup) will start discussing it in a week (next saturday). see replies for links to buy it to raise money for Palestinians: https://buttondown.com/al2
congratulations to Apple for acquiring Q.ai! sounds very well aligned with Apple's politics and portfolio of interests.
AI Skeptics email for week 1 is going out soon (like... in the next 25 minutes). you can sign up here
what domain registrar, hosting services, etc... are anti-genocide? the namecheap situation has me reevaluating my domain reg, and i figure i need to overhaul a lot of my options
if you're looking to get (back) into reading in 2026, i'm running a couple of reading groups.
they're both starting January 12, so if you want to buy a book and join us, you still have time.
you can read more about both reading groups at https://al2.in/reading, but the gist is that there are two:
- Thought Soup (raising money for Palestinians in Gaza through the Sameer Project, Workshops4Gaza, and Open Books Bookstore)
- AI Skeptics (learning and talking about AI, datacenters, etc...)
Join Tech Researchers for Palestine 9/17 @ 5PM EST to learn methods of surfacing academic-military ties at your department and university.
We'll share case studies from different campuses & offer coworking time to practice these strategies.
RSVP here: http://bit.ly/AcademicTiesWorkshop