dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/20264. Whitewashing colonialism: Rubio celebrates Columbus's "adventure into the great unknown to discover a new world" that "brought Christianity to the Americas." Five centuries of Western, "expansion", "missionaries, pilgrims, soldiers, explorers", building "vast empires" becomes heroic achievement 1102
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026This line of thinking is explicit cultural supremacism: Western culture isn't equal to others, it's superior.. (again why does this ring so familiar? hmmmm) 2100
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026This is textbook "great replacement" rhetoric, demographic change as existential threat a far right nationalist staple: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_R... 1140
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026He warns against "forces of civilizational erasure" threatening America and Europe. This presents "Western civilization" as superior, eternal, racially coherent.. Imagine a German politician doing this, and tell me what you see?! I guarantee its not (Applause.) 1110
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025ha! he has a name and a story, its Aloys aka the cloud striker :p and he was born on the 19th of July, during the big Microsoft outage 020
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025@article19.bsky.social is in Berlin for two digital sovereignty summit events: We're speaking at the main summit & participating in the cloud roundtable organized by KAS - @FOTI -@openmarkets.bsky.social Are you also here too for sovereignty summit? Come say hallo- gutentag! 110
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Nothing to see here just tech politics in 2025 000
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 22/05/2025My fav session at #CPDP25 this far is happening now: How dystopian sci-fi books have been misread by tech bros and fueled their tech visions of the future 2112
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025TL;DR ~~tHe cLoUd Is nOT An oPTioN~~ 000
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Excited to be at the @algosoc.org conference today and see the cloud taken up seriously — I’ll be moderating a panel with @josévanDijck on computational infrastructures @article19.bsky.social 251
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Desperate attempt by #Whatsapp now that NL is moving their communications to #signal 140
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025And update our approach, luckily many researchers are paving the way See for example the ai now newsletter on industrial policy, @Article19 work on digital markets and infrastructure and research of the programmable infrastructure project in delft ainowinstitute.org/publication/... 000
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025So — how’s your 2025 going? Bc over here were debating whether to call a spade a spade #tesla #bigtech #2025 #inauguration #fml #fucknazis 000
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 21/01/2025This pic is doing the rounds, but just focusing on AWS & Starlink (aka #Bezos and #Musk) as communication platform providers does not even begin to do justice to the power they wield through their companies! This is about who controls the infrastructure that the economy runs on, coms is a side show 161
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Tech bros: “politicians don’t get tech and shouldn’t meddle” Dutch political conference on digital: “and the scaling laws as per Kaplan 2020 seem to be breaking” 000
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social · 30/11/2024 Apropos of nothing — whether it’s Bing or ChatGPT — #AI remains mainly useful to troll corporate culture. Early tinkering w Bing: write me God’s corporate memo as per Genesis (from a talk at Greens summit on digital today in Rotterdam) #Genesis #ChatGPT #bing #AI #hype #groenlinks 100