m leal causton

🚨Publication alert🚨

My latest article is now out in IPS. The paper analyzes how the EU tries to make its internal security databases more trustworthy. I argue that “trust in data” is not natural or automatic but something that is actively built through political priorities and technical practices.

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

LUSTRE/GLOW Workshop Report On Tuesday 22 July 2025, a one-day workshop titled Government Records and AI was held at the Mercure Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester, as part of the LUSTRE/GLOW initiative led by Professor Lise Jaillant ...

🚀 AI and Government Records: New blog + slides from the LUSTRE GLOW Workshop!

Keynotes: Prof. Victoria Lemieux (UBC 🇨🇦) & David Canning MBE (Cabinet Office 🇬🇧).

🔗 Blog: lustre-network.net/lustre-glow-...

🔗 Slides: lustre-network.net/event/lustre...

#AI #GovTech #DigitalArchives

Announcing The Irrational Decision A book about how we gave computers the power to decide for us

What’s The Irrational Decision about? Read about it here.

how should we understand and hold these systems to account?>> ai war cloud database @sarahciston.com
aiwar.cloud

We look forward to welcoming our panel of experts! @jessrmorley.bsky.social (Yale University); @kzenner.bsky.social (EU Parliament); @ikkibop.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); @markscott.bsky.social (Atlantic Council); Huw Roberts (Oxford Internet Institute/RUSI)

Identifying birds that are visible in photos or audible in audio or video recordings can sometimes provide important clues when doing geolocations. Learn more about the bird identification tool Merlin in @bellingcat.com's Open Source Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

A Social Science of Databases -- Workshop Symposium An all day event outlining a social science of databases.

[register] >> appraisal + [social science of databases. building metaphysical machines] >> 𖡡 edinburgh

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-social-s...

Using freedom of information requests to trace U.S. immigration detention economies and expansion

A third post in the @bordercrim.bsky.social themed series on methodology & detention by Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Heimstra on using Freedom of Information requests in their forthcoming (excellent) book about privatisation of these places in the US: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Herstories of Feminist Hacking with Mz*Baltazar’s Lab – Kunsthalle Wien

[21.05] Feminist Hacking with Mz*Baltazar’s Lab --> Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 @ Kunsthalle Wien
kunsthallewien.at/en/event/her...

looking forward!

"Keeping Secrets While Exposing the Truth? Balancing Data Protection in Digital Human Rights Archiving" Human rights investigators are increasingly using open-source, user-generated content scraped from online platforms as crucial digital evidence for human rights advocacy, accountability and analysis (witness accounts, footage of protests and state violence, etc.). This workshop will explore the intersection between the good-faith documentation of sensitive data on human rights violations and data protection and privacy standards. We aim to collaboratively answer the following questions: 1) What data protection standards should apply to gathering and processing such content and how? 2) How can data protection and privacy regulation negatively impact or impede digital evidence gathering and processing? 3) How can sensitive content be archived in challenging political contexts with restricted right to privacy and sophisticated surveillance? The workshop will provide the audience with a short brief on the topic, followed by an interactive exercise simulating both sides of the argument and a guided discussion to share and summarize findings. Organised by Center for European Policy Studies with Cameran Ashraf

"Keeping Secrets While Exposing the Truth? Balancing Data Protection in Digital Human Rights Archiving"

Organised by Center for European Policy Studies with @camerana.bsky.social

More information: cpdp.be/31038

#CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching #CPDP #Workshop

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CFP ‘Authoritarianism in the Digital Age’ for SI of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Seeking commentaries (<2,000 words) that reflect on role of digital tech in building & challenging authoritarian rule. Abstracts May 16. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...

<transparency promises are wrapped> into an assisted gaming service and sold as a premium feature

Critical Art vs. Prank Politics - V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media Critical Art vs. Prank Politics, an online symposium on creative tactics for post-moral paradigms.

---> Critical Art vs. Prank Politics [08.04-online] w/ Dani Ploeger, Florian Weigl, @aramba.bsky.social, Francis Hunger, Nóra Ó Murchú + Hito Steyerl --> v2.nl/events/criti...

Medium Hot Hito Steyerl was named #2 most influential person in the art world in Artforum. Her work has consistently challenged the relationship between art and technology in an age of climate change. In this ne...

What is the future of the image in the age of climate change and artificial technology?

Now available for preorder - Medium Hot: Images in The Age of Heat by Hito Steyerl

“desiloization” is (always) a power play 🤓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Six years, with colleagues at @privacyint.bsky.social, we fought against this - sounds like it might need to be done again.

Interesting timing as new EDPS is about to be appointed
privacyinternational.org/advocacy/328...

Preprint now available for our research article The Shape-Shifter, a social design method for the participatory evaluation of AI in society osf.io/preprints/so... #STS #Design #materialpublics

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Latin American critical data studies by Rafael Grohmann in Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Calvino’s Tarot

london [exhib/events] -->'combinatorial narrative machine' + tarot - origins + afterlives 👽 @warburginstitute.bsky.social warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/calvi...

ty @alexfanta.bsky.social, @investigate-eu.bsky.social @euobserver.com , 'Concerning the internally published MyIntracomm message, the Secretariat-General would like to clarify that it is not a ‘document’ for the purpose of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001' <--?--> 3(a) 🙃 www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...

📂 So grateful that we got to keep the Derrida quote in the editing process! Even if Dr. Dave from the Bay Area thinks he's a gaslighter

Next session of the "Digital Materialities" seminar!

The anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate (Goethe University) will talk about his current book project, "Cloud Ecologies": a multi-sited ethnography (🇺🇸 🇮🇸 🇸🇬) of datacenters and their material vulnerabilities.

Info and registration ⤵️

GitHub - medialab/xan: The CSV magician The CSV magician. Contribute to medialab/xan development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just released v0.48.0 of xan, @medialab-scpo.bsky.social CSV wrangling command!

Highlights include better scrape, network, explode & implode commands, a new url-join command and xan search --url-prefix flag to easily match rows on url prefixes!

github.com/medialab/xan...

The Killings They Tweeted In the past year the Israeli military has posted on social media footage of more than 1,300 strikes in Gaza. But who was actually killed?

You can see Airwars' short film, The Killings They Tweeted, here:

idf-tweets-gaza.airwars.org

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new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb...
#digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net

Cover of Decentralizing Knowledges edited by Leandro Rodriguez Medina and Sandra Harding. The cover features a photograph of an art installation by Sarah Sze. Sze's large sculpture is made of steel bars that form a vast, open framework in the shape of a sphere. Attached to the framework are images of a New York sky (printed on metal) that resemble torn pieces of paper.

"Decentralizing Knowledges," edited by Leandro Rodriguez Medina & Sandra Harding, argues that epistemic decentralizing should be a main objective in studying the specific infrastructures and practices that make such decentering possible. #PostcolonialTheory
buff.ly/LffIJLD

As folks are embarking on all these data rescue / refuge projects, I hope they're heeding the lessons from the 2016/17 teams -- e.g.,

figshare.com/articles/jou...

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg/vol29/is...