A techno tale from the household... www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

I’m going to Mozilla Festival 2025 in Barcelona this November! Join me there to help build a better, healthier internet. mzl.la/3HDm6HF

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

It's a Ponzi scheme. And these people at our universities have got us involved.

“At toilet time, you sign in via a fingerprint sensor so that the device knows who's using the facilities. (Please wash your hands before signing out or tracking your progress.) Then, check in with the app for the day's analysis and trends over time.”

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In other news: 1700 Palestinian prisoners, detained over the last two years but not charged with any crimes, were finally freed. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Supercool Oregon 😂😂

Next Nobel peace prize: Greta or Donald Duck? 👀

"It was a rigged deal" -- Trump is asked about Lula but then his brain flits to his teleprompter not working at the UN

interesting times...

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

Flotilla, il corteo di Roma ripreso dall’alto: una marea umana in via del Tritone - la Repubblica roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Comença l'atac a la Flotilla: el vaixell on va Ada Colau, interceptat #Flotilla #Gaza #Palestina www.elcritic.cat/temes/especi...

""Llegué a Bogotá. Ya no tengo visa para viajar a EE.UU. No me importa", reaccionó el presidente colombiano. "La sede de Naciones Unidas no puede continuar en Nueva York", agregó."

Above all I prefer this bong 🍀 mixing of climate denial and entrenched racism 🤷🏻

Good day everyone! A new episode is out: urbanpolitical.online/96-digital-c... The topic of how digitalisation changes the urban is addressed by four speakers who recently released relevant books in the field: Justus Uitermark, Myria Georgiou, Rob Kitchin, Yu-Shan Tseng and the host Ross Beveridge.

I haven't watched the news voluntary for over two years, and I'm not the only one apparently. for me it's the emotional toll of negative headlines especially wars www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Avui al Port Vell de Barcelona

Ese día, 9 de septiembre, la flotilla estará muy cerca de Gaza. La debilidad de Israel y la resonancia de la Asamblea General de la ONU puede hinchar sus velas. www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...

Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.

He actually did name the "kill switch" after himself 🙄 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

How #Brazil Is Strengthening Digital Governance Through Participation 🪁 Brazil is leading an approach to integrating citizen participation into federal decision-making through its Brasil Participativo platform, built on #Decidim. www.opengovpartnersh...

Amazing photos with contest description. Highly recommended 📸 darksky.org/what-we-do/e...

One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes

A new entrant in Google's graveyard. 🪦 news.itsfoss.com/google-steam...

Tales of the Late Internet Age... AirGuard application to track AirTags devices which track your geo-location 🙄 ssd.eff.org/module/how-t...

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o... A-level Economics 🤷🏻

Not sure what is the news here: - first female as the official adviser to the King or - first in 350 year history of the post? 🙄

AI bros think that "sweatshop" conditions of data labor are over, that we need "clever engineers" to train new LLMs. But @milamiceli.bsky.social says: "it’s the same workers. If you talk to people, they will tell you: I have done content moderation. I have done data labeling. Now I am doing this."

Top Chinese universities are going all-in on AI, offering AI literacy modules, creating interdisciplinary AI degree programs, and offering locally hosted Deepseek for students. My latest: www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/28/1...

I’m getting the feeling AI is going to be a bit like what happened to food when they invented instant versions of things. Yeah it made eating cheaper and less hassle, but in the end anyone with the resources now pays through the nose to avoid it

Agree. I have been using it for 15 years and spreading around students and researchers. See also the excellent plugin Zotpress for blog integration, mine is here: www.kiddingthecity.org/publications/

Messenger is distributed by the Baptist organisation “In Touch Ministries”, based in Atlanta, Georgia www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

In a cynical sense, this seems only consequent. After all, drones are both deadly weapons and media devices, and killing and image production are part of the same operation. It's not surprising (but nevertheless terrifying) that these images are reused to advertise what these devices are capable of

Now out for over a year, you can pick up a copy of my book, which maps an extensive cultural, political, and technological history of Tor (aka the so-called Dark Web) here mitpress.mit.edu/978026254818... with everything from spies to pizza, to Vin Diesel and the US navy.

"U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations"

Coming out of an Open University which -rather than leading in innovation- impose by default all Google and Microsoft systems: e.g. without Gmail no access to your work cloud, academic shares, etc. 🤷🏻

"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...

Very excited to see this piece out in @techpolicypress.bsky.social today. This was written together with @r-jy.bsky.social and Kate Elizabeth Creasey (a historian here at Brown), and calls out what we think is a scary and interesting rhetorical shift. www.techpolicy.press/sovereignty-...

What does the web mean to you? As we celebrate 1 trillion webpages archived in the Wayback Machine, we want to hear your story. Why does preserving the web matter to you? 📝 Share your story now: forms.gle/c3XqotHUToKe... #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.