Carol Romero
@carolromero.bsky.social
Free and open technologies and their governance @decidim.org
Free as in #FreePalestine.
https://linktr.ee/carolromerocruz
Free as in #FreePalestine.
https://linktr.ee/carolromerocruz
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It is nothing but an illusion called a ceasefire, a trick to make the world believe Gaza is safe, while extermination continues in silence and relentless cruelty. We endure life without the slightest means of human dignity, our bodies exhausted, our immunity almost nonexistent.
November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
It is nothing but an illusion called a ceasefire, a trick to make the world believe Gaza is safe, while extermination continues in silence and relentless cruelty. We endure life without the slightest means of human dignity, our bodies exhausted, our immunity almost nonexistent.
Avui
Divendres 14, 18.30h. escoltarem i parlarem amb 2 companys periodistes de @aljazeera.com, supervivents i testimonis del genocidi israelià a #Gaza.
Seu de @ccoocatalunya.bsky.social Via Laietana 16. @actxpalestine.bsky.social @actxpalestineglob.bsky.social
www.actxpalestine.com/ca/unsilence...
Seu de @ccoocatalunya.bsky.social Via Laietana 16. @actxpalestine.bsky.social @actxpalestineglob.bsky.social
www.actxpalestine.com/ca/unsilence...
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Avui
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El genocidio de #Gaza ha cerrado una alianza entre el sionismo más radical i la extrema derecha xenófoba europea y global.
Modera la mesa de diálogo. Laurent Cohen de JuntsXPalestina
Modera la mesa de diálogo. Laurent Cohen de JuntsXPalestina
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
El genocidio de #Gaza ha cerrado una alianza entre el sionismo más radical i la extrema derecha xenófoba europea y global.
Modera la mesa de diálogo. Laurent Cohen de JuntsXPalestina
Modera la mesa de diálogo. Laurent Cohen de JuntsXPalestina
"Escalada" de violencia.
Colonos israelíes prenden fuego a una mezquita y realizan pintadas racistas en una escalada de violencia en Cisjordania
Colonos israelíes prenden fuego a una mezquita en una escalada de violencia en Cisjordania
Estados Unidos teme que el estallido contamine la tregua en Gaza y el ejército de Israel lanza una inusual condena tras un ataque dirigido a sus tropas
elpais.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Escalada" de violencia.
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This exact same dynamic—dehumanizing fake content made entirely bc Facebook pays people to make it—played out in Myanmar in the run-up to a genocide. @karenhao.bsky.social laid it out in the starkest terms:
www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1...
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This exact same dynamic—dehumanizing fake content made entirely bc Facebook pays people to make it—played out in Myanmar in the run-up to a genocide. @karenhao.bsky.social laid it out in the starkest terms:
www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1...
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I fell into the deepest rabbithole on this stuff in 2023 and came out with 40k words on what exactly Meta did to enable and promote that genocide, and if you haven't read very far into the whole story, I can pretty much guarantee it is worse than you think it was.
erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...
erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...
Meta in Myanmar (full series) - Erin Kissane's small internet website
The landing page for the full series on Meta in Myanmar.
erinkissane.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I fell into the deepest rabbithole on this stuff in 2023 and came out with 40k words on what exactly Meta did to enable and promote that genocide, and if you haven't read very far into the whole story, I can pretty much guarantee it is worse than you think it was.
erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...
erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...
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The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
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Ayer hablábamos de esto en #theantievent justo cuando era su cumpleaños... qué hipocresía y qué impotencia 💔
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Ayer hablábamos de esto en #theantievent justo cuando era su cumpleaños... qué hipocresía y qué impotencia 💔
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1/3 Cooperative hunting in ravens
Brown-necked ravens (C. ruficollis) work together to prevent lizards (U. aegyptia) from entering and blocking their burrow by inflating their bodies using their pointed tails to obstruct the entrance.
(paper; 2010) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Brown-necked ravens (C. ruficollis) work together to prevent lizards (U. aegyptia) from entering and blocking their burrow by inflating their bodies using their pointed tails to obstruct the entrance.
