Serife (Sherry) Wong

New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen. vimeo.com/1116289621 🧵

I also saw that the SF eyeball scanning store is now a shoe store, both are Sam Altman projects. Surveillance as fashionable is a narrative capture tactic. Look at how sovereign AI gets redefined here by Palantir.

Meanwhile in Sf, AI start ups are hosting watch parties for the documentary You can see everything, on truth and the personalities/inner worlds behind tech hype and its financing crimes. An inquiry (ironic/sincere?) so popular its hosted by multiple start ups at multiple theaters.

Tiare Roxanne new paper dropped today. On extension of colonialism via digital border surveillance disruption.institute/fellows/tiar...

This is so… something. AI generated videos of a human painting those kitsch oceans you only find in malls. Image theory flip flopping in the wind.

“Many of our contemporaries now want to combine the worst of these two worlds [i.e., Psychology and Artificial Intelligence]. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot.” 📝 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... cc @olivia.science

Scenes of flotsam and jetsam in the Bay Area. Some of the dog and pony show happening, safety theater, is in response to the public refusal & tech company backlash. It wasn’t expected I think. Watch as responsibility trends again and AI ethicists get hired back at companies that fired whole teams.

Video can capture what is between the lines in a way no article could. I see no difference between any of the major AI companies. We can not trust these systems because we can not trust these institutions or their mechanisms for accountability. www.youtube.com/live/hetzIrL...

Mainstreaming critical AI. youtu.be/-Nvne3LzBls

Stop AI was a flop. Pause AI was a bust. But oh now “Pace AI” that’s what they are going with? What next? Tickle AI? Don’t text back right away wait five minutes so you don’t seem so eager AI? Why not support existing lawsuits? Why not join existing movements already fighting the good fight?

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty AGI optimist: We have to pour a gajillion gallons of water a minute into this cup or else it’ll never be sentient!

Meanwhile in San Francisco: What do we want? AI Safety! When do we want it? Whenever you get around to it after we cash out our stock options!

It's really disturbing how the white supremacist are emboldened over on xwitter over Arday's suicide. It's scary.

Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n

Not surprised but very concerned and so thankful for investigative journalists. www.propublica.org/article/foia...

Effective Altruists scaled the ideology among AI researchers using crypto $. At one point, EA civil society was worth $40b. Rest of civil society is hopeful for IPO donations. Together these normalize a lot of sci fi ideas via cog biases capturing resources + attention from reality-based governance.

Lots of PR from tech companies promoting AI lately. How they view public opinion is out of touch &condescending. "Oh these users think AI is bad, they don't know it's good actually. I'll tell them." Don't empires often start their collapse when their power isolates them from learning/strategizing?

Super Cool. Dine artist and mathematician weaves computer chip designs and shines a light on indigenous labor in the computing industry which is unrecognized and extractive. forgeproject.com/collection/e...

The visual metaphor of this article's book chop video captures the current epistemic trashing by LLMs. I have seen so many book scanners before that are gentle and preserve books. I can't tell if it's real, it ought to be I guess? But unbelievably on the nose www.news.com.au/technology/o...

A lot of AI enabled violence and harm has come to pass but I have to say I did not expect the public to reject AI at this level nor did I see how fast the momentum against data centers would build. Neither did the companies. Scrambling

Great work by the @brennancenter.org who compiled this resource of DHS surveillance tools and vendors with categorized charts that make it easier to see 2.9 billion in contracts www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

open-source project mapping surveillance and you can find routes around cameras. deflock.org

Our model escaped and hacked! Unprecedented! Could there be anything incentivizing a nervous company as they lose their lead to a rival to make their tool sound so so naughty that it must be very smart. We can hardly control this monster AI! IPO coming soon! Sci Fi geeks doing PR again.

Companies are hiring AI governance people again after having pivoted away from accountability in the wake of LLMs. Why this sudden bloom after the first harvest withered on the vine? Because the public does not trust these companies and their tools and does not want their data centers.

The arts & what culture is and serves is fundamentally being reshaped towards a politically economy that in reality serves the interests of the powerful and decimates the arts. The loss of CCA, this $ direction does not serve artists but is a co-option of our ecosystem www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

"While corporations urge us to embrace their supposedly inevitable tech-driven future, academics must take a principled stand and defend universities by barring toxic, addictive techn from classrooms." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... Tide is def shifting: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 9/n

Teens annoy a lot of people sure, but what next? Waymo facial recognition identifies immigrants, Waymo calls ICE, Waymo follows activist home, Waymo blocks traffic to aid in mass arrests at pro democracy protest www.mercurynews.com/2026/07/07/w...

Look to San Francisco, home of the tech booms & AI labs, to see how the febrile AI sector benefits ripple out to communities. My local CVS locks up the frequently shoplifted items: ramen noodles, baby formula, canned food. Rent for a 1bdrm apt nearby is $6500.

Do I have any colleagues with Jackson Mississippi connections or history? Queer community a +

2 signs in the Bay Area capture different kinds of anger at AI tools, consequences & forms of community education. Swanky neighborhood sign's AI is optional, harming others, call to action is read more. The other sign's AI is for jailing, control, fear. It warns for safety. AI hits different.

Well that's a first. Customer Service I called made me prove I was human before helping me. (After the AI agent hung up on me twice)

How can I share in progress work with people if it is work I would not want put in an LLM. What kinds of thinking or creativity are accelerated while what kinds are thwarted? And more interestingly, what kinds of new forms will work need to take pushing new sociotech frictions?