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Charis Papaevangelou

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Postdoc | critical political economy of tech | AlgoSoc-IViR, U of Amsterdam No business as usual during a genocide 🍉🇵🇸

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Basic research, lethal effects: Military artificial intelligence research funding as enlistment - David Gray Widder, Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman, 2026
In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorit...
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 08/07/2026
In this World Cup, we’ve gone from everything is political to everything is geopolitical
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 28/06/2026
Proud he’s playing for Olympiacos. Honestly our club should learn a thing or two from him.
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 09/06/2026
Such a great essay by great @melhogan.bsky.social. I have highlighted so many passages that I can't pick which one's my favourite - so please read it for yourselves!
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The Ends of AI
Sycophancy and psychosis
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
dead internet theory
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom @ecpmf.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
⚡ We condemn the complaint against our partner @freepressunlimited.bsky.social over its Gaza-related fundraising letter. Even if rejected, such actions risk creating a chilling effect on organisations supporting journalists. We stand in solidarity with FPU. www.mapmf.org/alert/34743
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Mapping Media Freedom: Netherlands: Free Press Unlimited targeted by a complaint over fundraising letter (2025-12-22)
On 22 December 2025, the Centre for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI) filed a…
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Fresh evidence linking the Greek government to #PredatorGate. Today's @tovimagr.bsky.social revelations confirm the long held suspicion that Predator was to be paid from EU funds. Will @ec.europa.eu demand clarifications? (spoiler: it won't). A clear case for the EU Public Prosecutor #EPPO
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/02/2026
"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 14/02/2026
“Aimé Césaire observed that fascism became objectionable to Europeans only when it unleashed in Europe the brutality they had inflicted on the “inferior” peoples of Asia and Africa.” www.equator.org/articles/aft...
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After the Earthquakes • EQUATOR
The fundamental problem of the present is complicity
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 08/02/2026
Greece has emerged as one of the most important allies to the genocidal state of Israel www.news247.gr/magazine/rep...
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Από τη Γάζα στην Καλαμάτα - Η ελληνική εμπλοκή στο ΑΙ του πολέμου
Πώς το Ισραήλ δολοφόνησε χιλιάδες αμάχους και ο ρόλος της Ελλάδας στην ανάπτυξη των νέων τεχνολογιών στην πολεμική βιομηχανία.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.
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7 Reasons Teens Say No to AI
Some young people only turn to artificial-intelligence chatbots as a last resort, citing concerns about relationships, creativity, the environment and more.
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 01/02/2026
The story about MSFT building a massive DC in AMS despite a ban on hyperscalers is indicative of the legal system’s limitations in capitalism. The fixation on nonEU being the issue by some (next para shows int’l capital flows btw) reveals true goals of “dig sovereignty” archive.is/ZXx0H#select...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12/01/2026
#OtD 12 Jan 1904 a rebellion began by Herero people in Namibia against German occupation. Eventually however, they were defeated by the Germans, who attempted to exterminate all Herero people in what is considered the 1st genocide of the 20th century stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8394...
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
PLEASE SHARE 📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)). Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles. Links in🧵 #commsky
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Laurens Naudts @laurensnaudts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
In 2023, the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 identified Venezuela as one of "the five countries on which the next Administration should focus its attention." Excerpt below offers a justification for the US' imperialist and colonialist ambitions.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/01/2026
The Israeli military continues to demolish structures in northern Gaza while also blocking the entry of aid.
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Israel launches deadly strikes in Gaza in new ceasefire violations
The Israeli military continues to demolish structures in northern Gaza while also blocking the entry of aid.
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Mickaël Correia @mickacorreia.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Trump ne menace pas seulement ce qui restait de droit international en attaquant le Venezuela. Il menace aussi la planète toute entière en faisant main basse sur d'énormes réserves de pétrole dont la combustion accélere le chaos climatique.
Le Monde : "EN DIRECT, enlèvement de
Maduro au Venezuela : Donald
Trump affirme que les Etats-
Unis vont < diriger le pays > et y
installer des compagnies
pétrolières américaines"
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Why is so much news focused on the ‘operation’ and the ‘logistics’ of the Venezuela invasion? More is needed on the illegality, casualties, reasons for absent and lukewarm political reactions, precedent setting, and implications. 🤷
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 04/01/2026
The claim that “this is not the time to comment on” US’s illegal imperialist invasion of Venezuela makes me deeply ashamed and enraged as a Greek, further showing the EU’s demise. This, just a few days after he met with Netanyahu in Jerusalem. He must be brought to justice.
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 04/01/2026
Mainstream Big media will always prioritise protecting the ruling class than upholding so called democratic values no matter how much they purport to work in favour of the latter: www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
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News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 03/01/2026
How much dystopia can you withstand
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 03/01/2026
the most shameless statement. But not so surprising given the EU’s complicity in Gaza’s genocide
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Mickaël Correia @mickacorreia.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
2026 commence très fort avec l'enterrement définitif du droit international.
