“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

What would happen if there were X and TikTok accounts dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of Abu Ghraib style torture? This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally. But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.

What's this? @audreyt.org and @caroline-green1.bsky.social bringing together care ethics and AI alignment? Sounds right up my street. 6pack.care

I’m old enough to remember when I got scolded on this here website by people who claimed a 3% false positive rate was good actually and well now it turns out to be an order of magnitude bigger! Still good guys?

"Russian propaganda is present in one in five artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot answers about Ukraine, according to a new report." www.euronews.com/next/2025/11...

🚨🎉New Publication Friday 🎉🚨 Campaigning in the Age of Platforms: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties & Politicians w/ @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social & @andersoloflarsson.bsky.social Out now in Political Communication. #polisky #commsky doi.org/10.1080/1058...

All over the rich world, fewer people are hooking up and shacking up. Do we blame apps, socials ? www.economist.com/briefing/202... From The Economist

(8/9) Knowing Your Users by Heart: A Critical Examination of the Scientific Research on Emotions Conducted by Social Media Platforms - Camille Alloing, Elsa Fortant, Julien Pierre, Fabien Richert, Rémi Palisser, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

🚨Special Issue Alert: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics (1/9) Introduction from our guest editors Zoetanya Sujon, Harry Dyer and Felipe Bonow Soares. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #academicsky #socialmediasky

Is this real? Are people using LLMs as stand-ins for humans in social science studies? How on earth do they get these papers published? Could someone possibly be that ignorant?

The Commission is set to introduce the Digital Omnibus on November 19. Here's the full text published by Dr. Daniela R: lnkd.in/dKT-bHHq. Here's text of the internal draft amendments on the GDPR and ePrivacy in the “Digital Omnibus by Max Schrems here: lnkd.in/d3JRKEpr.

The Pope out here guest lecturing in the iSchools.

Albert's book launch! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

📣 How are SMEs using generative AI today? Can it help address labour and skill challenges? If you missed our second Autumn 2025 Digit Debates event, ‘Generative AI: A solution to the SME skills challenge?’, you can now watch a recording on our website: digit-research.org/events/gener...

I'm not used to thinking of the @modernlanguage.bsky.social as friends of the revolution or whatnot, but their statement against AI in higher education was a good start. My language is much more colourful, mind, but small steps! #resistAI #againstAI www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

The scope of Big Tech’s surveillance, and its harms, is kept secret. That’s why I appreciate “The Secret Life of Data” by @aramsinn.bsky.social & @jesgilbert.bsky.social - and why in my own work I’m trying to raise awareness. New from me – What data does in secret: buttondown.com/creativegood...

Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect & who gets heard. In partnership with Knight Georgetown Institute, we are launching a new series, Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data. The series starts today, with an essay from KGI’s Leticia Bode and Peter Chapman.

caliper-wielding eugenicist freaks are gonna keep saying this, keep circling the toilet bowl talking about predicting someone's sexuality or personality or ethnicity or whatever else w/AI and it being bullshit won't matter; it being a pretext for state/admin/other violence will be all that matters

AI pioneers claim human-level general intelligence is already here - on.ft.com/4hOknNl via @financialtimes.com @velocitygravity.bsky.social

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

[New Paper Alert] Online toxic speech as positioning acts: Hate as discursive mechanisms for othering and belonging socialmedialab.ca/2025/11/03/n...

The rapid proliferation of services powered by artificial intelligence, ranging from the genuinely useful to the frivolous to the unnecessary, has a common element: the need for vast amounts of electricity and water for the data centers that make them possible.

Wow -- look at OpenAI trying to shift responsibility to the users: 🧵>> www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

One of the things I learned teaching search literacy is that search sucks because the world wide web doesn't exist anymore. The blogs that held it together with links are paywalled, big publishers paywall and don't link, the platforms users post to don't link. You're left with reddit and Wikipedia.