@zajacikova.bsky.social
master in critical studies at akademie der bildenden künste wien / digital arts academy of fine arts and design bratislava / with radical awkwardness against patriarchy and capitalism
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New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education
The production and circulation of knowledge in education increasingly depends on large-scale digital infrastructures. In this article we provide a critical review of the transformation of the conte...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
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Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
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All chatbots are right wing chatbots. 🤷🏿♂️
Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
All chatbots are right wing chatbots. 🤷🏿♂️
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The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...
Why Digital Sovereignty Matters
Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.
tribunemag.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...
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Say what you want, but these companies’ commitment to releasing half baked, insecure, or just plain dangerous products is something to behold.
AI browsers are here, and they're already being hacked
Hackers can target AI browsers with prompts hidden in websites.
www.nbcnews.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Say what you want, but these companies’ commitment to releasing half baked, insecure, or just plain dangerous products is something to behold.
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"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
New preprint alert! 🚨
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
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Read more about the project at our website: www.dair-institute.org/projects/dri...
Worker Surveillance and Wage Theft
How algorithmic management and workplace surveillance allows corporations to steal wages, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
www.dair-institute.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Read more about the project at our website: www.dair-institute.org/projects/dri...
Digital divide isn’t only an issue of who has access to digital tools but also who can use them safely and effectively. Digital literacy includes knowing what information is safe to share online, how to spot disinformation on the internet, and how digital skills can be used to improve one’s life.
What Is the Digital Divide? - Connecting the Unconnected
There’s a major gap between people who can access and use digital technology and those who can’t. This is called the digital divide, and it’s getting worse as 3.7 billion people across the globe remai...
ctu.ieee.org
September 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Digital divide isn’t only an issue of who has access to digital tools but also who can use them safely and effectively. Digital literacy includes knowing what information is safe to share online, how to spot disinformation on the internet, and how digital skills can be used to improve one’s life.
No AI Gods, No AI Masters — Civics of Technology
More on their open letter, Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia , and position piece, Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia , by Guest et al.
www.civicsoftechnology.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
