🩵🩵🩵 so grateful for your mentorship and review of this work & thinking. and hello blueskyyy, excited to share this article which is an outgrowth of my MPhil dissertation tracing flows of surveillance across the Indian Ocean. dm me for a PDF!

Khadijah@upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 4w ago

S/o to @mallidharmaraj.bsky.social for this exposition on Aadhaar modeled tech being imported to East Africa via Indian Ocean World networks. Her unpacking of caste in relationship to enslavement historically and present technical flows is rare and prescient www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

S/o to @mallidharmaraj.bsky.social for this exposition on Aadhaar modeled tech being imported to East Africa via Indian Ocean World networks. Her unpacking of caste in relationship to enslavement historically and present technical flows is rare and prescient www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Surveillance in transit: a chronology of databases, power, complicity, and ‘the Aadhaar model’ in the Indian Ocean World

In this article, I trace a chronology of databases, power, complicity, and surveillance in transit across the Indian Ocean World (IOW). This chronology has produced technologies ranging from the an...

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We've exhausted everything to find Ahmed help, but we don't give up. Please help him eat, stay housed, find legal help, and get the necessary documents to be able to work. Please support Ahmed. 54/250 BY SUNDAY: chuffed.org/project/ahmedf

Help survivor Ahmed get back on his feet

Ahmed is my best friend and colleague, and I am running this campaign on his behalf. Ahmed F is an art therapist, educator, and student. Since being displaced from Gaza in 2024, he's been striving to ...

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Also hold the date. The fifth(!!!!) Alchemy Lecture will be on October 29, 2026 at York! 5-8 pm. Audra Simpson Thandi Loewenson Lorenzo Pezzani Torkwase Dyson. ScALE Registration and links to come.

"Between a love letter and a quarterly report." Aquesta frase la firmaríem nosaltres sobre ciberpoder.net any rere any... Mantenir viva una revista de tecnocrítica independent és exactament això, amor i números que no quadren.

ciberpoder.net — cultura tecnopolítica

Cultura tecnopolítica. Escrivim sobre el poder que es juga dins de les pantalles.

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Khadijah@upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Perhaps this deserve a less esoteric introduction. Weaving memoir with an analysis of technology, automated decision systems and AI more broadly. This is something between a love letter and quarterly report on where Logic(s) has been and where it’s going.

Perhaps this deserve a less esoteric introduction. Weaving memoir with an analysis of technology, automated decision systems and AI more broadly. This is something between a love letter and quarterly report on where Logic(s) has been and where it’s going.

Khadijah@upfromthecracks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Needed to be silent for a while but sharing a piece meditating on my life and Logic(s). Got locked up with sheep and re-discovered awe and wonder in goat missing its two front legs that learned to move like a kangaroo. logicmag.io/2026/meditat...

Really enjoyed this book. Does a very good job of linking babbages engines to the history of neural networks while problematizing our assumptions of the mental/manual divide

ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 2mo ago

After "The Nerd Reich", we'll read "The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence" by @mttpsq.bsky.social. Forecasting reading speed is hard, but I think we'll start in late September. "The Eye of the Master" is available now, your library may have it. You can also get it here:

new ai skeptics reading group email, this time with more updates and stuff than usual(!) specifically, i've decided to lay out my plans for the next several books, so read on

[AI Skeptics] Techno-Negative, chapter 6

Hello! We're reading Techno-Negative by Thomas Dekeyser and continuing with chapter 6: "Exodus: Phobia and (Techno-)Rationalism in an Epoch of Planetary...

buttondown.com

Needed to be silent for a while but sharing a piece meditating on my life and Logic(s). Got locked up with sheep and re-discovered awe and wonder in goat missing its two front legs that learned to move like a kangaroo. logicmag.io/2026/meditat...

Meditations on Life and Logic(s)

This essay is part memoir, quarterly report, love letter and mourning.

logicmag.io

“A US judge in New Mexico on Thursday ordered Meta to pay another $567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the largest ruling against the company over child safety.”

Meta told to pay another $567m in New Mexico child safety lawsuit

A New Mexico judge ordered the Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp parent company to pay another $567m for the way it has harmed children.

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might be common knowledge, but some people block channels that use AI in thumbnails. youtube has an option to "never recommend this channel again" and i only ever use it when a channel's thumbnails are all AI i hope someone can convey to aspiring youtubers that it'd be good to grow out of this ASAP

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I also wish these guys would stop using AI thumbnails particularly when they aren’t playing an SEO game at all

FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.

Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"

Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.

futurism.com

re-emerging from the depths of a monastic reading journey and hoping to reconnect with whoever crossed from the other side to here.