Top: Tommy’s racist temper tantrum Bottom: Carnival Face rec is deployed along racial logics. Don’t want to read another haphazard study of how accurate the tech is; AI-driven policing is spatially and selectively configured to impart racial violence and selectively revoked to protect accomplices

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

We’re proud to launch ICEFlightMonitor developed by Tom Cartwright & housed under HRF to monitor & analyze US immigration enforcement flights. Cartwright tracked 40,000+ ICE flights since 2020, exposing hidden operations of US immigration enforcement. Learn more: humanrightsfirst.org/library/ice-...

A new eyewitness who concurs, saying it's not only the IDF shooting, but personnel hired through 🇺🇸 subcontractors "There had been so much shooting that human remains had been left there and the smell got quite bad. The security contractors had complained and the IDF said it wasn't their business."

Tech bros drooling over Rome is wild. The empire was a war machine built on slavery + patriarchy. If that’s your inspo, you’re not dreaming of innovation—you’re dreaming of domination electricliterature.com/why-are-tech...

I say *new*, but this was submitted in 2022 on the basis of longer term research Graham and I had carried out a little earlier.. for worse or for worse, I’d like to think many of insights still hold..

🚨New Article (Open Access)🚨… in which Graham Denyer Willis and I argue that, far from biometric and personal data affixed to individual bodies, Digital ID must be understood as a means of corporate-governmental conjecture in service of capital. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 Call for Fellows 🚨 7amleh is launching a six-month, part-time Fellowship Program for 4–6 researchers working at the intersection of AI, surveillance, and digital rights in/around Palestine. 📝View fellowship details & apply: 7amleh.org/post/fellows...

"The successful candidate will work with Professor Caroline Bassett and others in the CDH team to contribute to collaborative research projects exploring AI and the future of creativity" 3-year research associate position at Cambridge Digital Humanities. www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

Give up on your personal archives while we jam all your data into the content extrusion machine.

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

The implicit threat behind the AI hype is the paradigm of Modernity; behind the relentless chiding to use AI for everything is that if you don't, you will no longer be civilised, no longer be part of a fully developed humanity.

I did my PhD in the 2000s, when student-initiated projects began being replaced w/ "be someone's assistant" projects. I applied for AHRC funding. No luck. Started half-time while doing my job as a British Library #maps curator half-time. Re-applied the next year. Still no luck. 1/ #academicsky 💙📚 🗃

Major UK report on the water industry notes the challenge of "data centres for the projected increase in Artificial Intelligence use, which have a high-water need" assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687dfc...

Ursula K. Le Guin was "formed by the 1950s, a decade of right-wing assaults on intellectual freedom and economic equality." @julie-phillips.com on thinking with Le Guin's writing and actions: "As the politics of anger and fear return to power, I try to find encouragement in what she did”.

The right-wing backlash against #Superman has happened before. Here’s my @vanityfair.com report w/ the full history —starting with April 1940, when the official SS newspaper attacked the comic book hero & its creators. Plus, that time Superman fought the KKK… 🔗 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Excited to share my latest article. It examines how humanitarian data came to be repurposed for citizenship determination, focusing on an often-overlooked form of biometric border-making: the digitized mechanisms for keeping citizens out of refugee camps. tinyurl.com/bde5a6dw

My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

here's the blogpost as promised aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...

I signed.

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/reg...

The AI for Good Global Summit starts in Geneva tomorrow and undersigned AI scholars, scientists, human rights advocates and experts, demand that the UN to take a firm stand against tech sector complicity in grave violations of international law, including genocide. Sign below 👇🏽👇🏽 uncomplicit.tech

Hey @neuripsconf.bsky.social will the reviews for the workshop proposals be shared with authors? Understanding the reasoning behind decisions would be greatly valuable, many of us put a lot of effort into our submissions. Transparency would be appreciated!

