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Adele Zeynep Walton

@adelewalton.bsky.social

Author, online safety campaigner, journalist, hater of tech bros. https://www.adelesnotes.co.uk/

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Everyone Hates Elon@everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Right now billionaires are heading to Davos conference with Trump to talk about solutions to problems THEY created. 8 men own 50% of all wealth, yet they point the finger at immigrants and trans people. Billionaires: YOU’RE the problem. Just SHUT UP AND PAY YOUR TAX

THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 6mo ago

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👇🔗

Picture of Adele Walton with the text: “I confronted a tech boss about my sister’s suicide. I don’t know why I bothered”
People Vs Big Tech@peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 8mo ago

@crtl-alt-reclaimfr.bsky.social started out as a small bootcamp in Summer'24 - bringing together young people from around Europe who wanted to do something about the harm that social media was doing to young lives. Now it’s a pan-European movement, see Guardian: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe

Gen Z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting back

theguardian.com

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last yr.

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · last yr.

In many ways, Bender and Hanna successfully demonstrate that AI is a con. It fails at productivity and intelligence, while the hype launders a series of transformations that harm workers, exacerbate inequality and damage the environment. Nice write-up of The AI Con by Luke Munn @theconversation.com

Is AI a con? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist

AI slop means faster and cheaper content, and the technical and financial logic of online platforms creates a race to the bottom.

theconversation.com

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · last yr.

this! don't call me a "denialist", "pessimist" or anything negative if I have all the empirical evidence and receipts while the other side shows up with "potentials", "possibilities" & other buzzword. call me an expert, a scientist or a realist

Navneet Alang@navneetalang.com · last yr.

Hm. Don't think I'm on board with calling AI skeptics/critics "denialists." Seems to obscure the fact that there is an ideological contestation at play, rather than, as with climate change, an empirical or even epistemological one.