La Global sumud flotilla ha condiviso un video girato dalla telecamera di sorveglianza dell’imbarcazione. Le sei persone a bordo dell’imbarcazione sono rimaste incolumi.

Non è più una tranquilla notte di regime #stefanobenni #baol

After months of pain and crazy writing, this OA book, written by Chris Hesselbein and me, is finally out. Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Thank you @ruha9.bsky.social for opening STS Italia with such moral clarity and urgency

Our special issue co-edited with @chrish6699.bsky.social and @stefanocanali.bsky.social is finally out! "Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...

Why do we confuse the "Internet" with the "Web"? And how was this confusion addressed at @cern.bsky.social ? Paper co-authored with the #WWWHistory Project @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social team: Deborah Barcella, @fandomistheanswer.bsky.social, and Martin Fomasi. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Un’epoca in cui anche la gentilezza base causa esternalità negative* 🥲 [*negative per l’impatto ambientale, non perché Altaman ci smena soldi]

> I had a pleasure of interviewing @pbory.bsky.social about his book "The Internet Myth", network ideology and AI imaginaries. It was fun, the full interview is here! matterofimagination.neocities.org/blog8

Naples, 3 April. Chinese scholars and our Prin crew #prin22 #metaverse #china

I now see why we don't hear of whistle blowers anymore. They already whistle, pretending to whisper @philipdisalvo.bsky.social?

A few days left, #STSItalia Don't miss it! #STS #Technoscience #Milan

Deadline 3 february, join us in Milan for a collective investigation of the "metaverse" #sts #metaverse #ar #vr #mr #etc

#OutNow in #iCS Gianluigi Negro and Tonio Savina’s article, “Yuanyuzhou 元宇宙: yesterday, today, tomorrow,” provides a historical overview of the Chinese Metaverse, highlighting its unique development and future prospects within China’s digital landscape.

Starlink has disrupted Kenya's existing ISP industry since its launch in July 2023, forcing legacy providers to lower prices and increase internet speeds (Rest of World) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Oggi torniamo dalle vacanze col sito Guerre di Rete pubblicando una bella analisi di Andrea Daniele Signorelli su tutti i fronti di #OpenAI. www.guerredirete.it/tutti-i-guai...

#OutNow in #iCS In "Six Provocations for Metaverse Datafication," Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory, and Stefano Canali analyze how metaverse data shapes knowledge, privacy, and social inequality, highlighting its cultural, technological, and scholarly impacts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Call for abstracts STS Italia in Milano next June, with a promising session on scientific publishing #STS stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...

#HistSTM #STS 🧪

New paper out with @pbory.bsky.social and Chris Hesselbein! We discuss new forms of data and datafication in the metaverse and, echoing seminal work by @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social, we present six provocations for metaverse datafication. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Cfa: Searching for the Metaverse. Mapping and disentangling the imaginaries of VR-MR Join us in Milan for the X STS Italia conference, panel 10 (like D10s) on the imaginaries of VR/MR organized by me, my brilliant brother Stefano Bory and the great Gianluigi Negro: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...

Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26: www.cnbc.com/2024/12/13/f...

👾Fresh Call for Abstracts!👁️ Come visit #STSItalia in Milan this summer to share your research at our panel on Critical Hype Studies exploring the many sociopsychotechnoenvironmental faces of hype. Deadline: Feb 3. @imaginaries.bsky.social stsitalia.org/call-for-abs... stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...

here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics

We may be entering the "Jevon's Paradox" stage of AI: More efficient systems lead to increased use. Against this paradox, the argument that AI helps militaries kill less civilians may not hold. Are we killing more? Appreciating @timnitgebru.bsky.social OpEd: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/s...

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

What people say they want in local news: “greater transparency + media scrutiny around development projects”; “more explanatory journalism that can break down decision making at different levels of government + empower ppl to participate politically”; “information pertaining to social services” …

Out now: Six provocations for metaverse datafication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Authored by my friends and colleagues Chris Hesselbein, @stefanocanali.bsky.social and me for #infocomm&soc

Out now: Six provocations for metaverse datafication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... On why, beyond hypes and disillusions, we must worry and think about the pandatification of reality Authored by my friends and colleagues Chris Hesselbein, @stefanocanali.bsky.social and me for #infocomm&soc

La Siria all’improvviso | @enricodeangelis.bsky.social per @valigiablu.it

📣 New: AI depends on immense resources, mostly controlled by large companies. 

 This means "open" AI… isn't very open. 📄 From me, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @smw.bsky.social in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Still so exciting - and surreal - to see this book out in the world! Get your copy from @ucpress.bsky.social here: www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...

New chapter 'Between Monstrous Dystopias and Policy Utopias in Artificial Intelligence: Reporting on a ten-year journey into the AI-topia' in the amazing new book 'Dystopian Worlds Beyond Storytelling' - enjoy! Purchase link: www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/Li... AAM: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

And surfing this wave is some good analysis from a new generation of historians paying close attention to AI. The recent BJHS Themes is an example www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

X owner Elon Musk took aim at the newly approved European Commission today, calling the body “undemocratic,” the latest of a series of his public critiques of European Union institutions and policymaking.

🚨 Dopo quasi due anni di lavoro, posso finalmente condividere i risultati del progetto di ricerca che ho condotto insieme ai colleghi di AlgorithmWatch su automazione/AI e migrazioni. Inchieste, analisi, riflessioni e un contributo per cambiare le cose. Qui: algorithmwatch.org/en/automatio...

‘Hackers are usually intelligent and highly educated. Yet the success of a hack relies less on mathematical prowess or coding pizzazz than on a keen understanding of human psychology.’ Vadim Nikitin on cybercrime: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I LOVE @emilymbender.bsky.social 's latest newsletter "ChatGPT has no place in the Classroom". As I said last week, we need a movement to STOP the casual industry-driven use of ChatGPT in education. The newsletter ('Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000') is accessible here www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/

pub day! please welcome "Network breakdown: the queer anarchist politics at the heart of the ‘net from FidoNet to HOMOCORE" to the world the piece puts Tom Jennings' work as the co-architect of FidoNet alongside the queer, anarchist politics in his zine HOMOCORE www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Sudlow Review resonates with Ada's research with @healthfoundation.bsky.social. The data 'pipeline' underpinning data-driven systems in healthcare is full of ‘knots’ which disrupt how well they work, creating systemic and unequal impacts on people. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/knott...

Condivido tutte le riflessioni di @enricodeangelis.bsky.social, che ha messo a nudo il disordine nel quale navighiamo, a mio avviso, non solo su Gaza. Il risultato di un lungo processo di "staccamento" e "strategic numbing", in parte irreversibile, ma da combattere senza tregua tinyurl.com/mvwsjbk8

Advertisers are returning to Twitter/X to keep Elon Musk happy: disconnect.blog/advertisers-...

Ok nuovo social nuova vita, ma non ci compiaciamo troppo