📢 NEW ARTICLE JUST OUT! "Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure," by @louravn.bsky.social, Bokar N'Diaye, Katie Mackinnon, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, and @dmuravyov.bsky.social is another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Research measuring the effects of AI in education has a major quality control problem that should disqualify most of it from being considered in policy discussions or applied in teaching practice. Quick new post from me codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/t...

Just out! My introduction to a new special issue in @sciasculture.bsky.social on "Tech Oligarchy" - go check it out and the papers in the special issue (under "Latest" articles) #techoligarchy #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Referee Slavko Vinčić has the chance to do the funniest thing ever on Sunday.

Fancy learning more about the history of AI in education? This is a nice little event on the past and present of the "automated classroom" with Barbara Hof, Apolline Taillandier and me next Monday 20 July (in Edinburgh or online) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/automated-...

OK the truth is no one knows for sure why AIs love "It's not X—it's Y" but there are some strange and fascinating theories and I think this one is my favorite. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

AI can reveal your location from a single photo. Vision‑Language Models can determine where any photo is taken, without any GPS data What does that means for your privacy?

Speedrun to CJEU badly needed ESPECIALLY given divergence between AG opinion in new CJEU Coyote case and final Court decision.

Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?…. No, reader, they are not.

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Germany establishes its own AI Safety Institute

How did rhubarb, the ancient Chinese drug once worth $100,000 a pound, make its way to kitchen tables in the American Midwest? The story of the pie plant, like that of a Lumbee man who devoted his Iowa backyard to it, must be pieced together, carefully, across time. By Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

At least one German state-level criminal police department (LKA) purchased location data from digital advertising for surveillance, despite lacking a lawful basis, prompting an investigation by the state's data protection authority. Highly problematic on many levels: netzpolitik.org/2026/daten-s...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Young People & Children’s Commissioner Scotland, has carried out a child rights impact assessment (CRIA) & concluded that an ‘Under-16s social media ban would not currently be proportionate’ www.cypcs.org.uk/resources/ou...

The technologies are new. The questions--about power, meaning, knowledge, work, who gets counted, and who is at the table--are not. Social science has been asking them all along. The essay is an argument for showing up fully to a reckoning we're already in. www.amacad.org/publication/...

👇 #HPS #STS

A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist. theneuroscienceofeve... Dean Burnett explores the bizarre experience of having his PhD thesis hijacked by an AI service that nobody asked for or needs. #AIproblems #Thesis #Research #Podcast

Für die AfD geht es immer weiter aufwärts? Nicht unbedingt. Von 22 Bürgermeister- und Landratswahlen dieses Jahr in Ostdeutschland verlor die AfD: 21. Wir haben uns alle Orte angeschaut, was man daraus lernen kann - und wie die AfD zu schlagen ist taz.de/Niederlagens...

Wie herrscht das Valley und was meint das eigentlich? Am 1. Juni ist der grossartige @adriandaub.bsky.social zu Gast bei uns am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin, um diese Frage und sein Buch "Was das Valley herrschen nennt" zu diskutieren! Wir freuen uns riesig auf den Abend. Kommt vorbei!

#OutNow in #iCS What happens when public internet infrastructure moves to AWS? Using the Dutch domain registry SIDN, Cath develops the concept of “cloud drift” to examine how hyperscale cloud adoption reshapes internet governance. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Almost done another semester of Intro to IR, which means an updated Definitive (?) IR Playlist. The world order's a mess, but it's got a great soundtrack. New this year: Kendrick, Charli XCX, boygenius, etc. Songs by topic: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7edrj... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5Zr...

On World Press Freedom Day: Free speech and free press issues are usually framed around the rights of the speaker or newsroom. @davidakaye.bsky.social explains it's also about your right to know — and who is reshaping those rights (hint: Big Tech). ⬇️ Clip below ➡️ full video: bit.ly/dw-pressfreedom

Union Berlin make history by appointing Marie-Louise Eta as Bundesliga’s first female head coach tinyurl.com/4xs957pc 🙏💪🤗

Which copilot teybannerman.com/strategy/202...

Need a concise version to submit to a court? Litigants globally use our shorter brief, "Mandated DNS Blocking: Critical Considerations," as evidence to clearly explain these technical limits. www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/u...

"Mandated DNS Blocking: A Guide for Legal Professionals" is an in-depth reference detailing the collateral damage of these measures. It outlines how blocking fragments the Internet and forces significant costs on operators. www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/u...

Carl Gahnberg has a new post highlighting ISOC's new resources for legal professionals on mandated DNS blocking. If you need to explain the technical realities of the Domain Name System to courts or policymakers, start here: www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/04...

Christ, you can't even escape email in space

Interesting to see this 1947 test screen with Marlon Brando for the film "Rebel Without a Cause." Brando, of course, would later epitomize mid-century American masculinity. He was 23-years-old here.

Extraordinary new public humanities resource that curates in near real-time over 50,0000 items from sources/channels of humanities-related scholars who create pubic-facing essays, podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.: publicscholarship.org

What is marketed as AI “innovation” is, in practice, a consolidation of global labor hierarchies and a commodification of African knowledge, write Marché Arends and Kathryn Cleary, drawing on their year-long investigation supported by the Pulitzer Center and published by Africa Uncensored.

RIP Alexander Kluge. Sein wahrscheinlich größtes Projekt war die ambitionierte TV-Plattform dctp. Auf der Webseite kann man viele der Sendungen streamen, neben thematischen Programmen auch Gespräche mit Künstlern wie Laurie Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog und Christoph Schlingensief.

i have an AI idea for investors. i want to buy a house and ay I need you to pay for it.

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

We’ve updated The Markup’s privacy tool to help you understand how sites are tracking you through TikTok and X pixels.

Also, @bradmehldaumusic.com’s Substack is always worth reading. Big questions, deeply personal and thought provoking.

Right to the heart of the matter, @bradmehldaumusic.com

“The technology that accelerates individual careers seems to be simultaneously narrowing what science collectively explores.”

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

The EU is ramping up defense AI investment, while much of it sits outside the bloc’s flagship AI law, Raluca Besliu reports. As military and civilian systems increasingly overlap, a regulatory gap is emerging over how dual-use AI will be governed in Europe.

Kunstfreiheit ist kein abstraktes Grundrecht – sie wird gerade vor unseren Augen verhandelt, zuletzt bei der Berlinale und beim Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis. (1/2)

The first official event of 🇪🇺 @europarl.europa.eu's Interest Group against #spyware took place yesterday. ➡️The group aims to become a stable point of reference between Parliament & civil society, with regular meetings & ongoing monitoring and political scrutiny of EU institutions and Member States.

Open letter by 400+ IT security and privacy researchers on the many problems linked to age gating social media csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb...

Mehr als 400 Forscher*innen aus 29 Ländern schlagen Alarm: Staaten sollen Social-Media-Verbote stoppen. Die Einführung von #Alterskontrollen ohne weitere Forschung sei „gefährlich und gesellschaftlich nicht hinnehmbar“. netzpolitik.org/2026/forsche...

Sigh. 'We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization ... Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.'

MIT Technology Review is thrilled to announce that this story, which offers a first-of-its-kind look at AI's energy use and climate impact, is a National Magazine Awards finalist in the Reporting category.