Dr Matt Mahmoudi
@docmattmoudi.bsky.social
📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
Important piece from @catebrown.bsky.social, just as UN officials warn that this particular dystopian biometric hellscape will be 'built on the graveyards of countless unidentified Palestinians'.
Appalling display of neo-colonial management, with webs of complicity that have webs of their own.
Appalling display of neo-colonial management, with webs of complicity that have webs of their own.
SCOOP: UAE plans to bankroll the first “planned community” in Gaza.
Blueprints describe a ‘case study’ community where Palestinians submit biometric data to gain entry.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Blueprints describe a ‘case study’ community where Palestinians submit biometric data to gain entry.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
United Arab Emirates plans to bankroll first ‘planned community’ in south Gaza
Exclusive: Blueprints describe a ‘case study’ community where residents submit biometric data to gain entry
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Important piece from @catebrown.bsky.social, just as UN officials warn that this particular dystopian biometric hellscape will be 'built on the graveyards of countless unidentified Palestinians'.
Appalling display of neo-colonial management, with webs of complicity that have webs of their own.
Appalling display of neo-colonial management, with webs of complicity that have webs of their own.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social is right; Palantir has powered ICE's terror against migrant communities for a decade; Palantir also sells AI tools to Israel for use in their objectives in Gaza amidst a genocide.
As per @amnesty.org states must divest from Palantir and offer no safe harbour or platform!
As per @amnesty.org states must divest from Palantir and offer no safe harbour or platform!
Zack Polanski stood outside Palantir HQ to demand that the spy-tech firm - which has supported deadly ICE raids and enabled genocide in Gaza - gets out of our NHS
Say no to Palantir in the NHS ❌👇
goodlaw.social/658abc
Say no to Palantir in the NHS ❌👇
goodlaw.social/658abc
January 23, 2026 at 3:20 PM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social is right; Palantir has powered ICE's terror against migrant communities for a decade; Palantir also sells AI tools to Israel for use in their objectives in Gaza amidst a genocide.
As per @amnesty.org states must divest from Palantir and offer no safe harbour or platform!
As per @amnesty.org states must divest from Palantir and offer no safe harbour or platform!
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(2/4) - Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (ed. by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Coline Schupfer w/ foreword by Ruha Benjamin)
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- The Palestine Laboratory by Anthony Loewenstein
- Instead of Education by John Holt
- Give Children the Vote by John Wall
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- The Palestine Laboratory by Anthony Loewenstein
- Instead of Education by John Holt
- Give Children the Vote by John Wall
December 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
(2/4) - Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (ed. by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Coline Schupfer w/ foreword by Ruha Benjamin)
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- The Palestine Laboratory by Anthony Loewenstein
- Instead of Education by John Holt
- Give Children the Vote by John Wall
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- The Palestine Laboratory by Anthony Loewenstein
- Instead of Education by John Holt
- Give Children the Vote by John Wall
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the luddites would have beaten every ai server farm into small pieces with large hammers i can tell you that much
January 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
the luddites would have beaten every ai server farm into small pieces with large hammers i can tell you that much
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an actual case of 'tech for good' but none of the so called "AI/tech for good" proponents that often shout the loudest nowhere to be seen
As blackouts in Gaza cut communications, a crowdsourced effort by an Egyptian writer reconnects family members, one eSIM card at a time
‘Let Me Tell Them Goodbye Before They Get Killed’: How eSIM Cards Are Connecting Palestinian Families – The Markup
As blackouts in Gaza cut communications, a crowdsourced effort by an Egyptian writer reconnects family members, one eSIM card at a time
bit.ly
January 1, 2026 at 8:09 PM
an actual case of 'tech for good' but none of the so called "AI/tech for good" proponents that often shout the loudest nowhere to be seen
LOUDER 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
December 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
LOUDER 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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The surge of AI slop, deceptive synthetic videos & images flooding our feeds, is driven in large part by Agentic AI Accounts (AAAs). aiforensics.org/work/agentic...
Key findings:
-Over 43,000 mostly AI-made posts generated 4.5 billion views
-More than 65% of accounts were created in early 2025
1/
Key findings:
-Over 43,000 mostly AI-made posts generated 4.5 billion views
-More than 65% of accounts were created in early 2025
1/
aiforensics.org
December 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The surge of AI slop, deceptive synthetic videos & images flooding our feeds, is driven in large part by Agentic AI Accounts (AAAs). aiforensics.org/work/agentic...
