tèmítópé lasade
@temilasade.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ Kings CMCI
Digital intimacy, friendship and diaspora • Digital justice • Black feminisms
www.temilasade.com
Digital intimacy, friendship and diaspora • Digital justice • Black feminisms
www.temilasade.com
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4chan is just as influential as Fox News, X, instagram and Facebook. You might not realize this because of the Cambridge analytica settlement or literal uprisings catalyzed by them or because you know how numbers work but it’s actually true
April 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
4chan is just as influential as Fox News, X, instagram and Facebook. You might not realize this because of the Cambridge analytica settlement or literal uprisings catalyzed by them or because you know how numbers work but it’s actually true
No more 'digital colonialism', only 'technocoloniality' and 'technocolonialism' i fear 🙂↔️. I think Madianou's correct on the necessity of explicitly naming 'infrastracturing' in the framework for analysing the nexus of tech solutionism/(racial) capitalism, colonialism, humanitarianism.
April 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
No more 'digital colonialism', only 'technocoloniality' and 'technocolonialism' i fear 🙂↔️. I think Madianou's correct on the necessity of explicitly naming 'infrastracturing' in the framework for analysing the nexus of tech solutionism/(racial) capitalism, colonialism, humanitarianism.
Shout out to @maevewalsh.bsky.social and @osanetwork.bsky.social because the newsletter is so helpful in showing me what I have inevitably missed 🥲
April 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Shout out to @maevewalsh.bsky.social and @osanetwork.bsky.social because the newsletter is so helpful in showing me what I have inevitably missed 🥲
Not loving the nation-state of it all regarding the intersection of economics and tech. Now seeing EU folks saying we need to secure Europe's 'digital sovereignty' and I just...*sigh*
April 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Not loving the nation-state of it all regarding the intersection of economics and tech. Now seeing EU folks saying we need to secure Europe's 'digital sovereignty' and I just...*sigh*
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🔖 RSVP for April 16: Join the @smex.org team for this Community Knowledge Share webinar as they share their #tech and #policy work and the impact it has had on analyzing and reviewing #apps.
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March 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I’m unsure of the utility of framing the issue of public sector AI as one around ‘public trust’ instead of fundamental rights
March 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’m unsure of the utility of framing the issue of public sector AI as one around ‘public trust’ instead of fundamental rights
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Letting safety be individualized (fend for yourself politics) as became popular with covid I guess
Canadian universities are not putting out official travel advisories against travel to the US for work because ??
I'm not joking. The U.S. is disappearing people and sending folks to concentration camps domestically and internationally.
March 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Letting safety be individualized (fend for yourself politics) as became popular with covid I guess
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FYI, the USG gave border officials the authority to search visa holder’s phones and laptops at the border several years ago. Yes people complained but as non-citizens visa holders have no standing to bring litigation in US courts so the rule largely went unchallenged. This is an expansion of that.
Hey Canadians:
I just heard about two Canadian friends of a friend who were driving into the US. The border agents demanded they unlock their phones; the agents searched the phones, found anti-Trump stuff on one, then confiscated that phone and neither person was allowed into the US
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I just heard about two Canadian friends of a friend who were driving into the US. The border agents demanded they unlock their phones; the agents searched the phones, found anti-Trump stuff on one, then confiscated that phone and neither person was allowed into the US
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March 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
FYI, the USG gave border officials the authority to search visa holder’s phones and laptops at the border several years ago. Yes people complained but as non-citizens visa holders have no standing to bring litigation in US courts so the rule largely went unchallenged. This is an expansion of that.
@petramolnar.com what's the best email for you?
March 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
@petramolnar.com what's the best email for you?
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Postgraduate scholarships at King's College London Faculty for Arts & Humanities for Black, Asian, and minority home students. Please share with those who might be interested. www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...
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March 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Postgraduate scholarships at King's College London Faculty for Arts & Humanities for Black, Asian, and minority home students. Please share with those who might be interested. www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...
It's been six weeks since I moved the charity to a four-day work with no reduction in pay. I do not see a reduction in "productivity" or "outputs" from the team. And I am better able to manage working full-time and doing my PhD part-time 😃
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's been six weeks since I moved the charity to a four-day work with no reduction in pay. I do not see a reduction in "productivity" or "outputs" from the team. And I am better able to manage working full-time and doing my PhD part-time 😃
I’ve just finished a review of Ofcom’s VAWG guidance for the consultation and I feel so disheartened. There is nothing enforceable in this and it feels futile.