FT reveals Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG and suggested the term. Now trying to frantically distance themselves ↘️ on.ft.com/4lJ8FnV

apnews.com/article/pale... contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

I just heard from a colleague at a conference where all panels start with a statement against genocide in Gaza. @thesociologicalreview.org remains the only conference/body I've seen do this in last 18 months. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement... Which academic assocs are standing up on this?

the g7 be like we support our well established right to occupy pillage and start wars and to then defend ourselves from the consequences of that

the ancient culture of wanting to decide one’s future

Speechless at how every media story related to the destruction in Iran somehow continues to miss the death toll, while photos extend only to obnoxious Israeli equipment of war. Meanwhile, Netanyahu's internal, self-imposed victimhood propaganda tour is getting the full bells and whistles. [1/4]

Last week we hosted a live show on AI and warfare, going deep on the use of AI in Gaza, and it's now live on our Computer Says Maybe feed. Exceptional group of guests: @marwasf.bsky.social, @docmattmoudi.bsky.social, Karen Palacio (aka kardaver), and Wanda Muñoz. Essential if difficult listening.

This was a difficult, but necessary listen esp in light of the escalations this week. Appreciate the analysis from @docmattmoudi.bsky.social @marwasf.bsky.social and @alixdunn.com's team for not shying away from what we need to face. csm.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-...

Honoured to have Mizue Aizeki, Coline Schupfer and I’s edited collection represented in this profoundly important series 🙏🏽

It is possible to have an opinion on things happening in the world that is not shaped by what is (il)legal but by like a set of political and ethical commitments that are not derived from liberal legalism

Just listened to this excellent conversation between @docmattmoudi.bsky.social and @eleanorkpenny.bsky.social and you should too. I hear from tech worker pals all the time - Palantir is getting all over the British state. Serious stakes. Join the @novaramedia.com supporter drive while you're at it!

This is really not good; www.techpolicy.press/us-house-pas...

Make sure to pick up @docmattmoudi.bsky.social’s new book 📕!

With @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social, I've been exploring the intersection of AI governance & #digitalidentity. In an essay in the new #openaccess 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 collection, we reflect on how companies like @world.org are resignifying #biometrics in the AI age libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...

ONLY two takeaways from Lammy’s newfound voice should be that the UK had the power to stifle Israel in its ongoing genocide, forcible transfer, and apartheid against Palestinians, but simply CHOSE not to. They traded Palestinian lives for commercial ties and now they are the arbiters of morality…

Really pleased to be a part of the Feminist Book Club this year and grateful for co-panelists willing to start a dialogue between their incredible work and my book 🙏🏽

NEW: @bloomberg.com analysis of +13 years of ICE detentions shows immigrants transferred to the South and SW from interior US at unprecedented rates. Reducing the odds of winning their cases. w/ @elenamejia.bsky.social @racheladhe.bsky.social @pollymosendz.bsky.social bloom.bg/43am95w

a neural network unit is not a neuron disappointed to see scholars i respect give into the hype

Had a blast in London last week hosting @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social, @docmattmoudi.bsky.social, Seyi Akiwowo, and @marthadark.bsky.social for a CSM live show with 80 friends. You can listen to the show + takeaways from the convo w @georgiaiacovou.com and I here: www.saysmaybe.com/podcast/ai-c...

Last week, I was starstruck and positively stoked to sit down w @alixdunn.com and three incredible co-panelists to talk UK politics and broligarchy at the Computer Says Maybe live show in London. The show is now available on CSM's podcast feed – take a listen! www.saysmaybe.com/podcast/ai-c...

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...

Seems a good reason to bring up that I'm super excited to pre-order this book by @emilymbender.bsky.social and Alex Hanna

Free Mahmoud Khalil

Absolutely stoked to host @nannathylstrup.bsky.social at CDH this evening, come merry come many! Great to be reunited with familiar DALOSS faces and brains again too, feeling energised from this morning’s brain trust session🙏🏽 @crasshlive.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @pembroke1347.bsky.social