really informative

It is always good news when a new issue of this journal is out July 2025 is on Bayes Computational Culture – a journal of software studies share.google/u8wPNGFddcTc...

the lethal loop between surveillance and death in computational systems and AI in particular makes the Palestinian flesh a crucial component of capitalist value extraction, a recursive iteration of a foundational moment...

Eliza-pilled About Leif Weatherby's 'Language Machines' and being entertained by "auto-intimacy"

Intrigued by Leif Weatherby's book Language Machines just out with Minnesota Press reviewed here by Rob Horning #LLM

robhorning.substack.com/p/eliza-pill...

Bandung at 70 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2025

Thoughtful and inspiring reflections by Ash Sharma on the spirit of Bandung Afro-Asian solidarity as unfinished project and structure of feeling #Bandung #culturalstudies substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.

Palantir is becoming the US government contractor of choice, embodying its idea of government as essentially policing?www.wired.com/story/palantir-governmen...

please share links that can help think through this: are these investments proportionate? is this just a bubble? will they make any difference? what is it that they are trying to achieve in terms of applications? thanks

Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far

Tech giants are lavishing on AI development the kind of capital that would be needed to secure the social and ecological transition necessary to counter the apocalyptic horizon that is looming over the planet and the human species....
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

important work by Martina Tazzioli on technology and migration

Recursive apocalypse Abstract. This article posits that the recursive algorithm of apocalypse, including fascism, can be understood as part of the continuous logic of recursive

Over the past 5 years, I have been involved in conversations with Luciana Parisi, Ezekiel Dixon-Roman and Oana Parvan around ideas of recursivity, colonialism and the apocalypse. We just published a short article here #recursivity #CCB #colonialism
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I feel like I have fallen into a kind of rabbit hole following a reference about Palantir's CEO Alex Karp holding a phd in "neoclassical social science" from Frankfurt University

The Big Tech Deep State Digital technology was sold as a liberating tool that could free individuals from state power. Yet the state security apparatus always had a different view — and now it’s taking back control of its ow...

From Paolo Gerbaudo on the #bigtechdeepstate the ever closer integration of computational capital in the security state infrastructure
jacobin.com/2025/07/big-...

got to keep an eye on palantir

We are no longer free. But we can win our freedom back To meet this moment in US history, we need to revisit the rich – and successful – tradition of nonviolent disruption

Very appreciative of readings that point in the direction of rethinking tactics against authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Before and after the internet - Subjectivity Subjectivity -

Before and After the Internet. We have just published a review of two recent books on #AlgorithmicCulture and #PlatformCapitalism by @striphas.bsky.social and @synthesiastica.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My solidarity and respect to Alondra Nelson

thank u I am actually on the board of the journal I believe could I send me a copy? thanks

laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

Cassocks are red
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Several of the journalists affiliated with +972 are also behind the documentary No Other Land, a powerful account of land seizure and human rights violations, which was awarded the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film 2025.

Over the years, it has become known for its critical, investigative journalism—particularly during the war on Gaza. Among its most significant contributions a widely cited exposé on Israeli military’s use of AI-driven targeting systems, which reportedly enable indiscriminate attacks on civilians.

s an independent, nonprofit online publication founded in 2010 by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. Its mission is to deliver in-depth reporting, analysis, and commentary from the ground in Israel-Palestine.

DDD - +972 & Local Call YouTube video by John Cabot University – JCUTV

Recording of the event with #+972 Magazine on Independent Journalism in Israel Palestine

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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

This article by Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein has already been repeatedly shared and commented and deserves to, it pinpoints with sharp focus the traits of the neoreactionary ideology
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

As Director of CRiTT (Transational Technoculture Research Centre) I am happy to share our next two events organized by our John Cabot University and Ca Foscari University nodes #israelpalestine #972magazine #colonialism #criticalanimalstudies #CRiTT #independentjournalism #johncabot #cafoscari

it will not be forgotten

there is a lot of untapped potential now out there for organising in ways that stop the reactionary fascist tide of Trump & co

this is very believable

CRiTT/DDD event in Rome this week: Tatiana Bazzichelli Female Power and Military Whistleblowing

congratulations @alondra.bsky.social