March 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I’ve just finished a review of Ofcom’s VAWG guidance for the consultation and I feel so disheartened. There is nothing enforceable in this and it feels futile.
No.
To create your doppelgänger, users upload “several selfies from different angles and two full-body images, then wait about 20 minutes for the app's AI to generate a virtual model.”
A new AI fashion app has the tech world buzzing and scored an investment from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian's fund
Doji lets users create AI avatars with their likenesses and virtually try on clothing. It raised funding from Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six fund.
www.businessinsider.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
No.
Ew what is this. Canadian patriotism/nationalism please be so expeditiously serious right now !!
The “cover” of today’s Globe & Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. #StrongAndFree
March 7, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Ew what is this. Canadian patriotism/nationalism please be so expeditiously serious right now !!
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February 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Applications are open! 📢 Join us for the 5th Annual Digital IDEAS Summer Institute at @umichdigital.bsky.social(June 23-27, 2025). A week of critical digital studies, activism, & public intellectualism.
Apply by March 7, 2024! #DigitalIDEAS2025
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Just to dispel the notion that Substack is the cheapest option for smaller paid newsletters than I described in my first example:
($ amounts represent monthly cost)
($ amounts represent monthly cost)
December 17, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Just to dispel the notion that Substack is the cheapest option for smaller paid newsletters than I described in my first example:
($ amounts represent monthly cost)
($ amounts represent monthly cost)
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
Yes, lol "To be clear, you cannot talk critically about tech empires while partnering with them or taking money from tech firms to work on whatever agenda they developed to subtly realign the goals of your nonprofit, academic lab, country, or region."
www.techpolicy.press/ready-for-th...
www.techpolicy.press/ready-for-th...
Ready for the Broligarchy? The Tech Accountability Community Needs a Reset | TechPolicy.Press
Burcu Kilic and Renata Ávila say new strategies and tactics are necessary to accelerate visionary national industrial policies for the digital economy.
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February 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Yes, lol "To be clear, you cannot talk critically about tech empires while partnering with them or taking money from tech firms to work on whatever agenda they developed to subtly realign the goals of your nonprofit, academic lab, country, or region."
www.techpolicy.press/ready-for-th...
www.techpolicy.press/ready-for-th...
The news from the US is beyond dystopian. This is a war. Jesus.
February 20, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The news from the US is beyond dystopian. This is a war. Jesus.
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In my latest piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, I argue that participation without power redistribution is just "participation-washing," a process that absorbs critique without changing outcomes.
February 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In my latest piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, I argue that participation without power redistribution is just "participation-washing," a process that absorbs critique without changing outcomes.
My lasting impression from the #AIActionSummit is that civil society is profoundly unprepared and under-resourced to fight against the tide that is govt & private sector investment in AI hype.
February 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
My lasting impression from the #AIActionSummit is that civil society is profoundly unprepared and under-resourced to fight against the tide that is govt & private sector investment in AI hype.
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TLDR: the AI Action Summit was a hype circus. Buzzword bingo. Macron dancing awkwardly. Silly AI art. A surprising number of FAccTy people!
More to come.
More to come.
February 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
TLDR: the AI Action Summit was a hype circus. Buzzword bingo. Macron dancing awkwardly. Silly AI art. A surprising number of FAccTy people!
More to come.
More to come.
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I recently gave one of the best talks of my career thus far, and thankfully it was recorded, so I figured I share that here!
Thoughts/ideas/questions welcome!
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Thoughts/ideas/questions welcome!
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HCII Seminar Series: David Widder
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February 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I recently gave one of the best talks of my career thus far, and thankfully it was recorded, so I figured I share that here!
Thoughts/ideas/questions welcome!
scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...
Thoughts/ideas/questions welcome!
scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...
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There is an absolutely vital article, or perhaps book, that could be written about the development of the Left from a political project into an internet-based youth subculture and academic sub-discipline. Everyone would hate it.
I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day
Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.
February 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
There is an absolutely vital article, or perhaps book, that could be written about the development of the Left from a political project into an internet-based youth subculture and academic sub-discipline. Everyone would hate it.