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DatafiedEmma
@datafiedemma.bsky.social
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Tutor and PhD Researcher at the OU, interested in digital citizenship, privacy, datafication and discourse (and a bit of a privacy activist now thanks to Edward Snowden)
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Tech companies are actually pretty explicit about this: The point is to have a device that you can’t escape, one that always has access to you and makes you a constant source of data beyond what a phone does. Surveillance-first devices.
In 2025, wearables made a hard pivot to AI
If you want to put AI on someone 24/7, wearables are the best bet.
www.theverge.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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404media.co
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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tyleraking.com
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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ginnybraun.bsky.social
“That kind of thinking cultivates empathy and challenges your assumptions. It's also something you have to practice. If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
datafiedemma.bsky.social
I can't believe I only just watched this, it's brilliant. Data is key and privacy is power. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
m.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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daniel-solove.bsky.social
“Only by focusing on power can the law best address the problems of privacy and technology.” – from my book ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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anastasiarousaki.bsky.social
Great news on a Sunday(+a journal with a 5% acceptance rate! @efpraxiaz.bsky.social and I analysed the EU AI Act via Critical Discourse Analysis. While it initially emphasises human rights, it then constructs migrants+refugees as threats, justifying surveillance tech (and even polygraphs?)
October 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
Reform have been exploiting women’s safety to attack migrants, so we’ve come to Downing Street to take a stand.

Take action ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/d82509
October 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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thenerve.news
NOW MORE THAN EVER
WE NEED NERVE.

Welcome to The Nerve News.
Fearless, independent journalism.

#TheNerve #TheNerveNews

www.thenerve.news
September 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Current wearables innovation is mainly invested in figuring out the right form factor to convince people to adopt an always on camera and mic.
Cutest AI Ever? This Wearable Kitten-Shaped Camera Won Me Over
The Looki L1 is a fascinating addition to the burgeoning landscape of AI wearables. Plus, you can buy one now for $199.
www.cnet.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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barristersecret.bsky.social
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
August 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI

here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group
AI and Fraternity, Abeba Birhane, AI Accountability Lab I envision a future where human dignity, justice, peace, kindness, care, respect, accountability, and rights and freedoms serve as the north stars that guide AI development and use. Realising these ideals can’t happen without intentional tireless work, dialogues, and confrontations of ugly realities – even if they are uncomfortable to deal with. This starts with deciphering hype from reality. Pervasive narratives portray AI as a magical, fully autonomous entity approaching a God-like omnipotence and omniscience. In reality, audits of AI systems reveal a consistent failure to deliver on grandiose promises and suffer from all kinds of shortcomings, issues often swept under the rug. AI in general, and GenAI in particular, encodes and exacerbates historical stereotypes, entrenches harmful societal norms, and amplifies injustice. A robust body of evidence demonstrates that — from hiring, welfare allocation, medical care allocation to anything in between — deployment of AI is widening inequity, disproportionately impacting people at the margins of society and concentrating power and influence in the hands of few. Major actors—including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI—have willingly aligned with authoritarian regimes and proactively abandoned their pledges to fact-check, prevent misinformation, respect diversity and equity, refrain from using AI for weapons development, while retaliating against critique. The aforementioned vision can’t and won’t happen without confrontation of these uncomfortable facts. This is precisely why we need active resistance and refusal of unreliable and harmful AI systems; clearly laid out regulation and enforcement; and shepherding of the AI industry towards transparency and accountability of responsible bodies. "Machine agency" must be in service of human agency and empowerment, a coexistence that isn't a continuation of modern tech corporations’ inequality-widening,
August 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“We are going to create a machine that solves all our problems” is a preposterous assertion and should be treated as such. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In other words, we are in the final few years of pre-AGI civilisation, after which nothing may ever be the same again. To some the prospect is apocalyptic, to others, like Hassabis, it’s utopian. “Assuming we steward it safely and responsibly into the world, and obviously we’re trying to play our part in that, then we should be in a world of what I sometimes call radical abundance,” says Hassabis. He paints a picture of medical advances, room-temperature superconductors, nuclear fusion, advances in materials, mathematics. “It should lead to incredible productivity and therefore prosperity for society. Of course, we’ve got to make sure it gets distributed fairly, but that’s more of a political question. And if it is, we should be in an amazing world of abundance for maybe the first time in human history, where things don’t have to be zero sum. And if that works, we should be travelling to the stars, really.” Is he getting too close to his own technology? There are so many issues around AI, it’s difficult to know where to even begin: deepfakes and misinformation; replacement of human jobs; vast energy consumption; use of copyright material, or simply AI deciding that we humans are expendable and taking matters into its own hands.
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
Wow.

In under 24 hours, 200,000 people have signed up to build a real alternative to poverty, inequality and war.

Something special is happening - be part of it at yourparty.uk.
July 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
It. Can’t. “Apologize.”
AI chatbot Grok issues apology for antisemitic posts
The chatbot wrote several antisemitic social media posts Tuesday after Elon Musk's company xAI released a revamped version of it days before.
www.nbcnews.com
July 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️
Guardian headline saying, "‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helpline"
June 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Will someone please clip the UK boss of Palantir when he comes on so I can see the full horror of the BBC normalizing Trump’s tech bro besties?
saulstaniforth.bsky.social Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · May 11
#BBClaurak hosting the UK boss of Palantir.

Palantir supplies & supports the Israeli military & is complicit in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. Will he be asked about that?
May 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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drcrmatthews.bsky.social
Are you a UK based self-funded post grad researcher? (PhD, MRes etc) If so, I'd like to send you a copy of my book. I have *five* to give away. Please share and drop a note below or DM me. I'll announce next Friday (from the pub) 🐕 📖 🍺 more info -
www.immersiveresearch.co.uk/bookshop
April 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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crowdsidentities.bsky.social
This is an amazing opportunity to join @sussex.ac.uk!
April 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
What could possibly go wrong?

Oh yeah: 'Like other systems of its kind, it will code in bias towards racialised and low-income communities"

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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susiedentwords.bsky.social
Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.
April 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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us.theconversation.com
23andMe is bankrupt, and a judge has ruled it can sell its consumer data, which includes information about health, habits and personal traits.

A lawyer and bioethicist explains the concerns and why they’re deleting their own 23andMe data buff.ly/m1LZdzr
April 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM