Judith Keilbach
@juikei.bsky.social
Media scholar Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | environmental humanities, media industries and infrastructures, media and history | Greening the Digital Society | co-editor of necsus
"Growth without work is simply precarity disguised as efficiency"
Rest of World@restofworld.org · 14h ago"For every AI ethicist or prompt engineer role created in San Francisco, dozens of livelihoods vanish in Manila, Johannesburg or Mumbai." Read an excerpt from “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI" by Jibu Elias: https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-jobs-economy-impact/
"Wereldwijd zijn legers verantwoordelijk voor 5,5 procent van de uitstoot van broeikasgassen". "Klimaatontwrichting vergroot de kans op conflicten, maar omgekeerd zorgen de conflicten voor nóg meer broeikasgassen in de atmosfeer".
De Groene Amsterdammer@groene.nl · 18h agoBij bestrijding van klimaatrampen staat het leger paraat. Wrang genoeg draagt de krijgsmacht zelf flink bij aan de opwarming van de aarde. Hoe gaat Defensie om met die spanning? 'Het tegengaan van de echte oorzaken van de klimaatcrisis, daar blijft Defensie van weg.' 👉 www.groene.nl/artikel/de-v...
Maybe I'm wrong abt this feeling but "human-caused climate change" seems to have lost its political and physical relevance to decision making and policy So when an article mentions that phrase re wildfires, it's treated like an asteroid hurtling towards us that no one caused and no one can stop
Alex aka @digiconomist.bsky.social (he who took on the Bitcoin bros) is a worthwhile follow on data centre misreporting, particularly on water-washing and deceptive disclosure tactics. lnkd.in/p/eEDd6vKQ
Extreme Wetterereignisse sind medial präsent. Aber über die Klimakrise, die dahinter steht, berichten Medien immer weniger 👉 taz.de/!6200120/
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis #Climate
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?
theguardian.com
Hi @yougov.co.uk, you left off the correct answer which is "This will be one of the coolest summers of the rest of our lives and they will keep getting hotter and hotter until we stop burning fossil fuels".
"The Anthropic copyright case set the precedent—the US court ruled that by making a digital copy and destroying the physical in a one-for-one transfer, the process is deemed “transformative” and therefore protected by fair use." Except that making a digital copy is NOT a one-for-one transfer
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Data collectives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-data-collectives-mozilla/
Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control
Data collectives and cooperatives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies.
restofworld.org
Join us, with @nrindernann.bsky.social, @apasek.bsky.social and more friends for a tactical dive into what went down in Canada's first datacentre battleground. Monday July 27 | 7-8pm est Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
You can also power data centres with furnaces fuelled by the bodies of people who want to sacrifice themselves for the cause of bad web search and more verbose emails.
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
Hot data centre summer in Canada
Anne Pasek@apasek.bsky.social · 3w agohahaha... ok so I teach science communication classes, and now I have an example about the importance of message discipline. Sometimes the glib thing you mention in passing to a reporter becomes part of the byline... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Walking in our farm's rainforest with the melting heat of these days, I am filled with such inexpressible anger at what is being done to our once stable climate. The richest 1% are actively, knowingly, and uncaringly sabotaging the future for all of us, and for the rest of the planet's life.
europeanaifund.org/newspublicat...
Call for proposals: New €2m Building Narrative Power funding and learning programme - European AI & Society Fund
For too long the tech industry has dominated our understanding of Artificial Intelligence. To counter this, the European AI & Society Fund is launching the Building Narrative Power programme to help p...
europeanaifund.org
"What [graphs] show is that Earth is moving beyond the range within which modern human civilisation developed. We’re entering climatic conditions that our infrastructure, ecosystems, economies and institutions were never designed to accommodate."
David Tomkins 🦋@davidctomkins.bsky.social · 4w agoEvery so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...
WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit ist ein Kern rechter Strategie. Forschende verschiedener Fachrichtungen sagen: Es helfen nur Solidarität und Argumente.
Wie sich die Wissenschaft gegen Angriffe von rechts behaupten will
Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit ist ein Kern rechter Strategie. Forschende verschiedener Fachrichtungen sagen: Es helfen nur Solidarität und Argumente.
taz.de
Thank you, CSA De Stadsgroenteboer, for the weekly supply of delicious veggies!
What, and I mean this with all seriousness, the fuck.
High Country News@highcountrynews.org · last mo.Fire survivors say “it’s morally reprehensible,” and experts worry the wagering could lead to arson.
Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...
Here's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately
Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.
gizmodo.com
danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
journals.sagepub.com
This is what being pro-technology should look like
John Birmingham@birmo.bsky.social · last mo.Controversial take perhaps, but I think you can install air-conditioning and shutdown data centers at the same time. maybe even steal all the air-conditioning units from the data centers and install them in public housing. Then run them off solar and battery while taxing the hyper rich to death
FIFA touts this World Cup as the most innovative and tech-savvy one yet. Behind the veneer of state-of-the-art football sensors and ref body cams are data workers from Brazil, the Philippines, Cambodia, and India tracking the play-by-play restofworld.org/2026/fifa-wo...
The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
restofworld.org
New NECSUS issue is out! necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/sp...