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 03/01/2026
The EU is irrelevant, in a semi-dead state, acting as a vessel of the US, ready to support its illegal invasion of a sovereign country. Insane.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 27/12/2025
READ: More than 10,000 bodies buried beneath the rubble in Gaza. Read what recovery looks like after 2 years of Israeli genocide. 👇 mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...
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One excavator, 10,000 bodies, a sea of rubble: inside Gaza’s effort to retrieve and bury its dead
Under the relative calm of a ceasefire, Civil Defense crews in Gaza are undertaking the monumental feat of recovering thousands of bodies still trapped under the rubble.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
How it started (quote post) How it's going (linked article) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 05/12/2025
For all the critique I've done to the COM, the DSA enforcement team deserves so much praise. 1) Deceiving users with blue checkmark; 2) obscuring info re: ads; 3) making life of researchers re: data access difficult = €120M. Not bad ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act
Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This is absolutely insane. More than $1bn a month of European social wealth transferred to US defence tech companies, massively intensifying the potential for war. And no political leaders speaking out against it.
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 26/11/2025
There'll be no burst bubbling, because they're actively being bailed out (& de-risked) by governments as we speak (as @smw.bsky.social has said). AI companies are becoming "too important" to fail as more govts get infrastructurally dependent on them, with the risk of enshittification increasing.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We need our policymakers everywhere to be attuned to the needs of the people, not the whims of CEOs -- and especially not CEOs in the grip of TESCREAList fantasies. Thank you @abeba.bsky.social and @krisshrishak.bsky.social for speaking up www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
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AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/11/2025
"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social ✍🏼 www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
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Michalis Nikiforos @mnikiforos.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Here is a new paper on the structural transformation of the Greek economy into a “café economy”-an economy dominated by cafés (they are everywhere in Greece!), restaurants and tourism. 🧵
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Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"Despite promises of productivity gains through labor market and product market reforms, the Greek economy has experienced a sharp decline in labor productivity and a significant reallocation of employment towards low-productivity sectors" 👏@mnikiforos.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/Hellenic-Obs...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification www.404media.co/the-discord-...
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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
✨I’m on the academic job market ✨ I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥 I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action More info: cella.io
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Cella M. Sum –
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 01/10/2025
i'm not saying we shouldn't talk about all the ways in which AI fails in the market. it just seems like we've clearly gone way past that point and we should think about what it will look like when a failed project has already been internalized by an empire or an oppressive settler colonial project
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 30/09/2025
States welcoming Trump's plan for 🇵🇸 are destroying the remaining of the "liberal/rule of law world order" facade. These decisions-if we're to believe in this order-must be openly deliberated in int'l fora. Stripping Palestinian's right to self-determination legitimises fascism.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 21/09/2025
Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities? Together we can turn back the tide.
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 22/09/2025
www.rosa.gr/opinions/to-... Έγραψα μερικές κουβέντες για την πολύ προβληματική ανακοίνωση συνεργασίας της ελληνικής κυβέρνησης με την OpenAI. / I wrote an op-ed on why the announcement of the collab btn the Greek govt & OpenAI for ChatGPT in our classrooms is *BAD*
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Το ChatGPT δεν έχει θέση στο εκπαιδευτικό μας σύστημα - Rosa.gr
Η συνεργασία της ελληνικής κυβέρνησης με την OpenAI διαρρηγνύει και ένα ακόμα από τα θεμέλια, υποτίθεται, της φιλελεύθερης δημοκρατίας
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 18/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "The subtext is that the promised land is in sight – but that only the investments and regulatory changes demanded by large technology companies will get us there." ...
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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 18/09/2025
Great to see this out! With @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu we analyse the DSA “Statement of Reasons” database, the EU-mandated archive of moderation decisions by online platforms. We examine what kind of platform observability the database affords & find large regional and cross-platform differences.
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Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
[New paper] Trading nuance for scale? Platform observability and content governance under the DSA, By @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu & @favstats.eu policyreview.info/articles/ana... #DSA
Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash. Free license: https://unsplash.com/fr/photos/impression-damour-bleu-et-blanc-sur-mur-en-beton-gris-avjGi7AgBPE
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/09/2025
The multibillion-pound deal will build up to 12 modern nuclear reactors in northeast England and power data centres.
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US and UK sign major nuclear power deal: What does it include?
The multibillion-pound deal will build up to 12 modern nuclear reactors in northeast England and power data centres.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/08/2025
Here's part 2 of this week's two-part episode of Better Offline. I walk you through how America’s economic growth has become dependent on Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta’s AI capex - and how this will harm both our economy and markets. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline
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The AI Money Trap, Part Two
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 08/21/2025 · 42m
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Charis Papaevangelou @bsky.charispapaevangelou.eu · 12/08/2025
That’s the key in this vague statement by Microsoft: if you treat a whole population (under illegal occupation) as terrorists (also MSFT basically accepting the false labelling of Palestinians as terrorists), then it’s ok. MSFt directly buys into and legitimises Israel’s apartheid and surveillance
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