i did eat popcorn while watching this panel 🤣 www.youtube.com/live/xXI-ELO...

We’re also joined by @carolinesinders.bsky.social, Convocation Research + Design, and Matt Stempeck, @civictechguide.bsky.social — two of our Fiscally Sponsored Projects. Proud to collaborate with them and their work in the community! 🌱

for real tho

Authors: T Yang, @strippel.bsky.social, @akeiner.bsky.social, D Baker, A Chávez, @krystalkauffman.bsky.social, M Pohl, @carolinesinders.bsky.social, @milamiceli.bsky.social #DataWork #FairWork #ResearchEthics #DigitalLabor #ResponsibleResearch #AIethics #LaborRights @towardsfairwork.bsky.social

How can fairer working conditions for data workers be created? A new Discussion Paper outlines guidelines for the use of data work in academic research: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

The cuts are bad but NOAA accurately forecasted this.

Nothing like meming a narrative into being that these cuts are the reason the flooding deaths happened and not the failure of local officials who failed to act.

Shout out to Tiangling Yang @akeiner.bsky.social @dylnbkr.bsky.social Alexis Chávez @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Marc Pohl @carolinesinders.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social

A paper I worked on is finally live!

Always thinking about how many organisations, particularly creative, in this climate would benefit from a security & safety review by friendo @carolinesinders.bsky.social Especially as things get scarier and surveillance gets more intense convocation.design

Honored to share co-authorship with @carolinesinders.bsky.social and main author @eryk.bsky.social in the newest issue of Critical AI!! “Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! and Creative Misuse of AI Systems” -- featuring Loab and much more -- read it! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

In surveillance news, the city of Chicago has this wild proposal that would require every licensed business to *buy and install* surveillance cameras and turn over that data to CPD without a warrant. LPL has more here bsky.app/profile/lucy...

My colleague @liaholland.bsky.social created this @fightforthefuture.org tool making it easy for you to write to your legislators and demand they stop data brokers from enabling abuse: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/data....

New: led by Senator @wyden.senate.gov and Rep. @aoc.bsky.social, members of Congress are demanding Palantir answer questions about their federal contracts following our NYT story last month: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/t...

bless their whole ass

i've had ADHD since i was a kid, and it rly does impact me. i've learned to tell collaborators that i have ADHD, how i enjoy working and how to work w/ me (w/ ADHD). while i'm medicated, i've found my medication doesn't work all the time. TURNS OUT THERE'S A REASON: www.thecut.com/article/adhd...

Things that enter my head, when dealing with the US and how its companies mistreat consumers: “Should I just get a law degree out of pure spite and just be a thorn in the side of these large companies harming consumers?” Every single day I get closer to saying yes and studying for the LSAT.

Doing this will require not only more Kilmar Abrego Garcias, Rumeysa Ozturks and Andry Hernandez Romeros, but also a lot more Kasper Eriksens. You can't have a 450% increase without going after a lot of legal, European immigrants, too. Nobody's safe. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

the past year i've stepped back from posting on social media and i'm realizing....how rusty i am at writing and articulating thoughts for a very short form medium. i feel...so old? creaky? it's like i'm just a lil skeleton in a fleshy body bag lolligagging my way through the big internet of tubes.

look, many of us KNOW about the harms of targeted surveillance via advertising, esp w/ meta. but these cases ARE important- they set a precedent. privacy is a human right, but it's a right we have in the UK via GDPR. ty @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social and @ravinaikawo.bsky.social for holding the line!

i'm putting together a arts panel series on social media harms, and advertising; found this important post by @awo.agency on @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social's urgent case against meta. glad to see the ICO (my former workplace) step in. ty awo and @ravinaikawo.bsky.social! awo.agency/articles/fac...

welp- figma's new site builder isn't very accessible -_____- adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-n...

The Financial Times is right.

"Designed to Hook: The Roots of Platform Addiction and Ways Forward" Organised by @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social with Evelyn Austin (moderator), @carolinesinders.bsky.social, Romayne Gab el Rab, @kimvsparrentak.bsky.social, Maryant Fernández More information: cpdp.be/2063 #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching

It was wonderful to hear from @carolinesinders.bsky.social, Paula Westenberger, Richard Combes, and our Director @shannonvallor.bsky.social on their thoughts surrounding the AI industry’s copyright violations & wider ethical & political questions about the role of AI in creative practice & culture.

OPEN THE SCHOOLS

See you on Thursday, Edinburgh!

excited to share this project I've been working on with my lab @cordlabs.bsky.social. With @dacs.org.uk and PICSEL, this report proposes how the UK government can tackle the challenges with copyright and Gen AI and center transparency and rightsholders. read it here: cdn.dacs.org.uk/uploads/imag...

For background reading, check out @rgoodlaw.bsky.social's rundown for @justsecurity.org of the range of federal laws that were enacted precisely to guard against such breaches of security: www.justsecurity.org/109540/signa...

