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Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

¿Cómo se puede hacer una estrategia nacional de salud e IA sólo citando estudios de empresas que son beneficiarias de comprar sus productos?¿cómo puede ser que se hagan tales afirmaciones sin ningún tipo de comprobación?

cc @javierpadillab.bsky.social @htejero.bsky.social

'Oxford’s governance is under increased scrutiny following a Bloomberg investigation, published on 19 November, which reported claims the university has been slow to act against male academics accused of inappropriate behaviour.' 1/2

V Jornada de la @academiajoven.bsky.social
"La Ciencia frente a las grandes Crisis"

🗓️28 noviembre
⌚️9:00-18:00 horas
➡️Presencial y online
📍Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Valencia

Más información e inscripción:
academiajoven.es/proximos/jaj...

Just published in open access: Early Modern Narratives of Islam across Europe: A Connected Memory: brill.com/display/titl...

This is what happens when STEM folks don’t take humanities. One anthro course covering the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis would have cleared this up early.

I don't know about you but the way my brain works is by analyzing the contents of the entire internet to make an educated guess about what word I should use next.

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Much like offloading onto LLMs, men are more likely to feel OK offloading generally. Women do not & sadly are used to doing this work. Men are formed by patriarchy to demand, expect, and tolerate this. This is in pure contrast to all the women who contact me to say they will work hard to fight AI.

Researchers attending include DPhil students Andrew Bean, Ryan Brown, Franziska Sofia Hafner, @ryanothnielkearns.bsky.social , Harry Mayne and Kaivalya Rawal; Shreyanash Padarha, Research Assistant and faculty members @computermacgyver.bsky.social Adam Mahdi, @rocher.lc and Chris Russell. 2/2

"What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war."

Simone Weil ( 1909–43).

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Loved this bit : “The most lucrative users – English-speaking professionals willing to pay $20-200 monthly for premium AI subscriptions – become the implicit template for ‘superintelligence’.”

just ordered the book! looking fwd reading it!

Join us online this Thursday!

🤖 "Holes in the web: Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, GenAI is shockingly ignorant too."

Excellent essay on algorithmic epistemological knowledge and the collapse of knowledge throughout mean-driven data machines.

aeon.co/essays/gener...

unboxing Public Data Cultures book

Copies of the book on a train in Totoro bag.

Front and back cover of Public Data Cultures with quotes and book blurb.

Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

📌 Utrecht University's CDH online lecture:

"Following the thing AI – from ecological ruinations to ecofeminist imaginations"

👉Thursday 20/11 at 15:30

cdh.uu.nl/event/cdh-on...

YouTube video by International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook 2025

This is going to be a big old thread where I dump thoughts, reactions, charts etc from the @iea.org World Energy Outlook 2025 :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP...

www.iea.org/commentaries...

“A recent response from the European Commission to our access to documents request not only revealed that the President of the Commission was repeating the words of tech CEOs, but it also accidentally divulged the Commission’s use of generative AI in public documents.”

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Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.

"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible"

NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis

www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

I hope my narrative was clear enough about the inefficiency and privacy/ethical issues of this technology in the migration context.

BBC Live news interviewing Ana Valdivia. The caption reads “Successful facial recognition trial at Manchester airport”.

Fantastic interview with @anavaldi.bsky.social pointing out the risks of facial recognition. But, lo and behold, the caption is very misleading. Gracias Ana por hablar sobre este tema tan importante para quienes migramos a UK.

Michael Chessum | Green New Left As Starmer drove Labour to the right, the Greens argued for a wealth tax and against the genocide in Gaza. Zack Polanski...

Really good, short, LRB blog by @michaelchessum.bsky.social abt the rise of the Greens...

Spoiler - his conclusion -
"For more than a hundred years, the Labour Party has had a monopoly on political representation on the British left. That is now breaking down."

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Matthew Gandy (@cam.ac.uk) will present on “Attentive Observation: Walking, Listening, Staying Put” tonight at 18:00 as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series “On Environment.”

Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

#lectureseries #rccevents #envhum #envhist

A hierarchical cluster analysis on principal components showing five clusters of points, coloured by cluster, on a graph.

Our paper on clusters of schools across the UK is out.

We find five clusters: multi-racial & super-diverse middle & working-class schools of towns & cities, suburban white middle class schools, established elite schools & (post-)industrial white working class schools.

doi.org/10.1002/berj...

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

Wim Vanderbauwhede: “You give an input and it ‘guesses’ the answer a user would want to get, based on the input and the data it was trained on. The ‘machines’ don’t think; they generate something plausible, something that seems acceptable.” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer On AI, Creativity, and Craft

hojberg.xyz/the-programm...

Screenshot of archived paper

Who today is influencing science a la Big Tobacco or Oil and Gas?
In our new preprint we show how tech companies like Meta are capturing research on their product, using mechanisms that subtly (or not so subtly) shape what science gets produced