Meta agreed to pay $18 billion and to strengthen child safety in its products, and New York City announced a policy of AI restriction in public schools. These represent mass resistance to the attempts to control people’s thought. Parent, student and teacher groups have long been rebelling against the flaws in education itself. We can find ways to bring a philosophy of liberation into education.
Buddy Bell traces the impact AI is having on workers and natural resources. The AI industry’s contradictions highlight the need to transform how technology is developed so that it will align with a philosophy of humanism.
This book reveals how global society’s failure to eradicate misogyny has allowed abuses and prejudices against women to be perpetuated through computer-based technology.
AI is drastically changing education. Pausing its use and respecting educators’ experience with students is urgently needed. The April 21 resolution to implement major limits on educational technology in Los Angeles is an example of parents and educators working together for quality education.
Appeal from Judith LeBlanc, of the Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund, to resist data centers, which threaten the environment and have harmful effects on communities, especially Black and Native.
Worldwide, over 500,000 content moderators work for global internet corporations. The work is performed by an increasingly female and young adult workforce in low-income countries. They have been organizing unions to deal with the job’s hazards.
In 1999, new Horizon software was installed in post office branches across the UK. Immediately, sub-postmasters and postmistresses experienced inexplicable shortfalls from their branches. It has been called “the UK’s most widespread miscarriage of justice.”
Part II of the 2024-2025 Draft Perspectives. Takes up: the global retrogression that a second Trump period would mean.
Electronic monitoring is the use of automatic, remote technology to track the exact location and current activity of selected individuals. Timothy Koenck argues that it is a reasonable alternative to the current U.S. policy of mass incarceration and mandatory minimum sentences.
‘Succession’ is a TV series vaguely based on the family running the Fox Corporation. It shows the immense influence of such a company in the daily life of U.S. citizens, but what shocked the reviewer most is how it depicts the dehumanization of human relationships in today’s world.
Today’s divide in attitudes to technology and climate solutions is more than a political question. It is a deep divide in philosophy. As crucial as are technological advances and the “energy transition,” they are liable to turn into their opposite if they are the focus instead of struggles of people trying to take control over their own lives.
Google and Amazon tech workers organize around the companies’ complicity in war, environmental destruction, and workplace safety.
Readers’ Views on: Puerto Rico:Trump’s Katrina; LGBTQ in Australia; Transgender in Texas; Women’s Liberation; Racism in Canada; Detroit and “Detroit”; Labor and Robots; Haitian Revolt; Why Read N&L?; and a Correction.
The Paris Agreement on climate change reveals limits of what capitalism will do even in the face of catastrophe. The question is what kind of development can people in all kinds of countries achieve?
Paris Accord reveals limits of what capitalism will do even in the face of catastrophe. The question is what kind of development can people in all kinds of countries achieve? So long as the vision of an alternative, liberatory path of development is not made concrete as the energizing principle of a movement, a vacuum is left for false alternatives.
Workers who created a wave of strikes in China from auto and electronics to steel over the past two years have confronted the power of private capital, the state and the Communist Party. In 2011 alone, China’s State Council acknowledged 500 large-scale “mass incidents” per day, including peasant resistance to land grabs as well as [=>]
