Ludovico Rella
@ludovico-rella.bsky.social
@GeogDurham Postdoctoral Research Associate http://algorithmicsocieties.org on Machine Learning, Recognition, Attribution and Inference
Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The tiny numnber of far-right and just one of the anti-racist groups.
September 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The tiny numnber of far-right and just one of the anti-racist groups.
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When 150 far-right tried to march through Newcastle yesterday, 3000 Geordies stopped them. I’m proud of our city and its people.
My article is a first-hand account of the day.
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
My article is a first-hand account of the day.
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Geordies weren't letting far-right fascists spout hate in their city this weekend
A far-right rogues gallery of racists came to Newcastle on Saturday 27 September - and yes, racists is the correct term. Or fascists...
www.thecanary.co
September 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When 150 far-right tried to march through Newcastle yesterday, 3000 Geordies stopped them. I’m proud of our city and its people.
My article is a first-hand account of the day.
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
My article is a first-hand account of the day.
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Today Newcastle stood united. ✊🏼
The far-right were in town trying to spread their hate and division. Only about 200 turned up.
Over 3000 canny geordies, including dozens of Majority members stopped them marching and sent them packing!
#TheyDidNotPass #NaePasaran
The far-right were in town trying to spread their hate and division. Only about 200 turned up.
Over 3000 canny geordies, including dozens of Majority members stopped them marching and sent them packing!
#TheyDidNotPass #NaePasaran
September 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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📣Victory! 📣
Advance UK conference in #Newcastle cancelled.
Their leader convicted drug dealer & violent thug, Tommy Robinson, won’t appear - huge thanks to Majority members on the frontline & community groups & campaigners leading the fight.
#NotInOurCity
#WeAreTheMajority
Advance UK conference in #Newcastle cancelled.
Their leader convicted drug dealer & violent thug, Tommy Robinson, won’t appear - huge thanks to Majority members on the frontline & community groups & campaigners leading the fight.
#NotInOurCity
#WeAreTheMajority
September 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
📣Victory! 📣
Advance UK conference in #Newcastle cancelled.
Their leader convicted drug dealer & violent thug, Tommy Robinson, won’t appear - huge thanks to Majority members on the frontline & community groups & campaigners leading the fight.
#NotInOurCity
#WeAreTheMajority
Advance UK conference in #Newcastle cancelled.
Their leader convicted drug dealer & violent thug, Tommy Robinson, won’t appear - huge thanks to Majority members on the frontline & community groups & campaigners leading the fight.
#NotInOurCity
#WeAreTheMajority
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If you missed our sold out conference on Saturday, this is a brilliant summary from @northeastbylines.co.uk
If you’re done sitting on the sidelines join us today 👇🏼
If you’re done sitting on the sidelines join us today 👇🏼
September 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If you missed our sold out conference on Saturday, this is a brilliant summary from @northeastbylines.co.uk
If you’re done sitting on the sidelines join us today 👇🏼
If you’re done sitting on the sidelines join us today 👇🏼
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I am very excited and honoured to be the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant, starting January 2026 🔆 @erc.europa.eu. The five-year project will explore the broader social, political, and ethical implications of training algorithmic models on synthetic data. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
New project to investigate societal consequences of using synthetic data to train algorithms
Researchers in the University of York’s Department of Sociology will lead one of the first large-scale, systematic social science studies of synthetic data.
www.york.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I am very excited and honoured to be the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant, starting January 2026 🔆 @erc.europa.eu. The five-year project will explore the broader social, political, and ethical implications of training algorithmic models on synthetic data. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for winning the Green party leadership with a stunning 84.6% of the vote.
There is a real appetite for genuine change in this country, and a broad progressive coalition will bring it.
We look forward to working with Zack and the Greens in the future!
There is a real appetite for genuine change in this country, and a broad progressive coalition will bring it.
We look forward to working with Zack and the Greens in the future!
September 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for winning the Green party leadership with a stunning 84.6% of the vote.
There is a real appetite for genuine change in this country, and a broad progressive coalition will bring it.
We look forward to working with Zack and the Greens in the future!
There is a real appetite for genuine change in this country, and a broad progressive coalition will bring it.
We look forward to working with Zack and the Greens in the future!
Our paper finally has a house in Distinktion's Volume 26, Issue 1 (2025): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We investigate how general purpose technologies AI&blockchain produce hybridization of 1. material infrastructures 2. power, politics and institutional arrangements 3. domain expertise.
We investigate how general purpose technologies AI&blockchain produce hybridization of 1. material infrastructures 2. power, politics and institutional arrangements 3. domain expertise.
Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies
This article proposes three distinct perspectives on and approaches to the study of hybridisation across society, industries, and academia enabled by General Purpose Technologies like AI and blockc...
www.tandfonline.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Our paper finally has a house in Distinktion's Volume 26, Issue 1 (2025): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We investigate how general purpose technologies AI&blockchain produce hybridization of 1. material infrastructures 2. power, politics and institutional arrangements 3. domain expertise.
We investigate how general purpose technologies AI&blockchain produce hybridization of 1. material infrastructures 2. power, politics and institutional arrangements 3. domain expertise.
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OpenAI will not “embed” its tools in college life, it is already changing the nature of what it means to learn, to read or think critically. It does not embed in the world, it makes the world in its image. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
OpenAI will not “embed” its tools in college life, it is already changing the nature of what it means to learn, to read or think critically. It does not embed in the world, it makes the world in its image. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
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The 10th STS Italia Conference kicks off tomorrow, 11 June, in Milan. If you’re around, you’re very welcome to join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me for our two sessions on ‘Simondon & AI’ in the afternoon. Abstract details here: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
June 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The 10th STS Italia Conference kicks off tomorrow, 11 June, in Milan. If you’re around, you’re very welcome to join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me for our two sessions on ‘Simondon & AI’ in the afternoon. Abstract details here: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
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I’m straight, but for years I’ve flown the Pride flag behind me in every TV interview because I support freedom, tolerance and solidarity.🏳️🌈
The decision by the County Durham RefUK administration to take it down signals hostility. This letter from Bishop Auckland Pride explains it beautifully.
The decision by the County Durham RefUK administration to take it down signals hostility. This letter from Bishop Auckland Pride explains it beautifully.
May 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I’m straight, but for years I’ve flown the Pride flag behind me in every TV interview because I support freedom, tolerance and solidarity.🏳️🌈
The decision by the County Durham RefUK administration to take it down signals hostility. This letter from Bishop Auckland Pride explains it beautifully.
The decision by the County Durham RefUK administration to take it down signals hostility. This letter from Bishop Auckland Pride explains it beautifully.
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“Labour has become the oppressor…..Labour’s oh-so-clever strategists are moronically gift wrapping the country for Nigel Farage.”
Majority puts people at the heart of politics. The political class are not going to save us, we have to save ourselves.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Majority puts people at the heart of politics. The political class are not going to save us, we have to save ourselves.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George Monbiot
Labour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“Labour has become the oppressor…..Labour’s oh-so-clever strategists are moronically gift wrapping the country for Nigel Farage.”
Majority puts people at the heart of politics. The political class are not going to save us, we have to save ourselves.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Majority puts people at the heart of politics. The political class are not going to save us, we have to save ourselves.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Don’t miss @selinnugent.bsky.social’s great piece in the AI & Society special issue that @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and I are guest editing, exploring evolutionary analogies in AI research and how biological diction shapes imaginaries of AI as individuated systems link.springer.com/article/10.1...
April 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Don’t miss @selinnugent.bsky.social’s great piece in the AI & Society special issue that @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and I are guest editing, exploring evolutionary analogies in AI research and how biological diction shapes imaginaries of AI as individuated systems link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Really exciting and timely stuff on the materiality of computing infrastructures. Thanks so much @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for sharing your work with us and to our brilliant audience for an engaging discussion! 🙏
This was a fantastic event with a great and engaged audience. I have learned so much from the questions I received and I have now a lot of food for thought on topics of AI's materiality, environmental impact, edge and cloud infrastructures, and much more
Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!
