Airfoil Collective

Theorizing a realpolitik of the left for socialist strategy, revolutionary theory and transitions from capitalism–together.

[Airfoil Collective @AirfoilCollect]

We are organizing an online reading group on Alan Shandro's "Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony." You need not be a Marxist theory expert to participate.

See the thread for details.

Please retweet and forward the information to interested comrades, colleagues and lists.

[VentureBeat @VentureBeat]

Satya Nadella warns that AI could hollow out entire industries, echoing the damage done by globalization
https://t.co/NzPQryh5wJ

[EL PAÍS América @elpais_america]

Durante su intervención en el debate sobre el acuerdo de paz entre Estados Unidos e Irán en el Parlamento Europeo, la representante de Podemos Irene Montero atacó la posición de Europa ante "la agresión ilegal de EE UU e Israel a Irán".

[Fouâd Oveisy @consul_general]

One of the best critiques of the reactionary left, especially the academic variety’s boilerplate takes on AI.

https://t.co/2rJERuLJMq

[Fouâd Oveisy @consul_general]

This post marks the end of the setup phase of S.A.R.A. — Strategic Assessment Radical Agent — and the start of its fine-tuning phase. S.A.R.A. is not an attempt to make an AI say leftist things, but to train a model to adopt a leftist culture of reasoning: one capable of recognising material forces, strategic cultures, hegemonic formations, counter-hegemonic agency, uncertainty, and the mediations through which state, capital, labour, technology, and war reorganise one another.

The post explains why the project uses Falcon-H1R-7B, why the setup was built around a modest yet durable A100-80GB cloud architecture, and why the work has focused so heavily on operational discipline, failure documentation, and recoverable infrastructure. It also introduces the public release of the setup-phase materials: the decision manual, operational doctrine, failure report, and related documents that record not only what was built but also why it was built this way and what went wrong along the way.

The broader claim is simple: a radical AI project cannot be built on proprietary mystique, liberal guardrails, or superficial political labelling. It requires a deliberate theory of thought, a public record of practice, and a willingness to share the costly lessons of experimentation with others. This post is therefore both a project update and an invitation to a more public, inspectable, and collective leftist AI commons.

[Benzinga @Benzinga]

Sen. Bernie Sanders is warning that artificial intelligence and robotics could eliminate millions of jobs if workers are not protected as the technology spreads.

Speaking at a “Fight Oligarchy” rally in Maine, Sanders called AI and robotics the most transformative economic revolution in U.S. history.

He argued that the core function of AI and robotics is to replace human labor, especially across transportation, manufacturing and other industries.

Sanders specifically warned that truck drivers, cab drivers and drivers for Uber $UBER and Lyft $LYFT could eventually be threatened by autonomous vehicle technology.

He also said AI could worsen inequality if governments fail to regulate it and ensure workers share in productivity gains.

Sanders criticized billionaire tech leaders including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, arguing that AI development is increasingly concentrated among wealthy executives seeking more power and profit.

He also raised concerns about AI-generated misinformation, warning that democracy could be weakened if people cannot tell truth from fiction online.

Sanders said he does not want future generations forming friendships with AI bots instead of real people, especially as loneliness and mental health concerns among young people grow.

His comments come after he criticized Meta $META for laying off about 8,000 workers while accelerating massive AI investments.

Sanders’ broader message: AI may bring major productivity gains, but without guardrails, workers could absorb the biggest costs.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

In April alone over $50 billion was spent in data center construction.

[Fouâd Oveisy @consul_general]

"Iran-splaining is not merely the right’s theft of a left idiom. It exposes a deeper failure within the discourse of authenticity and localism itself. That discourse was meant to decide who may speak, not to ask what a given speech act authorises, what structure of force it enters, or who can weaponise it. It also assumed that once the right subject spoke, the right politics would follow, but they did not, they do not, and quite often the opposite is the case. I have previously written about how this problem is endemic to a variety of leftist schools and practices, including democratic theory. Today, I address the postcolonial, gender and race theory discourse of “don’t speak on behalf of other people.” Its epistemic merits notwithstanding, it is grounded in a cultural rather than a strategic logic for translating the local into the political."
https://t.co/XoqxNXDF5e

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

Philosophy majors are being recruited by AI companies to help decide how machines should think and behave. https://t.co/HmeKWS0c2G

[Fouâd Oveisy @consul_general]

I’ve been reading too much hand-wringing about AI on here lately, so I finally wrote something. A triage of the left’s fears—what’s perverse, what’s partly true yet mischaracterised, and what’s actually real.

The through-line: the left has been pushed out of the rooms where AI is mobilised and is treating the technology as the antagonist rather than the conjuncture. So the panic about jobs, education, deepfakes, and data centres mostly misfires; the concerns about bias, opacity, and militarisation are real but misnamed; and the actual stakes—who decides which labour survives and what AI does to the international division of labour—remain under-theorised.

https://t.co/Uxj4fXdy4f

[Airfoil Collective @AirfoilCollect]

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[Airfoil Collective @AirfoilCollect]

We are organizing an online reading group on Alan Shandro's "Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony." You need not be a Marxist theory expert to participate.

See the thread for details.

Please retweet and forward the information to interested comrades, colleagues and lists.

[Airfoil Collective @AirfoilCollect]

Please contact us before April 7 to have a say in deciding the time and date of the first session. The basic schedule is as follows:

Week 1 — sometime in April — Chapter 1
Week 2 — 3 weeks later — Ch 2
Week 3 — 3 weeks later — Ch 3
Week 4 — 3 weeks later — Chs 5 and 6

[Airfoil Collective @AirfoilCollect]

درباره خاموشی طبقه متوسط مرکزنشین @consul_general

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[Airfoil Collective @AirfoilCollect]

خودآگاهی جغرافیایی بی‌سابقه در کردستان @AminiBehnam

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[Airfoil Collective @AirfoilCollect]

شیطنت‌های سلطنت‌طلبانه جمهوری اسلامی

@AminiBehnam

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[Airfoil Collective @AirfoilCollect]

ارتباط سرکوب‌ها در زاهدان با «ابتکار راه و جاده چین»

@consul_general

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[Airfoil Collective @AirfoilCollect]

«مشخصه استراتژیک این جنبش نه بازگشت به تفکر انقلابی بلکه تحمیل کنش مقطع‌گرا و نتیجه-محور بر مطالبات ضد-طبقاتی، -مرکزگرا و -مردسالارانه است که امکان تسلط اقشار حاکم بر اقتصاد و سیاست را در دوران پسا‌براندازی فراهم می‌کند.»

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