"Many of the very same discriminatory attitudes that animated eugenicists in the past (e.g., racism, xenophobia, classism, ableism, sexism) remain widespread within the movement to build AGI, resulting in systems that harm marginalized groups and centralize power" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

💥 I am happy to share that my article: "Never Reveal Anything”: On Negative #Self-Branding and Relational Labor Practices of Journalists on #Platforms has been published in #Journalism Practice! 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... This articles took years - literally- to see the light of day👇

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

🚨🇪🇺 EU cash💰 and taxpayer money in countries such as 🇮🇹Italy and 🇪🇸Spain are flowing to commercial #spyware firms, yet this public funding is not well-known or analysed. 🧵My investigation for @ftm.eu. 👇👇👇 www.ftm.eu/articles/spy...

📌 Mark your calendars: See you at the International Labor Organization in Geneva for INDL-9, September 9–11, 2026! (Video of ILO senior economist Uma Rani announcing INDL-9 at our community gathered in Bologna, Italy: vimeo.com/1117788308/8...)

8. This has been a short and honestly rather peevish thread, so if you want read more that has been written in a more equanimous tone, here's a short piece that I coauthored a few years ago, precisely about how we deal with this kind of duplicity.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

ICE is searching a massive insurance and medical bill database to find deportation targets 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-is-searc...

A recent study by researcher Yaakov Garb, published on the Harvard Dataverse, examines Israeli military estimates of Gaza’s population. The data reveals a sharp decline from 2.2 million to just 1.85 million. Source: “Aid Distribution Compounds In Gaza” by Harvard Dataverse

I bring you a tiny bit of good news — courts are finally reining in Big Tech in significant ways. We could actually be on the cusp of a totally transformed tech landscape - after 30 years of total lack of constraints. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)

On @theinternetiscrack.bsky.social‬, D&S's @alicetiara.bsky.social talks about how online communication is warped by profit-driven systems, why bad actors thrive in digital spaces, and what makes civil discourse so elusive in the age of algorithmic manipulation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQvz...

CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE 🔗 www.404media.co/cbp-confirms...

I remember writing a couple a years ago on Twitter about how this would happen. More AI slop published online means the AI itself consumes more AI slop as source material, which causes the AI slop to become even sloppier. futurism.com/ai-models-fa...

IUPALS Project - #Italian Universities for #Palestinian Students NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF UNIVERSITY CALLS 97 scholarships distributed among 35 participating universities www.crui.it/home-ri/iupa...

📣 Just published! This primer by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson maps what we know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/scam...

In #WorldPressFreedomDay2025 the first thought should go first of all to the failure of western media in covering the ongoing genocide in #Gaza. untoldmag.org/the-day-afte...

“Ton-That, who obsessed over race, IQ, and hierarchy, solicited input from eugenicists and right-wing extremists while building Clearview (…) he and his associates discussed deploying the tech against immigrants, people of color, and the political left” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Welcome Geert Lovink to @upf.edu > Conference "From Platform Brutality to Social Media Alternatives” March 31 - 10.00 hs More info here: eventum.upf.edu/132602/detai... @jainamarguerrero.bsky.social @valvevalen.bsky.social @lauraperezaltable.bsky.social @cpontsorribes.bsky.social

The Italian deal with Musk’s Starlink for secure satellite communications threatens European security. Europe needs a ‘Buy European Act’ for defense and critical digital infrastructure. www.ft.com/content/ea7e...

Another industry facing the threat of AI automation: drone shows restofworld.org/2025/dubai-d...

Whenever that riviera video garbage passes before my eyes, I can't help but think of #UrsulaK.LeGuin 's quote: "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings".

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

February 13, 12pm EST (US): Launch for the Data Labelers Association (datalabelers.org) Join DAIR on Twitch to meet the workers and learn how to support their struggle (www.twitch.tv/dair_institute)

Seeing a lot of people saying that DeepSeek is the “Pinduoduo of AI” but one way in which they completely differ is in their management styles and this has resulted in drastically different types of innovation. I wrote about this here: highvalueadded.substack.com/p/how-new-la...

Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism | Future Histories: www.futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03...

Mark Zuckerberg: bends the knee to Trump and trashes his public image - biggest competitor TikTok gets reprieve from a ban Jensen Huang: skips Trump's inauguration for a trip to China instead - $500 billion donation to Nvidia announced a day later www.theinformation.com/briefings/op...

Prof. @geoplace.bsky.social and colleagues introduce a new framework for the field of development studies to help ensure real world impact and relevance in the digital age. www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Today’s one for the history books: Mastodon is becoming an independent non-profit, and Bluesky is supporting #FreeOurFeeds taking their AT Protocol in the same direction.

I wrote about why Mark Zuckerberg is spectacularly evil in a three-part series here - based in part on my experiences reporting in Myanmar in the early 2010s. little-flying-robots.ghost.io/facebook-des...

Fourth - search engines shape our reality. much focus is placed on how social media spreads disinformation, but search engines facilitate finding new information. What people don't understand is that it can reflect our own (and societal) biases. My new work explains how AI search makes this worse.

"For Project Maven, Google hired hundreds of gig-economy workers to solve numerous CAPTCHAs at an incredibly low cost (roughly $1/hour). The results of these completed CAPTCHAs were then used to develop a classification program for the use of US Military drone applications" Workers had no idea

Tried something new this newsletter: Introducing The Critical AI Report, a digest and analysis of 5 news reports, essays, studies, writings, and/or events that are crucial to understanding the state of AI. READ THIS OR GET LEFT BEHIND www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-critic...

🎯 Out now my article "Between Emotional Labor and Disconnection: How Journalists Handle Online «Vitriol» (in 🇮🇹 ) 😮‍💨 Here, I investigate the #disconnection strategies #journalists use to cope with #harassment on #socialmediaplatforms, and the #emotionallabor that comes with it. 📩 DM for the text!