Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.

Reminder @alex-taylor.bsky.social is speaking *this* Thursday discussing his BRAID project on red teaming & outsourcing labour in the Global South. Make sure you don't miss out - get your hybrid ticket now 👉 rb.gy/64oljm @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edcdcs.bsky.social @uoe-gail.bsky.social

With the global push for AI innovation there's never been a better time for international collaboration on responsible AI. We start the new year with a #BRAID call for collaboration between UK and US institutions: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... #responsibleAI #funding

🎤 Interested in relational entanglements of care and repair in tech? Apply for our 4S panel ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA) - apply here www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

HK art

Christmas lunch 🎄 When in Asia… 🍜

ALL 144 Facebook content moderators assessed by a psychiatrist in Kenya have PTSD because of their work moderating content for Facebook. Let that sink in. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Love ❤️ that Mary Douglas has a Google Scholar profile. She was and is a beacon 💡

👇 This short documentary video 📹 on drone delivery in Logan, Aus, is a must 🔥

“We should be concerned abt the closure of the EngLit course at Canterbury...This is more than an institutional failure. It signals a cultural shift that risks leaving future generations without the critical, empathetic + intellectual tools provided by literature. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

📣 Reflections from our *AI in the Street* project in The Conversation (@theconversation.com), by inimitable project lead @noortjem.bsky.social. theconversation.com/five-ways-yo...

Our latest Special Issue is out now: Digital (mis)trust: rethinking trust in digitalising societies -eds James Maguire and Kristoffer Albris www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c...

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is looking for a Senior Policy Officer in Online Safety. Full time, salary £42,593-£48,245. Deadline - 3rd December 2024 ico.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ICO/jo...

📢 This Thursday, I’ll be speaking at the European Parliament alongside MEP Leïla Chaibi & Prof. Antonio Casilli. We’ll be joined by data workers from 🇪🇸🇨🇴🇮🇹🇺🇸🇸🇾 to discuss the labor behind AI and what worker-centric regulation could look like. 🎥 Watch live, 2:30pm CET: www.youtube.com/live/U4692yg...

Nice @gleemie.bsky.social 🙂 1. The operationalising of responsibility in AI (w/ particular interest in capitalist global supply chains) 2. hmm, if I had the internet off switch 🎚️in front of me, would/could I do it? 💥

📣 If you’re in Edinburgh next Monday be sure to make this👇 We’re feeling very lucky to be having danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social join us!

Looking forward to this!

Speaking this Thursday @4pm (GMT) is the brilliant Dr Peaks Krafft. Join us online, or in person if you’re Edinburgh based!

Come and work with me! I mean, that's the main draw, right?

📣 Call now open for fully funded PhDs in 🔥Responsible NLP at University of Edinburgh! 📣 An awesome opportunity to look at AI through a critical lens. I'm especially keen to talk w/ applicants coming to this from #sts #sociology #digitalhumanities #feministtechnoscience www.responsiblenlp.org

Join our next event of the @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Hybrid Seminar Series where @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social will present her talk, ‘What is the value of integrating AI into creative processes?’. 📅 Thu 10 Oct 2024 ⏰ 4 – 5pm 📍 @inspacegallery.bsky.social / Zoom 🎟 edin.ac/3TRU4eq

📢 So happy with the ✨awesome✨ website reporting our @braiduk.bsky.social project #AI-in-the-street. Taken aback by how much we’ve done! See: careful.industries/ai-in-the-st... Thnx to @carefultrouble.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social + many more!

Spectacular morning in #Edinburgh. Sights from Blackford Hill always beautiful.

Join our event "AI in the street: prompts for debate" Thurs, 12 Sept 18:30, Science Gallery Lndn w/ @noortjem.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social & other lovelies Register 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207

Join our event "AI in the street: prompts for debate" Thurs, 12 Sept 6.30pm at Science Gallery London with @NoortjeMarres & @mayameme & other lovely humans. Please register 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207 Thx @Braid_UK

The Critical Data Studies research cluster is growing-- what a crew! efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/cr...

👇 I went to Summer Hall for the first time with Karen last week. So awesome and so upset to hear there’s the risk of closure! Nooo!

Where are AI’s publics? Are they latent in mundane acts of participation? Is public formation hampered by AI’s individualising interfaces? We will discuss in Edinburgh on June 5 in a BRAID event organised by @alxndrt.bsky.social with A Powell and B Nissen et al: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-are-...

Job vacancies: 2 x Postdoctoral Researchers digitalgood.net/job-vacancie...

In case we thought it was all bad

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“.. yet, hopelessness is not … fatalist; a kind of radical hopelessness that dares refuse the old promissory and progressive logics of capitalist growth could open political horizons. Such openings need not be novel…” “Immediacy or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism” @annakornbluh.bsky.social