When the internet asbestos company decides to come out with super asbestos

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Companies are marketing “alternatives” to immigration detention such as ankle monitors, GPS-enabled watches, and biometric reporting apps. But research by Petra Molnar, Daniel Ghezelbash, Carolina Gottardo, and Antonella Napolitano finds that tech doesn’t dismantle detention—it expands it.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

"The real Q is what donor influence costs: what do we lose when the pursuit of knowledge becomes secondary to the cultivation of relationships? These costs accumulate slowly, almost imperceptibly, embedding themselves in the daily practice of academic life." nias.knaw.nl/news/from-st...

Fakely Automated Luxury Fascism

📢 NEW INITIATIVE: As tech giants claim ownership of subsea cables and satellite networks, who will protect our digital rights? @article19.bsky.social team digital launches "Wired and Orbited" to ensure internet infrastructure remains open and resilient for all. www.article19.org/resources/wi...

New: Israel is starving Palestinians, forcing them to beg for donations on sites like Bluesky. Their accounts keep getting flagged as spam. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Every Silicon Valley innovation in the consumer space has been "what if this software was my mom" which explains why ChatGPT's primary use is as a therapist, relationship substitute for lonely boys, and "personal operating system" to organize their life

“women are inferior at any kind of physical activity” is so built in to our culture that you dont even need to provide evidence for the claim, you can just assume it as axiomatic truth even in the most transparently ridiculous circumstances

The problem with AI summaries they don't engage with here is that 1) a company filters the results, so any critical work may be misconstrued, damaging academic freedom and 2) the summary is garbage in most cases because it's not actually based on the text.

This has been evident ever since the stories broke on the use of GPT-4, via Azure services, to create intelligence and target lists in Gaza by the IDF. Big Tech is complicit.

"One of my chefs mentioned that if they could cook the steak on the grill they could get it right the first time. This is not an acceptable attitude in the microwave era." www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

Why do you think they pushing so hard into education? They get paid a lot of money and get to train the next generation to be wholly dependent on them. A win-win.

Salt is brightening and pepper is deepening, btw

“Starting in July 2024, AI was suddenly everywhere all at once in Latin America after Meta Platforms started incorporating chatbots in its apps across the region. Whether users wanted them or not, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram became homes for a variety of AI bots.”

Must read. A fair portrait of the disgraceful and inhumane status quo we normalized — and will have to explain to our children, one day. The shame, the joyful complicity, the hatred. And yes of course, the racism.

"So, most AIs that are disseminated or deployed in the social space are there as a punishment mechanism, not as something that will help people. Instead of recidivism algorithms, imagine developing something that helps people rehabilitate into society when they come out of prison."

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

Der Menschenrechtskommissar des Europarats schreibt an Dobrindt und warnt vor Einschränkungen der Meinungsfreiheit im Zusammenhang mit Protesten in Solidarität mit Palästina. Er thematisiert zudem den Missbrauch der IHRA-Definition.

I think the conclusion of this study is likely to be valid however it is worth noting that any attempts to localise cognitive tasks such as writing to a specific brain activation/connectivity is problematic because that's not how the brain works. 1/

Today's round of "is ChatGPT still racist AF" I asked it to make a graph showing the effects of an illegal & dangerous skin lightening product. Chatbot knows it's dangerous, but thinks it makes you smarter. And overall: the boosts to intelligence, confidence, etc outweigh serious health risks. 1/8

“Risk regulation is always shaped by pre-existing institutions, norms, resource distributions and power relationships. In practice, this more often than not means that risks are constructed in ways that favour powerful interests” @rachelgriffin.bsky.social putting the issue with risk very concisely

„Und so stellt sich am Ende nicht nur die Frage, welche Arbeit es erfordert, gleichgültig zu bleiben, sondern auch, welche Arbeit diese Gleichgültigkeit leistet. Was macht das mit einer Gesellschaft?“ 🔥🔥

Like I said in my podcast, we are not far away from the presence of any minority, Black, Latino, woman, disabled to be labeled "DEI", or a "diversity", in an organization. The current regime is TRYING. TO. CRIMINALIZE AND PROSECUTE racial integration. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

Neoliberal capitalism got you to purchase and participate in building your own surveillance society for the techno fascist oligarchy all while fawning how cool it was to build the cage and its bars.

beyond parody www.ft.com/content/a0df...

