It's almost as if the whole point of the past seven years of law and policy on this issue was neither protecting children nor fixing social media nor curbing big tech, but building both a domestic surveillance tech sector and a captive market for it. internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that...

🎉𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 "𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐭𝐬" 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚 2 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲 SIDN fonds!🎉 We'll be investigating how media organisations can adopt open-source LLMs to reclaim control over their distribution & audience relationships. All info: www.sidnfonds.nl/nieuws/de-tr...

Athenaeum Boekhandel is not happy with me--that's okay, I'll still keep reading that garbage.

👏 Congratulations to Agustin! Putting an important spotlight on how the adoption of "invisible" cloud infrastructure can become an unexpected way for dominant providers to exert their power. Give the paper a read! 👇

Paper out! The first paper of my PhD, on the reasons why media organisations have adopted cloud infrastructures, is finally out on Open Access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'll be co-leading this session with @natalihelberger.bsky.social! Do come if you're interested in the politics of digital infrastructures and how we can build different, autonomous systems.

This is a widely accepted norm journalists are taught to convince themselves they believe in, but it's not at all obvious why a publication should have to publish an op-ed merely because it represents the president's point of view. That's a media market and branding decision major papers have made.

Vandaag kondigen De Correspondent en Follow the Money aan dat ze gaan samenwerken om onafhankelijker te worden van Amerikaanse big tech ✨ @casperwolfert.bsky.social decorrespondent.nl/16752/de-cor...

📰 New preprint! By @ferraribraun.bsky.social and @ccs.bsky.social, highlighting the hidden influences of European news media's reliance on the cloud infrastructures of Big Tech. For news work, autonomy is decreasing, while vulnerabilities are increasing. Read here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨 PAPER OUT 🚨 The first paper of my PhD just got published as a pre-print. Co-authored with @ccs.bsky.social, it looks at the ways in which cloud infrastructures are changing the business operations of European news media companies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard

"the entire exercise has less to do with actual resource imperialism than Trump’s feckless reality TV Cosplay resource imperialism. He likes demonstrative acts of violence. He likes to claim immediate economic paybacks". open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

On twitter, Macron is pretending that a popular uprising finally removed Maduro, what shameful gaslighting, and a joke of European strategic autonomy

✨ New preprint: The facets of data in news organizations Our researcher @ferraribraun.bsky.social co-authored this study looking at the role of data as the intermediary layer between journalists and AI technologies, and unpacking how it's embedded in practices. Read here: osf.io/preprints/so...

The central argument in this excellent paper & thread is that the open-access turn has neglected profit; indeed, it turbo-charged publishers’ margins. As political economists who know a thing or two about profit and power we should speak up a lot more. As it says below: What we’re doing is crazy.

As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do: DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency. @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why algosoc.org/results/1-in...

ASCA, the research school of which I’m the director, has been “blacklisted” by the state of Florida, as reported by @foliacivitatis.bsky.social. We were informed of this in a letter, dated 7 October 2025, which we “ter kennisgeving hebben aangenomen” ("have accepted for information purposes").

Rechter: Instagram en Facebook moeten algoritmevrije optie krijgen - nos.nl/l/2584891

Really happy to be joining the AIMD Lab, one of the most exciting research spaces in Europe to study tech and media!

Ik herhaal ook hierover weer mijn plea: media, alsjeblieft, BESTEED HIER AANDACHT AAN. Wilders' programma staat vol met punten die voor trans mensen het leven volstrekt onmogelijk zouden maken. Ik heb er NIET EEN krant of tv-programma over gehoord. Nogmaals, ik licht het desnoods punt voor punt toe.

"Every sovereign AI initiative should be mandated to serve the public good. These systems must legally demonstrate that they fulfill publicly defined goals, with their performance measured and reported openly" 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Goede repliek op dat rare item over eenkennige universiteiten van @nieuwsuur.nl.

The @publictechmedialab.bsky.social just got bigger! Welcome @ferraribraun.bsky.social, who is joining us as a research fellow!  Agustin is a PhD researcher at the AlgoSoc Consortium, affiliated with Media Studies and the @ivir-uva.bsky.social at UvA. See more info: https://ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu/

Been talking nonstop about this shameful episode for the past two days & this point needs to be underscored: It's the culmination of longstanding structural defects in our media, not simply the bad actions of bad actors. What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is a downstream manifestation of systemic probs:

Together with Marc Tuters and @robtoes.bsky.social I wrote an essay on the Charlie Kirk assassination, the Groypers - Nick Fuentes connection and the state of memetic political violence today oilab.eu/frozen-antag...

I really believe that disentangling this apparatus is the task for social sciences and the humanities in the foreseeable future. Nothing else is as urgent as this

Picked this up last year to quickly check a couple of facts and I simply couldn't put it down. Strongly recommend it

It's been over 15 years since the original was published and 8 since the follow-up, but Tarlton Gillespie's papers on the platform metaphor remain a fundamental read to avoid falling into these traps papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... culturedigitally.org/2017/08/plat...

Sad to hear about the passing of Michel Callon, one of the most important STS scholars ever

There's blood on our servers.

Here's the report from Forensic Architecture on the bombardment of the Al-Ahli hospital that 1) shows that the rocket was fired by Israel, and 2) that it's denial was part of the IDF's informational warfare tactics forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...

This is a stupid argument. ZKPs aren’t bad because they’re not confidential enough. Worry instead because people can ask you to prove anything, at any time, to provision or deny you access to services, while saying ‘privacy is solved’! Rules, not disclosure, are the risk. Do better @eff.org.

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Chapo Trap House was cooking in today's episode when they called the ongoing moves to recognise a Palestinian state a pre-emptive land acknowledgement. Of course the episode was recorded before Starmer managed to find an even more aggravating position

I think the fundamental error in this piece is imagining that there is some inherent tension between Starmer the human rights lawyer, and Starmer the ruthless bourgeois state manager. And like, I don't think that's what's going on? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Heel fijn om de nieuwe editie van @jacobinnl.bsky.social in handen te hebben — inclusief mijn artikel over abolitie en straf! Nu te lezen

When Sarah started this video I rolled my eyes at her calling contemporary chess a text book example of late capitalism. One hour after I was completely convinced by her argument, go watch this! youtu.be/ZtN-i-IkRWI?...

I'm honestly sick to fucking death of protesting this being treated as the greater crime. Fuck you amoral subhuman pieces of shit for enforcing such inhumanity. I only want to live in a future where you pay dearly for it.

It was beautiful while it lasted, but all good things must come to an end. Just give the yellow to Pogacar and pack everything up nicely.

Ben Healy is doing such an amazing tour, idk if he has what it takes to truly fight for the maillot jaune this year, but it's a pleasure to watch him cycle

Honest to god media outlets need to stop with this genre of article if they want to be taken seriously. This is an anecdote you might hear from your most eccentric friend, not something that should be published alongside actual news

Van der Poel didn't have the legs today, nor on Thursday. It's going to be bloody carnage when we get to the mountain

This is the best time of the year sports-wise: getting extremely into cycling for three weeks and then immediately forgetting everything about it as soon as they give out the prizes in Champs Elysées

The new report from the UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese shows beyond the shadow of a doubt how the tech industry is powerig the genocide of the Palestinian people. These companies are going out of their way to provide the necessary infrastructure to exterminate Palestinian life.

Deze zin vat de kern van onze kritiek op de publieke uitingen van de NWO-baas extreem goed samen. www.folia.nl/nl/opinie/16...

This destroyed so much more than just that. in the years before the ministry experimented funding for social media initiatives(as in media produced by civil society). this initiative (de digitale pioniersregeling was also abruptly killed.

My niche contribution to the ongoing Platerkerk discourse is that, in 2009, the Dutch media ecosystem was under immense pressure due to the Global Financial Crisis and the rise of digital platforms. The Brikman Commission found that the sector needed 12 million euros per years to survive...

It's true that progressives valorize "ugliness." But I think this person doesn't interrogate this position enough and thus lands at the wrong conclusion. Let me give you my perspective on ugliness. 🧵