What are your favourite critical tech rss feeds to follow? 👇

How many times must we keep saying this? Correlation does not imply cognition www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...

i’m sure unleashing generative ai into accounting software will have absolutely no drawbacks, brilliant work

„At a time when the majority of Americans distrust big tech and believe artificial intelligence will harm society, Silicon Valley has built its own network of alternative media where CEOs, founders and investors are the unchallenged and beloved stars.“ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Op X is nu opeens te zien uit welk land accounts komen. Opeens blijken er wel érg veel Nederlandstalige accounts te opereren vanuit niet-Europese landen. Dit legt een fundamenteel probleem in ons huidige publieke debat bloot: we hebben amper inzicht in hoe inhoud online wordt verspreid en gepusht.

Het woord 'klimaat' in het AI Deltaplan komt 8x voor: 4x ondernemersklimaat, 1x vestigingsklimaat, 1x klimaatinnovatie, 1x als onderdeel van het Ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat en 1x in de epiloog, in een bijzin. aiplan.nl/deltaplan

Impressive artwork of broken chairs that are repaired with melted metal from Russian rockets fired on Ukraine. #DutchDesignWeek #DDW

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

I really want to see someone write a critically reimagined review of the entire tech landscape from, say, 2004 to the present, as primarily being an architecture for marshaling and directing harassment.

"Some claim EU digital law holds back innovation. But there’s nothing innovative about exploiting children to maximize profit. What’s truly groundbreaking is designing apps and games that take children’s rights and well-being seriously."

Het is zaak dat toezichthouders, media en wetenschap samen optrekken om de rol van sociale media in verkiezingen scherp te monitoren. Alleen zo voorkomen we dat de geldigheid van verkiezingen ooit in twijfel komt. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Vandaag onze opinie in de Volkskrant: Bescherm onze verkiezingen tegen schimmige spelletjes op sociale media. Stel dat een kandidaat die het beroerd doet in de peilingen, opeens viraal gaat op sociale media: hoe gaan we die plotselinge groei dan duiden? www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

@marieke.bsky.social Hi Marieke! Misschien iets voor computeren (na de zomerstop) om te bespreken? Kom het ook altijd graag toelichten natuurlijk :) www.rathenau.nl/nl/digitalis...

Ik sprak met nu.nl over ons nieuwe onderzoek. Daar vertelde ik: "We vinden het normaal dat we samen nadenken over wat we met een plein willen doen. Willen we een speeltuin of een voetbalveldje? www.nu.nl/tech/6366991...

Het internet als vrijplaats om jezelf te kunnen zijn, wat is daar van over in 2025? Ontwerp van apps en online omgevingen schiet tekort. Dat kan en moet anders. Het Rathenau Instituut publiceert vandaag het onderzoek Inclusief online: www.rathenau.nl/nl/digitalis...

De twee grootste spelers in de online advertentiemarkt, Meta en Google, staan geen politieke advertenties meer toe op hun platformen. Wat voor rol spelen sociale media in verkiezingstijd? Ik sprak erover bij Radio 1 Haagse Lobby: podcast.npo.nl/feed/haagsel...

We had a great panel today on civic social media at re:publica, where I talked about our design research into Inclusive online environments. How can we build spaces that foster self expression and connection @estherh.bsky.social #rp25

Open source microsopes that can be used for detecting cancer cells costing 350€ instead of 10000€+. Really cool demonstration of open source hardware by Openflexure. #rp25

Impressive insights in the daily life of datalabelers powering the so-called "intelligent" systems like Roomba's and self driving cars, by Joan Kinyua, President of the Data Labelers Association Kenya. #rp25

Relevant take on chatbots "becoming evil": did you tell it to become evil? Keep this in mind when reading about scenarios where AI might suddenly defy its makers, or anything along those lines. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/25/a...

Heading towards Brussels now for #cpdp2025 conference. Any panels or workshops you would recommend?

A bit out there, but does anyone have good tips for fun podcasts on cooking?