🎙️The controversy over revelations in The Atlantic from a Signal group chat including top US national security officials planning a strike in Yemen continues to play out. What went wrong—and what does it mean? I spoke to Ryan Goodman (NYU Law + Just Security) and Cooper Quintin (EFF). Listen now.

And check out the report that @cooperq.com coauthored (with me, @carolinesinders.bsky.social, @timbernard.me, Leila Wylie Wagner and Ami Mehta) on secure and encrypted messaging applications: www.techpolicy.press/what-is-secu...

Close to the end of an excellent thread, well worth reading in entirety but heart heart “security is not just a tech issue, it’s a people issue”. Bravo & 🙌🏻 to thread author Justin Hendrix and all report authors including Hendrix and artist @carolinesinders.bsky.social

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A couple of years ago, I co-authored a report on messaging apps. We looked at how secure they really are and how users themselves often defeat security with their own behaviors. We focused on understanding vulnerable communities: journalists, abortion rights activists…

Cool event coming up! Delighted to share the floor with @carolinesinders.bsky.social for a conversation about what we can (and should!) do to embed human rights in tech design. In person (Barcelona) and online, register here: lu.ma/4fickzdm

In case you’re wondering how things are going over at the Elon’s free speech place, more than 20 Turkish youth/student organization’s X-Twitter accounts are now blocked to access from Turkey because they were posting about the recent protests.

Taking place in Boston (opens April 18 at Boston Cyberarts); Vancouver (opens May 29 at Or Gallery); and Lexington (opens June 6 at the Living Arts & Science Center). Featuring Lai Yi Ohlsen, Lani Asunción, @jazsalyn.bsky.social, @oerum.org, @carolinesinders.bsky.social, and @rouxpz.bsky.social.

🚨 Event Update: New Date! 🚨 Our online Salon, a dialogue with @carolinesinders.bsky.social on #AI & #Society, has been postponed and will now take place on March 5, 6pm CET. Info, registration, Zoom link: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-... Previous salons: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/

Ope! A new @neverpo.st! I talk with @carolinesinders.bsky.social about what it feels like to block people online. Friend of the show Meghal Janardan talks to Laura Bower, author of From the Files of Madison Finn, a children's book series about being online in the early 00s. And also: 🤫library asmr

The CFPB has: ✅Returned $21 billion to Americans ✅Eliminated junk fees ✅Banned medical debt from credit reports ✅Capped banking overdraft fees at $5 Trump and Elon are dismantling it to help out their rich buddies — the same CEOs and executives the CFPB works to hold accountable.

Today's artists face a Manichean choice—pray the courts ban AI's encroachment on their livelihoods or submit to AI's inevitable dominion over all creativity. But @eryk.bsky.social @carolinesinders.bsky.social @supercomposite.bsky.social argue creative misuse can uncover AI's potential and weaknesses

Can the U.S. Office of Personnel Management be sued for potential illegal disclosure of sensitive, private records to DOGE? Yes, yes it can. www.eff.org/press/releas...

Our next #AI & #Society Salon is soon 🎙️ Join us on 18 February 18:00pm CET for a Salon with @carolinesinders.bsky.social, artist and researcher. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

We're doing it again! Check out the sneak preview from CAI 3.1's upcoming issue, @eryk.bsky.social, @carolinesinders.bsky.social, and @supercomposite.bsky.social's "Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! & Creative Misuse of AI Systems." #CriticalAI

Are you talking to colleagues impacted by executive branch targeting? Here’s a thread 🧵 w/ simple tips about how to show support—what to say that is likely to help, rather than make things worse. (The tips are simple, but I try to explain the rationale behind them. So please follow to the end.) 1/

It was great to be part of the Ai & Copyright Consultation workshop at DACS yesterday, thank you so much to Caroline, the DACS, PICSEL & CoRDs teams. Of particular interest to the transparency convo might be this piece just published by my colleagues @odihq.bsky.social - theodi.org/news-and-eve...

So excited for todays workshop, on Ai, innovation and copyright- centering artists and cultural institutions :)

Sneak preview of an article about @eryk.bsky.social’s, @carolinesinders.bsky.social’s and my work — to be published soon in the journal Critical AI criticalai.org/2025/01/17/s...

ARRG! (The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group) has a paper on critical artistic misuse of gen AI in the Critical AI journal (@criticalai-journal.bsky.social). Here's a pre-proofed copy of the paper, co-written with @carolinesinders.bsky.social and @supercomposite.bsky.social! #criticalAI

MAGA wants to bring back impossible divorce, mandated pregnancies, and no separate bank accounts so the ladies finna bring back arsenic, young widowhood and collecting pensions/insurance for 40+ years. If we goin back to the 1950s WE ALL GOIN ALL THE WAY BACK.

To go further: When you pay people, they can’t love you. Money eliminates the ability for love to happen. Love is entirely non-transactional. It is something outside of capital and it requires that you undertake care for others without regard for what it will “get” you.