dismantling power structures, one tech at a time
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We welcome the news Springer will not be publishing the article in question, but our demands are unmet. How did things get this far in the first place? This isn’t about one article—we need to truly abolish the #TechToPrisonPipeline. See/sign bit.ly/TechToPrisonPipeline for more.
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Coalition for Critical Technology retweeted
11 Mar 2021
most computer vision work is just modern phrenology
don't @ me
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Coalition for Critical Technology retweeted
Excited to see this out by some fantastic authors and friends of @forcriticaltech - how to defund big tech and refund communities in a broader move to tackle monopolies through community centric approaches
It's live! In collaboration with Lucy Suchman, @ChriBecker @EJ_Cheon Wolmet Barendregt, Andrew Clement and @doug_schuler we are excited to release the "Defund Big Tech, Refund Community: Another Tech is Possible" report techotherwise.pubpub.org/def… #TechOtherwise
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Check out: Defund Big Tech, Refund Community techotherwise.pubpub.org/pub… for a great break-down of the myths underlying Silicon Valley's massive and expanding monopolies on wealth and infrastructure, and the urgent need to redistribute that $ and infra back to communities
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Refunding community implies assuming greater shared responsibility for all aspects of the technology life-cycle, from concept and design to deployment, redesign, repair and retirement...
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Now is the time to radically redirect the future of tech, by reclaiming the purposes of technology development, and redistributing the associated responsibilities and benefits, in the service of our collective and sustainable well being."
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Coalition for Critical Technology retweeted
8 Mar 2021
Google has chosen to dismantle its AI ethics work, making it clear that the company will only tolerate research that supports its bottom line. This is a matter of urgent public concern. #MakeAIEthical 1/35
bit.ly/MakeAIEthical
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Coalition for Critical Technology retweeted
7 Dec 2020
We're setting the record straight on Dr. Timnit Gebru's firing. #ISupportTimnit #BelieveBlackWomen
bit.ly/setting-the-record-st…
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Coalition for Critical Technology retweeted
4 Dec 2020
We're up to 1,078 Googlers and 1,413 other supporters from academia, industry, and civil society. #ISupportTimnit #BelieveBlackWomen
Read our letter in support of @timnitGebru and add your name:
googlewalkout.medium.com/sta…
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Solidarity with @timnitGebru! We fully support the demands made by Google Walkout.
4 Dec 2020
We stand with @timnitGebru. We call on Google Research to strengthen its commitment to research integrity and to unequivocally commit to supporting research that honors the commitments made in Google’s AI Principles. Sign the letter: bit.ly/standwithtimnit
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Coalition for Critical Technology retweeted
3 Dec 2020
"Too valuable to fire", only applies when your offense offends the right groups.
For years Timnit has consistently set the bar and shaped the course of AI.
Power begets power and for some asking the wrong questions is sin enough.
Apparently my manager’s manager sent an email my direct reports saying she accepted my resignation. I hadn’t resigned—I had asked for simple conditions first and said I would respond when I’m back from vacation. But I guess she decided for me :) that’s the lawyer speak.
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Coalition for Critical Technology retweeted
3 Dec 2020
Just like that, Google lost the little legitimacy it had. @timnitGebru has been nothing but the ideal role model for Black women, an aspiration, and a towering figure that keeps pushing the whole field of AI ethics to respectable standard.
Let me be very careful since I know what I'm dealing with and they can use everything I say against me.
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We stand in solidarity and full support of @timnitGebru
3 Dec 2020
.@timnitGebru is not only a pillar of our community, she’s the reason many next generation engineers, data scientists and more are inspired to work in tech.
It’s now our job to support her.
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"Asking the Q of how much unis spend [on policing] *barely* scratches surface of what we don’t know abt relations btwn unis & policing. [This project] is a way to render this relationship into a studyable one, & help others study it"
Cops Off Campus Research Collective is 🔥💯👏
12 Nov 2020
Introducing the Cops Off Campus Research Project: a crowdsourced, nationwide study of the nexus of universities and policing. Participate w/ link below, and learn more in 🧵
bit.ly/CopsOffCampus_Share-D…
ALT Image with a purple background, a vaguely cartoonish image of a denim-clad protestor throwing a lit molotov cocktail at three riot police. The text below reads "The Cops Off Campus Research Project: A crowdsourced, nationwide study of the nexus of universities and policing."
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Very excited for this webinar tomorrow about how to bring abolition to bear upon the university!
11 Nov 2020
TMRW: This exciting webinar on ABOLITIONIST UNIVERSITIES w/@BluBuchanan, @ethicsoftech, @RedPedGrl, @fictionalizer, and @BrotherSojo. 4pm Eastern/1pm Pacific. Yrs truly moderating.
Register!: eventbrite.com/e/12825461801…
(it'll be recorded &available on the @C_Resistance youtube)
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This event will be interpreted in ASL!
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Coalition for Critical Technology retweeted
8 Nov 2020
Stop.
@WIRED given the resounding scholarly rejection of this kind of dangerous and pseudoscientific ML research (thanks to people like @Abebab, @forcriticaltech, @annaeveryday, @luke_stark and many others) why are you still breathlessly platforming these baseless claims?
Being able to read body language is an essential human skill. Soon, it might be one for robots, too. Researchers have developed an algorithm that analyzes and guesses how you’re feeling purely by the way you walk: wired.trib.al/eUmHucR
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Coalition for Critical Technology retweeted
11 Oct 2020
How it How it’s
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