April 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Really exciting and timely stuff on the materiality of computing infrastructures. Thanks so much @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for sharing your work with us and to our brilliant audience for an engaging discussion! 🙏
This was a fantastic event with a great and engaged audience. I have learned so much from the questions I received and I have now a lot of food for thought on topics of AI's materiality, environmental impact, edge and cloud infrastructures, and much more
Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!
📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations
⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO
⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO
April 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This was a fantastic event with a great and engaged audience. I have learned so much from the questions I received and I have now a lot of food for thought on topics of AI's materiality, environmental impact, edge and cloud infrastructures, and much more
Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!
📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations
⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO
⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO
Between Dark and Green Silicon: Geographies of Cloud and Edge AI
This talk by Ludovico Rella discusses how tracking energy consumption traces the material political economy of Edge and Cloud AI
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!
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📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations
⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO
⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO
Between Dark and Green Silicon: Geographies of Cloud and Edge AI
This talk by Ludovico Rella discusses how tracking energy consumption traces the material political economy of Edge and Cloud AI
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations
⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO
⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO
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In their fascinating exchange, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and colleagues argue that technologies like AI and blockchain cause hybridisation in the realms of materiality, power and expertise www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies
This article proposes three distinct perspectives on and approaches to the study of hybridisation across society, industries, and academia enabled by General Purpose Technologies like AI and blockc...
www.tandfonline.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
In their fascinating exchange, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and colleagues argue that technologies like AI and blockchain cause hybridisation in the realms of materiality, power and expertise www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
January 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Excited to be heading to Paris for this fantastic lineup of scholars on #AI #materiality and #infrastructures! Thank you Loup, Valentin, Hugo, Adrien and Theo for inviting me!
@ana_valdi, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Aurélie Bugeau, @Algosoc_ERC
@ana_valdi, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Aurélie Bugeau, @Algosoc_ERC
January 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Excited to be heading to Paris for this fantastic lineup of scholars on #AI #materiality and #infrastructures! Thank you Loup, Valentin, Hugo, Adrien and Theo for inviting me!
@ana_valdi, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Aurélie Bugeau, @Algosoc_ERC
@ana_valdi, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Aurélie Bugeau, @Algosoc_ERC
Some thoughts on the #DeepSeek storm: first of all, what they actually innovated from the vanilla Transformer is well summarized here
t.co/l6NNx938TI
t.co/l6NNx938TI
https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-has-deepseek-improved-the-transformer-architecture
t.co
January 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Some thoughts on the #DeepSeek storm: first of all, what they actually innovated from the vanilla Transformer is well summarized here
t.co/l6NNx938TI
t.co/l6NNx938TI
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Only one week left to send in your abstract for our panel on 'Gilbert Simondon and Artificial Intelligence' at #STSItalia2025, put together with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. Deadline: 3 February!
CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
January 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Only one week left to send in your abstract for our panel on 'Gilbert Simondon and Artificial Intelligence' at #STSItalia2025, put together with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. Deadline: 3 February!
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📢 New publication out! 📢
Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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January 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📢 New publication out! 📢
Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Latest from the special issue I’m guest-editing with @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for AI & Society—a fantastic piece by @benedetta.bsky.social, @sj-bennett.bsky.social & @ftollon.bsky.social: “Everybody knows what a pothole is”: representations of work and intelligence in AI practice and governance
📢 New publication out! 📢
Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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January 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Latest from the special issue I’m guest-editing with @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for AI & Society—a fantastic piece by @benedetta.bsky.social, @sj-bennett.bsky.social & @ftollon.bsky.social: “Everybody knows what a pothole is”: representations of work and intelligence in AI practice and governance