It's very notable that this room has plenty of developers and builders, and whenever someone says that deregulation is stupid they're getting full-throated applause.

The people pushing deregulation are disconnected from those of us who are building the future. #EuroskyLive

Turns out both DownDetector and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe use Cloudflare so are currently, themselves, down

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

The first of what we can hope will be many legal victories for the music industry in its fight against the AI pirates. A Munich court ruled that OpenAI had breached copyright law and was liable to be sued for damages for appropriating content without authorisation.

the @ec.europa.eu's President von der Leyen is uncritically echoing AI hype & corporate PR, particularly that “AI would approach human reasoning in 2026”. we find this unacceptable & ask the Commission President to retract it. please sign this open letter if you agree

Luoghi Comuni - Hegel & Techno Raves Paolo Virno talks about Virno and Techno. Excerpt from the Film "Luoghi Comuni" ("Common Places")

RIP Paolo Virno. He was one of the funniest and warmest philosophers.

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Thinking again how perverse it is that Musk was given a $1T salary as his cuts to USAID has led to 600,000 deaths. What a shameful world.

Three Moves to Stop Broligarchy (Break, Build, Enforce) by
Cori Crider and Robin Berjon
mzf.st/15

hands down one of the most refreshing talks at MozFest

Data collection at scale is a national security issue. This trading is happening even with GDPR protections.

And yet the Commission is advocating changes that would remove such data from the scope of the regulation.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Because the twin is not a copy: On the politics of digital twins - Louise Amoore, 2025 This essay explores the changing form of the digital twin as a political technology in the age of deep learning and generative artificial intelligence (AI). It ...

My essay “Because the twin is not a copy: the politics of digital twins” - written for a 2023 workshop organised by Christoph Borbach & out now in a special issue on digital twinning in #NewMedia&Society #DigitalTwins #algorithms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How Engineering Replaced Politics If an extraterrestrial—or, for that matter, a human being from anywhere else—were to land in Silicon Valley, the traveler would encounter a distinctive dialect of American English.

Have you noticed that everyone in certain subcultures keeps using the term "first principles"? I explore its origins for Compact magazine: www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

We are looking for a Senior Manager for our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social A key person in our team & a future valued colleague. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio... & feel free to DM me. Also look out for our October research fellows posts.

U.S. Imposes Sanctions on U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, for investigating Americans and Israelis over the war in the enclave.

Francesca Albanese will be remembered as one of the bravest women of the era, standing against genocide despite the daunting forces arrayed against her. Sanctioning her, rather than the war criminals who are starving and murdering Palestinians is another moment of shame for the US trib.al/Oe77sph

Day 2 of perhaps the best-named tech conference so far this year! Tech people want, which by the way is NOT AI powered kill machines.

See you at 17:00 CET

NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'

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As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

New guerilla tactic just dropped

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

How exactly has Britain supported Israel’s military assault on Gaza? The public has a right to know | Jeremy Corbyn When I was Labour leader, the Chilcot report condemned the party for its disastrous war in Iraq. We need a similar inquiry now, says MP Jeremy Corbyn

We deserve to know the full scale of this government’s complicity in crimes against humanity.

My piece for @theguardian.com on why I’m tabling legislation tomorrow for a full, independent, public inquiry into the UK’s role in the Gaza genocide.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Been watching these Palantir contracts roll out dumbfounded. It is a national security and human rights catastrophe in the making.

"The 149, the king of busses..."

This novel made me feel seen.

London summers x

joined by Phil Zimmermann (creator of PGP), Vikram Subramanian (ex-googler) and Dr. Jaya Klara Brekke (CSO Nym Technologies) i will be giving a talk about surveillance at ETH Zürich next tuesday

sign up for in person or live stream attendance: privacytalk.thealternative.ch/en

- effective altruism
- rational environmentalism
- climate realism

Any movement that has a name that implicitly insults everyone else working on a problem (as ineffective, irrational or unrealistic) is just guaranteed to be trash

A screenshot of a twitter post from @SkullandGait displaying a rendering of what they claim is a "female skill" outline matching up with a photo of the new Pope next to an image they claim is a 'male skull' not matching up.

Babe wake up, they're transvestigating the new Pope let's fuckin gooooooooooo

Is AI a good thing?

as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip