Symposium on Information Controls on 16th May, bringing together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls around the world: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/sympo... #disinformation #algorithms #censorship #infrastructure #internetstudies @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social

The inimitable @kat-hig.bsky.social is organising this extremely timely symposium on bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right at @mediacomgold.bsky.social, 6th June. EPIC lineup of speakers!! 😍🔥💪 BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...

“Members of dominant populations are trying to avoid their dystopia by preserving our dystopia” - Kyle Whyte.

Many thanks to colleagues who joined the 'AI & Data Ecologies' panel at KCL on Wednesday. Case studies included deforestation, urban biodiversity and the digitisation of sound. Speakers: M Duggan, @jwyg.bsky.social , @lboungr.bsky.social , M Borie, @tavmos.bsky.social, G Williams and A Green.

Sick & tired of tech oligarchs & how disinformation is monetised? Check out the paper by Julia Rone (and follow her on Bluesky!) & I published today in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social: “Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation” 👇

Looking forward to sharing work on digital methods for critically engaging with environmental issues at this session with inspiring colleagues Mike Duggan, @jwyg.bsky.social, @tavmos.bsky.social Gavin Williams and Maud Borie. Thank you @slehuede.bsky.social for convening this panel!

'An insult to life itself'.

Thrilled to be joining this! Congrats @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social for putting together such a timely symposium.

🌻 Barcelona has organised a space on "Sustainability and AI" to reflect on the social and environmental impact of technologies used in our daily lives. 🤖 On April 3rd at 6PM I'll be there talking about AI and its environmental impacts. More 👉 comunitat.canodrom.barcelona/conferences/...

If you're around KCL on 9 April, join us for a timely panel on 'AI & DATA ECOLOGIES'. We will have amazing speakers: Mike Duggan, @jwyg.bsky.social , @lboungr.bsky.social , @tavmos.bsky.social, Gavin Williams and Maud Borie. You can register here: lnkd.in/eQSTNGBp

Thrilled to be speaking on AI and sustainability at @unileiden.bsky.social on 3 April! I'll be sharing insights from my recent fieldwork in Colombia. Both in person and online. universiteitleiden.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Looking forward to forestscapes listening lab at @scigallerylon.bsky.social's Pulse of the Planet, Friday 21 March, 6.30pm: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/12/f... with @maudbo.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social & Angela YT Chan

Hi. I'm sharing a pre-print by @anavaldi.bsky.social and me that is gaining traction @ssrn.bsky.social. Critical minerals policies are generating pressures to create 'technological peripheries' in both the South and North. We look at Chile and Spain. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Happy to have made a tiny contribution here 👇 sustainabilitymag.com/articles/the...

Kelly Key and Xuxa 😍 I hope there will be a chance to do some dancing at #AoIR2025! 🕺 (if I manage to go 🤞) As a Chilean I’m also highly appreciative of axé.

“If you consume water somewhere to the point where it affects biodiversity in one area, that cannot be offset by having a nice project elsewhere. You’re going to cause irreversible damage if you keep to that logic.” Thanks for sharing your insights with us, Sebastián. #ThinkLandscape

In this AI Energy Score, ChatGPT has ★★★★★ What is this communicating? 😔 huggingface.co/spaces/AIEne...

I talked to @globallf.bsky.social about AI and sustainability. We have to question how Big Tech is 'offsetting' AI's environmental harm. thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/72106/can-we...

Thank you! It was lovely to speak with you 😊

🎭 How is bias reproduced in text-to-image generative AI models? Join Dr. Stephanie Diepeveen for a public talk on Power, Representation & GenAI. 📅 26 February | 5PM 📍 King’s College London | Free event 🔗 Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... #AI #GenerativeAI #digitalmedia

Super interesting chat with two brilliant KCL students @kclradio.co.uk. Can the environmental benefits of AI outweigh its costs? open.spotify.com/episode/4mbS...

Is Big Tech shifting from green washing to all-out mass-scale pollution?

The Power of Quantum Thinking - Dr. Vandana Shiva www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4t8...

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Will the West have a computing surplus? Were all these data centre projects part of a pyramid scheme?

This figure 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #postgrowth

Reactionary decarbonisation spectrejournal.com/reactionary-...

Eager to attract investments, politicians in Brazil, India, and other non-Western nations with nascent AI regulations have warmly welcomed major AI companies (Rest of World) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The fact that an article about banning trans women from sport prominently features a picture of a cis woman basically tells you everything.

The UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, published today, proposes legalising the mass theft of IP by AI companies. And the government has already accepted its recommendations, revealing the ongoing consultation on AI & copyright as a sham. More thoughts here fairtraining.substack.com/p/the-ai-opp...

Just created a tiny personal website so I can connect with non-academic groups 🤗 slehuede.me

"By encouraging the adoption of GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students. On the one hand, we tell them that plagiarism is bad. On the other hand, we give them a plagiarism machine" - Ulises Mejias futureu.education/higher-ed/co...

"I would like universities to commit to matching every dollar they spend on AI with a dollar spent asking critical questions about AI."

I won't be able to attend, but I highly recommend it. Farhana Sultana is a key voice on climate coloniality.

Interesting policy. Many governments are giving away people's energy and water to technology companies www.ft.com/content/14d7...

The Good( @goodrobotpod.bsky.social )Robot Podcast w/ Dr. Eleanor Drage & Dr. Kerry McInerney "Lithium Extraction in the Atacama with Sebastián( @slehuede.bsky.social )Lehuedé" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Interesting short piece by our colleague @nsrnicek.bsky.social in the new journal Platforms & Society ✨

I really like this initiative! Public Competition for Better Images of (teaching and learning) AI!

Bogotá, Colombia.

Great episode - well worth a listen.

Very happy to see this out! Had a great chat with Kerry & Eleanor on tech, lithium, data centres, water, reflexivity, decolonial theory and more! Very honoured indeed 🤗

AI’s deadly air pollution toll news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

Timely contribution! Brings together a broad range of issues related to digital technologies—finance, environment, etc. @cedricdurand.bsky.social @paologerbaudo.bsky.social @parismarx.com (I would only add the importance of incorporating community-level groups).

Sy Taffel in 2019: “While digital culture has often been presented as a dematerialized public sphere, the network society is heavily implicated in the exploitative, inequitable and unsustainable dynamics of global supply chains … Part of the history of colonialist and capitalist social relations”

Is any of you familiar with any sort of critique to “overallism” in environmental reporting/accounting?

Great chat with @parismarx.com on digital sovereignty, data centres and activism in Latin America. Thanks, @techwontsave.us!

Thrilled to share this full interview with @slehuede.bsky.social with supporters of the show. He provides such important insights on campaigns against data centers and the broader push for technological sovereignty that will get much more attention in the years to come.

🚨 Upcoming Event! 🚨 Join us for a seminar on AI in Human Rights Litigation. Explore the case against Chilean Police Command for 2019 protest abuses. 📅 11 Dec 2024 ⏰ 1 PM UK | 10 AM Chile 🌐 Online (Spanish/English available) 🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/jskRGa8XuJ #HumanRights #AI #Justice #Chile