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Dwayne Monroe

@cloudquistador.bsky.social

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Cybernetics • AI Resistance • Dialectics • Film Noir • https://monroelab.com • vdgasjournal.com

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · Nov 9

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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Verdigris: Critique for the Age of Decline

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 12h

This is excellent. Thanks!

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 22h

😂

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 22h

Your timing is impeccable. For vdgasjournal.com I'm writing an essay about false criticism, used to suppress rather than illuminate. As you say, a tactic typically used against women and non whites generally.

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Critique for the Age of Decline

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 23h

But of course! This system will not endure.

H.L. Mencken’s Winking Ghost @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social · 1d

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 3d

Ohhhhh, I know what I'm giving to my fire marshals tomorrow to make them sad and delve into The Code. futurism.com/future-socie...

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. Iran's ability (shocking to 'the west') to counter attack during the 12 day war was a product of a robust, domestic science and engineering program. All global south peoples need this capacity

Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 1d

As a system (I won't say culture since, as Sakai observed, it's an assemblage of settler atavisms) the US has never supported universal education. The fear inspired by Sputnik's orbit in 1957 temporarily changed that but things have returned to the fathead norm

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · Sep 1

So many of the foundational sins of the field - a belief in 'precise description' (incantation) as a universal force; the assumption that the human brain is not just a machine, but a relatively simple one; the unwillingness to define exactly what a 'simulation' is - are in this single page

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Sep 1

70 years ago yesterday, they applied for summer money.

Typescript cover page to A PROPOSAL FOR THE
DARTMOUTH SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT
ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

First typescript page of A PROPOSAL FOR THE
DARTMOUTH SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT
ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. First paragraph reads:
“We propose that a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence be
carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other foature of intelligence can in principle be no precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer.”

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

Anthropic AI tries to cheer us up a bit www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck indeed. What will these men, who've built almost their entire identities on a few companies, do when capital dries up and collapse follows? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Image from Bloomberg article, 'OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular Deals'. It depicts a collection of circles representing each company, with lines showing investment interconnections between them

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Dr Vanessa Sinclair @drsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

The LATEST on Rendering Unconscious! RU363: JARED WARE FROM MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING CAPITALISM renderingunconscious.substack.com

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H.L. Mencken’s Winking Ghost @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social · 1d

It is because Candace Owens is a blogger pundit and Megyn is a bygone mainstream empty suit. She doesn’t have the power anymore to throw fits against the likes of a true fascist. The media landscape has changed; the empty suits are powerless.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

NEW: "The new [right-wing] power brokers are increasingly the most incendiary personalities. And because their fan bases are so rabid, and because they have the ability to easily sic those fanbases on competitors, it has forced more mainstream figures to tread gingerly."

By @willsommer.bsky.social:

Why Is Megyn Kelly Afraid to Take on Candace Owens?

Right-wing media’s old guard is scared of its younger, crazier rivals.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 1d

Earlier today, someone wrote, as encouragement for dismayed US-ians, that Europe overcame fascism. I propose that this isn't the case, as near uniform elite support for genocide shows and, this, from Gabriel Rockhill: www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/t...

Screenshot of Counterpunch magazine from October, 2020. It shows Gabriel Rockhill's essay: The US Did Not Defeat Fascism in WW2, It Discretely Internationalized It

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 1d

Ahoy sis!

Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 1d

I find precision to be helpful: the term, 'AI' is meaningless and has been since coined in 1956. So I advocate for statistical analysis and useful automation applied to human need; an expansion of Beer's vision for Cybersyn.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 1d

Which reminds of what an absolute fool Zizek is: generally but also, specifically for promoting the idea of a 'trans lobby' that bullies the medical profession: vdgasjournal.com/2024/03/28/j...

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, many US-ians, particularly of the mayonaise sort, mistake the unraveling of that settler colony (the most dangerous of them all) with world's end. No, it cannot survive its contradictions but humanity can and will

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 3d

In this sharply observed essay, my compadre and co-editor @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social applies Karl Kraus' century old assault on media and analysis of its impact on our thinking to current conditions. We have not improved. Indeed, we are worse off.

H.L. Mencken’s Winking Ghost @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social · 3d

Hear ye, hear ye, come on by and read my newest rag as I rant and rave about this world of ours: what I call our ‘World of Posters’

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This World of Posters

Everyday I wake up (always a mistake) and do my best not to give any consideration to the media. Why should I? They are the knaves, of both higher and lower ambitions, who sell us whatever amount o…

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 3d

I agree. And for clarity's sake, my projection does not assume a fait accompli but is based on a hard, dialectical look at the conditions we face and their causes. Resist in all ways by all means, even reformist

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Jared Ball @imixwhatilike.bsky.social · 3d

Palestine and State Repression from Zionist Genocide to Sinclair Media and the White Left ft @LBSBaltimore

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Palestine and State Repression from Zionist Genocide to Sinclair Media and the White Left

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 3d

Many thanks for the interest. I'll definitely check out Stopgenai.com and, you can email me at: [email protected]

Stop Gen AI – Mutual Aid and Political Activism

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 3d

I propose that the university, as currently understood will be killed by end stage capitalism compelling scholars of good will, who're brave, to build alternatives. The modern system served Cold War ends, though honest work was done. This technocratic age has ended. Now is the time of total war

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 4d

Both, of course. History is full to the brim with stories of systems that showed maximum psychosis prior to collapse

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 4d

We need the work of @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and colleagues now more than ever

The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 4d

With platforms like Boston University’s “TerrierGPT,” the pressure for students to use AI is now coming from colleges themselves, even as researchers warn of the long-term consequences, writes Julie Huynh.

What Happens When Universities Offer a “Critical Embrace” of AI?

With platforms like Boston University’s “TerrierGPT,” the pressure for students to use AI is coming from colleges themselves, even as researchers warn of long-term consequences.

www.thenation.com

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 5d

Right. It wasn't long ago that people were compelled by Microsoft's unparalleled lobbying of the C suite to replace Tru64 Unix, Solaris and other sophisticated server OSes with primitive WinServers. We knew the political economy behind this but now, in the age of cowards, there's a shrug