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Louise Amoore

@amoorelouise.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics Author Cloud Ethics dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 4h
Journal editors & research funders commonly report a doubling (+) of submissions as LLMs promise to circumvent the difficulty that is writing. Now people seem to be using Copilot to automate email my daily inbox also doubled to around 200 per day. It’s now useless to me. Among the hallucinations:
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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 7h
Still some days to submit your abstract for the AAG 2027 panel on 'Geographies of (mis)aligned AI' organised together with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @lauraneville.bsky.social. We look forward to reading your work! Full CfP here: www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/... @geographers.bsky.social
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CfP 'GEOGRAPHIES OF (MIS)ALIGNED AI' session at the AAG 2027, NYC — Regional Futures
Call for papers: AAG 2027 – New York  GEOGRAPHIES OF (MIS)ALIGNED AI Dates: 8 – 12 February 2027 Session type: In-person paper panel  Convenors : Fenna Imara Hoefsloot (Durham), Ayona...
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Robert Seyfert @seyfert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nach dem #dgs2026 Kongress ist vor der Socializing Algorithms Conference. Mit Keynotes von N. Katherine Hayles und Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social. Die Veranstaltung beginnt am 07. 10. 17:00 Uhr im @landesbibliothek.bsky.social. Programm und Anmeldung finden sich auf der Webseite.
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Das Regieren der Algorithmen
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s a misinterpretation of the report on OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack being spread by skeptics and I think it’s important to clarify — the notes that the model wrote to itself operated as prompts. They were not prompts written by the engineers.
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
solidarity and love to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on day one of 5 weeks of planned strike ❤️
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is the responsibility of every securely employed/tenured professor to do everything they can to challenge this academic environment. That means speaking up institutionally & taking decisions with less secure colleagues at the forefront of our minds.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“We’re a ‘Native Hawaiian Place of Learning’ but don’t you be promoting that DEIA shit here.”
manoa.hawaii.edu
Hawaiʻi Papa o ke Ao Native Hawaiian Place of Learning Advancement Office – Advancing UH Mānoa to a Hawaiian Place of Learning. Transforming education. Illuminating light within.
We describe a Native Hawaiian place of learning in two parts:
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What better example of how national security logics pervade “AI safety” discourse whilst everyday violences of machine learning persist. Australia incensed that an “AI agent” accessed medical data.. Meanwhile every day medical data handed to Palantir on a platter… 🤔
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In 2007 @paullangley.bsky.social quietly predicted there would be a global financial crisis. He wrote a book about it before it happened. I remember it, we were eating breakfast. This summer whilst lighting a BBQ he said that this October could likely be the next major one… 🤔
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cloud has always meant more than “cloud storage” & “public/private cloud” has always been a meaningless distinction. The implications of UK police data on Azure US cloud (& indeed all UK government data on Azure & AWS) are vast. Let’s talk about some..1/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors
Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This was a real pleasure. Many thanks @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social for hosting us, Sarah Hall and Shaun French for engaging commentaries, @andrewleyshon.bsky.social for organising, and Zone Books and @princetonupress.bsky.social for support
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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tonight Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, on Fintech Capital: the digital transformation of everyday money and finance (Zone Books). For an academic publisher their books are beautifully designed and affordable. Fintech? You use it every day. fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/fint... #booksky
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Future Histories LAB @futurehistories-lab.com · 15/09/2026
We are very excited to announce the upcoming Future Histories LIVE event with Louise Amoore (@amoorelouise.bsky.social) at Hansa48 in the context of the Socializing Algorithms Conference in Kiel. 08.10.2026 / 7.30pm - 9:30pm Hansa48 24118 Kiel Find out more here: buff.ly/UgTwhHc
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So you see @emilieksunde.bsky.social now that you are on BlueSky you will see the well deserved appreciation of the work you are doing @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you are interested in AI hardware in an interdisciplinary fashion (computer science, economic geography, digital geography, science and technology studies, media studies and neighbouring fields) please do get in touch on how to be involved in the project in any capacity.
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Congratulations @ludovico-rella.bsky.social on the award of @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant 🎉
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Please join us for the @leverhulmecal.bsky.social inaugural annual lecture with the incomparable Prof. N. Katherine Hayles. Kate’s work is foundational (& not in a foundation model kind of way…) #LLMs #AI #fiction
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026
> Morozov's essay was ostensibly a review of Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Yet, [he] only once mentioned Medina, and [the] placement of the mention as well as its wording [gave] many readers the impression that all of the ideas and the work that went into the essay were Morozov's, but they weren't.
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
On those vaguely ridiculous graphs so beloved by economists, presumably at some point the line that is “price of tokens” & the flat line that is graduate salaries will cross….. 🤔 📈
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The world is a little dimmer today. Writing this for my friend and colleague Sarah Knuth was agonizing and we miss her so much, but we also celebrate Sarah's memory and push forward on the struggles that she cared about so deeply. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...
