Agustin Ferrari Braun

A broken clock is right twice a day

Okay, he gets lots of shit for this, but considering the dems track record when it comes to choosing god awful candidates, Adams might have been in the cards

Nate Silver being fucking stupid? Surely not

I mean the guy is a joke, am I right???

As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do:

DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS

Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency.

@ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why

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UvA blacklisted by US state of Florida

ASCA, the research school of which I’m the director, has been “blacklisted” by the state of Florida, as reported by @foliacivitatis.bsky.social. We were informed of this in a letter, dated 7 October 2025, which we “ter kennisgeving hebben aangenomen” ("have accepted for information purposes").

Soooo, is there a Mrs. Pope?

Mr. Pope, sir, please step outside of the vehicle with your hands clearly visible. Thank you Your Holiness, sir

Rechter: Instagram en Facebook moeten algoritmevrije optie krijgen - nos.nl/l/2584891

Thank you 👍😊👊

Really happy to be joining the AIMD Lab, one of the most exciting research spaces in Europe to study tech and media!

Ik herhaal ook hierover weer mijn plea: media, alsjeblieft, BESTEED HIER AANDACHT AAN. Wilders' programma staat vol met punten die voor trans mensen het leven volstrekt onmogelijk zouden maken. Ik heb er NIET EEN krant of tv-programma over gehoord. Nogmaals, ik licht het desnoods punt voor punt toe.

"Every sovereign AI initiative should be mandated to serve the public good. These systems must legally demonstrate that they fulfill publicly defined goals, with their performance measured and reported openly"

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Opinie: De universiteit is geen talkshowtafel De druk op academische vrijheid komt niet vanuit studenten, maar vanuit politieke partijen die zich willen bemoeien met de inhoud van colleges. Ook media dragen daar aan bij door onvoldoende kritisch ...

Goede repliek op dat rare item over eenkennige universiteiten van @nieuwsuur.nl.

The @publictechmedialab.bsky.social just got bigger! Welcome @ferraribraun.bsky.social, who is joining us as a research fellow! 

Agustin is a PhD researcher at the AlgoSoc Consortium, affiliated with Media Studies and the @ivir-uva.bsky.social at UvA.

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Been talking nonstop about this shameful episode for the past two days & this point needs to be underscored: It's the culmination of longstanding structural defects in our media, not simply the bad actions of bad actors. What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is a downstream manifestation of systemic probs:

"We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting..."

Imma be honest with you, I don't think this qualifies as reputable science

Doing de poldermodel but your only stakeholder is Wierd Duk

I don't know what is going on at Nieuwsuur this season. Their coverage of the fascist demo in London was also spectacularly off the mark

We were chatting about this in the office the other day, is there a single reputable study that backs the claim that phones are addictive, or did everyone just badly read Addiction by Design and just went with it?

Together with Marc Tuters and @robtoes.bsky.social I wrote an essay on the Charlie Kirk assassination, the Groypers - Nick Fuentes connection and the state of memetic political violence today oilab.eu/frozen-antag...

I really believe that disentangling this apparatus is the task for social sciences and the humanities in the foreseeable future. Nothing else is as urgent as this

Literally tho, I came to verify a thing about the Luddites and stayed for the whole ride

Picked this up last year to quickly check a couple of facts and I simply couldn't put it down.

Strongly recommend it

It's been over 15 years since the original was published and 8 since the follow-up, but Tarlton Gillespie's papers on the platform metaphor remain a fundamental read to avoid falling into these traps

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culturedigitally.org/2017/08/plat...

Idk, man. Sure, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore might have theorised this, but the most intelligent radical leftists of 2020 have decided that our entire political horizon should be mayoral primaries, so I'm afraid that we all need to start wearing NYPD hoodies

De cloud is officieel genoemd "infonuagique". Ze zijn de beste

Sad to hear about the passing of Michel Callon, one of the most important STS scholars ever

There's blood on our servers.