Key findings:
-Over 43,000 mostly AI-made posts generated 4.5 billion views
-More than 65% of accounts were created in early 2025
1/
Key findings:
-Over 43,000 mostly AI-made posts generated 4.5 billion views
-More than 65% of accounts were created in early 2025
1/
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Classic reply.
We spoke to Flock safety, the manufacturer of these cameras, about privacy concerns.
"How is that being addressed?" ABC7 News reporter Luz Pena asked.
"If you're not involved in a crime, you shouldn't be concerned about privacy," said Lily Ho, Public Affairs for Flock Safety.
We spoke to Flock safety, the manufacturer of these cameras, about privacy concerns.
"How is that being addressed?" ABC7 News reporter Luz Pena asked.
"If you're not involved in a crime, you shouldn't be concerned about privacy," said Lily Ho, Public Affairs for Flock Safety.
Cop surveillance center in SF is funded by private donations by tech and crypto CEOs who also invest in these technologies. SF is where they can get their marketing tax deductible via testing out tech violence on those pushed down by the wealth gap they have created abc7news.com/post/how-sfp...
How SFPD's new investigation center is 'catching criminals faster' using 400 cameras, drones
The Real-Time Investigation Center is also known as R-TIC. At the center, SFPD investigators have access to 400 license plate reader cameras and more than 60 drones to fight crime.
abc7news.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Classic reply.
We spoke to Flock safety, the manufacturer of these cameras, about privacy concerns.
"How is that being addressed?" ABC7 News reporter Luz Pena asked.
"If you're not involved in a crime, you shouldn't be concerned about privacy," said Lily Ho, Public Affairs for Flock Safety.
We spoke to Flock safety, the manufacturer of these cameras, about privacy concerns.
"How is that being addressed?" ABC7 News reporter Luz Pena asked.
"If you're not involved in a crime, you shouldn't be concerned about privacy," said Lily Ho, Public Affairs for Flock Safety.
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"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
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A little advent calendar of #ComputerSaysMaybe episodes coming your way.
The first is an episode beautifully cut by our team to give you an overview of my time at @mozilla.org Festival in Barcelona, including some interviews with amazing folks.
www.themaybe.org/podcast/comp...
The first is an episode beautifully cut by our team to give you an overview of my time at @mozilla.org Festival in Barcelona, including some interviews with amazing folks.
www.themaybe.org/podcast/comp...
The Maybe
www.themaybe.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
A little advent calendar of #ComputerSaysMaybe episodes coming your way.
The first is an episode beautifully cut by our team to give you an overview of my time at @mozilla.org Festival in Barcelona, including some interviews with amazing folks.
www.themaybe.org/podcast/comp...
The first is an episode beautifully cut by our team to give you an overview of my time at @mozilla.org Festival in Barcelona, including some interviews with amazing folks.
www.themaybe.org/podcast/comp...
“We are in a Bretton Woods moment […] In 1944, democratic nations came together to create a financial system based on democratic values.”
- A first year International Relations college student’s takiest take for an essay / Lehane’s pitch for “OpenAI for Countries”
- A first year International Relations college student’s takiest take for an essay / Lehane’s pitch for “OpenAI for Countries”
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“We are in a Bretton Woods moment […] In 1944, democratic nations came together to create a financial system based on democratic values.”
- A first year International Relations college student’s takiest take for an essay / Lehane’s pitch for “OpenAI for Countries”
- A first year International Relations college student’s takiest take for an essay / Lehane’s pitch for “OpenAI for Countries”
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I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
Absolutely thrilled to be a part of @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social a landmark documentary and critical viewing for anyone thinking about/using AI! The film is directed by Valerie Veatch and premieres at #SundanceFilmFestival in Jan ‘26. Follow them here or sign up for updates at ghostinthemachinedoc.ai
December 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Absolutely thrilled to be a part of @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social a landmark documentary and critical viewing for anyone thinking about/using AI! The film is directed by Valerie Veatch and premieres at #SundanceFilmFestival in Jan ‘26. Follow them here or sign up for updates at ghostinthemachinedoc.ai
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Hello, we’re Ghost in the Machine, a landmark documentary that’s mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hello, we’re Ghost in the Machine, a landmark documentary that’s mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
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"theft tech" is a term my pal @astra.bsky.social thought of just today when we were working on our book about these End Times Fascists.
