dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London
@ccs.bsky.social
Anthropologist of internet industry & clouds | Head of Global Team Digital @article19.bsky.social | @mctd.bsky.social Univ of Cambridge & Univ of Ams critical infra lab | coffee, climbing, mãe, she/they | https://corinnecath.com/messy-human/
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🕷️Creepy AI crawlers are haunting the internet🕷️
This Halloween, Tanu I and @ccs.bsky.social ocial explain how AI crawlers are ruining the internet for all of us.
Read this season’s real horror story in @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/creepy-ai-cr...
This Halloween, Tanu I and @ccs.bsky.social ocial explain how AI crawlers are ruining the internet for all of us.
Read this season’s real horror story in @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/creepy-ai-cr...
Creepy AI Crawlers Are Turning the Internet into a Haunted House | TechPolicy.Press
The question is no longer whether AI crawlers are disrupting the internet, but what we can do about it, write Tanu I and Corinne Cath.
www.techpolicy.press
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🕷️Creepy AI crawlers are haunting the internet🕷️
This Halloween, Tanu I and @ccs.bsky.social ocial explain how AI crawlers are ruining the internet for all of us.
Read this season’s real horror story in @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/creepy-ai-cr...
This Halloween, Tanu I and @ccs.bsky.social ocial explain how AI crawlers are ruining the internet for all of us.
Read this season’s real horror story in @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/creepy-ai-cr...
n the Netherlands, its election day. Because of the #Microsoft outage, however, parts of the train system are down, leaving thousands of citizens unable to plan their travel, buy tickets, or determine whether they could return to their hometowns in time for polls to close.
October 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
n the Netherlands, its election day. Because of the #Microsoft outage, however, parts of the train system are down, leaving thousands of citizens unable to plan their travel, buy tickets, or determine whether they could return to their hometowns in time for polls to close.
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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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Happy Internet Archive Day!
Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built!
If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library!
🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
#Wayback1T
Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built!
If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library!
🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
#Wayback1T
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Happy Internet Archive Day!
Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built!
If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library!
🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
#Wayback1T
Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built!
If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library!
🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
#Wayback1T
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Playing off the egos of tech giants, Sam Altman’s dealmaking blitz has tied Silicon Valley’s massive fortunes to his own startup.
How Sam Altman Tied Tech’s Biggest Players to OpenAI
The CEO’s dealmaking blitz has convinced Silicon Valley’s giants to tether their fates to his company, essentially making it too big to fail
on.wsj.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Playing off the egos of tech giants, Sam Altman’s dealmaking blitz has tied Silicon Valley’s massive fortunes to his own startup.
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Canada is waking up to the risks of relying on US tech giants for digital infrastructure, writes Canadian SHIELD Institute researcher and Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project fellow Emily Osborne. As Canada pursues a sovereign cloud, clarity and control—not marketing—should guide the path to independence.
What Does a “Sovereign Cloud” Really Mean? | TechPolicy.Press
Emily Osborne discusses approaches to building a "sovereign cloud" for Canada.
www.techpolicy.press
October 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Canada is waking up to the risks of relying on US tech giants for digital infrastructure, writes Canadian SHIELD Institute researcher and Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project fellow Emily Osborne. As Canada pursues a sovereign cloud, clarity and control—not marketing—should guide the path to independence.
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Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.
Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press
The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.
www.techpolicy.press
October 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.
Could not doom-scroll earlier today? Yeah, me neither bc of our dangerous reliance on hyperscaler clouds
#AWS us-east-1 outage took down #Signal and chunks of the internet. The culprit was too many critical operations crammed into a single AWS data center cluster in Northern Virginia.
#AWS us-east-1 outage took down #Signal and chunks of the internet. The culprit was too many critical operations crammed into a single AWS data center cluster in Northern Virginia.
October 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right
‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right
After Charlie Kirk’s killing, the US president has unleashed an assault on free speech. Some conservatives are questioning his razor sharp U-turn
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right
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There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with:
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
August 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with:
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
Another devastating day for journalists in Gaza, and human rights world wide, as we stand by and do too little too late
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...
What to Know About the Journalists Killed in Gaza
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Another devastating day for journalists in Gaza, and human rights world wide, as we stand by and do too little too late
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...
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"AI’s biggest climate consequences will come from how it is used. It could increase emissions by boosting fossil-fuel extraction"
Incredible coming from a Microsoft employee - a company that sells its machine learning to fossil fuel companies to boost extraction
stand.earth/insights/mic...
Incredible coming from a Microsoft employee - a company that sells its machine learning to fossil fuel companies to boost extraction
stand.earth/insights/mic...
August 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"AI’s biggest climate consequences will come from how it is used. It could increase emissions by boosting fossil-fuel extraction"
Incredible coming from a Microsoft employee - a company that sells its machine learning to fossil fuel companies to boost extraction
stand.earth/insights/mic...
Incredible coming from a Microsoft employee - a company that sells its machine learning to fossil fuel companies to boost extraction
stand.earth/insights/mic...
Nothing to see here, just the Dutch cabinet falling again..
nos.nl/l/2579552
And still no measures on the genocide in Gaza
nos.nl/l/2579552
And still no measures on the genocide in Gaza
Na Veldkamp stappen ook alle andere NSC-bewindslieden uit kabinet
Het conflict draait om extra maatregelen tegen Israël. NSC wil die wel, VVD en BBB niet.
nos.nl
August 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Nothing to see here, just the Dutch cabinet falling again..
nos.nl/l/2579552
And still no measures on the genocide in Gaza
nos.nl/l/2579552
And still no measures on the genocide in Gaza
Tech bros drooling over Rome is wild.
The empire was a war machine built on slavery + patriarchy. If that’s your inspo, you’re not dreaming of innovation—you’re dreaming of domination
electricliterature.com/why-are-tech...
The empire was a war machine built on slavery + patriarchy. If that’s your inspo, you’re not dreaming of innovation—you’re dreaming of domination
electricliterature.com/why-are-tech...
Why Are Tech Billionaires so Obsessed with the Roman Empire? - Electric Literature
From Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk, too many wannabe Caesars are thriving on domination
electricliterature.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Tech bros drooling over Rome is wild.
The empire was a war machine built on slavery + patriarchy. If that’s your inspo, you’re not dreaming of innovation—you’re dreaming of domination
electricliterature.com/why-are-tech...
The empire was a war machine built on slavery + patriarchy. If that’s your inspo, you’re not dreaming of innovation—you’re dreaming of domination
electricliterature.com/why-are-tech...
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Here's my weekly must-reads list, a frontline dispatch from a D.C. organizer, and my final thoughts for the week. One thing I took away from my exchange with Shannon Clark, a mutual aid organizer in D.C., is that "having great networks already in place" has been crucial. Let's all take note.
Must-Reads and What D.C. Organizers Need You to Know
"D.C. was able to respond to defend our neighbors quickly," says D.C. organizer Shannon Clark.
organizingmythoughts.org
August 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Here's my weekly must-reads list, a frontline dispatch from a D.C. organizer, and my final thoughts for the week. One thing I took away from my exchange with Shannon Clark, a mutual aid organizer in D.C., is that "having great networks already in place" has been crucial. Let's all take note.
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Want to fight for digital rights in your local school or community, but not sure how? Our Electronic Frontier Alliance toolkits can help you get started. efa.eff.org/
About EFA
The Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) is a grassroots network made up of independent community organizations. Allies across the United States work to support digital rights and empower their local communities.
The EFA brings these like-minded organizations together to build mutual support and to help each other improve. All members retain...
efa.eff.org
August 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Want to fight for digital rights in your local school or community, but not sure how? Our Electronic Frontier Alliance toolkits can help you get started. efa.eff.org/
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professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:
August 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:
The Godfather (2025, semiconductor edition):
“I’m gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse… 20% of your revenue”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/t...
“I’m gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse… 20% of your revenue”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/t...
Godfather GIF
ALT: Godfather GIF
media.tenor.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The Godfather (2025, semiconductor edition):
“I’m gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse… 20% of your revenue”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/t...
“I’m gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse… 20% of your revenue”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/t...
Israel : Stop targeting #journalists and protect vital reporting in #Gaza
www.article19.org/resources/is...
www.article19.org/resources/is...
Israel : Stop targeting journalists and protect vital reporting in Gaza - ARTICLE 19
Israel's attack on a tent in Gaza, which led to the death of five journalists, was a deliberate attack on critical reporting.
www.article19.org
August 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Israel : Stop targeting #journalists and protect vital reporting in #Gaza
www.article19.org/resources/is...
www.article19.org/resources/is...
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This might seem geeky and a bit obscure, but I've been thinking about how necessary this discussion is for quite some time. I'm glad to see it taking shape, and hope that it arrives at a reasonable approach-like perhaps the EU's Very Large Platform distinctions?
