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. 🧵

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

The RUVU reception just got tear gassed lmao #ica25

Reminder #ica25: If you want to walk over to the No Kings protest today in Denver, a small group is gathering in the Hyatt Recency lobby at 11:30am to walk over leaving at 11:40am.

we should have seen this tech cult mysticism coming the moment they started calling 3rd party datacentrs "the cloud"

#ica25 tomorrow at 11:30 at the Hyatt Regency for No Kings! Come, come, come. Disrupting through collective protest tends to be more effective than "disrupting" through scholarly interventions

Hyped to be in Denver, Colorado for #ICA75! This is my first time at this huge conference so do let me know if you're around!

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For the first time since I live here, my Dutch is good enough to follow the elections closely. So excited to give myself electoral brainrot uit de polder!!!

Volgens de NOS betekent 'persvrijheid' dat je de oorzaken van natuurrampen niet benoemt. Volgens universiteiten is 'academische vrijheid' dat je als instelling het woord 'genocide' vermijdt. Maar in beide contexten is 'vrijheid' juist het recht om de waarheid te spreken en de macht te bevragen.

This is one of the best mainstream pieces of A.I. criticism I've ever read, and it is somehow on CNN. @amorrow.bsky.social is far ahead

Great piece from @benbraun.bsky.social and @cedricdurand.bsky.social on the inner tensions of Trump's coallition and the challenge to keep it together within the economic paradigms of American empire www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

the connected-world dream of the 2000s....gone. Along with all the other ones if we're being real

Trying to do some quick research on the French Minitel and it's insane how broken the internet is. Links don't work, archives have been taken down, even my own university library does not allow me to consult a full book that is supposed to be available online...

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"