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Welfare payments are going digital in Africa – but this isn’t helping those without internet access or smartphones theconversation.com/welfare-paym...

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On the AI line in here, the big mistake is making future bets on (a) a single technology approach that (b) the government of an, at best, fast-follower technology producer cannot control esp when (c) those outcomes are unproven and (d) they are driven by corporate interests

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Mafia Shakedown

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How Colonialism Works 101

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If you considered posting something critical of the Trump regime but then decided against due to fear for retaliation, then you are no longer living in a democracy.

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The dance of the emu and the goat.

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This is your regular reminder that ChatGBT is build with stolen data. The New York Times is among companies suing OpenAI for illegal use of millions of articles its lawsuit says. #AIethics www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/b...

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Trump's Technopolitics involve the pretense that AI is a rational way to identify inefficiency & fraud while using AI to sort, target, & discriminate between their enemies & allies, adding a digital sheen of computational logic to their authoritarian political project. thehill.com/opinion/tech...

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America right now

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🚨 APPLE WITHDRAWS ENCRYPTION TECH FROM UK 🚨 The Home Office’s actions have deprived millions of Britons from accessing a security feature. UK citizens will be at higher risk of their personal data and family photos falling into the hands of criminals and predators ‼️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Apple partners with Musk's SpaceX on iPhones. www.technodg.com/apple-co-ope...

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“Trevor Hugh Davis… first noticed last week that the website for the police accountability database had disappeared. He dug further and found that it had been down since Jan. 24” wapo.st/3QsHIXO

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Voter-ID and by extension biometric Digital-ID measurably reduces participation in democractic elections, new research shows. That is a feature and not a bug. It does exactly what it is designed to do - enhance the power of relatively privileged voters and the parties that serve elite interests.

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Trump cuts cybersecurity staff that protect US elections against Russian disinformation and online foreign interference operations. #disinformation #DigitalRights #cybersecurity www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

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Ban Biometric Surveillance of Children. As part of Trump’s war on immigration, has ordered Border Patrol to photograph, fingerprint and collect other identifying data on all “alien minors” under the age of 14. #DigitalRights www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-trump...

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Stop Big Tech Censoring Sexual Health & Reproductive Rights: Help EFF and Repro Uncensored End Digital Suppression. www.eff.org/pages/stop-c...

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The Surveillance AI pipeline: how computer vision AI is designed for human body data extraction. //arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084

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Is Ethical AI Possible? Podcast with the always excellent @timnitgebru.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0Zye...

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Don't Believe The Hype: bullshit narratives are the lifeblood of technology venture capitalism

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Israel military uses OpenAI to select targets for killing. As will other applications it produces errors due to faulty data or flawed algorithms. This is not an argument to correct and improve its murderous intent. It is yet another reason not to use it. #ResistingAI apnews.com/article/isra...

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Digital Surveillance in Africa: power, agency and rights. Very excited to see that our new book is now available to pre-order from Bloomsbury. If you want to review any of the books for a course that you teach or a journal, I can share a digital copy now. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/digital-s...

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Today Trump moved 6,000 Department of Homeland Security staff from drug and crime duties to focus exclusively on rounding up immigrants for deportation. Here's some entirely unconnected info about German soldiers rounding up Jews in Poland, 1943. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/p...

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Defunding Freedom – Impacts of U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts on LGBTIQ People Worldwide. outrightinternational.org/our-work/hum...

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If you are worried about the deep state or excessive government spending you might want to take a look at this. Musk's SpaceX is building a multi-billion dollar satellite network to spy on US, according to intelligence agency sources. #DeepState #DOGE #surveillance www.reuters.com/technology/s...

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it was bad when the worst poster on my favorite website bought that website and made it terrible but it has been worse having that person also buy my country that i live in

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"Deep learning can cook up answers to deplorable questions that are not based on causality but which are only being asked in order to deepen problematic power relations". 'Resisting AI' p30 Musk’s DOGE is feeding federal data into AI to target cuts www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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"Like the abolitionists of the 19th century arrayed against the planter class, today we need to break the economic, ideological and political foundations of billionaire rule." @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/labo...

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Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft. www.972mag.com/microsoft-az...

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Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

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