Coalition for Critical Technology

dismantling power structures, one tech at a time

[Coalition for Critical Technology @forcriticaltech]

We welcome the news Springer will not be publishing the article in question, but our demands are unmet. How did things get this far in the first place? This isn’t about one article—we need to truly abolish the #TechToPrisonPipeline. See/sign https://t.co/GYVudPYuIA for more.

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

most computer vision work is just modern phrenology

don't @ me

[Sonja Solomun - @sonjasolomun.bsky.social @SonjaSolomun]

Excited to see this out by some fantastic authors and friends of @forcriticaltech - how to defund big tech and refund communities in a broader move to tackle monopolies through community centric approaches

[Coalition for Critical Technology @forcriticaltech]

Now is the time to radically redirect the future of tech, by reclaiming the purposes of technology development, and redistributing the associated responsibilities and benefits, in the service of our collective and sustainable well being."

[Coalition for Critical Technology @forcriticaltech]

Check out: Defund Big Tech, Refund Community https://t.co/0LTe4DUeop for a great break-down of the myths underlying Silicon Valley's massive and expanding monopolies on wealth and infrastructure, and the urgent need to redistribute that $ and infra back to communities

[Coalition for Critical Technology @forcriticaltech]

Refunding community implies assuming greater shared responsibility for all aspects of the technology life-cycle, from concept and design to deployment, redesign, repair and retirement...

[Google Walkout For Real Change @GoogleWalkout]

Google has chosen to dismantle its AI ethics work, making it clear that the company will only tolerate research that supports its bottom line. This is a matter of urgent public concern. #MakeAIEthical 1/35
https://t.co/NCs5586qeY

[Google Walkout For Real Change @GoogleWalkout]

We're setting the record straight on Dr. Timnit Gebru's firing. #ISupportTimnit #BelieveBlackWomen
https://t.co/9VnR91g5WF

[Google Walkout For Real Change @GoogleWalkout]

We're up to 1,078 Googlers and 1,413 other supporters from academia, industry, and civil society. #ISupportTimnit #BelieveBlackWomen
Read our letter in support of @timnitGebru and add your name:
https://t.co/3yXm1cCORK

[Coalition for Critical Technology @forcriticaltech]

Solidarity with @timnitGebru! We fully support the demands made by Google Walkout.

[Google Walkout For Real Change @GoogleWalkout]

We stand with @timnitGebru. We call on Google Research to strengthen its commitment to research integrity and to unequivocally commit to supporting research that honors the commitments made in Google’s AI Principles. Sign the letter: https://t.co/hf91oDZ0Ew

[Devin Guillory @databoydg]

"Too valuable to fire", only applies when your offense offends the right groups.

For years Timnit has consistently set the bar and shaped the course of AI.

Power begets power and for some asking the wrong questions is sin enough.

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

Just like that, Google lost the little legitimacy it had. @timnitGebru has been nothing but the ideal role model for Black women, an aspiration, and a towering figure that keeps pushing the whole field of AI ethics to respectable standard.

[Coalition for Critical Technology @forcriticaltech]

We stand in solidarity and full support of @timnitGebru

[ruchowdh.bsky.social @ruchowdh]

.@timnitGebru is not only a pillar of our community, she’s the reason many next generation engineers, data scientists and more are inspired to work in tech.

It’s now our job to support her.

[Coalition for Critical Technology @forcriticaltech]

"Asking the Q of how much unis spend [on policing] *barely* scratches surface of what we don’t know abt relations btwn unis & policing. [This project] is a way to render this relationship into a studyable one, & help others study it"

Cops Off Campus Research Collective is 🔥💯👏

[abolition.university @abolitionu]

Introducing the Cops Off Campus Research Project: a crowdsourced, nationwide study of the nexus of universities and policing. Participate w/ link below, and learn more in 🧵

https://t.co/6rV5BzPxaZ

[Coalition for Critical Technology @forcriticaltech]

This event will be interpreted in ASL!

[Coalition for Critical Technology @forcriticaltech]

Very excited for this webinar tomorrow about how to bring abolition to bear upon the university!

[FKA lowendtheory @touchfaith]

TMRW: This exciting webinar on ABOLITIONIST UNIVERSITIES w/@BluBuchanan, @ethicsoftech, @RedPedGrl, @fictionalizer, and @BrotherSojo. 4pm Eastern/1pm Pacific. Yrs truly moderating.

Register!: https://t.co/1NrQNt5Z4Y

(it'll be recorded &available on the @C_Resistance youtube)

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Stop.

@WIRED given the resounding scholarly rejection of this kind of dangerous and pseudoscientific ML research (thanks to people like @Abebab, @forcriticaltech, @annaeveryday, @luke_stark and many others) why are you still breathlessly platforming these baseless claims?

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

How it How it’s
started going