Dwayne Monroe
@cloudquistador.bsky.social
Cybernetics • AI Resistance • Dialectics • Film Noir • https://monroelab.com • vdgasjournal.com • https://padlet.com/verdigris21/verdigris-kjopwvgquczhyt06
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At monroelab.com I write about the tech industry's political economy, informed by Marx and Raymond Chandler. In January, a new team effort, for writers who want to look at the world and report what they see:
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Weds at 12 PM EST! @omarzahzah.bsky.social will join us to discuss his book: Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, & Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle
www.youtube.com/live/NtOgQJx...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Weds at 12 PM EST! @omarzahzah.bsky.social will join us to discuss his book: Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, & Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle
www.youtube.com/live/NtOgQJx...
www.youtube.com/live/NtOgQJx...
For those (all five - okay, maybe 20 of you) who're interested in the sorts of films I'm referring to: mad in intent yet calm in presentation, here is a playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For those (all five - okay, maybe 20 of you) who're interested in the sorts of films I'm referring to: mad in intent yet calm in presentation, here is a playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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I will say though that I noticed awhile ago that the Black women that the U.S. tech industry actually did hire were not African American, or of they were, they were light skinned + had exotic names
& I think this has something to do with why me and @sassycrass.bsky.social never got jobs ourselves.
& I think this has something to do with why me and @sassycrass.bsky.social never got jobs ourselves.
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I will say though that I noticed awhile ago that the Black women that the U.S. tech industry actually did hire were not African American, or of they were, they were light skinned + had exotic names
& I think this has something to do with why me and @sassycrass.bsky.social never got jobs ourselves.
& I think this has something to do with why me and @sassycrass.bsky.social never got jobs ourselves.
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
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The late Shafiqah Hudson, aka @sassycrass.bsky.social, and @sotreu.blacksky.app were the ones who started #YourSlipIsShowing. I ask that you remember Shafiqah and Ra’il as the originators.
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The late Shafiqah Hudson, aka @sassycrass.bsky.social, and @sotreu.blacksky.app were the ones who started #YourSlipIsShowing. I ask that you remember Shafiqah and Ra’il as the originators.
A note to say @blackamazon.bsky.social and her colleagues warned about this sort of thing many years ago.
"The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a f*ck about this."
Our attention is the product
There are tutorials in many languages on how to exploit that for profit, not just to stir the pot
AI makes it so easy to exploit now and everyone wins but you
Our attention is the product
There are tutorials in many languages on how to exploit that for profit, not just to stir the pot
AI makes it so easy to exploit now and everyone wins but you
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A note to say @blackamazon.bsky.social and her colleagues warned about this sort of thing many years ago.
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“Mother Fletcher carried 111 years of truth, resilience, and grace and was a reminder of how far we’ve come and how far we must still go”
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“Mother Fletcher carried 111 years of truth, resilience, and grace and was a reminder of how far we’ve come and how far we must still go”
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It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord
Nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate summit reached a deal that didn’t include a road map to curtail use of fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
To this, I'll add a personal reflection. The mostly Black schools I attended before Uni were run and staffed by Black educators who understood, to one degree or another, that we are at war against a society that wants us dead. Education was a sword and shield. The tech industry seeks to destroy this
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
To this, I'll add a personal reflection. The mostly Black schools I attended before Uni were run and staffed by Black educators who understood, to one degree or another, that we are at war against a society that wants us dead. Education was a sword and shield. The tech industry seeks to destroy this
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You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
A reminder, if one is needed, that these platforms should be considered a threat vector. I suggested alternative plans in this essay and, once again, volunteer to provide guidance: monroelab.com/2025/01/22/s...
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A reminder, if one is needed, that these platforms should be considered a threat vector. I suggested alternative plans in this essay and, once again, volunteer to provide guidance: monroelab.com/2025/01/22/s...
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classrooms as large scale, profit maximisation experiments
Microsoft's latest warning has set off a familiar response from security-minded critics: Why is Big Tech so intent on pushing new features before their dangerous behaviors can be fully understood and contained?
Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?
arstechnica.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
classrooms as large scale, profit maximisation experiments
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Historian of Ancient Greece Claire Taylor has an important, open access article on "Women, gender and the ancient economy: towards a feminist economic history of the ancient Greek world" in JHS 🧶 I really like this as a method for recovering more invisible labor. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
![oinochoe
Object Type
oinochoe
Museum number
1873,0820.304
Description
Pottery: White-ground oinochoe.
