Raul Nieves
rauln.bsky.social
Raul Nieves
@rauln.bsky.social
digital tech degrowth researcher - UOC (Barcelona)
assessing how decentralized databases (post-blockchain dApps) could intensify the emerging assetization
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Ahora que Mazón dimite, conviene recordar que hace unos meses la plana mayor del PP le aplaudió.

¿Qué ha cambiado de entonces hasta ahora? Este video representa todo lo que es este partido: cero principios, todo cálculo político...

Pírate, indecente, no te echaremos de menos! 👇💩
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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🎬 📉The full version of the BBC documentary on degrowth is finally out!⁠

The piece features ICTA-UAB at the center of the conversation, with insights from our researchers Giorgos Kallis, Jason Hickel, Isabelle Anguelovski, Panagiota Kotsila and Joan Martinez Alier.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=596d...
July 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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"Even more disturbing is the co-optation of resistance infrastructure. ICERAID’s URL, www.iceraid.us, is nearly identical to www.iceraids.us, the website of People Over Papers, a community-led initiative that tracks ICE raids and protects undocumented communities."
ICERAID is a new platform that offers crypto rewards for border vigilantism.

It is a clear reflection of a broader system – one that criminalises migration, rewards suspicion, and expands enforcement through private tech and public fear.

My latest @aljazeera.com
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
AI is fuelling a new wave of border vigilantism in the US
A new AI app pays civilians to track people crossing the border – no training, no oversight, no rules.
www.aljazeera.com
June 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
western hyperindividualized cognitive dissonance
The Minnesota shooter who killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t a lone wolf, insists a scholar of political violence.

And the myth of the isolated madman obscures the networked reality of far-right violence and makes it harder to prevent the next attack.
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Violent extremists like the Minnesota shooter are not lone wolves
The lone wolf metaphor used to describe mass shooters misinforms views of extremists – and hampers law enforcement efforts to deter the violence.
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June 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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"Sovereignty" + "Value Creation" = "Paranoid Finance"
June 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
los llm como procomún (🥲) por explotar
Sospecho que uno de los motivos del éxito (relativo) de los LLM es que por ahora son capaces de reducir el efecto de años de basura acumulada en la búsqueda de Google por el SEO. Cuando la gente encuentre una forma de trampearlos volveremos al punto de partida: mierda por todos lados.
June 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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We’re seeing the consequences of military Keynesianism. The proliferation of military hardware supported the militarization of domestic police.

If a surplus of military hardware shows up in the first act, expect paramilitary violence by the third act.
June 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Nueva ruta por el Internet en Barcelona el 26 de abril
Free Tour Mode — 5 hops max, 180 min, max 40 body packets
internetour.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
what if capital is not about growth but actually about differential accumulation?
#CASP
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April 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"The Tibetan society, for example, almost entirely employs excess energy to support a specific class of monk." O Romano
#Depense #Degrowth

so ...
March 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"whats your goal?"
POWER
tante.cc tante @tante.cc · Mar 27
Using AI image generators to create Ghibli style images just shows that you neither respect those pieces of art and their creators as well as not understanding their message of the importance of humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc
Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence - YouTube
www.youtube.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Video of masked ICE agents surrounding and detaining Rumeysa Ozturk, Tufts PhD student and worker, has now been shared on IG. Please take action against this absurdity!
March 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.
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March 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Make economics political again.
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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We have the wonderful Fabian Muniesa (@provokedeconomy.bsky.social) talking about his new book "Paranoid Finance" on Monday 10th Feb @ 11am EST

It's virtual, so everyone welcome! More details here: www.yorku.ca/research/its/
Institute for Technoscience & Society - Institute for Technoscience & Society
Upcoming! ITS Virtual Seminar Series Welcome to the Institute for Technoscience & Society! Our goal is to create a global hub of critical and interdisciplinary research and information about the relat...
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February 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
information sufficiency
February 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
technological co-optation is often disdained because it questions the power logic that underpin from techo(deterministic)struggles.
tante.cc tante @tante.cc · Feb 3
Everything is transparent, you see the things that the rich and powerful do. And the fact that this has no negative consequences for them can easily give people a feeling of powerlessness, of there being no value in fighting.

There is violence in transparency without power.
February 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
the classic operaist film "the working class goes to heaven" is on youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ca...
1971 - The Working Class Goes to Heaven
YouTube video by Coletivo Arte Projeção
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January 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
now that chatgpt has been decommodified but bursting its market valorization... it's time to see whether there is (now) a real market for ai parrots
January 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
instead of growth hacking... grow to hack the system (aka industrial sabotage a la Veblen)
January 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Veblen's account of “conscientious withdrawal of efficiency” or "industrial sabotage"
Newsletter: The DeepSeek situation is a moment that should fill Silicon Valley with shame, a monument to the lack of vision and herd mentality of the American tech industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have no moat, no business, no innovation, and I believe no future.

www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
Deep Impact
Soundtrack: The Hives — Hate To Say I Told You So In the last week or so, but especially over the weekend, the entire generative AI industry has been thrown into chaos. This won’t be a lengthy, tech...
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January 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
the value of the risk of job sabotage through innovation
The phrase 'robots take your job' really just means 'bosses pay your salary to the shareholders and workers of tech companies instead of you'
January 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Please: every time you see a completely out of pocket announcement from the trump administration about some illegal action they have taken, I am begging you to go to a search engine and look up whether it's already been blocked by a judge before spreading panic
January 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM