Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #politicaltechnology, aggregated by home.social.
Candidates Explore AI for Responsive Campaigning
Imagine if politicians truly heard you - AI can help candidates tap into voters' concerns, foster inclusive engagement, and craft policies that truly reflect the people's voice. Current campaign AI, however, often falls flat, relying on outdated, one-way messaging that leaves voters feeling unheard.
#ArtificialIntelligence #AiForCampaigning #PoliticalTechnology #CampaignTechnology #EmergingTrends
UK Government Rejects AI Use Limits in Political Context
📰 Original title: UK government does not know what datacentres are being used for, FoI request shows
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅
#politics #airegulation #politicaltechnology #democraticprocesses
Stepping down as Framework Linux Community Ambassadors
We are Tommi and Fraxinas, Framework Linux Community Ambassadors since September 2024.
We apprehensively followed the developments and the debate concerning Framework’s endorsement and support of Omarchy. We have no direct experience with this Linux distribution, its community, nor with the political environment around it. We did not speak up before now because learning about all of it and keeping up with all the commentary would have been a full-time job. Unfortunately we do not have the time to read every single comment on the dedicated forum thread.
Despite our admittedly limited and superficial understanding of this matter, we believe we have witnessed and read enough to make an informed decision and take a clear position.
The statements from Framework and from Nirav Patel (its CEO) made it very clear for us that Framework is not a company we feel represented by any more, and surely not a company that we want to represent as Ambassadors.
To be frank, it is not even necessary to dive into the petty drama about the recent events in order to provide an explanation of our decision. We are deeply disappointed by a company that is self-proclaimed as the resistance of the tech industry, the good David that intends to stand against the big tech Goliaths that are devouring it. Framework’s behaviour brought to surface an embarrassing and absurd inability to take an explicitly political position, blinded by the Western patriarchal narrative that technology in itself is not political. By trying to keep everyone happy (or at least not to make anyone mad) inside a fictitious “big tent”, the company proved to be no better than any of its Silicon Valley peers, dismissing comments about DHH, and comments about fascism and racism as not strictly related to the main mission.
We were proud to be ambassadors because we believed that Framework not only made products that empowered those who purchase them to fully own and repair their devices, but most importantly because we wrongly expected that this would imply changing the paradigm and the narrative about tech companies altogether.
We were offered the possibility of having a 1:1 conversation with Nirav Patel. We did not take it, because it is self-evident that our opinions are in contrast with the statements that he already made. Too bad, Framework is going to lose much more business than it would have if it simply acknowledged a mistake, took a deep inward look, and questioned its own values and stance.
In a world that is burning, thorn by conflict and greed, it is not enough to be “less evil”, to be radical only in some cases, and be moderate in others. We wanted to be ambassadors of a company that does not see fascism and proprietary software as two distant topics, but that recognised the entanglement of politics and technology, of capitalism and authoritarianism. It seems that this is not the case.
Farewell, Framework. We will miss the shining brave idea we had of you.
The following statement was cross-posted on Framework’s Community Forum.
#Framework #politicalTechnology #SiliconValley #CalifornianIdeology
Sunday Paper
Bruce Schneier's latest essays offer a bracing tour of our dystopian tech future.
I believe it is one of our missions, as antifascist nerds, to break the myth of an inaccessible and complex technology. The tools, services, and software we all use everyday are the more or less indirect outcome of broader socio-political and economical dynamics. Therefore, we can and we should bring forward a massive resistance as we do on other fronts.
How do we do burst the bubble?
How can we practically unmask the politicality of technology to people outside the digital sector?
How do we popularize digital media critique?
What forms of art, workshops, and formats could take advantage of?
On Wed 11 June, at 14:00 UTC, I will be hosting an online round-table session with @transparenttech to discuss and try to answer these questions.
I will be briefly sharing my experience and my ideas after making Knitting Our Internet. Above all, though, I want to welcome any kind of contributions to address this mission in a multifaceted, intercultural, intersectional, and decolonial way.
Free attendance! Register here ⬅️
#OurNet #CITR #IndependentTech #IndependentTechnology #Technology #PoliticalTechnology #KnittingOurInternet #Internet #InternetCritique #Fediverse
”Russian leaders created a false narrative to get voters to put them in power, where they could privatize public enterprises and monopolize the country’s wealth.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 5, 2025
#putin #russia #politicaltechnology #oligarchy
We are celebrating #AaronSwartzDay by hosting Knitting Our Internet workshop at #SFSCON today (Seminar 2, 10:40).
Not only on this occasion, I always dedicate the whole workshop to the inspiring, bright, loving human being #AaronSwartz was.
Thank you for still making us pursue a better #Internet, and a better world, Aaron.
(The event is free, no reservation required. It’s not going to be streamed, but its video recording will be published.)
@AaronSwartzDay #Web #WWW #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware #PoliticalTechnology #FSFE #Fediverse #workshop #InternetHistory #SurveillanceCapitalism
The #11tyconf talks have just started, and I love them so much already.
@mia, you read my thoughts after 10 seconds.
Read an article on what might potentially be a collapse of the Swedish Tech-industry where the author thinks that the tech label is going to fall out of fashion because Klarna, Uber and Kry are a Bank, a taxi-company and a medical service provider respectively and we should just call them that
I can agree to some extent but the problem is that if you start calling Klarna a bank then the definition of a bank has forever changed
