"“Our thesis,” as Earle put it in a disarmingly straightforward pitch email, is that “every company will soon assign an AI agent to every customer to watch their every move.”" They're not even pretending anymore futurism.com/artificial-i...

"Customer Surveillance" Startup Says "Every Company Will Soon Assign an AI Agent to Every Customer to Watch Their Every Move"

The startup Outlit is deploying agents that constantly surveil B2B companies' customers and create detailed intelligence dossiers.

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MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

Robotaxis as "so so tech" "[It] is just good enough to replace human workers but not good enough to significantly improve quality of life or create broad social benefits...[it moves] power away from local public institutions toward private corporations" www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/09/25/o...

Opinion: Who will robotaxis actually serve in San Diego?

Waymo needs real local oversight.

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In ihrem Open-Access-Buch „Algorithms of Resistance“ beschreiben @tbonini.bsky.social und @emilianotrere.com, wie sich Aktivist*innen gegen algorithmische Systeme zur Wehr setzen, die zunehmend unseren Alltag beeinflussen.

I switched to Proton (European) from Gmail last year and it fully meets my needs, including Drive/Docs/Sheets, and you can host several custom domain emails with just one paid account. I switched from Dropbox to Sync (Canadian company!) and that also has been excellent. We can each fight back.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 3mo ago

The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.

Mañana estaremos a las siete en el Círculo de Bellas Artesm charlando con @emilianotrere.com y @tbonini.bsky.social sobre su libro Algoritmos de resistencia www.circulobellasartes.com/humanidades/...

Algoritmos de resistencia - Círculo de Bellas Artes

Un repartidor estira la vida de su bicicleta por las cuestas de Livorno, una conductora sabe qué zonas evitar para que el mapa no la

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Tu jefe no tiene despacho, horario ni rostro: es un algoritmo. Presentamos 'Algoritmos de resistencia', de @tbonini.bsky.social y @emilianotrere.com, el próximo libro del Círculo y @lenguaycirculo.bsky.social, en una conversación junto a @amparolasen.bsky.social. 🔗 acortar.link/PrccXL

contro la tesi della dipendenza da social media, ho scritto questo articolo per Doppiozero, in cui provo a dimostrare perché, dopo la sentenza del tribunale di LA contro META e Google stiamo combattendo la battaglia sbagliata contro Big Tech www.doppiozero.com/bigh-tech-di...

Bigh tech, dipendenze e tribunali | Tiziano Bonini

Il 25 marzo 2026 una giuria di Los Angeles ha condannato Meta e Google a risarcire sei milioni di dollari a una giovane donna, identificata come K.G.M., che aveva iniziato a usare YouTube a sei anni e...

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Gee, Open Institute of Technology was going to force me to use TurnItIn on student assignments, and I had to quit. Spread the word: OPIT is scum. medium.com/@kim_crawley... And ko-fi.com/kimatstopgenai

I’m a professor literally risking my own life to fight the menace of Gen AI destroying education.

In this piece thoroughly backed by scientific research, I explain how Gen AI is destroying education, the environment, and the workforce.

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Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 11mo ago

The consensus among researchers and educators is that most AI text detectors don't reliably work. Here’s What to Do Instead. mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/teach/ai-...

Anthropic is using copyright claims to try to stop its leaked code being used to train rival AI models. Critics are noticing something of an irony, given Anthropic use of pirated materials to train its models. I've dug into the whole thing for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Anthropic Code Crisis Creates Copyright Contradiction

For publishers, authors, and other creators, the schadenfreude might feel well-earned, writes James Ball. But is it justified?

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Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

2010: date a Internet il Nobel per la Pace! 2026: togliete i social ai nostri bambini non possiamo più sbagliare! 🤔

L'uomo che porta la pace. Eterna.

Axios@axios.com · 8mo ago

💥 No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. He's attacked 7 nations, three of which had never been targeted by U.S. military strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in four years.

"China’s ruling Communist Party wants young women to prioritize getting married and having babies. Instead, many of them are finding romance with chatbots" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...

