🚀 Join for a virtual event on the future of education at the intersection of #AI and #technology! Hosted by the Power & Privilege Committee ofBrighworks, George Hofstetter, CEO of GH Tech.
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 PM PST
https://t.co/KC9yIIL4sI
🚀 STEM Saturdays update! We’re thrilled to feature George Hofstetter (@ghtechinc), a trailblazer in tech who developed the app to address police brutality. On Day 2, students designed their own crank systems using everyday materials to explore motion and creativity.
“What I am still trying to wrap my head around is my new experience walking to class, a route now accompanied by more than 200 public safety officers". George Hofstetter reports on the militarisation of campus at Columbia University.
https://t.co/zwDl2xLyPP
On this day in 1965, at the age of 39, Malcolm X was martyred by way of an assassination.
In honor of Brother Malcolm, I wrote this piece titled ‘Malcolm X: The Black Messiah’.
If you have it, take a minute to check it out.
https://t.co/sFo35x3Jg0
"In the age of hyperindividualism fueled by capitalism, our attention has become the new currency."
George Hofstetter analyses the fragile relationship between ourselves and technology.
https://t.co/dgURNZ5Lo2
Now is the time to create the dopest art. The dopest films. TV shows. Plays. Books. Articles. Classes. Lectures. And being that we’re living in the times that demands our dopest forms of dissent, we’re also living in times of extreme surveillance, censorship, and silencing.
“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”–Paulo Freire
“We can’t save the world on our own. We can’t liberate people by ourselves. We’ve got to have a collective effort to design towards our liberation as a people.” - George Hofstetter, GHTech
Read more: https://t.co/i7peLOhUVN
Us: Get fired with @JeffDean + friends sending emails to entire org.s calling our work "sub par" in spite of the thoroughness we display,
Him: "He will...retract or issue lengthy corrections to five widely cited papers for which he was principal author"
https://t.co/klJX3T4CUy
The average person isn’t afraid of tech advances in the form of A.I. out of fear of A.I. “taking over the world” like in movies. The average working class person is afraid of A. I. being used to replace them in the workforce and improving the efficiency of criminalizing the poor.
Hacking for good! Room full of data scientists, products managers, front end & back engineers , educators , &
organizers of color who spent their afternoon designing ways to make 311 more accessible & more! @KaporCenter x @carroll_fife