Tiziano Bonini

Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control

Given what is happening with X, it's a good time to propose for anyone interested to read the "Algorithms of Resistance" by T. Bonini & E. Trere. It offers ways to challenge the logic of the platform, and there is a lot of research backing up the arguments of the book. It's open access too!

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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

"AI it’s not going to replace everyone. But if we think about AI, language models are the industrial production of language. It’s the same way that the factories in the 1800s were the industrial production of cloth. And I think we get a much clearer picture of what is going on." (Hagen Blix)

This year’s Nancy Baym Book Award committee would also like to give an Honourable Mention to @tbonini.bsky.social and @emilianotrere.com for Algorithms of Resistance: The
Everyday Fight Against Platform Power (@mitpress.bsky.social).

Congratulations also!

Il piano di Israele, con le figure, così magari viene più facile comprenderlo.

da qualche mese faccio una newsletter, si chiama mediamedi(t)azioni. oggi ho pubblicato l'episodio 15, contro i tecno-libertarians. per leggerla: mailchi.mp/bda6aef7173c... per iscrivervi: mediameditazioni.com/meditazioni-...

Blackout: la rete e le infrastrutture | Tiziano Bonini C’era un afroamericano con una tuta da basket, enorme, con le treccine, che vendeva ghiaccio. Montagne di ghiaccio. I sacchi di ghiaccio erano ammonticchiati come trincee di sabbia sul marciapiede. So...

sull'importanza delle infrastrutture invisibili e sul perché dovremmo prendercene cura www.doppiozero.com/blackout-la-...

Furthering the agenda of algorithmic resistance: Integrating gender and decolonial perspectives - Tiziano Bonini, Emiliano Treré, 2025 Not only are books written from positions that are never neutral, but they are also read from positions which are also never neutral. The three commentaries we ...

And we conclude with reviews of Algorithms of Resistance by @tbonini.bsky.social and @emilianotrere.com followed by the authors' response engaging with these diverse readings of their work... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 6/7

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Could just use this as my cv. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets Tesla was once an EV leader, but now struggles to keep up as Chinese automakers outpace it in sales, pricing, and innovation, especially in emerging markets

“Chinese rivals are rolling out new models continuously and making updates to their products. By comparison, Tesla products look rather staid and stale to Chinese and Asian consumers.”

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

"Internal communications show employees saying that Meta did indeed torrent LibGen, which means that Meta could have not only accessed pirated material but also distributed it to others".

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Trump administration freezes $175 million in federal funding to Penn According to a White House tweet, Wednesday's decision is a result of Penn's

They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues

Next week I'll be in Oxford for this workshop on Global Southing Internet, Data, and AI studies. I'll talk about Platform Dependency, how platform studies are overlooking dependency theories and the importance of Latin American dependency theories
www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.

Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

"‘They know what you are working on, they know what you are submitting, they know the results of your peer reviews... They control every part of the process + register every action you take... When Eiko Fried.. asked Elsevier for his personal data[,] he received [100s of K's] of data points..."

Tweet by Gisele Navarro @ichbinGisele "“Collectively, the AI search engines provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries.” ~ @CJR Screenoshot of an image showing "Generative search tools were often confidently wrong in our study" showing baplots of different offerings like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Deepseek, and showing the percentage of wrong answers in red and right ones in green.

Lets replace search with "AI" then! Totally logical if you ask me. Even more worth it when you know they're exponentially overtaking the airline industry in their carbon footprint.

Study: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday, is being held at an ICE detention facility.

Fascism: “Columbia University recently set up an office that is secretly investigating its students for political statements about Israel, Drop Site News reported this week, and is requiring students to sign non-disclosure agreements to view the evidence being brought against them.”

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

A card reads: "These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration." A long list of words follows, including: biologically female; biologically male; BIPOC; Black; breastfeed + people; clean energy; climate crisis; climate science; commercial sex worker; community diversity; community equity; confirmation bias; cultural competence; cultural differences; cultural heritage; cultural sensitivity; culturally appropriate; culturally responsive; DEI; equity; feminism; genders.

Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A. ACERBI, Technopanic. New Media, Reasonable Caution, Unfounded Fear The spread of fake news, the power of conspiracy theories, the influence of algorithms on our choices and behaviour, the impact of social media on youth’s mental health, and other similar phenomena al...

Da oggi in libreria! Leggetelo, compratelo, regalatelo! www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815...

Vedo che è gender balanced 🤣🤦🏻

The effects of social media abstinence on affective well-being and life satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - The effects of social media abstinence on affective well-being and life satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sorry, Jonathan Haidt. Abstaining from social media does not contribute to well being. Study after study has shown this. But people still believe the myth.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TechCrunch writes that OpenAI will charge $20,000 a month for access to an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” - apparently some people will pay more for robots than people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Women and leadership in the news media 2025: Evidence from 12 markets In this Reuters Institute factsheet we analyse the gender breakdown of top editors in a strategic sample of 240 major online and offline news outlets in 12 different markets.

Only 27% of the top editors across 240 major outlets in 12 markets are women, according to our new factsheet by @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social

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"AI technology appears to outperform humans. But a closer look reveals that these games are rigged. The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks."