m leal causton
@mlealcauston.bsky.social
[researcher | data ⇆ archivist ⇆ [ ] ] info. governance + networks + accountability + transparency >>> critical-digital-methods + research @dataunion-erc.bsky.social @lsts-vub.bsky.social
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brussels - berlin | [rt/post ≠ endorsement]
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So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!
Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!
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🚀 AI and Government Records: New blog + slides from the LUSTRE GLOW Workshop!
Keynotes: Prof. Victoria Lemieux (UBC 🇨🇦) & David Canning MBE (Cabinet Office 🇬🇧).
🔗 Blog: lustre-network.net/lustre-glow-...
🔗 Slides: lustre-network.net/event/lustre...
#AI #GovTech #DigitalArchives
Keynotes: Prof. Victoria Lemieux (UBC 🇨🇦) & David Canning MBE (Cabinet Office 🇬🇧).
🔗 Blog: lustre-network.net/lustre-glow-...
🔗 Slides: lustre-network.net/event/lustre...
#AI #GovTech #DigitalArchives
LUSTRE/GLOW Workshop Report
On Tuesday 22 July 2025, a one-day workshop titled Government Records and AI was held at the Mercure Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester, as part of the LUSTRE/GLOW initiative led by Professor Lise Jaillant ...
lustre-network.net
August 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🚀 AI and Government Records: New blog + slides from the LUSTRE GLOW Workshop!
Keynotes: Prof. Victoria Lemieux (UBC 🇨🇦) & David Canning MBE (Cabinet Office 🇬🇧).
🔗 Blog: lustre-network.net/lustre-glow-...
🔗 Slides: lustre-network.net/event/lustre...
#AI #GovTech #DigitalArchives
Keynotes: Prof. Victoria Lemieux (UBC 🇨🇦) & David Canning MBE (Cabinet Office 🇬🇧).
🔗 Blog: lustre-network.net/lustre-glow-...
🔗 Slides: lustre-network.net/event/lustre...
#AI #GovTech #DigitalArchives
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What’s The Irrational Decision about? Read about it here.
Announcing The Irrational Decision
A book about how we gave computers the power to decide for us
www.argmin.net
August 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
What’s The Irrational Decision about? Read about it here.
how should we understand and hold these systems to account?>> ai war cloud database @sarahciston.com
aiwar.cloud
aiwar.cloud
AI War Cloud
aiwar.cloud
July 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
how should we understand and hold these systems to account?>> ai war cloud database @sarahciston.com
aiwar.cloud
aiwar.cloud
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We look forward to welcoming our panel of experts! @jessrmorley.bsky.social (Yale University); @kzenner.bsky.social (EU Parliament); @ikkibop.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); @markscott.bsky.social (Atlantic Council); Huw Roberts (Oxford Internet Institute/RUSI)
June 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We look forward to welcoming our panel of experts! @jessrmorley.bsky.social (Yale University); @kzenner.bsky.social (EU Parliament); @ikkibop.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); @markscott.bsky.social (Atlantic Council); Huw Roberts (Oxford Internet Institute/RUSI)
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Identifying birds that are visible in photos or audible in audio or video recordings can sometimes provide important clues when doing geolocations. Learn more about the bird identification tool Merlin in @bellingcat.com's Open Source Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...
Merlin | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
Identify birds (visually), through an app.
bellingcat.gitbook.io
May 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Identifying birds that are visible in photos or audible in audio or video recordings can sometimes provide important clues when doing geolocations. Learn more about the bird identification tool Merlin in @bellingcat.com's Open Source Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...
[register] >> appraisal + [social science of databases. building metaphysical machines] >> 𖡡 edinburgh
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-social-s...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-social-s...
A Social Science of Databases -- Workshop Symposium
An all day event outlining a social science of databases.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
[register] >> appraisal + [social science of databases. building metaphysical machines] >> 𖡡 edinburgh
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-social-s...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-social-s...