A woman in a long sleeved, dotted chiton, a bordered himation, and sandals, with earrings, bracelets, and hair wound into a ball on the neck and fastened with a fillet, standing to right, twisting between the thumb and first finger of her right hand a thread from a hank of wool on a distaff which she holds up with her left. On…
Producer name
Attributed to: The Brygos Painter
Cultures/periods
Attic
Production date
490BC-470BC (circa)
Production place
Made in: Attica (Greece)
Europe: Greece: Attica (Greece)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot: Locri (said to be from)
Europe: Italy: Calabria: Reggio di Calabria (province): Locri
Materials
pottery
Ware
White Ground
Dimensions
Height: 21.59 centimetres
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription position: on shoulder/body of vase
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription script: Greek
Inscription content: HE ΠAIΣ KAΛΕ
Inscription transliteration: ή παΐς καλή
Inscription translation: the girl [is] beautiful
Inscription note: 'kalos' inscription, painted pre-firing
Curator's comments
BM Cat. Vases
The type of face is very similar to that of the Hera on the Brygos cup, BM Vase Ε65; the dotted dress also suit the style of this artist.
Bibliographic references
Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (D13)
Location
On display (G69/dc5)
Exhibition history
Exhibited:
2006 8 Jun-4 Sep, Los Angeles, The Getty Villa, The Colors of Clay
2015, 26 Mar-5 Jul, The British Museum, Defining Beauty: the body in ancient Greek art.
Subjects
spinner/spinning
Acquisition name
Purchased from: Alessandro Castellani
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
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November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Historian of Ancient Greece Claire Taylor has an important, open access article on "Women, gender and the ancient economy: towards a feminist economic history of the ancient Greek world" in JHS 🧶 I really like this as a method for recovering more invisible labor. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
This does indeed seem crazy *until* we remember that no politician - regardless of how lovely the speeches or bright the smile - should be taken at face value. Their words aren't real but their actions are. Follow the actions and reach the appropriate conclusions.
This is the craziest thing I have ever seen. Until the next one.
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This does indeed seem crazy *until* we remember that no politician - regardless of how lovely the speeches or bright the smile - should be taken at face value. Their words aren't real but their actions are. Follow the actions and reach the appropriate conclusions.
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Anywho I adore you cats and kittens ! I’m still doing this
A job would be so much better because I wanna shut this down and get back to mutual aid commms planning
But I apparently don’t have the socially driven libido for that so I’m doing my periodic push
Night night
A job would be so much better because I wanna shut this down and get back to mutual aid commms planning
But I apparently don’t have the socially driven libido for that so I’m doing my periodic push
Night night
Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share
gofund.me/a5ee0064
gofund.me/a5ee0064
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Anywho I adore you cats and kittens ! I’m still doing this
A job would be so much better because I wanna shut this down and get back to mutual aid commms planning
But I apparently don’t have the socially driven libido for that so I’m doing my periodic push
Night night
A job would be so much better because I wanna shut this down and get back to mutual aid commms planning
But I apparently don’t have the socially driven libido for that so I’m doing my periodic push
Night night
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
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As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
To develop this point further, and more deeply, I recommend this interview of Ali Kadri by @jaybeware.bsky.social - youtu.be/0l3quA2PL2Y?...
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
To develop this point further, and more deeply, I recommend this interview of Ali Kadri by @jaybeware.bsky.social - youtu.be/0l3quA2PL2Y?...
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I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries
AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.
www.careful.industries
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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Thank you for this innitiative!!!
Sending solidarity ❤️✨
Spreading posters like this may also amplify reach bsky.app/profile/iris... cc @olivia.science
Sending solidarity ❤️✨
Spreading posters like this may also amplify reach bsky.app/profile/iris... cc @olivia.science
November 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Thank you for this innitiative!!!
Sending solidarity ❤️✨
Spreading posters like this may also amplify reach bsky.app/profile/iris... cc @olivia.science
Sending solidarity ❤️✨
Spreading posters like this may also amplify reach bsky.app/profile/iris... cc @olivia.science
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Well, you can now see that education, in America, is about preparing kids for working and nothing else. The philistines are winning the class war
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor
Is Trump dismantling the Education Department? Not yet. But changes are coming.
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor and parceling out other core job duties to other agencies. It's the most sweeping effort so f...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Well, you can now see that education, in America, is about preparing kids for working and nothing else. The philistines are winning the class war