BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

My essay “Because the twin is not a copy: the politics of digital twins” - written for a 2023 workshop organised by Christoph Borbach & out now in a special issue on digital twinning in #NewMedia&Society #DigitalTwins #algorithms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Have you noticed that everyone in certain subcultures keeps using the term "first principles"? I explore its origins for Compact magazine: www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

We are looking for a Senior Manager for our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social A key person in our team & a future valued colleague. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio... & feel free to DM me. Also look out for our October research fellows posts.

Francesca Albanese will be remembered as one of the bravest women of the era, standing against genocide despite the daunting forces arrayed against her. Sanctioning her, rather than the war criminals who are starving and murdering Palestinians is another moment of shame for the US trib.al/Oe77sph

Day 2 of perhaps the best-named tech conference so far this year! Tech people want, which by the way is NOT AI powered kill machines. See you at 17:00 CET

NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!

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/

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

New guerilla tactic just dropped

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

We deserve to know the full scale of this government’s complicity in crimes against humanity. My piece for @theguardian.com on why I’m tabling legislation tomorrow for a full, independent, public inquiry into the UK’s role in the Gaza genocide. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The 149, the king of busses..." This novel made me feel seen. London summers x

joined by Phil Zimmermann (creator of PGP), Vikram Subramanian (ex-googler) and Dr. Jaya Klara Brekke (CSO Nym Technologies) i will be giving a talk about surveillance at ETH Zürich next tuesday sign up for in person or live stream attendance: privacytalk.thealternative.ch/en

- effective altruism - rational environmentalism - climate realism Any movement that has a name that implicitly insults everyone else working on a problem (as ineffective, irrational or unrealistic) is just guaranteed to be trash

Babe wake up, they're transvestigating the new Pope let's fuckin gooooooooooo

Is AI a good thing?

as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip

We'd also like to see messages or signs from employers or service providers that stop trans people using single sex spaces.

I don't understand how the rest of the world doesn't get that this will damn all of us. You cannot starve an entire people and assume it won't have consequences for you...wherever you are.

AI is trained on academic books without the consent of authors who are now also expected to train and assess the use of AI by their students without consultation from university leaders who are also engaged in academic redundancy programmes. It's not only AI that can 'connect the dots'.

Palantir (Wes Streeting's partner of choice for your private medical data) is helping Donald Trump draw up a list of targets for deportation. Are you still relaxed about it holding your medical data? www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?" Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

‘And on what policies do their opinions have an effect? There is no democratic mandate for almost anything: pouring shit into rivers; declining real wages; skyrocketing inequality; the destruction of the universities; the underfunding of hospitals; and so endlessly on.’ — China Miéville

People in crypto have been socialised into being ok w scams, rugs and pump and dump schemes - always seeking to outsmart eachother n the market. Whether Trump gets away with this tariff shit depends on just how deep that socialisation has sunk into the psyche of the US population.

Anyone been analysing these tariff announcements as simple market manipulation?

The only people doing real "responsible AI" work 👇🏼 "Microsoft...terminated...two software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad & Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military during Microsoft’s Copilot and 50th anniversary event..." techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/m...

Last month, I wrote to the Prime Minister calling for an independent inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Today, more than 30 MPs have supported that call. This is not going away. We will campaign for as long as it takes to establish the truth.

amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down

3 dead so far at Krome ICE detention center in Florida. Max capacity was 500, they have over 4,000 and not enough water and food. Reports say they get 1 cup of water per day. These are already death camps. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n... english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...

Yep. A good overview of their plan.

An Oscar-winning director is attacked and then disappeared. Time for the international film community to step up. apnews.com/article/no-o...

Re-reading this and I highly recommend Virilio for people in the US right now. Virilio is the philosopher of speed as a vector of power via technology (dromology). Perhaps some useful tactics can come from it.

It's pretty wild to see what the Tesla Takedown people have built from nothing, totally organically in just two months. actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

I wish there were a social etiquette around these things. Guests should know if they’re in the presence of a listening device

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queen did not mince a single word www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Now they are burning diesel for an AI war that is vapor. It’s like sacrificing to Ba’al. They have no idea what to do so they’re trying to build an oracle out of what we already know, instead of investing in the humanity that makes new discoveries and produces the culture we value. #AIEthics

Your periodic reminder that when you buy a book here: - I keep no record of what you buy - I collect no information about you (except your credit card number, and that's a reason you should use cash) - The book will still be yours tomorrow; I couldn't remove it from your possession

Many of us trans ppl will always honor David Lynch for this—

Friends in London, it's been too long - would be sweet to see you and maybe this is an occasion?

So the UN has declared 2025 the year of quantum physics quantum2025.org - which seems a perfect year then to start a dream side project I've been nesting ever since reading Barad for my PhD: --> Reviewing it's influence on philosophy and the social sciences. Do send suggestions for readings!

Dealing with private sector research outfits make for a good reminder of just how essential publicly funded, independent universities and research institutions really are for ensuring that societies have a scientifically sound basis of knowledge...

Looking forward to the work coming out of this new lab 🔥