Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 4hJournal 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: 1195
Reposted by Louise AmooreFenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 7hStill 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.socialregionalfutures.orgCfP 'GEOGRAPHIES OF (MIS)ALIGNED AI' session at the AAG 2027, NYC — Regional FuturesCall 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... 063
Reposted by Louise AmooreRobert Seyfert @seyfert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Nach 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.algorithmen-regieren.deDas Regieren der Algorithmen 0103
Reposted by Louise AmooreEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’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. 1365
Reposted by Louise AmooreNina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026solidarity and love to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on day one of 5 weeks of planned strike ❤️ 0122
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It 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. 1339
Reposted by Louise AmooreDavid 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.eduHawaiʻi 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: 135215
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What 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… 🤔 160
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 20/09/2026In 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… 🤔 170
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Cloud 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...theguardian.comSensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actorsExclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers 164
Reposted by Louise AmoorePaul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This 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 1156
Reposted by Louise AmooreFive Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Tonight 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 0132
Reposted by Louise AmooreFuture Histories LAB @futurehistories-lab.com · 15/09/2026We 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 074
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So 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 131
Reposted by Louise AmooreLudovico 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. 031
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Congratulations @ludovico-rella.bsky.social on the award of @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant 🎉 070
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Please 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 0115
Reposted by Louise AmooreOlivia 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. 2385
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 15/08/2026On 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….. 🤔 📈 121
Reposted by Louise AmoorePatrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The 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...climateandcommunity.orgSarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute 104715
Reposted by Louise AmooreSarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026A 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.apnews.comWhite House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grantsFederal 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... 1632951212
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I 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/ 25221
Reposted by Louise AmoorePaul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Perhaps a little self promotion is justifiable, today ... 0104
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This 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/ 1126
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 08/07/2026It’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/ 610732
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 07/07/2026A fabulous paper by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social refocusing critical attention on edge AI & the materialities of edge devices. #FederatedLearning #FeatureSpace 060
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Terrifyingly and precisely right about how and why the AI boom (& bust) follows a derivative logic. Or, why it is a 2008 not 2000 crisis. 092
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 06/07/2026A 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...journals.ub.uni-koeln.de Labels and Emotions | P&D - Philosophy & Digitality 082
Reposted by Louise AmooreMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026When 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. 8153382302
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Our @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/leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.ukGet Involved - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life 081
Reposted by Louise AmooreEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026In 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.arxiv.orgThe Market in the Model: Latent Diffusion as Neural EconomyValuable 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... 1279
Reposted by Louise AmooreMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026There’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. 2131
Reposted by Louise AmooreRobin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Index 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...dukeupress.eduGood Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation 2359
Reposted by Louise AmooreOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/06/2026Yup, 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...olivia.scienceCryptogynyOn the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions. 14217
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Six 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. 821571
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I 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….. 270
Reposted by Louise AmooreAndrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026FinTech 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-financezonebooks.orgFinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance - Zone BooksZone Books 1139
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I don’t like Bluesky asking me “what’s up”… but I do like to share how you can join our @leverhulmecal.bsky.social community… 021
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Congratulations @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 23011
Reposted by Louise AmooreMigration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com · 26/05/2026MTM 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... 032
Reposted by Louise AmooreFabio 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...theguardian.comGoogle DeepMind in talks with UK unions amid staff concern over US and Israel’s AI useExclusive: Google DeepMind agrees to Acas talks after workers sign petitions about governments’ use of AI for defence and intelligence 081
Reposted by Louise Amooreucustandrews.bsky.social @ucustandrews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026URGENT - 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 01924
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 20/05/2026And @alexcampolo.bsky.social on the “action” of #AI @leverhulmecal.bsky.social #PoliticsOfAlgorithmicLife 020
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The incomparably brilliant @jennyedkins.bsky.social on certainty & the fantasy of closure @leverhulmecal.bsky.social #PoliticsOfAlgorithmicLife 020
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Fabulous start to day 2 of #PoliticsOfAlgorithmicLife @leverhulmecal.bsky.social with Alex Hall on the Wave Border 030
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Opening lecture of our #PoliticsOfAlgorithnicLife workshop by @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social War Beyond the Human 1100
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 09/05/2026@julietjfall.bsky.social ….as we were just saying 😔 030