We were thinking about what should happen when this this bubble busts, as we all know it will.
Remember: they have bunkers. We don't. 2/3
We were thinking about what should happen when this this bubble busts, as we all know it will.
Remember: they have bunkers. We don't. 2/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
"theft tech" is a term my pal @astra.bsky.social thought of just today when we were working on our book about these End Times Fascists.
We were thinking about what should happen when this this bubble busts, as we all know it will.
Remember: they have bunkers. We don't. 2/3
We were thinking about what should happen when this this bubble busts, as we all know it will.
Remember: they have bunkers. We don't. 2/3
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March 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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ICE’s growing use of Nvidia’s cutting-edge AI tools underscores its shift to pursuing aggressive immigration enforcement under Trump. This piece shows how private tech giants fuel state-led crackdowns, deepening concerns over authoritarianism.
By @sambiddle.com in @theintercept.com
buff.ly/C3eEMQK
By @sambiddle.com in @theintercept.com
buff.ly/C3eEMQK
ICE Investigations, Powered by Nvidia
ICE’s investigative division, increasingly involved in street-level immigration enforcement, struck a software deal with Nvidia.
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
ICE’s growing use of Nvidia’s cutting-edge AI tools underscores its shift to pursuing aggressive immigration enforcement under Trump. This piece shows how private tech giants fuel state-led crackdowns, deepening concerns over authoritarianism.
By @sambiddle.com in @theintercept.com
buff.ly/C3eEMQK
By @sambiddle.com in @theintercept.com
buff.ly/C3eEMQK
🚨Today, @stopspyingny.bsky.social and @amnesty.org are publishing the 2,700 docs we’ve forced the NYPD to release on their use of facial recognition against New Yorkers🚨
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you might want to see this…
@jumaane.bsky.social
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you might want to see this…
@jumaane.bsky.social
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Amnesty International, S.T.O.P. Lawsuit Reveals NYPD Surveillance Abuses
Records obtained by Amnesty International and S.T.O.P. reveal concerning surveillance abuses against protesters and communities of color, including the frequent use of rights-violating facial recognit...
www.amnesty.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🚨Today, @stopspyingny.bsky.social and @amnesty.org are publishing the 2,700 docs we’ve forced the NYPD to release on their use of facial recognition against New Yorkers🚨
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you might want to see this…
@jumaane.bsky.social
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you might want to see this…
@jumaane.bsky.social
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Surprise #MozFest panel -- we're having a session on the main stage called "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice" at 12:15 PM CET, right after @xychelsea.tv's talk.
Featuring Veronyka Gimenes, @schock.cc, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, and myself.
www.mozillafestival.org/en/
Featuring Veronyka Gimenes, @schock.cc, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, and myself.
www.mozillafestival.org/en/
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Surprise #MozFest panel -- we're having a session on the main stage called "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice" at 12:15 PM CET, right after @xychelsea.tv's talk.
Featuring Veronyka Gimenes, @schock.cc, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, and myself.
www.mozillafestival.org/en/
Featuring Veronyka Gimenes, @schock.cc, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, and myself.
www.mozillafestival.org/en/
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Yeet this shit into the sun.
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Yeet this shit into the sun.
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Top: Tommy’s racist temper tantrum
Bottom: Carnival
Face rec is deployed along racial logics. Don’t want to read another haphazard study of how accurate the tech is; AI-driven policing is spatially and selectively configured to impart racial violence and selectively revoked to protect accomplices
Bottom: Carnival
Face rec is deployed along racial logics. Don’t want to read another haphazard study of how accurate the tech is; AI-driven policing is spatially and selectively configured to impart racial violence and selectively revoked to protect accomplices
September 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Top: Tommy’s racist temper tantrum
Bottom: Carnival
Face rec is deployed along racial logics. Don’t want to read another haphazard study of how accurate the tech is; AI-driven policing is spatially and selectively configured to impart racial violence and selectively revoked to protect accomplices
Bottom: Carnival
Face rec is deployed along racial logics. Don’t want to read another haphazard study of how accurate the tech is; AI-driven policing is spatially and selectively configured to impart racial violence and selectively revoked to protect accomplices
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In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
September 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"