Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Imagine if Obama or Biden had done something like this.
Yes, the illegal war is unpopular, damaging to the stock market, and making everything more expensive. But are we talking about Epstein? Mission accomplished.
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
Few pre-book copies of "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" arrived in package, and some kind endorsements from scholars whom I deeply respect. The book is going to be published in late March through MIT Press.
an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:
Yet another reason to always keep humans in the loop ... "AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations. Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases" www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
good get recked
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.
He also threatened to put the AI company on what could amount to a government blacklist.”
www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/t...
Police lie. All the time. In paperwork. To prosecutors. To the media. On the stand while testifying under oath. And even when in the very rare case their lies are exposed, they get to keep lying with few if any consequences. This pattern isn’t just limited to ICE.
And third, academic content is turned into valuable assets when authors sign copyright agreements with journal publishers, and then publishers make AI licencing agreements with big tech companies to bundle up their article archives for AI training theconversation.com/an-academic-...
Second, students' academic work can be assetized when it's aggregated into a database that commands huge value as an object of investment, like the Turnitin database of millions of student papers www.turnitin.com/press/advanc...
New OA article just out on "assetizing academic content" led by @jkom.bsky.social with me, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Klaus Beiter, exploring how academic materials are turned into value-generating digital assets by HE institutions, edtech platforms, and AI companies link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.
“I’ve never seen federal agents so out of control and acting in such a malicious manner,” a former federal prosecutor and federal judge said. “They said they were going after ‘the worst of the worst,’ then they became the problem.
Read this by @jonschuppe.bsky.social & @natashakorecki.bsky.social
What could go wrong?
I got to listen to @devinasarwatay.bsky.social at the ECRN south east cluster yesterday and she was fab. I'm looking forward to hearing more from her!
Thanks so much for your kind and warm words! 🥹
In episode 3 of #ConfessionsOfAnECR, @devinasarwatay.bsky.social @citystgeorges.bsky.social, unpacks how self reflection can help you navigate and understand your own academic path, as well as push back against imposter syndrome.
🎬 youtu.be/AdtU1Q1TOdo?...
#PleaseShare PhD position on Human-Computer Interaction, AI, and Disinformation: Develop AI tools for fact-checking & media literacy, tackle disinformation & create open science resources
Start: April 1, 2026. Deadline March 1, 2026
👉 stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=0bb246
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Starting to wonder if there's any "selfhood" at @newyorker.com...
I just read Adorno’s 1952 essay on fascism, and found his point about the orality of the fascist demogogue and associative irrationality of their speeches. Obviously Trump’s style, but perhaps also social media? LLMs?
Excelent episode. Not only the tech, but also about society.
Volume 20, issue 1 (2026) is out! With theoretically and methodologically diverse studies from 🇮🇩 🇮🇳 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇸🇪 🇮🇱 🇳🇿 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸, two commentaries from @desireeschmuck.bsky.social and Yağmur Gümüşboğa and two book reviews by Djoymi Baker and @devinasarwatay.bsky.social.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rchm20/2...
(2/2)...well, thank you, my friend!
Please read my review here: doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Ysabel's book is linked there too. Please give it a read!
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Amid calls to restrict/ban young people's social media use, ‘The Kids Are Online,’ by Ysabel Gerrard is a necessary, empirically grounded intervention
I got the chance to review this book for The British Journal of Sociology & was grateful to see my work cited in it as...(1/2)
Hiya thanks for asking. We had hundreds of people attending in 2024 with 160+ paper presentations, 50 posters, and various workshops and networking events. This is a pretty interdisciplinary conference so ideas from education are also welcome!
👂🏻on Kidfluencers in India on IERLab Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/30Op...
Article: doi.org/10.1177/2056...
Part of the special issue on Child Influencers in the Asia Pacific curated & edited by Prof. Crystal Abidin for Social Media + Society
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