#techwashing — Public Fediverse posts

#NoTechForApartheid! If you oppose Aichi Prefecture's #Techwashing partnerships with Israeli startups, send an email! Further details here:

https://punksagainstapartheid.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/27/smashthematch-week-4-blockade/

#AichiPrefecture #BDS #Palestine #SmashTheMatch #Japan #Nagoya

Punks Against Apartheid support the campaign against #Aichi Prefecture's #TechWashing collaboration with Israeli companies. Read more here:

https://punksagainstapartheid.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/25/aichi-prefecture-what-are-you-hiding/

#BDS #Palestine #techwashing #Japan #Nagoya #punksagainstapartheid #tech

Tech-washing / Google quietly building Trump's AI surveillance wall

Despite previous assurances from #Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in 2020 that Google was "not working on any projects associated with immigration enforcement at the southern border," contract documents show Google is now central to a #CBP project upgrading video surveillance towers in #Arizona.

https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/google-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/

#techwashing #ai
#sureveillancecapitalism
#usa #technoimperialism

@Rjdlandscapes

Also I feel a lot of the sci fi vibes is just #techwashing. Making it feel like these companies are on the verge of some breakthrough and/or working to better mankind, so we don't all come at them with the monopoly smashing hammer, like back in the day.

I am looking for medium-sized or larger companies that have actively and openly decided against using the #AI label or the use of #LLMs and explain this to their customers.

Or do really all companies #TechWashing right now?

🤔 so the Qatari's check cleared...

#AI
#Apartheidboi
#techwashing

Whenever I read about yet another news revealing shortcomings of "AI" and how the resulting model if biased, barely usable in more than a demonstration context and that all annotations for it is the result of ghost work... 🤷‍♂️​

Stop #TechWashing, consider other workers as fellow human beings.