This is the perfect Xmas gift 🎁

When I say in many ways, Big Tech is building for the Global South and I don't mean this in a positive way, this is what I mean. As far back as 2013, Facebook began offering Facebook Basics to internet users in developing countries where access to the internet is expensive for free.

Join us for the book launch of Global South Creator Cultures on Tuesday, 20 January, 17:30–19:00, at King’s College London. Further information and registration details: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @mediaindustries.bsky.social

Ok this got me in the feels.

I have issued two changes to my book regarding the water footprint of data centers. I've detailed the changes and the context behind them here: karendhao.com/20251217/emp.... Given the nature of book changes, I wanted to make sure anyone who has an existing copy of the book is aware.

Find hot data centers near you https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

Celebratory walk in the park

🙌🙌🙌 @estebanmorales.bsky.social

The Home Office has failed migrants. The eVisa scheme is founded on an incomplete and misleading Data Protection Impact Assessment, meaning foreseeable risks were not mitigated. 19 civil society groups call on the ICO to investigate. Read our open letter ⬇️ www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

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I scroll through LinkedIn with the exact same caution I used as a child when playing with the spilt mercury drops of broken thermometers. 🌡️ I fear too much exposure to it might cause irreversible damage.

Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.

💻 #BigTech consumes massive amounts of energy & water. The latest paper by IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @silviaweko.bsky.social explores how Google & Amazon are positioning themselves to control ecological transition paths for their purposes. ✍️ Read their paper here: buff.ly/MKgIOkY

Remember when we did not have a government where the President personally intervened in regulatory decisions to demand political favors?

Seriously.

Oh, what an interesting finding about the impact of excessive chatbot engagement on social skills and personal relationships! I definitely want to read the original source and find out more. ... anyone want to guess what I found?

Big tech firms are force-feeding us AI because it’s been already paid for. This triggers childhood memories.

At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.

fuck fifa

The shift to a "digital only immigration system" is already causing distress and exclusion for many migrants. Our work with the University of Warwick has shown significant issues with the system. We will be launching our report later today detailing the problems. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kenya’s unemployment crisis has allowed Chinese AI companies to tap into a workforce of young people, who spend 12-hour shifts labeling data in thousands of videos for around $6 a day restofworld.org/2025/kenya-c...

🎄All we want for Christmas is for AI regulation to work for people and society. Our new polling shows the UK public are concerned that tech companies’ needs are being prioritised over their own when it comes to AI regulation. Read the full findings ⬇️ www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...

The kids are not alright.

Via @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Like we say in Spanish: “Hierba mala nunca muere”

The perfect shirt doesn’t exist….

⏮️ Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age Catch up on our recent #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti. 📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/ZJbQSUn

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Dude, no. Just…no.

Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that

Tapping the sign again

Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx

«ChatGPT told a young mother in Maine that she could talk to spirits in another dimension. It told an accountant in Manhattan that he was in a computer-simulated reality … It told a corporate recruiter in Toronto that he had invented a math formula that would break the internet …» #ParanoiaMachine

Ok but was he being nice towards Zohran or lowkey patronizing… 😶

I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real

"Parasocial bonds with technology aren't a personal failing; they're an expected outcome of systems built to optimize attention and retention." I’m quoted in Star today about how AI systems are built to feel familiar and likable through social cues. starmagazine.com/parasocial-r...

À la COP30, nous sommes en train d'être évacués après qu'un important incendie se soit déclaré sur le site. À un jour de la fin des négociations climatiques qui s'avèrent très tendues, le symbole est hallucinant. (Le feu est maitrisé et tout le monde va bien)

Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social (Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/

'After Technocolonialism' - a book panel @mediacomgold.bsky.social to discuss 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' published by @politybooks.bsky.social with Helen Kennedy, @andreamedrado.bsky.social Nirmal Puwar & @jolittler.bsky.social November 26th, 5-7pm, all welcome! ⬇️

Come on Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

this is how you do investigative journalism