🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Basic research, lethal effects: Military artificial intelligence research funding as enlistment - David Gray Widder, Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman, 2026

In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorit...

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In this World Cup, we’ve gone from everything is political to everything is geopolitical

Proud he’s playing for Olympiacos. Honestly our club should learn a thing or two from him.

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · last mo.

"The Treatment of Iran’s World Cup Team Exposed the West's and FIFA's Double Standards" Iran’s football captain was asked about LGBT rights. So, why then wasn’t the U.S. team captain asked about the U.S. bombing of the girls' school in Minab, asks Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo?

Such a great essay by great @melhogan.bsky.social. I have highlighted so many passages that I can't pick which one's my favourite - so please read it for yourselves!

The Ends of AI

Sycophancy and psychosis

disjunctionsmag.com

dead internet theory

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

internet for bots by bots www.404media.co/study-finds-...

⚡ We condemn the complaint against our partner @freepressunlimited.bsky.social over its Gaza-related fundraising letter. Even if rejected, such actions risk creating a chilling effect on organisations supporting journalists. We stand in solidarity with FPU. www.mapmf.org/alert/34743

Mapping Media Freedom: Netherlands: Free Press Unlimited targeted by a complaint over fundraising letter (2025-12-22)

On 22 December 2025, the Centre for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI) filed a…

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Fresh evidence linking the Greek government to #PredatorGate. Today's @tovimagr.bsky.social revelations confirm the long held suspicion that Predator was to be paid from EU funds. Will @ec.europa.eu demand clarifications? (spoiler: it won't). A clear case for the EU Public Prosecutor #EPPO

Vas Panagiotopoulos@vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 4mo ago

⚠️Intellexa was allegedly set to be funded in Greece through 🇬🇷state and 🇪🇺European funds before the wiretapping scandal broke, newspaper @tovimagr.bsky.social reports.

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

“Aimé Césaire observed that fascism became objectionable to Europeans only when it unleashed in Europe the brutality they had inflicted on the “inferior” peoples of Asia and Africa.” www.equator.org/articles/aft...

After the Earthquakes • EQUATOR

The fundamental problem of the present is complicity

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Greece has emerged as one of the most important allies to the genocidal state of Israel www.news247.gr/magazine/rep...

Από τη Γάζα στην Καλαμάτα - Η ελληνική εμπλοκή στο ΑΙ του πολέμου

Πώς το Ισραήλ δολοφόνησε χιλιάδες αμάχους και ο ρόλος της Ελλάδας στην ανάπτυξη των νέων τεχνολογιών στην πολεμική βιομηχανία.

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As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

7 Reasons Teens Say No to AI

Some young people only turn to artificial-intelligence chatbots as a last resort, citing concerns about relationships, creativity, the environment and more.

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The story about MSFT building a massive DC in AMS despite a ban on hyperscalers is indicative of the legal system’s limitations in capitalism. The fixation on nonEU being the issue by some (next para shows int’l capital flows btw) reveals true goals of “dig sovereignty” archive.is/ZXx0H#select...

#OtD 12 Jan 1904 a rebellion began by Herero people in Namibia against German occupation. Eventually however, they were defeated by the Germans, who attempted to exterminate all Herero people in what is considered the 1st genocide of the 20th century stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8394...

PLEASE SHARE 📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)). Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles. Links in🧵 #commsky

In 2023, the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 identified Venezuela as one of "the five countries on which the next Administration should focus its attention." Excerpt below offers a justification for the US' imperialist and colonialist ambitions.

The Israeli military continues to demolish structures in northern Gaza while also blocking the entry of aid.

Israel launches deadly strikes in Gaza in new ceasefire violations

The Israeli military continues to demolish structures in northern Gaza while also blocking the entry of aid.

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Trump ne menace pas seulement ce qui restait de droit international en attaquant le Venezuela. Il menace aussi la planète toute entière en faisant main basse sur d'énormes réserves de pétrole dont la combustion accélere le chaos climatique.

Why is so much news focused on the ‘operation’ and the ‘logistics’ of the Venezuela invasion? More is needed on the illegality, casualties, reasons for absent and lukewarm political reactions, precedent setting, and implications. 🤷

The claim that “this is not the time to comment on” US’s illegal imperialist invasion of Venezuela makes me deeply ashamed and enraged as a Greek, further showing the EU’s demise. This, just a few days after he met with Netanyahu in Jerusalem. He must be brought to justice.

Mainstream Big media will always prioritise protecting the ruling class than upholding so called democratic values no matter how much they purport to work in favour of the latter: www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid

The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.

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How much dystopia can you withstand

Steve Held@peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

the most shameless statement. But not so surprising given the EU’s complicity in Gaza’s genocide

Kaja Kallas@kajakallas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela. The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)

2026 commence très fort avec l'enterrement définitif du droit international.

The EU is irrelevant, in a semi-dead state, acting as a vessel of the US, ready to support its illegal invasion of a sovereign country. Insane.

READ: More than 10,000 bodies buried beneath the rubble in Gaza. Read what recovery looks like after 2 years of Israeli genocide. 👇 mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...

One excavator, 10,000 bodies, a sea of rubble: inside Gaza’s effort to retrieve and bury its dead

Under the relative calm of a ceasefire, Civil Defense crews in Gaza are undertaking the monumental feat of recovering thousands of bodies still trapped under the rubble.

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How it started (quote post) How it's going (linked article) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’

AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’

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Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem. >>

For all the critique I've done to the COM, the DSA enforcement team deserves so much praise. 1) Deceiving users with blue checkmark; 2) obscuring info re: ads; 3) making life of researchers re: data access difficult = €120M. Not bad ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act

Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

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