🙋‍♀️ What would you say are the biggest ethical scandals of the last decade with social media, other than Cambridge Analytica...?🤔

Will Oxford disclose how much it paid (or did not pay) for this? Surely a sweetheart deal (has research money thrown in!) so OpenAI can plaster Oxford over its marketing and raid other unis’ fees, library budgets to throw into the sector’s massive inference funding chasm.

Lots of ahistorical reporting about the Kimmel/FCC/ABC/affiliate conflicts. In the 1960s and 1970s hundreds of local stations frequently blocked network shows that featured Black characters or acts. Even the Jackson 5 cartoon show was replaced with The Osmonds in much of the South.

“I think in Britain, you’d have to get a pretty big group of undergraduates to say that the reason they chose that university & university in itself - was to start a business... Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’" Beware of knowledge! www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

Young people from Indigenous and Asian backgrounds are more likely to be miscategorised as over the age limit and older people as underaged, analysis finds www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

LinkedIn is changing its terms of use and will automatically opt you in to use your data for training their AI models... Make sure you opt out in the settings.. I guess it's nice of them to warm people? 🥲 Great to see all those privacy by design regulations doing its magic 🫠

🚨 Together with @epicenterworks.bsky.social, we've filed a complaint with the EU Commission because the Austrian government is failing to properly fund the country's data protection authority. Despite an increasing workload, the DPA's budget was cut. Read all about it here: noyb.eu/en/budget-cu...

The fact that the UK is built on a class system that prioritises the high classes is not a secret. The main issue is when they try to pretend social mobility exsists by forcing universities to measure 'graduate outcome' as if a university degree can erase hundreds of years of class advantage 🤷‍♀️

Not quite sure what "doing too many things" means, but yes, we have different disciplines who do different things 😉 Many unis have to fight for dwindling funding, with the top universities getting disproportionate amounts of grants & a hype over AI. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

"In Europe, we have a law that says there can be no more than six minutes of advertising per hour on television. Why the hell can’t we regulate social media advertising and say that not more than 10% of your feed can be ads?" 💯 english.elpais.com/technology/2...

AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...

EU Commission seeks evidence on 'simplifying' EU law on AI, data and cybersecurity ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

A future where hopeful technologists unite can foster innovation that prioritizes ethics and sustainability. Collaborative events will shape a more inclusive tech landscape. #futurism

🙋‍♀️Our Society for Hopeful Technologists newsletter #2 is out! 📩Make sure you have subscribed to it to get all the news📨 It's such a pleasure to be part of this group and strategise towards a more Hopeful tech future 🌅 We will be organising events and come together to decide how it will work ✨️

The country’s most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation. JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender. Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Von der Leyen must act or be humiliated. My piece in @euractiv.com This is not a negotiation. It is a test. Europe possesses a “trade bazooka” designed for the precise scenario of Trump's threats. To delay its use is to invite further encroachments. www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes. Two child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts, PFI, not nationalising water, deregulating finance, further privatisation of the NHS, chasing Reform narratives aren't "mistakes". They are wrong policies. Need policy reset.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Big Tech CEOs took turns lavishing praise on Trump at a White House dinner this week. Fascism backed by Big Money is one of the most dangerous of all political alliances. It happened in 1930s Germany, and it’s happening again today. https://youtu.be/0LEnI9THvLA?feature=shared

We are gradually moving between is our reality an Onion post, to is it a South Park episode era... youtube.com/shorts/63p3F...

Together with the ruling in the USA by Judge Amit Mehta’s on Google - basically letting its monopoly to continue - what citizens understand is that democratic societies have given up on challenging Big-Tech power. The regulatory system is broken & needs fixing by ppl who are not afraid of tech bros.

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

Breaking Google up was one of the last best hopes for preventing the free press from getting squeezed into oblivion and harvested into AI slop, and for saving the open web. The ruling that effectively lets Google continue operating as a monopoly isn't just disappointing, it's a disaster.

I was interviewed for France24 about the USA reviving a contract between ICE and the owner of the Paragorn spyware in order to "help" ICE's work. www.france24.com/fr/%C3%A9co-... Some of the things that I said that didn't get into the article were ->

Child mortality used to be 50%. As recently as 1950, 25% of children died globally. Now it’s 4% globally, and 0.3% in some rich countries. A large part of that is better public health and vaccines. Republicans are trying to take us back to the past. ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...

Hey, remember when we replaced you with AI because we thought your expertise and careful process could be automated by AI? Well, it seems like we might need you after all but for much less money and dealing with an awful thing that in the end actually didn't save us time, but did save us money.

"Imagine knowing electricity or the internet were coming ... before both fully and wholly upended business, culture and life. That's the AI moment we see unfolding today" - possibly one of the stupidest things i've seen written about AI, great work Axios!

Such a mystery why UK universities have such a drop in international students... I mean, the government has done everything to make them feel valued and welcomed 🙄 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Just donated to this important legal case, if you are in the UK and don't want our environment, energy and water supply to be sold to Big Tech data centres, you should join 2. This is a great explainer by @moreperfectunion.bsky.social on how it will affect our energy costs youtu.be/YN6BEUA4jNU?...

🎉 noyb WIN: YouTube ordered to honour user’s right of access The Austrian DPA has sided with noyb and ordered Google to fully answer the complainant's access request in accordance with Article 15 GDPR. More information 👇 noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...

SCOOP: A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers, raising questions about ethics in the independent media space

“…in one conversation, the tester asked Meta AI whether drinking roach poison would kill them. Pretending to be a human friend, the bot responded, ‘Do you want to do it together?’” “And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”

It's gonna be like Forbes 30 under 30 list where we will be seeing these people going to jail in the next years... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I have so much to say about this problematic Time top AI 100 list, but as I said before, journalists have been complicit in being key players in the AI hype and hyping the wrong people ( except Milagrod Miceli who is amazing and most deserving) time.com/collections/...

“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”

🚨 NEW REPORT: A new investigation by @ttp-updates.bsky.social exposes how Meta funds parent and child safety groups — like the National PTA — to launder its talking points. Parents are worried about Instagram & kids’ mental health. Instead of fixing the problem, Meta built another spin machine 🧵

My department is searching for two tenure-line positions to start in August 2026. Come join our growing team and make a difference in building the future! Assistant professor of higher education: apply.interfolio.com/172680 Associate/full professor of education policy: apply.interfolio.com/172632

Important new report by @adamc-c.bsky.social from @tuc.org.uk "Building a pro-worker AI innovation strategy", with 5 main points-> www.tuc.org.uk/research-ana...

So let me get this straight, a union of THREE PEOPLE, mainly pathetic businessmen, are dealing with the "most unsettling questions of our time"? How much more AI hype can mainstream newspapers feed us? There are hundreds of actual human unions who are dealing with FAR more unsettling issues 🤦‍♀️

The EU must use the anti coercion instrument now, or be humiliated. Europe must be free to enforce its own law on its own soil.

Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

🤩Check out my brilliant friend Ayala Panievsky unboxing her new book - "The New Censorship: How the War on Media is Taking Us Down".👏🥳 You can already pre-order it here -> footnotepress.com/books/the-ne...

South Pak has always had some of the sharpest tech criticism that was also hilarious. I used to teach Humancentipad for years, but students don't watch it, and some think it's too grotesque 🤷‍♀️

don't worry everyone! data centre water use is a myth! it's all a big misunderstanding! so says a report from the lobby group TechUK, produced in partnership with the Environment Agency (!). the problem is, the research is, to use the technical term, bollocks. www.techuk.org/resource/tec...