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A third post in the @bordercrim.bsky.social themed series on methodology & detention by Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Heimstra on using Freedom of Information requests in their forthcoming (excellent) book about privatisation of these places in the US: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Using freedom of information requests to trace U.S. immigration detention economies and expansion
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
May 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
A third post in the @bordercrim.bsky.social themed series on methodology & detention by Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Heimstra on using Freedom of Information requests in their forthcoming (excellent) book about privatisation of these places in the US: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.
www.damiencharlotin.com
May 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
[21.05] Feminist Hacking with Mz*Baltazar’s Lab --> Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 @ Kunsthalle Wien
kunsthallewien.at/en/event/her...
kunsthallewien.at/en/event/her...
Herstories of Feminist Hacking with Mz*Baltazar’s Lab – Kunsthalle Wien
kunsthallewien.at
May 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
[21.05] Feminist Hacking with Mz*Baltazar’s Lab --> Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 @ Kunsthalle Wien
kunsthallewien.at/en/event/her...
kunsthallewien.at/en/event/her...
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"Keeping Secrets While Exposing the Truth? Balancing Data Protection in Digital Human Rights Archiving"
Organised by Center for European Policy Studies with @camerana.bsky.social
More information: cpdp.be/31038
#CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching #CPDP #Workshop
Organised by Center for European Policy Studies with @camerana.bsky.social
More information: cpdp.be/31038
#CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching #CPDP #Workshop
May 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"Keeping Secrets While Exposing the Truth? Balancing Data Protection in Digital Human Rights Archiving"
Organised by Center for European Policy Studies with @camerana.bsky.social
More information: cpdp.be/31038
#CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching #CPDP #Workshop
Organised by Center for European Policy Studies with @camerana.bsky.social
More information: cpdp.be/31038
#CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching #CPDP #Workshop
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CFP ‘Authoritarianism in the Digital Age’ for SI of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Seeking commentaries (<2,000 words) that reflect on role of digital tech in building & challenging authoritarian rule. Abstracts May 16. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
CFP ‘Authoritarianism in the Digital Age’ for SI of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Seeking commentaries (<2,000 words) that reflect on role of digital tech in building & challenging authoritarian rule. Abstracts May 16. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...
<transparency promises are wrapped> into an assisted gaming service and sold as a premium feature
>>New open access publication<<
Together with Hao Wang I wrote a paper on gaming the (algorithmic) system as a service (GaaS). Online service providers often decry transparency obligations, but also cynically seek to monetize transparency needs by offering GaaS.
policyreview.info/articles/ana...
Together with Hao Wang I wrote a paper on gaming the (algorithmic) system as a service (GaaS). Online service providers often decry transparency obligations, but also cynically seek to monetize transparency needs by offering GaaS.
policyreview.info/articles/ana...
From threat to opportunity: Gaming the algorithmic system as a service
Gaming the system is often portrayed as a threat to platforms and services, but this alleged threat can also be turned into a commercial service which raises ethical questions on exploitative digital ...
policyreview.info
May 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
<transparency promises are wrapped> into an assisted gaming service and sold as a premium feature
---> Critical Art vs. Prank Politics [08.04-online] w/ Dani Ploeger, Florian Weigl, @aramba.bsky.social, Francis Hunger, Nóra Ó Murchú + Hito Steyerl --> v2.nl/events/criti...
Critical Art vs. Prank Politics - V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media
Critical Art vs. Prank Politics, an online symposium on creative tactics for post-moral paradigms.
v2.nl
May 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
---> Critical Art vs. Prank Politics [08.04-online] w/ Dani Ploeger, Florian Weigl, @aramba.bsky.social, Francis Hunger, Nóra Ó Murchú + Hito Steyerl --> v2.nl/events/criti...
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What is the future of the image in the age of climate change and artificial technology?
Now available for preorder - Medium Hot: Images in The Age of Heat by Hito Steyerl
Now available for preorder - Medium Hot: Images in The Age of Heat by Hito Steyerl
Medium Hot
Hito Steyerl was named #2 most influential person in the art world in Artforum. Her work has consistently challenged the relationship between art and technology in an age of climate change. In this ne...
www.versobooks.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
What is the future of the image in the age of climate change and artificial technology?
Now available for preorder - Medium Hot: Images in The Age of Heat by Hito Steyerl
Now available for preorder - Medium Hot: Images in The Age of Heat by Hito Steyerl
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“desiloization” is (always) a power play 🤓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
“desiloization” is (always) a power play 🤓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Six years, with colleagues at @privacyint.bsky.social, we fought against this - sounds like it might need to be done again.