Article 19's Raquel Rennó Nunes and Lux Teixeira ask, will satellite connectivity be governed through frameworks that ensure diverse participation and fair access, or by the priorities and capabilities of a few dominant private actors? Current international negotiations could determine the answer:
Global Fight Over Who Governs Communications Satellites Heats Up | TechPolicy.Press
Global connectivity cannot be left to political actors with incentives to keep their societies digitally isolated, write Raquel Rennó Nunes and Lux Teixeira.
www.techpolicy.press
August 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This might seem geeky and a bit obscure, but I've been thinking about how necessary this discussion is for quite some time. I'm glad to see it taking shape, and hope that it arrives at a reasonable approach-like perhaps the EU's Very Large Platform distinctions?
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Perfect explanation in this article.
When I was in OSC, I encountered more instances than not when smaller companies had to answer for SpaceX’s bad behavior while SpaceX benefitted from its old approvals. The move fast and break stuff approach is leaving a lot of “regulatory debris” in its wake.
When I was in OSC, I encountered more instances than not when smaller companies had to answer for SpaceX’s bad behavior while SpaceX benefitted from its old approvals. The move fast and break stuff approach is leaving a lot of “regulatory debris” in its wake.
Article 19's Raquel Rennó Nunes and Lux Teixeira ask, will satellite connectivity be governed through frameworks that ensure diverse participation and fair access, or by the priorities and capabilities of a few dominant private actors? Current international negotiations could determine the answer:
Global Fight Over Who Governs Communications Satellites Heats Up | TechPolicy.Press
Global connectivity cannot be left to political actors with incentives to keep their societies digitally isolated, write Raquel Rennó Nunes and Lux Teixeira.
www.techpolicy.press
August 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Perfect explanation in this article.
When I was in OSC, I encountered more instances than not when smaller companies had to answer for SpaceX’s bad behavior while SpaceX benefitted from its old approvals. The move fast and break stuff approach is leaving a lot of “regulatory debris” in its wake.
When I was in OSC, I encountered more instances than not when smaller companies had to answer for SpaceX’s bad behavior while SpaceX benefitted from its old approvals. The move fast and break stuff approach is leaving a lot of “regulatory debris” in its wake.
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Article 19's Raquel Rennó Nunes and Lux Teixeira ask, will satellite connectivity be governed through frameworks that ensure diverse participation and fair access, or by the priorities and capabilities of a few dominant private actors? Current international negotiations could determine the answer:
Global Fight Over Who Governs Communications Satellites Heats Up | TechPolicy.Press
Global connectivity cannot be left to political actors with incentives to keep their societies digitally isolated, write Raquel Rennó Nunes and Lux Teixeira.
www.techpolicy.press
August 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Article 19's Raquel Rennó Nunes and Lux Teixeira ask, will satellite connectivity be governed through frameworks that ensure diverse participation and fair access, or by the priorities and capabilities of a few dominant private actors? Current international negotiations could determine the answer:
There is a shift happening in tech, from social media consumer facing to “hard tech” and civil society is miles behind on some of this
We need to understand B2B tech, defense tech, and hard tech (GPUs) and unstuck our selves from questions of social media — or we’ll be even more on the backfoot
We need to understand B2B tech, defense tech, and hard tech (GPUs) and unstuck our selves from questions of social media — or we’ll be even more on the backfoot
Silicon Valley Is in Its ‘Hard Tech’ Era
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
There is a shift happening in tech, from social media consumer facing to “hard tech” and civil society is miles behind on some of this
We need to understand B2B tech, defense tech, and hard tech (GPUs) and unstuck our selves from questions of social media — or we’ll be even more on the backfoot
We need to understand B2B tech, defense tech, and hard tech (GPUs) and unstuck our selves from questions of social media — or we’ll be even more on the backfoot
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It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
July 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
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New tools from OpenAI and Perplexity can browse the web for you. If the idea takes off, these generative AI agents could turn the internet into a ghost town where only bots roam.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Is Haunting My Browser
New tools from OpenAI and Perplexity can browse the web for you. If the idea takes off, these generative AI agents could turn the internet into a ghost town where only bots roam.
wrd.cm
July 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New tools from OpenAI and Perplexity can browse the web for you. If the idea takes off, these generative AI agents could turn the internet into a ghost town where only bots roam.