Philip Di Salvo
@philipdisalvo.bsky.social
Senior researcher and lecturer @ Uni St. Gallen | hacking/journalism, leaks, surveillance, black boxes | journalist | DIG Festival board | previously Media LSE, IMeG USI | views my own | Zürich
How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow - @bcmerchant.bsky.social: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...
How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow
A chat with the SF writer, activist, and author about his world-conquering coinage and how workers can take back the internet.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow - @bcmerchant.bsky.social: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis...
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Thinking again how perverse it is that Musk was given a $1T salary as his cuts to USAID has led to 600,000 deaths. What a shameful world.
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thinking again how perverse it is that Musk was given a $1T salary as his cuts to USAID has led to 600,000 deaths. What a shameful world.
The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.
www.theatlantic.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?
In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The Palestinian groups’ YouTube channels hosted hours of footage documenting and highlighting alleged Israeli government violations of international law in both Gaza and the West Bank. interc.pt/4oUJNer
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Palestinian groups’ YouTube channels hosted hours of footage documenting and highlighting alleged Israeli government violations of international law in both Gaza and the West Bank. interc.pt/4oUJNer
Il giornalista licenziato dall’Agenzia Nova dopo una domanda su Israele: www.ilpost.it/2025/11/05/g...
Il giornalista licenziato dall'Agenzia Nova dopo una domanda su Israele - Il Post
Gabriele Nunziati aveva chiesto alla Commissione Europea se Israele dovesse pagare per la ricostruzione della Striscia di Gaza, come la Russia per l'Ucraina
www.ilpost.it
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Il giornalista licenziato dall’Agenzia Nova dopo una domanda su Israele: www.ilpost.it/2025/11/05/g...
Artificial Intelligence Controversies? @bigdatasoc.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/col...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Artificial Intelligence Controversies? @bigdatasoc.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/col...
An AI slop farm stole my identity: algorithmwatch.org/en/an-ai-slo...
An AI slop farm stole my identity - AlgorithmWatch
AI slop is everywhere. By one estimate, roughly one in five articles referenced on Google Discover is automatically generated. It's less known that AI slop farms steal the identity of existing journal...
algorithmwatch.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
An AI slop farm stole my identity: algorithmwatch.org/en/an-ai-slo...
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With @philipdisalvo.bsky.social I spoke about my new book describing how AI has become a tool of racist rationality to manage and provoke fear of the (racialized) Other, leading to the construction of “automated fortresses” at our borders
www.radioraheem.it/overnight/ov...
www.radioraheem.it/overnight/ov...
Overnight→ We have always lived in the automated fortress — Radio Raheem
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being deployed at borders in multiple capacities: from surveillance and biometric checks to deciding who is allowed to cross and monitoring the flow of people i...
www.radioraheem.it
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
With @philipdisalvo.bsky.social I spoke about my new book describing how AI has become a tool of racist rationality to manage and provoke fear of the (racialized) Other, leading to the construction of “automated fortresses” at our borders
www.radioraheem.it/overnight/ov...
www.radioraheem.it/overnight/ov...
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Who are AI browsers for? techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/w...
Who are AI browsers for? | TechCrunch
That news was on our minds as Max Zeff, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed the browser landscape — including some lesser-known alternatives — on the latest episode of the Equity podcast. But it doesn’t soun...
techcrunch.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Who are AI browsers for? techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/w...
ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour
Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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Had a great meeting with @philipdisalvo.bsky.social the other night at Roxy – now digging into his archive of shows for @radioraheem-milano.bsky.social , a heady mix of journalism, tech & political analysis commentary, interspersed with deep cut electronic and experimental music. Dig it…
Overnight — Radio Raheem
Directly from Zurich, Philip Di Salvo‘s perspective offers us new international insights into contemporary issues and everything happening in the world, using technology as a lens for political analys...
www.radioraheem.it
October 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Had a great meeting with @philipdisalvo.bsky.social the other night at Roxy – now digging into his archive of shows for @radioraheem-milano.bsky.social , a heady mix of journalism, tech & political analysis commentary, interspersed with deep cut electronic and experimental music. Dig it…
AI “slop,” which has started to appear on video-based social media platforms as low-quality, bizarre content designed to maximize clicks and engagement, is now also part of the broader web and information ecosystem.
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
AI “slop,” which has started to appear on video-based social media platforms as low-quality, bizarre content designed to maximize clicks and engagement, is now also part of the broader web and information ecosystem.
La guerra di propaganda israeliana si è spostata sui social - www.facta.news/articoli/isr... via @facta.news
La guerra di propaganda israeliana si è spostata sui social | Facta
Inchieste indipendenti hanno svelato il nuovo corso della propaganda di Tel Aviv, fatto di influencer a libro paga e reti social coordinate
www.facta.news
October 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
La guerra di propaganda israeliana si è spostata sui social - www.facta.news/articoli/isr... via @facta.news
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say
Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI is persuasive, but that’s not the real problem for democracy: www.transformernews.ai/p/persuasive...
AI is persuasive, but that’s not the real problem for democracy
Opinion: Felix M Simon argues that AI is unlikely to significantly shape election results in the near future, but warns that it could damage democracy through a steady erosion of institutional trust.
www.transformernews.ai
October 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
AI is persuasive, but that’s not the real problem for democracy: www.transformernews.ai/p/persuasive...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors: www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors: www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
The Press Leaves the Pentagon: www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
The press leaves the Pentagon.
Proximity to power is not the only way—or even the best way—to report on government.
www.cjr.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
The Press Leaves the Pentagon: www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
It seems like the right day to remind that, as @evacide.bsky.social once said: "the internet is held together with bubblegum and string".
October 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It seems like the right day to remind that, as @evacide.bsky.social once said: "the internet is held together with bubblegum and string".
L’estremo realismo di Sora 2 è diventato uno strumento di odio e derisione: www.facta.news/articoli/sor...
L’estremo realismo di Sora 2 è diventato uno strumento di odio e derisione | Facta
La nuova app di OpenAI è piena di video generati con l’intelligenza artificiale che lanciano messaggi sessisti, grassofobici e abilisti
www.facta.news
October 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
L’estremo realismo di Sora 2 è diventato uno strumento di odio e derisione: www.facta.news/articoli/sor...
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs: www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/ai-g...
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs
A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they’re getting help from Google.
www.niemanlab.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs: www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/ai-g...
How anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism: www.cjr.org/analysis/nig...
How anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism.
Across the world, well-meaning laws intended to reduce online fraud and other scourges of the internet are being put to a very different use.
www.cjr.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
How anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism: www.cjr.org/analysis/nig...