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Tech & Climate Justice. Lecturer
@kingsdh.bsky.social
. He/him
http://slehuede.me
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Centre for Digital Culture
7 months ago
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
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Symposium on Information Controls
The Symposium on Information Controls brings together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls from around the world.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/symposium-on-information-controls
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Zoë Glatt
7 months ago
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...
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Feminism and the Far-Right
A one-day symposium at Goldsmiths about bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-and-the-far-right-tickets-1317652978529
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“Members of dominant populations are trying to avoid their dystopia by preserving our dystopia” - Kyle Whyte.
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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.
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Alvaro Oleart
7 months ago
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” 👇
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Liliana Bounegru
7 months ago
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!
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'An insult to life itself'.
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Thrilled to be joining this! Congrats
@digitalgoodnet.bsky.social
for putting together such a timely symposium.
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ana valdivia
8 months ago
🌻 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/...
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Comunitat Canòdrom
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https://comunitat.canodrom.barcelona/conferences/..
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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
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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...
8 months ago
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jonathan w. y. gray
8 months ago
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
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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....
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Happy to have made a tiny contribution here 👇
sustainabilitymag.com/articles/the...
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The ESG Cost of Meta, Google & Microsoft’s AI Investments
Research shows that the data centre emissions of big tech companies are responsible for an emerging public health crisis and worsening climate change
https://sustainabilitymag.com/articles/the-real-cost-of-meta-google-microsofts-ai-investments
8 months ago
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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.
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Global Landscapes Forum
9 months ago
“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
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In this AI Energy Score, ChatGPT has ★★★★★ What is this communicating? 😔
huggingface.co/spaces/AIEne...
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AI Energy Score Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by AIEnergyScore
Discover amazing ML apps made by the community
https://huggingface.co/spaces/AIEnergyScore/Leaderboard
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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...
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Will AI destroy the planet?
AI is using more energy and water than ever. Will it ever be sustainable – or could it be the final nail in our climate coffin?
https://thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/72106/can-we-afford-the-environmental-cost-of-ai/
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KCL Radio
9 months ago
Thank you! It was lovely to speak with you 😊
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London
9 months ago
🎭 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
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Select tickets – Stephanie Diepeveen: Power, Representation and GenAI: A critical exploration of AI imaginaries across language and place – Safra Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London
The Global Digital Cultures Research Group in the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL hosts Dr Stephanie Diepeveen, speakin...
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/digitalhumanitieskcl/1589506?)~
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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...
9 months ago
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Is Big Tech shifting from green washing to all-out mass-scale pollution?
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The Power of Quantum Thinking - Dr. Vandana Shiva
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4t8...
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The Power of Quantum Thinking | Dr. Vandana Shiva at Consciousness Symposium (2024)
YouTube video by The Wonderstruck Podcast with Elizabeth Rovere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4t8Xt_QqGE&t=2239s
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👇👇👇
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Will the West have a computing surplus? Were all these data centre projects part of a pyramid scheme?
10 months ago
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This figure 👇
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#postgrowth
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Reactionary decarbonisation
spectrejournal.com/reactionary-...
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Reactionary Decarbonization – Spectre Journal
Michael Levien challenges left arguments for CCS by pointing to its ecological and human costs. Why would the left support the fossil fuel industry?
https://spectrejournal.com/reactionary-decarbonization/
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Techmeme
10 months ago
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
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Small Robots
10 months ago
The fact that an article about banning trans women from sport prominently features a picture of a cis woman basically tells you everything.
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Ed Newton-Rex
10 months ago
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...
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The AI Opportunities Action Plan is a huge blow to the UK's creative industries. Unfortunately, Labour seems to have made up its mind.
The AI Opportunities Action Plan, commissioned by the UK government and written by Matt Clifford, was published today. It’s a 25-page document that outlines a plan for how the UK can “embrace the tran...
https://fairtraining.substack.com/p/the-ai-opportunities-action-plan
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Just created a tiny personal website so I can connect with non-academic groups 🤗
slehuede.me
10 months ago
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"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...
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COMMENTARY by Ulises A. Mejias: The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity - Future U
By encouraging GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students. Many years ago, I had a student whose written assignments were very hard to decipher. T...
https://futureu.education/higher-ed/commentary-by-ulises-a-mejias-the-core-of-gen-ai-is-incompatible-with-academic-integrity/
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Ben Williamson
10 months ago
"I would like universities to commit to matching every dollar they spend on AI with a dollar spent asking critical questions about AI."
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I won't be able to attend, but I highly recommend it. Farhana Sultana is a key voice on climate coloniality.
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Interesting policy. Many governments are giving away people's energy and water to technology companies
www.ft.com/content/14d7...
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Tech groups to pay premium for energy for Malaysia data centres, says minister
Investment in ‘oil of the 21st century’ will support country’s development of renewable power
https://www.ft.com/content/14d77d11-847e-4950-ab67-67a02e5324db
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11 months ago
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"
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Lithium Extraction in the Atacama with Sebastián Lehuedé
Podcast Episode · The Good Robot · 12/10/2024 · 32m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lithium-extraction-in-the-atacama-with-sebasti%C3%A1n-lehued%C3%A9/id1570237963?i=1000679852817
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More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD
Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/18/kenya-facebook-moderators-sue-after-diagnoses-of-severe-ptsd
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London
11 months ago
Interesting short piece by our colleague
@nsrnicek.bsky.social
in the new journal Platforms & Society ✨
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I really like this initiative! Public Competition for Better Images of (teaching and learning) AI!
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Bogotá, Colombia.
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11 months ago
Great episode - well worth a listen.
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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 🤗
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AI’s deadly air pollution toll
news.ucr.edu/articles/202...
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AI’s deadly air pollution toll
Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electrici...
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/12/09/ais-deadly-air-pollution-toll
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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).
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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”
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Is any of you familiar with any sort of critique to “overallism” in environmental reporting/accounting?
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Great chat with
@parismarx.com
on digital sovereignty, data centres and activism in Latin America. Thanks,
@techwontsave.us
!
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Paris Marx
11 months ago
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.
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🌎 Sebastian Smart
12 months ago
🚨 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
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