Join our session at #CPDP2025!

www.tasteland.fyi/ep-37-in-def... "The social contract is dead. Zoom calls in coffee shops, music allowed on the subway, taxi and movie theaters, toes out on airplanes. Everyone has main character energy now and thinks the rest of the world is a bunch of NPCs."

Looking for examples of how online spaces can be designed, governed and maintained differently from what we're used to with big tech owned spaces. Share your favorite examples - can be speculative design as well, or glimmers of hope - so we can learn from it for a current project!

Attended a cool book presentation on Cybernetic Capitalism by @jloverwijk.bsky.social - not always easy to understand without a background in philosophy - but nevertheless excited to dive into the book!

Currently in the "Safety and security of LGBTQI+ communities in "SWANA" region: challenges and opportunities" For folks in the US: If you want a more realistic idea of what could happen in coming months and years- and how to survive it- pay attention to what has happened globally. #RightsCon

At #Rightscon Andreea Belu of EDRi emphasised how technosolutionism got entangled with the Green Deal: "Whenever you have a problem, 'digital' will become attached as a solution that would help you solve that. As if in order to achieve green transition, we need the digital transition.".

Afsaneh Rigot at #Rightscon yesterday: "Marginalised groups often seen as edge cases in technology. But we know that these are the most vital sources of insight. They understand the oppressor more than the oppressor understands themselves.".

Impressive words by Palestinian journalist Maha Hussaini from Gaza during the opening of #Rightscon2025 in Taipei.

Older piece, but still insightful: "the tech giant has sought to market the technology to companies such as ExxonMobil and Chevron as a powerful tool for finding and developing new oil and gas reserves and maximizing their production" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

@jathansadowski.com really excited about your new book! Is there any way to purchase the ebook in Europe through another platform than Amazon or Google?

Uit "Frictie" van @mirias.bsky.social .

@computerenpodcast.bsky.social ik had niet door dat jullie terug waren na Internetten, wat goed! Ik moest bij de laatste aflevering over eugenics denken aan dit stuk van Paris Marx, hij heeft ook een paar podcastaflv hieraan gewijd www.disconnect.blog/p/why-silico...

Seems like a very interesting book! Book club?

Nieuwe publicatie van het Rathenau Instituut: mentale privacy staat op het spel bij neurotechnologie. Neurodata zou op Europees niveau beschermd moeten worden: www.rathenau.nl/nl/gezondhei...

Travelling to Rightscon Taipei in a few weeks: what sessions should I go to & who should I meet? Currently working on rebuilding more inclusive online spaces, the dominance of big tech & things like online tracking. Feel free to repost this!

Work to do!

We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.

Pretty striking deletion from Meta's community standards today

Wanneer je eigenlijk wil overstappen naar een betere muziekstreamingdienst maar Spotify Wrapped niet wil missen

Vandaag geleerd dat YouTube niet onder de social media ban valt in Australië want "educatieve content". Feest voor de developers bij Google achter YouTube shorts!

Speaking as one of those experts who've sounded the alarm bell about this execrable piece how legislation: thank you, Andrew Wilkie.

Over de voorgestelde social media ban voor kinderen <16 in Australië. Iemand goede kritische bronnen vanuit mensenrechten en media studies perspectief?

Over het trainen van audiomodellen op indigenous data (in dit geval van Māori): "The communities from where the data was collected should decide whether their data should be used and for what." blog.papareo.nz/whisper-is-a... (via @charleswlogan.bsky.social)

Toch ook maar eens een eigen plekje op het web gecreërd waar ik wat meer controle over heb: wouternieuwenhuizen.nl

Philosophy spent, what, a couple thousand years trying to explain to religion that humans have no fixed nature, no single essence that dictates our whole lives? Existence precedes essence. Only for some secular tech dudes with access to billions, even trillions, to come along and say, "nah, bruh."

We made the AI.Rbag and it was lots of fun!

Hey @mubashariqbal.com please add: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Ook op zoek naar meer mensen om te volgen met een kritisch perspectief op digitale tech in Nederland? Ik heb een eerste poging gewaagd, stuur me een berichtje als je erbij wil! go.bsky.app/NQAKocP