"The new drones will be deployed along the migrant routes. What we do know from the case of Frontex, however, is concerning, as the drones might be used to facilitate pushbacks to Libya and Tunisia." irpimedia.irpi.eu/en-the-silen...

Yes, many devices technically can take care of reminders and to-dos. But have you considered having them done worse and less efficiently

In meme form

Some reasons we don’t build or maintain them anymore are expense, (perceived) need, & also because able bodied people, esp. doctors, generally dislike anything that takes up space—actual or visual—that helps disabled people live rather than eases them towards death, especially if it’s used lifelong.

The drive to make disability technologies smaller, less visible, & easier to hide is as much (or sometimes more) related to able-bodied ppl’s discomfort/fear as it is to making it more helpful for disabled users. Making prostheses mimic lost limbs visually, even when it hindered function, is one ex.

🔥 Now online! The 3rd episode of the EDPS/LSTS 'Oral history of #dataprotection': 'Becoming independent' with Waltraut Kotschy www.edps.europa.eu/press-public... #privacy #privacysky

Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk go.bsky.app/TJ2xTce

In preparation for the official publication date of my new book Supply Chain Justice next week (December 17) I thought I should do a thread (assuming I can figure out how to do that) on what the book is about. Just in case anyone is looking for a last-minute Christmas present….

I swear, I never get to be on a train that’s on time 🚆😶‍🌫️

I hate to think bluesky is going to make that same mistake but if they don’t have a proactive plan in place for bots flooding the zone w/shit we are all fucked. And since so many of y’all already left the other site, well… are you starting to see what that means? What the end informational goal is?

Sweden, the "model of a welfare state", employs a fraud prediction algorithm that discriminates against vulnerable groups. Another episode of welfare surveillance reported by @lhreports.bsky.social with @svenskadagbladet1.bsky.social www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Very much looking forward to this talk tomorrow! A tour de force through #GDPR, #DSA, #AI Act, considering the risks and impact assessments we find along the way Many thanks to Maciej Otmianowski and Niels van Dijk for the invitation! Hybrid, more info: uldsh.de/risk @plattformprivat.bsky.social

Aspekte des Resolutionsentwurfs zu Antisemitismus an Schulen und Hochschulen „verschärfen aktuelle Ansätze, Meinungskontroversen im schulischen Bereich inhaltlich einseitig und sanktionsfokussiert zu begegnen“ — @isalischewski.bsky.social auf @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/resolution-a...

Next Wednesday we will be discussing the most recent Land Hessen ruling - and will put it in the context of the #GDPR enforcement debate - join us! Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/10bf50...

I honestly had the best time! Thanks to everyone for joining and the discussion 🤩💫 Now headed back to Ams and this sweetie:

🚂 On my way to KU Leuven, to present on the evolution of risk in EU data law. 🚨 Spoiler: I don’t think it’s going so well 📞 Thanks to Laura Drechsler for the invite! Join us at 2pm, link and more infos: cif-seminars.github.io#the-evolutio...

Free copies available of the incredible anthology “Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire” made available by @haymarketbooks.bsky.social! This books travels with me and has a permanent place on my bookshelf

my contribution to community building. to be added to this ❤️‍🔥starter pack, reply with a photo of your furry child. go.bsky.app/GknDjdD

The small-town oligarch Jack Dorsey recently left Bluesky's board, but, and this is really bad, the lead investor in the company's recent $13m series A funding round is 'Blockchain Capital', a crypto investment firm which also received a seat on Bluesky's board: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Cory Doctorow, who I consider to be a 'protocol' advocate in some way, doesn't buy Bluesky's 'protocol' approach at all, and thus won't join anytime soon: pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/u... Bluesky is currently a platform not a protocol and it's controlled by a single organization. Who is in control?