Pourquoi l'IA est-elle utilisée pour faire la guerre ? danslesalgorithmes.net/2026/06/30/p... @orischwarz.bsky.social

Pourquoi l’IA est-elle utilisée pour faire la guerre ?

Mais pourquoi l’IA est-elle utilisée pour faire la guerre ?, demande le sociologue Ori Schwarz dans un passionnant article pour Big Data & ...

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We need sociology to understand what made possible the Gaza war horrors: mass killing, domicide, the weaponization of aid. Yesterday my community did just that, in multiple ways. At the Israeli Sociological Society's "War, Atrocities, Society" Conference, discussing the role of AI in the Gaza war.

Why did Israel need AI to achieve indiscriminate killing & destruction in Gaza? What does it teach us about the view of AI as a technology of distinction & personalization? And why must this case shift critical algorithm studies' agenda beyond bias & error? Read my new paper: doi.org/10.1177/2053...

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

What's the Matter with Florida? An Interview with Zachary Levenson

A discussion about Florida's censorship of sociology and teaching under authoritarianism

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In case you have missed this. Excellent project. www.authoritarian-stack.info

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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This looks frightening: 51% of all online articles published in 2025 were AI-generated. No wonder people keep citing this number. However, it's important to bear in mind this calculation does not distinguish between articles based on their readership and authority graphite.io/five-percent...

SO important! This new paper convincingly shows that in Norway, people from different classes recognize the same occupational status hierarchy, which is often assumed but rarely tested. However, story might well be different for more conflicted/unequal societies journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Sorry for being recursive, but Dan's important work on how to study the AI hype rather than reproduce it definitely deserves a hype

Dan Kotliar@danmk.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ 🚨New article out! 𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲: 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 What happens in the so-called AI revolutions? And what role does hype play in them? This article proposes a methodological framework for studying AI and its hype. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/studyhype 🧵👇

Demonstrating in Tel-Aviv against the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Using starvation as a political tool to serve ethnic cleansing is dreadful. Most people who live here, Israelis and Palestinians alike, want this nightmare to end NOW

Very troubling. Not as troubling as the mass starvation in Gaza, but still: our academic freedom that we've taken for granted is threatened, more threatened than at anytime I can recall. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

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Cool paper with an great title. Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls. People from high SES backgrounds do the same www.iza.org/publications...

Customers in the global north don't like the accent of low-wage workers from the global south? AI “accent translation” offers itself as a quasi-solution, grotesque yet socially consequential www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

AI is transforming Indian call centers. What does it mean for workers?

To understand how AI will reshape the future of work, there are few better places to start than India’s $280 billion business process outsourcing sector.

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Re: AI & creative writing: Least-skilled students using AI after seeing a guidance video wrote better than those who didn't use it at all *and* those who used AI w/o guidance. More skilled students didn't benefit at all & their writing got worse w/ unguided AI use www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

Can AI Improve Creative Writing? A Small Study Investigates.

An experiment sheds light on the process of creative writing and how AI can help or hinder.

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New video abstract: Ori Schwarz introduces the Theory, Culture & Society article 'The Post-Choice Society: Algorithmic Prediction and the Decentring of Choice'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ting...

Ori Schwarz on 'The Post-Choice Society: Algorithmic Prediction and the Decentring of Choice'

YouTube video by Theory, Culture & Society

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tinyurl.com/TCS25OS What does the decentring of choice through algorithmic prediction mean for subjectification? My new paper suggests AI interpelates a 'system-1 cognition' self, assuming our quick automatic responses are who we really are, while consciousness/reflection is mere self-deception 1/

710 Palestinians killed in two days, 70% of which are women and children, to buy 7 votes of extreme right Israeli MPs on the budget bills. 101 fatalities per vote (and counting). I cannot breath with these levels of cynicism

tinyurl.com/TCS25OS Choice has been the key social technology & ideology organizing late-modern economy, culture & society. In my new paper @theoryculturesociety.org I explore how algorithmic prediction decenters choice and what cultural & political implications this transformation could have (1/4)

Granting & revoking civil rights based on AI evaluation of one's social media activity doesnt sound very promising for democracy. Unless of course you spell it 民主 or דמוקרטיה. Yet, as Cheney-Lippold's Jus Algoritmi paper on revoking protections shows, it's not quite new www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"

The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

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Some thoughts on Weber and the AI-coup: We all have intuition, a gut feeling based on past experiences that often hits the mark. Bureaucracy prohibited relying on intuition in governance, insisting instead on using standing promulgated rules to achieve fairness, transparency & accountability 1/5

Must read: Anatomy of an AI Coup by @eryk.bsky.social 👇 "This coup is not taking place in the streets. (...) It's taking place cubicle by cubicle in federal agencies and in the mundane automation of bureaucracy." www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a... @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press

DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.

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Wow. The fact that trained academics collaborate and take part in this purge is a disgrace

Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

So apparently, the Turkish translation of my book, Sociological Theory for Digital Society, is out now! Which is great news: I happened to read & enjoy quite a lot of Turkish sociology, and it seems like a thriving community. Here's the link: www.ayrintiyayingrubu.com/kitap/dijita...

This is the Silencing Bill that will be discussed today in the Knesset Education Committee. If the committee brings it to the next reading, faculty organizations intend to strike. www.timesofisrael.com/arab-mks-aca...

Arab MKs, academics slam bill requiring universities to fire anti-Zionist faculty

'We will not allow terrorism to take over academia,' says coalition whip; Association of University Heads condemns 'McCarthyistic' campaign against higher education

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Ori Schwarz@orischwarz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yes, it could be worse (in Gaza Netanyahu's govt exercised scholasticide, physically destroying all 19 colleges/unis) but new bill to silence Israeli academia, forcing unis to dismiss dissident faculty for alleged 'support of terrorism' w/o criteria/legal process is frightening. We won't b silenced!

Yes, it could be worse (in Gaza Netanyahu's govt exercised scholasticide, physically destroying all 19 colleges/unis) but new bill to silence Israeli academia, forcing unis to dismiss dissident faculty for alleged 'support of terrorism' w/o criteria/legal process is frightening. We won't b silenced!

Thanks for sharing! It's always so nice and reassuring to find out people (esp. those we appreciate) actually use our printed thoughts... Also, it's making me feel slightly less guilty for this modest contribution of mine to deforestation

Guobin Yang@guobin-yang.bsky.social · 2y ago

I used Sociological Theory for Digital Society by @orischwarz.bsky.social for my seminar on Cultural Sociology and highly recommend it www.wiley.com/en-be/Sociol...

20 years ago, we witnessed mass immigration from Myspace to Facebook, resulting in classed and racialized platform differentiation. Now we witness another mass immigration wave, from X to bsky, this time resulting in *political* differentiation. Politics is now shaping network structure. But: (1/2)