Peter Thiel’s Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy Peter Thiel recently generated headlines with his rambling diatribes about the Antichrist. Thiel’s lurid, apocalyptic view of world politics may be ludicrous or even deranged, but his wealth and power...

Don't miss @tristansturm.bsky.social and Rory Rowan's new article from @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social "Peter Thiel’s Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy" arguing that Peter Thiel fuses Silicon Valley’s myth of progress with apocalyptic visions of salvation

Peter Thiel’s Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy Peter Thiel recently generated headlines with his rambling diatribes about the Antichrist. Thiel’s lurid, apocalyptic view of world politics may be ludicrous or even deranged, but his wealth and power...

My piece in Jacobin published today on Peter Thiel's apocalyptic geopolitics w/ Rory Rowan (just 17 years after we agreed to write something together on the End!) jacobin.com/2025/11/pete...

📺 Tune in tonight!

Professor @niamhmcherry.bsky.social and Dr @deanphelan.bsky.social from UCD School of Geography feature in RTÉ One’s 10 Things to Know About…

Episode 1: “Change”
🗓️ Mon 10 Nov | 8:30 pm | RTÉ One & Player

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We're so grateful to Dean Phealan & Christo Jacob for discussing their contribtions to @paraickerrigan.bsky.social @elizabethfarries.bsky.social & @eugeniasiapera.bsky.social's "Platforming Cancel Culture" and to Pat Brodie for introducing his & @pbresnihan.bsky.social's "From the Bog to the Cloud"

Liz's (@elizabethfarries.bsky.social ) new book, Platforming Cancel Culture, just out! Read it before you get cancelled!

The DPC announced its findings against the Dept of Social Protection and its use of facial recognition technology as part of the registration process, called SAFE 2, for the Public Services Card (PSC), in July. It published the decision yesterday afternoon

Thanks T!

Concerned, Unprepared and Burdened by the Past: Generative AI in Greek Newsrooms Over the past five years, innovative AI systems, including applications based on Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), have emerged. Text, image, video, and symbol manipulation are now wi...

Do our members ever take a break? Nah!

Dr Alexandros Minotakis has recently published an article on generative AI and news media, "Concerned, Unprepared and Burdened by the Past: Generative AI in Greek Newsroom."

Read the full piece at the link below ⬇️

A new journal and call for papers?! 😀

Dr Alexandros Minotakis has joined the editorial board of the new academic journal Workers and Capital

We're thrilled to share this informationm and a CfP "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital"

Read more about the CfP and journal at the link below 👇

Responsible AI in Research: A submission to the European Strategy for AI in Science - FORSEE This statement proposes three recommendations designed to advance an open, legally compliant, and FRIA-aligned evaluation framework.

How can we ensure responsible use of AI in research? This question is explored in a recent submission to the European Strategy for AI in Science, written by FORSEE researchers Dave Lewis, Marta Lasek-Markey, and Delaram Golpayegani, with their colleague Beyza Yaman. forseeproject.eu/responsible-...

Our first newsletter is now live! 💡

With this first edition, we are launching our themed newsletter series, offering updates on research results and perspectives on societally successful AI. Remember to check it out and subscribe!

Link to the newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/forseepr...

Popped over to learn your thoughts, Simon. On point as ever!

Pleased to contribute to this piece

Yesterday, The Centre collaborated with Coimisiún na Meán to deliver a packed workshop on the vetted researcher application process under Article 40 of the Digital Services Act. Naoise McNally and @kirstypark.bsky.social briefed the room on the status of the forthcoming application process.

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Don't forget to follow - and submit to! - @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social, with
@kylzjarrett.bsky.social as Editor in Chief, this journal centres critical debate and reflections on digital societies and cultures See more at the link below

journals.sagepub.com/home/DDS

The Forum publishes a call from academics to build European social media platforms - Forum Information & Democracy In a shifting moment for tech governance, the Forum on Information and Democracy is publishing a position paper authored  by a group of researchers calling for Europe to seize a unique opportunity to ...

🚨Publication alert🚨
In an important and insightful piece, @susanly.bsky.social and colleagues have released a paper entitled "Europe has a unique chance to establish local social media platforms, to counter the new US technopolitics"
Read more below 👇
informationdemocracy.org/2025/04/16/t...

More exciting updates from our Centre Members!

@paraickerrigan.bsky.social & Marguerite Barry have released an entry on Facial Recognition Technology to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies, highlighting their intersection with gender and sexual minorities.

Read more at the link below!

and indeed has set up with colleagues this new interdisciplinary journal. Congrats!! 👏

We're delighted to see @forsee-research.bsky.social social media pages go live🎉
This Horizon Europe funded research project queries what makes for "successful AI"🤔
Be sure to give them a follow here and on their LinkedIn page to keep up to date with research findings and events
#FORSEE #SuccessfulAI

Hello Bluesky!
The new Horizon Europe FORSEE project is launching here! We’re excited to expand our community here and explore how success in #AI can be defined and used to strengthen Europe’s position in the AI landscape. Follow us and find out more at: forseeproject.eu!

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Brilliant piece by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on "end times fascism", an escapist resonance of Christian right and fascist Trumpers facilitating the End. They cite my oped on Huckabee, so that's pretty darn special!

@astra.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

A symposium on "Truth & Trust in a Time of Trumpery" kicks off tomorrow 9.30am at East Quad, TU Dublin, Grangegorman. Read more about the event below and don't miss @ucdischool.bsky.social 's @aishaxr.bsky.social discuss repairing the public square!

Registration details included below 👇

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🚨New Publication alert🚨
@stnhfj.bsky.social and Sam Hind have recently published an article with @bigdatasoc.bsky.social entitled "Simulation and the reality gap: mom ents in a prehistory of synthetic data"

Follow the link below to read this fascinating piece!

Platform governance and civil society organisations: Tensions between reform and revolution continuum Ideological differences, financial precarity, and tensions within the milieu of digital rights civil society organisations involved in platform governance advocacy can undermine these organisations’ a...

Our Centre Directors @eugeniasiapera.bsky.social and @elizabethfarries.bsky.social have been busy as usual, this time with a new publication on "Platform governance and civil society organisations: Tensions between reform and revolution continuum"

Read more below:
policyreview.info/articles/ana...

Recent research from @toledobastos.bsky.social, @paraickerrigan.bsky.social & Christo Jacobs reveals the inaccuracies shared by ChatGPTstating "“If anything, the more these tools are perceived to be accurate, the less likely users are to perform cross-checks on the information they receive.”

The Centre & @UCD_iSchool are still accepting applicants for MSc & MLIS students with a list of fee waviers for EU students available at:
www.ucd.ie/ics/study/eu...

The Centre specifically is offering one scholarship for an MSc student!
Read more here:
digitalpolicy.ie/education/

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This is really nice praise from Chloe re the MSc Digitial Policy Programme.

Don't miss out on the upcoming AI and Responsible Conduct of Research symposium, with our own @eugeniasiapera.bsky.social, alongside Reggie Townsend, Maura Hiney, Grace Mulcahy and Patricia Maguire.

📅13 March
🕓14.00-16.30
📍William Fry Theatre (L143), UCD Sutherland School of Law, UCD

Register 👇

This World Rare Disease Day @ucdsocscilaw was so pleased to host an Accessibility walking tour and lunch to hear from wonderful colleagues about living with rare disease. Thankyou to all in our College EDI committee for organising it.