Given what is happening with X, it's a good time to propose for anyone interested to read the "Algorithms of Resistance" by T. Bonini & E. Trere. It offers ways to challenge the logic of the platform, and there is a lot of research backing up the arguments of the book. It's open access too!

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

"AI it’s not going to replace everyone. But if we think about AI, language models are the industrial production of language. It’s the same way that the factories in the 1800s were the industrial production of cloth. And I think we get a much clearer picture of what is going on." (Hagen Blix)

This year’s Nancy Baym Book Award committee would also like to give an Honourable Mention to @tbonini.bsky.social and @emilianotrere.com for Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power (@mitpress.bsky.social). Congratulations also!

Il piano di Israele, con le figure, così magari viene più facile comprenderlo.

da qualche mese faccio una newsletter, si chiama mediamedi(t)azioni. oggi ho pubblicato l'episodio 15, contro i tecno-libertarians. per leggerla: mailchi.mp/bda6aef7173c... per iscrivervi: mediameditazioni.com/meditazioni-...

sull'importanza delle infrastrutture invisibili e sul perché dovremmo prendercene cura www.doppiozero.com/blackout-la-...

And we conclude with reviews of Algorithms of Resistance by @tbonini.bsky.social and @emilianotrere.com followed by the authors' response engaging with these diverse readings of their work... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 6/7

Could just use this as my cv. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“Chinese rivals are rolling out new models continuously and making updates to their products. By comparison, Tesla products look rather staid and stale to Chinese and Asian consumers.”

"Internal communications show employees saying that Meta did indeed torrent LibGen, which means that Meta could have not only accessed pirated material but also distributed it to others". www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues

Next week I'll be in Oxford for this workshop on Global Southing Internet, Data, and AI studies. I'll talk about Platform Dependency, how platform studies are overlooking dependency theories and the importance of Latin American dependency theories www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

"‘They know what you are working on, they know what you are submitting, they know the results of your peer reviews... They control every part of the process + register every action you take... When Eiko Fried.. asked Elsevier for his personal data[,] he received [100s of K's] of data points..."

Lets replace search with "AI" then! Totally logical if you ask me. Even more worth it when you know they're exponentially overtaking the airline industry in their carbon footprint. Study: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Fascism: “Columbia University recently set up an office that is secretly investigating its students for political statements about Israel, Drop Site News reported this week, and is requiring students to sign non-disclosure agreements to view the evidence being brought against them.”

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Da oggi in libreria! Leggetelo, compratelo, regalatelo! www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815...

Sorry, Jonathan Haidt. Abstaining from social media does not contribute to well being. Study after study has shown this. But people still believe the myth. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TechCrunch writes that OpenAI will charge $20,000 a month for access to an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” - apparently some people will pay more for robots than people.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Only 27% of the top editors across 240 major outlets in 12 markets are women, according to our new factsheet by @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social Markets covered: 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧🇧🇷🇩🇪🇫🇮 🇭🇰🇿🇦🇪🇸🇰🇪 buff.ly/PdP9oxD 🧶 Fndings in thread

Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro

"AI technology appears to outperform humans. But a closer look reveals that these games are rigged. The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks."

Le comunità non sono buone per forza. Ma ci sono tante cose da salvare per non buttare il bambino con l'acqua sporca. Qui la trascrizione dell'intervento fatto al meeting ACRI a novembre www.acri.it/comunita-par...

@sulliview.bsky.social: "What is clear is that Bezos no longer wants to own an independent news organization. He wants a megaphone and a political tool that will benefit his own commercial interests." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'You can't post your way out of fascism.' A personally uncomfortable read from @janus.bsky.social at @404media.co. www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

Rebecca Williams explores how DOGE’s budget can be restricted—if Congress decides to act. www.techpolicy.press/how-congress...

Entitled thief “Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

“The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up.” Some federal employees, both in public and behind closed doors, are resisting Elon Musk’s orders using whatever means they have. nyti.ms/3D4V7T2

As AI improves, translation jobs in Turkey have become scarce. Many young translators are finding work editing AI-generated content or training AI to master Turkish — putting their own jobs at further risk restofworld.org/2025/turkeys...

"Given our inability to detect consistent evidence for algorithmic effects, we argue the burden of proof for claims about algorithm-induced polarization has shifted!" (Exclamation mark added by me.)

devastating, but important reporting from @justcalma.bsky.social this morning www.theverge.com/features/611...

Il governo italiano sta con questo autoproclamato monarca?

Il mito dell'oggettività è pericoloso. Lo dimostra il fatto che per raggiungerla, i conservatori hanno stilato una lista di parole "proibite" per chi fa ricerca. Ne parlo nell'ultima newsletter. www.tispiegoildato.it/p/quando-cer...

Il MAGArtismo prosegue inesorabile la sua cavalcata.

EUROSTACK Building a European alternative for technological sovereignty www.euro-stack.info

Mark #Zuckerberg is 'brown nosing' the #Trump regime. #Meta removes a #Facebook ad, which dared to criticize #DOGE czar #Musk. www.muskwatch.com/p/meta-remov...

Ascolto e riascolto a ruota il nuovo disco dei Mogwai, The Bad Fire. Così apocalittico è così pieno di speranza allo stesso tempo. Post rock anni 90 in versione sublime

“Forty-one U.S. senators could use the filibuster to block most legislation that enables the funding of Musk’s companies. With 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and two independents in the Senate, such a push is numerically possible, though politically difficult.“

I’m guessing we’re like 3 months away from mass vandalism of Teslas. Spray painting swastikas on random cars on the street, that sort of thing. I might be wrong. It could be sooner.

I broligarchi sono cosi: odiano lo stato, lo vogliono abbattere ma nel frattempo cercano anche di mungerlo il più possibile. Bello fare i capitalisti coi soldi dello stato eh? open.substack.com/pub/parismar...

Che bell’ambientino questa Silicon Valley, pieno di intellettuali razionalisti proprio “Mr. Gebbia has said his politics have shifted toward Republicans, in major part because of the advocacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Mr. Gebbia considers a political ally” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

“AI then becomes a tool for replacing politics. The Trump administration frames generative AI as a remedy to "government waste." However, what it seeks to automate is not paperwork but democratic decision-making” Anatomy of an AI Coup techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

“African Tech Workers Rising is organising for better wages, mental health protections and professional standards in Kenya and beyond. We are doing this because AI is not magic. Behind every algorithm are thousands of hidden workers labelling, training & moderating data under precarious conditions.”

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.