(paper; 2010) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
1/3 Cooperative hunting in ravens
Brown-necked ravens (C. ruficollis) work together to prevent lizards (U. aegyptia) from entering and blocking their burrow by inflating their bodies using their pointed tails to obstruct the entrance.
(paper; 2010) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Brown-necked ravens (C. ruficollis) work together to prevent lizards (U. aegyptia) from entering and blocking their burrow by inflating their bodies using their pointed tails to obstruct the entrance.
(paper; 2010) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Reposted by Carol Romero
👉 Davant la inactivitat de les administracions, RESPONEM!
⏰ És el moment de prereservar les entrades a: actxpalestine.com/omplimestadi
🇵🇸 Fem-ho possible!
⏰ És el moment de prereservar les entrades a: actxpalestine.com/omplimestadi
🇵🇸 Fem-ho possible!
November 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
👉 Davant la inactivitat de les administracions, RESPONEM!
⏰ És el moment de prereservar les entrades a: actxpalestine.com/omplimestadi
🇵🇸 Fem-ho possible!
⏰ És el moment de prereservar les entrades a: actxpalestine.com/omplimestadi
🇵🇸 Fem-ho possible!
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My interview with #ChrisLynnHedges
is now available. We discussed the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.
Link below.
unlimitedhangout.com/2025/10/pres...
is now available. We discussed the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.
Link below.
unlimitedhangout.com/2025/10/pres...
The Chris Hedges Report
Whitney joined Chris Hedges to discuss the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigr...
unlimitedhangout.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
My interview with #ChrisLynnHedges
is now available. We discussed the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.
Link below.
unlimitedhangout.com/2025/10/pres...
is now available. We discussed the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.
Link below.
unlimitedhangout.com/2025/10/pres...
People also known as men.
People are using Meta's Ray-Ban glasses to secretly film themselves asking massage parlor workers for sex work. This is incredibly dangerous and sadly a trend across social media www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...
Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers
“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”
www.404media.co
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
People also known as men.
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La urgencia por conseguir un diagnóstico rápido en el cáncer de piel más peligroso, el melanoma, ha llevado al País Vasco a apostar por la IA.
Quantus Skin promete agilizar el proceso decidiendo qué pacientes deben ser atendidos primero.
Sin embargo, los datos muestran una realidad preocupante.
Quantus Skin promete agilizar el proceso decidiendo qué pacientes deben ser atendidos primero.
Sin embargo, los datos muestran una realidad preocupante.
November 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
La urgencia por conseguir un diagnóstico rápido en el cáncer de piel más peligroso, el melanoma, ha llevado al País Vasco a apostar por la IA.
Quantus Skin promete agilizar el proceso decidiendo qué pacientes deben ser atendidos primero.
Sin embargo, los datos muestran una realidad preocupante.
Quantus Skin promete agilizar el proceso decidiendo qué pacientes deben ser atendidos primero.
Sin embargo, los datos muestran una realidad preocupante.
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I get that bsky is trying to make this application appeal to people who are not terminally online -- i.e. not all of us -- and I wonder if that's like board game companies chasing casual gamers, or Democrats chasing swing voters. As in, I'm not sure those people exist.
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I get that bsky is trying to make this application appeal to people who are not terminally online -- i.e. not all of us -- and I wonder if that's like board game companies chasing casual gamers, or Democrats chasing swing voters. As in, I'm not sure those people exist.
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"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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@ruha9.bsky.social asking us to unlearn some of the bullshit silicon valley and western thinking is predicated on
October 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@ruha9.bsky.social asking us to unlearn some of the bullshit silicon valley and western thinking is predicated on
"The world is full of media servers normal people can’t set up. Free audio editing software that requires hours of learning to be useful for simple tasks. All because there’s only one UI, and it’s designed to do *everything*."
I couldn't agree more with this:
danieldelaney.net/normal/
I couldn't agree more with this:
danieldelaney.net/normal/
Free software scares normal people—Daniel De Laney
80% of the people only need 20% of the features.
danieldelaney.net
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"The world is full of media servers normal people can’t set up. Free audio editing software that requires hours of learning to be useful for simple tasks. All because there’s only one UI, and it’s designed to do *everything*."
