Mozilla’s new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice: techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/m...

📣 CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS! 📣 I’m pleased to share that @paolobory.bsky.social and I are co-editing a volume that is now under contract in the "Frontiers in Journalism Studies" series published by Peter Lang! “𝘾𝙮𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨. 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢, 𝙉𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙤𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙢” Full call: shorturl.at/F18vN

“AI is simply surveillance capitalism continuing to evolve and expand with some new methodologies, but still based on theft” english.elpais.com/technology/2...

When Musk joined Trump, countries rolled out the red carpet for Starlink: restofworld.org/2025/musk-st...

35 notable AI fails from 2025: indicator.media/p/35-notable... @indicator.media

How the tech industry’s embrace of Trump may be paying dividends: www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

It's a new day, and that means a new batch of Verge articles are completely free to read (until tomorow). First up, from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

84 per cent of the AI-generated podcasts from WaPo were not up to journalistic standards, according to its own internal report. The development cycle isn’t wrong, but undermining your brand’s reliability to chase a dream of hallucination-free GAI when nobody knows how to build it is a very bad bet.

She blew the whistle at Meta. Then her career fell apart: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Escaping the sad AI internet: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/esca... @niemanlab.org

2025: The year tech embraced fakeness: indicator.media/p/2025-the-y...

Ci stiamo ammalando di epistemia, l'illusione di sapere cose solo perché l'AI le scrive bene: www.wired.it/article/epis...

As AI sharpens media’s class divide, lessons from the global majority: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/as-a... @niemanlab.org

Gramsci’s Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony - @ethanz.bsky.social: ethanzuckerman.com/2025/12/05/g...

Thousands of TikTok Deepfakes Are Attacking UK’s Prime Minister and Government, Raking in Millions of Views to Generate Revenue: www.newsguardtech.com/special-repo...

Dan Sturman details in an NYT op-ed how Nixon solicited a CIA profile showing that Daniel Ellsberg was a nutcase, but the CIA psychiatrists concluded he was a person of "dazzling brilliance" who was motivated by a high order of patriotism.

SLOPOCALYPSE NOW: www.artforum.com/features/yea...

I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...

This is an article I’ve been working on for a long time and care about deeply. I had the chance to interview @forensicarchi.bsky.social founder Eyal Weizman and academic Matthew Fuller on the occasion of the Italian publication of their book “Investigative Aesthetics”. On @wired.it (🇮🇹):

#AISlop is a product of recursive optimization, of prediction algorithms no longer only used for distribution, but for production of content. It's reaction economies and recommendation logics feeding back onto themselves, social media feeds turned into feedback loops. Let's call it #sloptimization

Which stage of extractivism is this? > "Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train A.I. Agents" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...

2025 aesthetic

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...

Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop: www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Filmmaker Laura Poitras on Cover-Up, her twenty-year project investigating Seymour Hersh, the “crisis” in investigative journalism, and how truth-telling can still change the world. Read the interview with A.J. Goldmann. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Journalists From Across the Globe Join Forces to Investigate Big Tech Lobby: niemanreports.org/big-tech-lob... @niemanreports.org

Spyware against solidarity: Europe's digital drift to the far-right: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Casualty of War: Sudan’s Media Emergency Since the start of the civil war in 2023, Sudanese journalists have been killed, displaced, threatened or discredited by misinformation campaigns as the media ecosystem collapses. niemanreports.org/sudan-media-...

And later, offer a free email service, a large language model, and Reels.

Four ways AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ho finito le forze - Perché non vi importa del clima? silvialazzaris.substack.com/p/ho-finito-... @silvialazzaris.bsky.social

Large language mistake: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

How Palantir infiltrated the state: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

can’t fucking catch a breath make it stop

On the third anniversary of ChatGPT, I aimed to pull back from “AI” as a flowing current of new models, new data centers, new initiatives, “new new new” — and look at it as a product of a specific and unique moment in history. What *was* ChatGPT? A few points in the thread ⬇️

The man on a mission to save Mauritania’s ‘city of libraries’ from encroaching desert sands: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals. OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.

The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition: theintercept.com/2025/11/21/f...

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege: www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Not the best photos, but it was great to host @moschella.bsky.social from NBC News’ Social Newsgathering team for my “Automating Information Disorder” MA course at Universität St. Gallen yesterday.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say: www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Once more valid.

Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when www.theverge.com/news/823562/...

Looking forward to our next Roxy Selector Set w/ @philipdisalvo.bsky.social | Archaeology of the Expanse, 27. November Through an archaeological reading of jazz, post-punk, electronic experiments, and beyond, this set uncovers fragments of lost futures and the lingering possibilities they carry.

The Texan Ideology: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t... @thebaffler.com

What Data Reveals About Meta and Google’s Political Ad Ban in the EU: www.techpolicy.press/what-data-re... @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Enshittification: il progressivo degrado delle piattaforme digitali: www.guerredirete.it/enshittifica... @lauracarrer.bsky.social

Even beyond these events, I’m still waiting for the moment when there will be an analysis of the damage Spotify has done to music as a cultural experience, but by then it will in any case be too late