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Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I could weep, seriously. Some of the places I love best are those second-hand book stores in the side streets of small towns. Where the stacks contain surprises that shape how one thinks about something. Now LLMs need “pre 2022” texts to avoid the “contamination” of synthetic data 1/
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Perhaps a little self promotion is justifiable, today ...
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is such a helpful & succinct way to put it “polite prompts just land in a friendlier slice of the training distribution”. Hence the emphasis on “personas”/style - the tone of the prompt guides the model to a slice of the training distribution. The politics of this are crucial 1/
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It’s incomprehensible to me that universities imagine their decimation of humanities follows “market forces” when they are so manifestly behind the curve of even the most corporate decisions. Universities are stuck in spent logic of “we must embrace AI” when frontier labs are hiring philosophers 1/
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A fabulous paper by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social refocusing critical attention on edge AI & the materialities of edge devices. #FederatedLearning #FeatureSpace
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Terrifyingly and precisely right about how and why the AI boom (& bust) follows a derivative logic. Or, why it is a 2008 not 2000 crisis.
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A must read! @alexcampolo.bsky.social new paper on the entwined histories of machine learning and the psychology of emotion recognition. Such important work in context of our contemporary moment #machinelearning #recognition journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...
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Labels and Emotions | P&D - Philosophy & Digitality
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Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · 30/06/2026
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Our @leverhulmecal.bsky.social visiting fellows scheme is now open for applications. Join us for a period of weeks or months to share in our research programmes and collaborate with the team. leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/get-involved/
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Get Involved - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In visual culture & media theory, images from diffusion models are often analyzed through data critique: comparing what's produced to what's ingested. In this pre-print, I propose to look at the digestive system too: the decisions built into the system that automate specific ideologies of seeing.
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The Market in the Model: Latent Diffusion as Neural Economy
Valuable critique of generative image models within visual culture and the humanities has emphasized the role of datasets in shaping the images they produce. Yet, close studies of the ideological posi...
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It me.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
There’s a post going around about a “DH event” in Montreal where the keynote speaker, described as French and male, admitted to using Claude to write the entire talk as well as a forthcoming book. If any of my #DH peeps have the deets on this event I would love to know. DMs are fine.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Index and proofs for the vibes book are back to the production coordinator. I"M DONE with that book, coming to you this November (with lovely endorsements from @amoorelouise.bsky.social and Mary Beth Mader!) www.dukeupress.edu/good-vibes-o...
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Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/06/2026
Yup, solidarity and sorry: olivia.science/cryptogyny Great book and FWIW I do cite you here: Guest, O., Nuñez Hernández, N. A., & Blokpoel, M. (2026). Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Cryptogyny
On the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions.
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?…. No, reader, they are not.
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I am feeling so sorry and disappointed that I have had to postpone so many commitments in recent weeks. My spine surgery has failed & I am struggling. I just need to say it and have a good 😭 Please send me pictures of the nice events I’m missing & invite me back for 2027…..
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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
FinTech Capital is now available for pre-order in the US. @paullangley.bsky.social @fintechcapital.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social. It'll be published in the UK in September. www.zonebooks.org/books/325-fin-tech-capital-the-digital-transformation-of-everyday-money-and-finance
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FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone Books
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I don’t like Bluesky asking me “what’s up”… but I do like to share how you can join our @leverhulmecal.bsky.social community…
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Congratulations @paullangley.bsky.social & @andrewleyshon.bsky.social on the publication of #FinTechCapital @fintechcapital.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social It’s a huge achievement & a timely intervention
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Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 26/05/2026
MTM Co-Founder @petramolnar.com joins Aman Sethi of @opendemocracy.net in the In Solidarity podcast to discuss why the “Border Industrial Complex” is booming and what it means for people on the move and how surveillance makes the world impassable for some people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPt2...
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“Google DeepMind has agreed to enter formal talks with UK tech workers that could lead to trade union representation amid growing staff concerns about the use of its AI by the US and Israeli governments’ defence and intelligence” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Google DeepMind in talks with UK unions amid staff concern over US and Israel’s AI use
Exclusive: Google DeepMind agrees to Acas talks after workers sign petitions about governments’ use of AI for defence and intelligence
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ucustandrews.bsky.social @ucustandrews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
URGENT - UCU St Andrews Member - Antonis Vradis is on the Qannir La Cirena boat in the Global Summid Flotilla which has been intercepted by Israel Contact your MP and MSP Contact the Principal Please share
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
And @alexcampolo.bsky.social on the “action” of #AI @leverhulmecal.bsky.social #PoliticsOfAlgorithmicLife
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The incomparably brilliant @jennyedkins.bsky.social on certainty & the fantasy of closure @leverhulmecal.bsky.social #PoliticsOfAlgorithmicLife
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Fabulous start to day 2 of #PoliticsOfAlgorithmicLife @leverhulmecal.bsky.social with Alex Hall on the Wave Border
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Opening lecture of our #PoliticsOfAlgorithnicLife workshop by @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social War Beyond the Human
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
@julietjfall.bsky.social ….as we were just saying 😔
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