Interesting timing as new EDPS is about to be appointed
privacyinternational.org/advocacy/328...
Interesting timing as new EDPS is about to be appointed
privacyinternational.org/advocacy/328...
April 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Six years, with colleagues at @privacyint.bsky.social, we fought against this - sounds like it might need to be done again.
Interesting timing as new EDPS is about to be appointed
privacyinternational.org/advocacy/328...
Interesting timing as new EDPS is about to be appointed
privacyinternational.org/advocacy/328...
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Preprint now available for our research article The Shape-Shifter, a social design method for the participatory evaluation of AI in society osf.io/preprints/so... #STS #Design #materialpublics
OSF
osf.io
April 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Preprint now available for our research article The Shape-Shifter, a social design method for the participatory evaluation of AI in society osf.io/preprints/so... #STS #Design #materialpublics
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Latin American critical data studies by Rafael Grohmann in Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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April 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Latin American critical data studies by Rafael Grohmann in Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
london [exhib/events] -->'combinatorial narrative machine' + tarot - origins + afterlives 👽 @warburginstitute.bsky.social warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/calvi...
Calvino’s Tarot
warburg.sas.ac.uk
April 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
london [exhib/events] -->'combinatorial narrative machine' + tarot - origins + afterlives 👽 @warburginstitute.bsky.social warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/calvi...
ty @alexfanta.bsky.social, @investigate-eu.bsky.social @euobserver.com , 'Concerning the internally published MyIntracomm message, the Secretariat-General would like to clarify that it is not a ‘document’ for the purpose of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001' <--?--> 3(a) 🙃 www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...
April 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
ty @alexfanta.bsky.social, @investigate-eu.bsky.social @euobserver.com , 'Concerning the internally published MyIntracomm message, the Secretariat-General would like to clarify that it is not a ‘document’ for the purpose of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001' <--?--> 3(a) 🙃 www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...
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📂 So grateful that we got to keep the Derrida quote in the editing process! Even if Dr. Dave from the Bay Area thinks he's a gaslighter
April 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
📂 So grateful that we got to keep the Derrida quote in the editing process! Even if Dr. Dave from the Bay Area thinks he's a gaslighter
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Next session of the "Digital Materialities" seminar!
The anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate (Goethe University) will talk about his current book project, "Cloud Ecologies": a multi-sited ethnography (🇺🇸 🇮🇸 🇸🇬) of datacenters and their material vulnerabilities.
Info and registration ⤵️
The anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate (Goethe University) will talk about his current book project, "Cloud Ecologies": a multi-sited ethnography (🇺🇸 🇮🇸 🇸🇬) of datacenters and their material vulnerabilities.
Info and registration ⤵️
March 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Next session of the "Digital Materialities" seminar!
The anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate (Goethe University) will talk about his current book project, "Cloud Ecologies": a multi-sited ethnography (🇺🇸 🇮🇸 🇸🇬) of datacenters and their material vulnerabilities.
Info and registration ⤵️
The anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate (Goethe University) will talk about his current book project, "Cloud Ecologies": a multi-sited ethnography (🇺🇸 🇮🇸 🇸🇬) of datacenters and their material vulnerabilities.
Info and registration ⤵️
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Just released v0.48.0 of xan, @medialab-scpo.bsky.social CSV wrangling command!
Highlights include better scrape, network, explode & implode commands, a new url-join command and xan search --url-prefix flag to easily match rows on url prefixes!
github.com/medialab/xan...
Highlights include better scrape, network, explode & implode commands, a new url-join command and xan search --url-prefix flag to easily match rows on url prefixes!
github.com/medialab/xan...
GitHub - medialab/xan: The CSV magician
The CSV magician. Contribute to medialab/xan development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Just released v0.48.0 of xan, @medialab-scpo.bsky.social CSV wrangling command!
Highlights include better scrape, network, explode & implode commands, a new url-join command and xan search --url-prefix flag to easily match rows on url prefixes!
github.com/medialab/xan...
Highlights include better scrape, network, explode & implode commands, a new url-join command and xan search --url-prefix flag to easily match rows on url prefixes!
github.com/medialab/xan...
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