Last call: We are hosting @devikanarayan.bsky.social at 8pm at SPUI25 where she will be giving a talk on "Cloud Capitalism" and discussing the futures of computatinal infrastructures with Miriyam Aouragh. Live stream: spui25.nl/live More info: spui25.nl/programma/th... #Algosoc #PIP #titipi
Cloud Capitalism
Owned and controlled by a handful of mega-corporations, clouds and mobile devices in our pockets have become the taken-for-granted foundations of contemporary society. What are the consequences of thi...
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If I was a head of state, I would simply be less enthusiastic about legitimising executing heads of state
The world's two rogue states, Israel and the USA, have started a war not against Iran but against the whole world. We stand with Iranians, with Humanity, against the notion that Israel and the US can bomb anyone their fancy takes them to bomb. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
US AND ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN
Multiple explosions heard in Tehran, elsewhere, as Israel launches attacks on Iran with US help.
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The military is bailing out the AI industry. We interview author and activist @naomiaklein.bsky.social on our latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. Check out episode 72: How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
NYT: Near the White House, hundreds of high school students protest ICE. By Campbell Robertson and Callie Holtermann Hundreds of students walked out of high schools across Washington on Friday for a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Near the White House, Hundreds of High School Students Protest ICE
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Preach…also “mass surveillance is not ok, but targeted is fine” is dog whistling to the security establishment. There is a serious drift in what we have come to think is a good political act.
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 5mo agoI have nothing good to say about Anthropic just like I have nothing good to say about Muskrat during his spat with the orange man, or any of the orange man's associates when he turns on them. Anthropic knowingly partnered with the pentagon. Their other partner, Palantir,...
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 72 - How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
AI boosters and the US military are engaged in a lethal love affair. Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein joins Emily and Alex to discuss how glitchy technology supports global imperialism — and vi...
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Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 5mo agoMystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Ep 72: How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... In which @naomiaklein.bsky.social joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to discuss the merger between the US Department of War and Big Tech.
"Dorsey acknowledged that such a big cull could risk Block’s ability to serve its customers in the short term" www.wsj.com/business/how... expect a whole new level of Enshittification...
How Jack Dorsey Explained Cutting Almost Half of Block’s Staff
The entrepreneur said fewer employees is better in the AI age.
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Rubio's #Munich speech was met with a 'sigh of relief' in Europe: grateful for reassurance of partnership. THIS IS BAFFLING when you examine the white Christian nationalist undertones of his speech See here for the full speech: www.state.gov/releases/202...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State
SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world. When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...
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Η επίθεση στην Ροζάβα είναι επίθεση στην ελπίδα english.anf-news.com/news/attack-...
Attack on Rojava is an attack on hope
As a result of various international agreements and directives behind the scenes, the Syrian transitional government of Ahmed al-Sharaa and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have declared war on the Democ...
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in acknowledgement of the fact that There Is A Lot Going On, the deadline for this CFP has been extended by one week! oddletters.com/tech-money/
m. r. sauter@oddletters.bsky.social · 7mo agohey! hey!!! if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!! https//oddletters.com/tech-money/
hey! hey!!! if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!! https//oddletters.com/tech-money/
92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990. ICE records first detention death of 2026. austinkocher.substack.com/p/92-of-ice-...
92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990. Get the full breakdown below. Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026.
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Renee Good’s Wife Says She Was Supporting Neighbors When Killed by ICE By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Annie Gowen, and Praveena Somasundaram Gift link! @mollyhf.bsky.social @praveenavsoma.bsky.social
Renee Good’s wife says she was supporting neighbors when killed by ICE
Renee Nicole Good was a devoted mother and artist before she was fatally shot and became a flash point of anger against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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In case you needed a reminder that the maintenance of the fascist state and one's fragile masculinity go hand-in-hand.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7mo ago🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.
Driving in San Francisco with no traffic lights apparently isn't difficult enough, so Waymo was gracious enough to stop two of their AVs at 17th and Valencia
You know, post-snowden privacy advocates said “no to mass surveillance, but targeted is ok” 😉Some of us said: you are throwing people of color, Muslims and those impacted by war on terror under the bus. And, here we are!
FT Visual & Data Journalism@data.ft.com · 8mo agoTrump’s immigration data dragnet on.ft.com/4iNTrO9
Me 😊: this proceeding should contribute to preparing the ground for a new DMA market investigation with the aim to updating obligations with regard to AI (ICYMI, there's one already ongoing for cloud) - as suggested in the @article19.bsky.social Report competitionwave.blogspot.com/2025/12/comm...
Commission opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in the use of online content for AI purposes
EC, here . [NotebookLM's own DeepDive here , just for fun] In our Article 19 Report we discussed this and how it could eventually translate...
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Simonetta Vezzoso@wavesblog.eurosky.social · 8mo ago"The probe comes as Google gains ground in the AI race" and the publication of Judge Mehta's very bland *remedies* last week www.wsj.com/tech/eu-open...
I mean, in what sense will you be able to say the college “survived”?
Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · 8mo agoFor a couple of years now, I've been fascinated with what's happening at small liberal arts colleges, which are running out of money for reasons unrelated to Trump funding cuts. Businessweek let me go deep on the problems, and one college that's trying to blaze a new trail.
The @aaup.org beat Marco Rubio in court, with a Reagan-appointed judge ruling that ideological deportations obviously violate the first amendment. These cases cost money. And we need millions of people moving together to make them stick. If you're faculty in the US, join AAUP and join the fight.
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Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.
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"...signal to consumers everywhere that A.I. isn’t an unstoppable tsunami about to overwhelm us. Now is the time for ordinary Americans to recognize our agency and act to put in place the guardrails we want"
Simonetta Vezzoso@wavesblog.eurosky.social · 10mo ago"The settlement isn’t perfect. It’s absurd that it took an army of lawyers to demonstrate what any 10-year-old knows is true: Thou shalt not steal" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
Post doc opportunity on computational infrastructures "How do computational infrastructures expand into sectoral organizations? Are current (digital) policies adequate in responding to their impact on administration of justice?" careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Po...
Postdoc Impact of Computational Infrastructures on Public Institutions and Administration of Justice
Postdoc Impact of Computational Infrastructures on Public Institutions and Administration of Justice
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Interested in empirically and critically studying how computational infrastructures (clouds+end devices) expand into public organizations? Then please consider applying to this 2 yr postdoc position within the algosoc project and situated at TUD: careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Po...
Postdoc Impact of Computational Infrastructures on Public Institutions and Administration of Justice
Postdoc Impact of Computational Infrastructures on Public Institutions and Administration of Justice
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