#technocriticism — Public Fediverse posts

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents (and the Theory Dies Twice)

by Christian Ekrem: https://cekrem.github.io/posts/llms-corrupt-your-documents/

#commoditization #acceleration #work #productivity #GenerativeAI #AIRisks #chatBots #alienation #tech #technoCriticism #compliance #bias #documents #documentation

Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
Read Sarah Blackwood: https://archive.is/lOrsl

#humanities #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #accelerate #criticalThinking #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #education #academicChatter #liberalArts #English

SIPRI is an independent international institute that researches conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.

This backgrounder from SIPRI aims to provides an overview of the military AI industry to help policymakers and civil society, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved: https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2026/mapping-military-ai-industry

#arms #armsTrade #weapons #militaryAI #military #AIindustry #Magnificent7 #technoCriticism #SIPRI

SIPRI is an independent international institute that researches conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.

This backgrounder from SIPRI aims to provides an overview of the military AI industry to help policymakers and civil society, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved: https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2026/mapping-military-ai-industry

#arms #armsTrade #weapons #militaryAI #military #AIindustry #Magnificent7 #technoCriticism #SIPRI

SIPRI is an independent international institute that researches conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.

This backgrounder from SIPRI aims to provides an overview of the military AI industry to help policymakers and civil society, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved: https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2026/mapping-military-ai-industry

#arms #armsTrade #weapons #militaryAI #military #AIindustry #Magnificent7 #technoCriticism #SIPRI

"Silicon Valley leaders are no longer merely building tools for the battlefield; they are being formally integrated into its command structure"

"AI for War: Big Tech Empowering Israel’s Crimes and Occupation", by Marwa Fatafta for Al-Shabaka: https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/ai-for-war-big-tech-empowering-israels-crimes-and-occupation/ @palestine

#dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #StartUpNation #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #strikes #DefundIsrael #patriotism #JewishSupremacy #MilInt #military #army #IDF #Unit8200 #Gaza #warOnGaza #israel #tech #technology #AI #data #Microsoft #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #militaryAI #Cloud #OpenAI #IDF #genocideSupport #entanglement #complicity #complicityInGenocide #AlShabaka

"Silicon Valley leaders are no longer merely building tools for the battlefield; they are being formally integrated into its command structure"

"AI for War: Big Tech Empowering Israel’s Crimes and Occupation", by Marwa Fatafta for Al-Shabaka: https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/ai-for-war-big-tech-empowering-israels-crimes-and-occupation/ @palestine

#dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #StartUpNation #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #strikes #DefundIsrael #patriotism #JewishSupremacy #MilInt #military #army #IDF #Unit8200 #Gaza #warOnGaza #israel #tech #technology #AI #data #Microsoft #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #militaryAI #Cloud #OpenAI #IDF #genocideSupport #entanglement #complicity #complicityInGenocide #AlShabaka

"Silicon Valley leaders are no longer merely building tools for the battlefield; they are being formally integrated into its command structure"

"AI for War: Big Tech Empowering Israel’s Crimes and Occupation", by Marwa Fatafta for Al-Shabaka: https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/ai-for-war-big-tech-empowering-israels-crimes-and-occupation/ @palestine

#dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #StartUpNation #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #strikes #DefundIsrael #patriotism #JewishSupremacy #MilInt #military #army #IDF #Unit8200 #Gaza #warOnGaza #israel #tech #technology #AI #data #Microsoft #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #militaryAI #Cloud #OpenAI #IDF #genocideSupport #entanglement #complicity #complicityInGenocide #AlShabaka

"Silicon Valley leaders are no longer merely building tools for the battlefield; they are being formally integrated into its command structure"

"AI for War: Big Tech Empowering Israel’s Crimes and Occupation", by Marwa Fatafta for Al-Shabaka: https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/ai-for-war-big-tech-empowering-israels-crimes-and-occupation/ @palestine

#dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #StartUpNation #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #strikes #DefundIsrael #patriotism #JewishSupremacy #MilInt #military #army #IDF #Unit8200 #Gaza #warOnGaza #israel #tech #technology #AI #data #Microsoft #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #militaryAI #Cloud #OpenAI #IDF #genocideSupport #entanglement #complicity #complicityInGenocide #AlShabaka

"Silicon Valley leaders are no longer merely building tools for the battlefield; they are being formally integrated into its command structure"

"AI for War: Big Tech Empowering Israel’s Crimes and Occupation", by Marwa Fatafta for Al-Shabaka: https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/ai-for-war-big-tech-empowering-israels-crimes-and-occupation/ @palestine

#dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #StartUpNation #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #strikes #DefundIsrael #patriotism #JewishSupremacy #MilInt #military #army #IDF #Unit8200 #Gaza #warOnGaza #israel #tech #technology #AI #data #Microsoft #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #militaryAI #Cloud #OpenAI #IDF #genocideSupport #entanglement #complicity #complicityInGenocide #AlShabaka

'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
• Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
• Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
• Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

'Why This Has Consequences

'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
[…]
'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

https://www.agustinvstartari.com/post/who-gave-the-order-when-ai-issues-commands-without-a-speaker by @agustinstartari

#responsibility #accountability #ethics #authority #technique #risks #assessment #algorithms #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #justiceSystem #judiciary #genAI #generativeAI

"Modern civilisation has a number of extremely delicate and highly interconnected components whose graceful degradation is effectively impossible."

It is "much easier to break things than to build them up. The government administrations of Britain, France and Germany for example, were set up at a time in the nineteenth century when the rising middle classes demanded a properly functioning state[…]. It took perhaps a generation for professional, neutral public services to fully emerge."

"Forty years of globalised neoliberalism have broken our societies, our economies and our political systems, and we no longer have the ability to put them back together."

https://braveneweurope.com/aurelien-the-end

#civilService #statehood #bureaucracy #complexity #risk #digitalization #quantification #technocracy #quantitative #repair #mitigation #redundancy #resiliency #Deregulation #Economics #politics #EUPol #EU #Europe #institutions #institutionsDeceive #finance #globalisation #NeoLiberalism #Privatisation #technique #technoCriticism

Technique cements bias:
Pretrial risk assessment algorithms (2021) https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/risk-assessment-algorithms-can-unfairly-impact-court-decisions

@sociology @ethics

#technique #tech #pretrial #risks #assessment #algorithms #decisionMaking #deciding #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #sexism #patriarchy #systemicRacism #racialisation #racialization #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #responsibility #USA #justiceSystem #judiciary