"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the capabilities of AI, and promoting dystopian fantasies of ‘AI doom’, but also quietly advocating the deeply misanthropic philosophy on which it was founded. www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/t...

▶️Save the date: 'GOVERNING AI IN THE ANTHROPOCENE' 18 March 2026 (Oxford, UK) How to investigate the materiality of the digital industry, and more concretely of AI, in the Anthropocene? Keynotes by Prof Velkova and Dr Sy Taffel. More details on registration soon. @oii.ox.ac.uk

Stay tuned! The book Digital Solidarity Economy in Latin America (Bristol University Press and Policy Press) is coming in October 2026! Edited by me, Belén Albornoz, and Alessio Bertolini. Foreword by Nick Couldry bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/digital-soli...

Gig workers in Africa helped train AI systems for a company that performed work for a secretive U.S. military unit. Many were never told their work could be used for military purposes https://restofworld.org/2026/gig-workers-us-military-appen/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.

Our Critical Data Studies group at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social has a few talks this semester: March 27th: Jonathan Gray: Public Data Cultures April 1st: Amelia Acker: Archiving Machines: A Material History of Data Storage April 29th: Sophie Bishop: Influencer Creep See eventbrites below

🔊Sharing new preprint titled: "The Technopolitics of Data Centres" Studying DCs raises methodological questions, while also offering opportunities and opening challenges for interdisciplinary research into the governance of digital infrastructure." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Yes.

Thoroughly enjoyable conversation between @aiannucci.bsky.social and a lady who may not have written a certain book about Meta. Didn’t get the chance to ask my question about how satire can be used as a form of resistance (by us quiet bat-people) against the mystic narratives held by big tech. 😅

Heralds of spring (plums)

The BBC’s decision to cut this section of Akinola Davies Jr’s speech when the Baftas was broadcast later in the day is shameful.

Arequipa: Lluvias dejaron más de 2000 afectados y 78 damnificados elcomercio.pe/peru/ar…

“It also takes a lot of energy to train a human” is diabolical

don’t punish critical work for failing to solve the colossal clusterfuck the industry keeps throwing at us critique is, in and of itself, service 3/

My co-host Thomas Germain on our BBC podcast The Interface hacked ChatGPT in 24 hours. The story is hilarious! And deeply concerning. We also discuss the massive data center expansion around the world and the secret Starlink deployment to Iran. Catch Ep 2 here: app.magellan.ai/listen_links...

Discussing this article in two separate group chats with other women in tech, and I think it gets a lot wrong. The sexism isn't worse in the tech industry now, it's just that people outside the industry can see it too. I've worked in tech since the 90s and disdain and misogyny has always been there

substack.com/@rawstory/no... THEY CANCELLED IT: A crowd of protesters breaks out in cheers after a planned data center in New Brunswick, NJ was cancelled amid widespread public outrage. Don't let big tech pollute our communities! Share this everywhere! @maddow.bsky.social

I am teaching a digital culture research seminar this term and I shared @jessmaddox.bsky.social newsletter with the students—they absolutely loved it. Students are now asking me if I know of any other similar newsletters. Any recommendations? I am trying to compile a public list.

Dueles, Perú 🇵🇪

La vida es eso que pasa mientras destituyen a un presidente en Perú.

Join our upcoming Share and Learn session all about transnational caring. Mebrak Ghebreweldi will share the barriers and pressures experienced by transnational carers, as well as the physical and emotional impact of caring for someone in another country. https://carersuk.pulse.ly/fi0vbqoxyz

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

Reminder that I have a starter pack of cat accounts run by real people who post original content with meaningful ALT text! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

With a heavy heart I have to share the news that my friend Palmerston has passed away at the age of 12. You'll be missed so much. A true Diplocat setting a fine example to us all. Time to put your paws up and run free OTRB 🌈 RIP Palmy 💔

This will be great: Rethinking sustainable AI: Labour and environmental perspectives from the Global South via @datacontroversies.bsky.social www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

jesus fucking christ

Fantastic resource! 🔖@adalovelaceinst.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social @article19.bsky.social @awo.agency @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social @elinorcarmi.bsky.social @eff.org @digitalfreedoms.bsky.social @openrightsgroup.org @annkristinglenster.bsky.social @5rightsfound.bsky.social and many more!

“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” -Audre Lorde

Having to filter out a specific name from my Instagram feed in order to keep scrolling and stop having night terrors. I wish I could simply delete the app. It’s not easy when social media is the only thing that keeps you connected to ppl across the ocean. [suspira en migrante]

If you are in the UK please consider signing the open letter to the government about this here: weandai.org/updated-open...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

This 👇

The Real Cost of the UK’s ‘Free AI Training for All’ is Democracy via @elinorcarmi.bsky.social and co. Thank you for writing this. www.techpolicy.press/the-real-cos...

Si, badbunny es chevere y todo… pero han escuchado a Milo J? 😭❤️‍🩹

This is a good opportunity to remind everyone that all pieces in the DWI can be used as classroom material. Our students deserve to know that chatbots in their favorite social media and messaging apps rely on precarized workers. ➡️ data-workers.org/france/

 ”Wealthy countries get to come into poorer countries and do whatever they want, extract whatever data, minerals, and labor they want, to get even richer. It’s just repeating history under the guise of technology that's supposed to level the playing field globally.” - @karenhao.bsky.social

NEW: A new tool searches your LinkedIn connections for people who are mentioned in the Epstein files. 404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.

During her visit, @abeba.bsky.social will be taking part in our Technomoral Conversations event exploring AI narratives and counter-narratives – a collaboration w/ @braiduk.bsky.social & @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social 🗓️ 11 Feb 18.00-19.30 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online 🎟️ edin.ac/3MZEm0a

Adele Walton’s sister Aimee died at 21 after going on a notorious self-harm forum. But when Adele approached a tech CEO to talk about online safety at a Davos debate, she was threatened with removal @adelewalton.bsky.social for the Nerve on why it matters when tech companies do not show humanity👇🔗

Later this month, I'll be headed to Delhi to participate in the AI Impact Summit with @ainowinstitute.bsky.social. I spoke with @themaybe.org as part of their series exploring the kinds of narratives we might expect to hear, and how to move away from the harmful ones that entrench global inequality.

I’m not afraid of god. I am afraid of men.

"the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women"--Noam Chomsky

Pffff

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

We made a starter pack of the cast and crew behind Ghost in the Machine! Follow along here for the latest from the technologists, theories, researchers, filmmakers, and so much more behind this documentary.

ICYMI: Last week the UK Govt admitted a serious error over data centres and the environment: www.theregister.com/2026/01/23/u... Read more here: www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/01/22/u...

Fantastic event last night. Here’s to more creative spaces to discuss critical AI. 🙌 Below, @noortjem.bsky.social and @alex-taylor.bsky.social.

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

Can’t help but think how Rabbie Burns and my local 19th century bard, Mariano Melgar, would’ve been besties. Happy Burns night, all.