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Residing on unceded Lisjan (Ohlone) land. Pay your Shuumi Land Tax if you live in the East Bay. https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/
I'll be joining @CBC@press.coop Radio-Canada tomorrow on Ontario Today to discuss AI resistance!
Folks can listen to the program via CBC Radio in Ontario or online on the CBC Toronto website, just click on the play ▶️ arrow on the Live Radio link.
If you want to share your story, you can call the program between 12-1 PM ET at 1-888-817-8995.
Leftists don’t hate technology, actually...
This is very bubble shaped. I'm not looking forward to what is coming next.
Being “bad” at art is good, actually!** **My favorite excerpt from my appearance with @emilymbender@dair-community.social on the @404media@flipboard.com podcast with @samleecole@journa.host in the episode “The Marketing Tricks of ‘Artificial Intelligence’”.
@emilymbender@dair-community.social and I are so excited to announce that THE AI CON has been selected as Book in Common for 2026-27 at Cal State Chico!
We're excited for thousands of folks to read and engage with our work. We'll be visiting campus on April 7, 2027 for a public event.
Join @DAIR@dair-community.social and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work.
9 AM PT / Noon ET / 4 PM GMT on Wednesday, May 20
Musk thinks data centers in space wouldn’t need ANY maintenance. I loved @adambecker.bsky.social's response to this on our latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. Check out episode 73: "Data Centers in Space!?”.
We're coming, DC! @emilymbender@dair-community.social and I will be talking about our book The AI Con on Monday, hosted by the Center for Digital Ethics and moderated by Laura DeNardis. Hope to see you there!
https://events.georgetown.edu/digital-ethics/event/book-talk-with-bender-and-hanna
In Montreal for FAccT today? Come to The Anti War, Anti Carceral, Anti Fascist Social. 12:15 PM at MONO on Sainte-Catherine.
Thank you, Majority Report and Emma Vigeland, for having me on! Check out the full video - we covered quite a bit in this one.
Join the Scholar's Strategy Network and I as we discuss AI in higher ed and push back against Cal State’s $17M contract with OpenAI, as many of the system’s priorities go unaddressed.
Next Wednesday (April 8), 5-7 PM, at San Francisco State.
Register for an op-ed workshop to follow!
https://scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/bayareaopedai
Join @emilymbender@dair-community.social and I in New York for Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s first LIVE show! We’re doing a live taping at the Starr Bar in Brooklyn on Thursday, April 30. Space is limited, so get your tickets. All profit goes to @DAIR@dair-community.social.
Shy Girl was a product of publishing industry woes. Bestselling author Carmen Maria Machado walked with us through the world of literature and the challenges writers and the publishing industry face with the emergence of AI slop. On MAIHT3k's latest ep. “There’s No Ghost in the Machine”.
Join @DAIR@dair-community.social, the ASA Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section, and the ASA Section on Children and Youth as we host a panel on non-academic careers for sociologists. We’ll be joined with experts from civil society and government who will discuss their career trajectories.
May 28, 11 AM PT/2 PM ET on Twitch.
RE: @alex@dair-community.social
Starting in 10 minutes!