Women Are Falling in Love With A.I. It’s a Problem for Beijing.

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History repeats itself "A programme launched by the Ministry of Justice last week will aim to develop a system that can alert schools, health staff, police and other professionals to individuals most likely to be drawn into crime." #ryogens #preemptivesurveillance www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The machines that will predict the criminals of the future

The Ministry of Justice will deploy machine learning to identify at-risk children for early intervention and to help prevent them falling into a life of crime

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Pure evil

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Looking for alternatives to Gmail and G-Drive? Two years ago I switched to #Posteo for emails and to @nextcloud.bsky.social for personal online storage (via #Hetzner). It costs me the equivalent of a good flat white per month & gives me peace of mind that my personal data isn't scraped or abused.

Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Take away Spanish and there's no San Francisco or Los Angeles or Sacramento, no San Diego or Santa Rosa or Sierra nevada and actually there's no California, because that's a Spanish word...

The role of #GenAI in children’s development is ambivalent, and their opportunities (scaffolding learning) can easily turn into harmful consequences (deskilling and disempowerment). Read more here researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13... #SaferInternetDay

Perché 11 plugin di Claude hanno fatto crollare le azioni IT (soprattutto in India) e perché l’apocalisse del lavoro ventilata dallo stesso CEO di Anthropic potrebbe essere iniziata – e a pagare il conto saranno soprattutto i lavoratori junior www.wired.it/article/clau...

Perché Claude Cowork “terrorizza” i mercati? C'è chi teme l’apocalisse del lavoro

Il lancio di nuovi strumenti di Anthropic in grado sostituire i software specialistici ha fatto crollare le borse in India (e non solo): il timore è che numerose professioni spariranno

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il 20% di bambin* e adolescenti italian* chiede consigli all'AI su salute e forma fisica ma non si fida al 100%. questi e altri risultati nel report di @eukidsonline.bsky.social researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...

"A balanced reading of existing research shows the impact of digital media depends on what children are watching, when, and why." but the debate on #ScreenTime is dominated by 6 papers that sell fears blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Why fear still sells research on screen time - Impact of Social Sciences

Regardless of quality research that deploys fear based framing drives public debate on screen time for children.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social. To get more data, Anthropic: * "destructively scanned" millions of books * downloaded the shadow library LibGen * hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books

Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

washingtonpost.com

"Israel uses technology as a tool for ethnic cleansing, designed to drive us out of Hebron’s city centre and make way for the Israeli settlement expansion taking place in breach of international law." www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-bo...

Israel’s border tech is a tool for ethnic cleansing

In the West Bank, we are the unwilling test subjects for digital advancements in methods of population control

opendemocracy.net

"Probably around 10 per cent of them actually have been banned, and half of that 10 per cent has been unbanned by just using basically the same thing that I did: use other people's faces, use their driver's licence. #SocialMediaBan www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless'

Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s is two months old, but teenagers say they have found ways around it.

abc.net.au

Why I refuse using chatGPT, latest short answer -> Trump Super PAC: "The biggest donations were $12.5 million each from Greg Brockman, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, and his wife" "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/us/politics/trump-super-pac-maga-inc-fundraising.html

Trump Super PAC Raised More Than $100 Million in Recent Months

nytimes.com

@emilianotrere.com @tbonini.bsky.social I really enjoyed your book and have it on my syllabus. Thanks for your work. I wrote a review of it for Critical AI: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Given what is happening with X, it's a good time to propose for anyone interested to read the "Algorithms of Resistance" by T. Bonini & E. Trere. It offers ways to challenge the logic of the platform, and there is a lot of research backing up the arguments of the book. It's open access too!

Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power

How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control

direct.mit.edu

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

theguardian.com

"AI it’s not going to replace everyone. But if we think about AI, language models are the industrial production of language. It’s the same way that the factories in the 1800s were the industrial production of cloth. And I think we get a much clearer picture of what is going on." (Hagen Blix)