I couldn't agree more with this:
danieldelaney.net/normal/
I couldn't agree more with this:
danieldelaney.net/normal/
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🔴Gràcies a la pressió popular, les 8 empreses israelianes vinculades al colonialisne que formaven part del pavelló oficial de l’Estat d’Israel a l'Smart City Expo World Congress 2025, ja no consten com a participants en el programa de l'SCEWC25 que se celebrarà a la Fira de BCN
October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🔴Gràcies a la pressió popular, les 8 empreses israelianes vinculades al colonialisne que formaven part del pavelló oficial de l’Estat d’Israel a l'Smart City Expo World Congress 2025, ja no consten com a participants en el programa de l'SCEWC25 que se celebrarà a la Fira de BCN
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worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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El acuerdo entre Israel y Hamás no ha frenado la masacre sionista, pero sí ha iniciado el gran negocio de la reconstrucción. Un enorme pastel que Occidente y sus aliados ya han empezado a repartirse.
Hoy traducimos para @elsaltodiario.com a Andrea Fumagalli:
www.elsaltodiario.com/opinion/neoc...
Hoy traducimos para @elsaltodiario.com a Andrea Fumagalli:
www.elsaltodiario.com/opinion/neoc...
El neocolonialismo de la paz
La guerra de las armas y los escombros deja así paso a una nueva guerra: la del negocio de la reconstrucción, la especulación y el beneficio para unos pocos.
www.elsaltodiario.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
El acuerdo entre Israel y Hamás no ha frenado la masacre sionista, pero sí ha iniciado el gran negocio de la reconstrucción. Un enorme pastel que Occidente y sus aliados ya han empezado a repartirse.
Hoy traducimos para @elsaltodiario.com a Andrea Fumagalli:
www.elsaltodiario.com/opinion/neoc...
Hoy traducimos para @elsaltodiario.com a Andrea Fumagalli:
www.elsaltodiario.com/opinion/neoc...
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"Gaza is no longer a place. It is an experiment, a question posed to humanity: How long can a population be bombed, starved and displaced before it ceases to exist? And how quietly can this be done before the world looks away for good?"
Dr. Ezzideen Shehab
x.com/ezzingaza/st...
Dr. Ezzideen Shehab
x.com/ezzingaza/st...
April 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
"Gaza is no longer a place. It is an experiment, a question posed to humanity: How long can a population be bombed, starved and displaced before it ceases to exist? And how quietly can this be done before the world looks away for good?"
Dr. Ezzideen Shehab
x.com/ezzingaza/st...
Dr. Ezzideen Shehab
x.com/ezzingaza/st...
El que importa, i pel que se t'ha de jutjar, és el que vas fer.
In work and politics, it genuinely doesn’t matter what you were thinking when you actively aided and abetted in shitting on people’s work, built systems that helped fascists, ruined the education system and pretty much all of media. What matters, and what you should be judged on is what you did
October 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
El que importa, i pel que se t'ha de jutjar, és el que vas fer.
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NEW @citizenlab.ca report (10/02/25)
We uncovered a network of more than 50 inauthentic X profiles conducting an AI-enabled IO whose aim was to foment revolt in Iran We assess the Israeli gov, or a private contractor under its direction, is likely responsible
citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...
We uncovered a network of more than 50 inauthentic X profiles conducting an AI-enabled IO whose aim was to foment revolt in Iran We assess the Israeli gov, or a private contractor under its direction, is likely responsible
citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...
We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab
We investigate a coordinated network of inauthentic X accounts that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in Iran. The network has been active since 2023, but increased activity during th...
citizenlab.ca
October 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
NEW @citizenlab.ca report (10/02/25)
We uncovered a network of more than 50 inauthentic X profiles conducting an AI-enabled IO whose aim was to foment revolt in Iran We assess the Israeli gov, or a private contractor under its direction, is likely responsible
citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...
We uncovered a network of more than 50 inauthentic X profiles conducting an AI-enabled IO whose aim was to foment revolt in Iran We assess the Israeli gov, or a private contractor under its direction, is likely responsible
citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...