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We're really delighted to have a chapter featured in Arkbound Foundation new book: Our Economy. It was a great opportunity to articulate Care Full's vision for a care-centred economy. You can download the ebook for free from here: arkbound.ac.uk/publications...

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I would love to know what the Microsoft sales reps have been saying in their group chats with govt advisers. Digital transformation (which this is) is a culture change project. Having slept on it, I fell like you need to be on crack to think the best way to implement that is with 2000 apprentices.

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As the PM makes a speech on using more AI in public services, here’s a piece from a few months back on how not to screw this up. ‘Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.’ www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

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This is not cool or funny or, like, some hilarious meme-ification of government that can be launched with an iconic TikTok. It is a pretty freakin' embarrassing dereliction. If you care about democracy, you should be turning away from Musk's violence, not opening the door to making it the new normal

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Looks like an amazing exhibition that focuses on what I have been discussing in my second book - Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise and Other Deviant Media (open access 😉 www.peterlang.com/document/106...

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"The bad news is that REF's absurd non-portability rules mean you can't use your research to move jobs. But the good news is that there aren't any jobs anyway for you not to get."

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Bong Joon-Ho's Mikey 17, is a wonderful critique of the present - capitalism, religion, colonialism and of course his recurring theme - class. He created a caricature of a leader that looks like a hybrid of Trump and Musk and a few winks to Okja. Loved it! I don't know why it gets mixed reviews!

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EU is asking X for internal documents about its algorithms. "The company has been accused of manipulating the platform’s systems to give far-right posts and politicians greater visibility over other political groups." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 53 days ago • 28 comments

Who has a guide for getting off Amazon, Meta, Musk, etc? @elinorcarmi.bsky.social? It's beyond time to Tesla all these platforms.

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This is insane and should worry all researchers in democratic societies. It's also another example of how research is always political and never objective or neutral.

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This Sunday I’m co-hosting a TikTok live to talk about all things TikTok ban, social media, and the creator economy. Join us!! Link to register below just to get a reminder, but you don’t have to register to pop in. www.tiktok.com/live/event/7...

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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.

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🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 8 days ago • 156 comments

Does anyone have a recommendation for someone in the UK who can design a website for a research project?

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

trump 2 is a permission structure that emboldens bosses of all kinds to exercise power unapologetically, cross red lines, threaten/punish workers with precarity, and tear down institutions only to rebuild them in their image www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Dear Mr. Bezos: By insisting that the pieces that run on that page support “personal liberties” and “free markets,” you have inspired me to submit this piece for publication. newrepublic.com/article/1920...

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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

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We bring you three book reviews this February. Digital Inclusion by @simeonyates.bsky.social & @elinorcarmi.bsky.social ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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Are people for real? Or is this just to make a Netflix sequel? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Great article! "Techno-optimism is more accurately described as 'human pessimism' when it assumes that the quality of our character is easily reducible to code. We can acknowledge AI as a technical achievement without mistaking its narrow abilities for the richer qualities we treasure in each other"

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Rachel always has brilliant ideas, and this one is particularly amazing. Count me in! 👏💃

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You have all the freedom to talk about these 2 approaches, and this is the most ethical and creative way to think about the world and also brings prosperity, because in case you forgot I am one of the richest people and the world and bought this newspaper to remind you that my approach is the best.

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Apparently, the UK can only bail out banks, not one of its biggest cultural assets 🙄

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Sweden. It seems the government wants a backdoor for @signal.org @meredithmeredith.bsky.social reiterates Signal would leave a market rather than compromise security & privacy. This is a growing issue. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

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New Research Alert! The report “Trans digital rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for gender-diverse communities” ✨ 💫🌈 Our research asks: If we could reimagine digital rights that center the needs of gender-diverse communities, what would they look like?

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Incredible organization by the UK press media, across political views. Now imagine people having the same power and resources like the creative industry to push back on the extraction of their own data by AI companies without consent.

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"Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows." apnews.com/article/doge...

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Andrew Lloyd Webber: "Copyright protections are not a barrier to AI innovation; they are the foundation that allows creators to produce the high-quality work AI depends on. Without strong copyright laws, human creativity will be devalued and displaced by machines" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.

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🗞️ Today in Government Officials Who Don't Understand how Data Processing Works (And Are Allowing it to be Used to Harm Americans). Let's take a look at the claim "data doesn't lie", shall we? 🧵

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Lol John Oliver set up a how-to guide for how to make Meta make less ad $$$ from you. johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

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NEW: "Over 24 hours, WIRED observed users systematically tracking, doxing, and degrading women from AWDTSG, circulating nonconsensual images, phone numbers, usernames, and location data." — Anna Wolfe and Sarah Cammarata report for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/inside...

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People will actually believe this BS

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2024 was the worst year for internet shutdowns, with governments imposing at least 296 outages in 54 countries. Ramsha Jahangir (@ramshajahangir.bsky.social) at Tech Policy Press on the key findings from Access Now's new report launched at #RightsCon:

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