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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 24m

🎟️ Nov 27-29 Berlin Conference – Testing Grounds: The Kill Cloud, AI & Migration Control 🔗 dnlb.org/links

Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 24m

The secondary part displays in a performance by Tiara Roxanne that will be presented during the Nov 27-29 Conference. ⚡Also see 📄 Architecture of Disappearance 📄 Telecoms, Ubiquitous Surveillance and State Crime

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 24m

A research paper showcasing a written cartography of the negative impacts the Kill Cloud has on Indigenous communities on the Mexico/US border as well as climate effects of its use for surveillance and capture.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 24m

📑 Read: dnlb.org/tr ⚡Out now: Tiara Roxanne’s research scaffolds on their previous work regarding data colonialism and territorial extraction for means of AI and usage of digital technologies. The output will be twofold.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎀 About Noura Tafeche: Visual artist, independent researcher. Italian Council 2025-26 grant winner for "The Politics of Rendering." Explores visual culture's techno-political entanglements, digital militarism & online aesthetics. Website: nouratafeche.com

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They attract global capital, build political consensus, and move billions. “Image stratigraphy” digs beneath to uncover: financial interests, nation-building strategies, hidden protocols of power. Participants gain tools to interrogate visual neo-propaganda.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What if architectural renders aren't just pictures—but machines designed to hijack imagination? This workshop explores how hyper-realistic CGI, gaming engines & AI-generated imagery shape our understanding of the future before it exists.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🏙️ Synthetic Imagery as Neo-Propaganda Machine with Noura Tafeche | Artist, Researcher 📅 15 Oct 2026 | 19:00-21:00 📍 Stadtwerkstatt, Berlin 🎟️ FREE • 30 spots • dnlb.org/meetup-nt Open to all. No experience needed.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After Safaricom failed to address the main allegations, The Kenya Human Rights Committee demanded answers in an open letter ⚡Also see 📄 Architecture of Disappearance 📄 Oct 5: Automated Extraction 🎟️ Nov 27-29 Berlin Conference – Testing Grounds: The Kill Cloud, AI & Migration Control

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📑 Read: dnlb.org/ns ⚡In 2024 Namir Shabibi was part of an investigation into Kenyan telecom Safaricom (a Vodafone subsidiary) revealing criminal and unconstitutional practices.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Together, they will spark bold ideas on how we can shape our cities more just in the future. 🎤 These are Voices you don’t want to miss! Get to know our speakers in the slides. VILLAGE FORUM 2026 – Annual Conference on Urban Transformation 📅 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 | 10am–6pm

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Look forward to a keynote by Gilda Sahebi and an innovative panel featuring Tatiana Bazzichelli / Disruption Network Lab and Jeff Kwasi Klein – moderated by Rashid Owoyele. Overall conference moderation: Thembi Wolf

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At the VILLAGE FORUM 2026 (Fri 25 Sep 26), BERLIN GLOBAL VILLAGE is bringing people together who challenge established ways of thinking.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

⚡Also see 📄 Architecture of Disappearance 📄 Oct 5: Automated Extraction 🎟️ Nov 27-29 Berlin Conference – Testing Grounds: The Kill Cloud, AI & Migration Control 🔗 dnlb.org/links Publishing Partner: Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC).

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

by authoritarian regimes became everyday reality, with life-or-death stakes in global majority countries.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

⚡Out now: Telecoms companies now feed cell site data to an industry offering suspect prediction, border monitoring and tracking, with no way to opt out of this "ubiquitous technical surveillance." Drawing on his investigations in Kenya, journalist Namir Shabibi shows how tools once dreamed of

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Publishing Partner: Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC).

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

⚡Also see 📄 Architecture of Disappearance 📄 Oct 5: Automated Extraction 🎟️ Nov 27-29 Berlin Conference – Testing Grounds: The Kill Cloud, AI & Migration Control 🔗 dnlb.org/links

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

by authoritarian regimes became everyday reality, with life-or-death stakes in global majority countries.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Publishing Partner: Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC). Reviewer: Ernest Cornel Oduor (Senior Communications Officer, KHRC).

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

⚡Also see 📄 Architecture of Disappearance 📄 Oct 5: Automated Extraction 🎟️ Nov 27-29 Berlin Conference – Testing Grounds: The Kill Cloud, AI & Migration Control 🔗 dnlb.org/links

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

by authoritarian regimes became everyday reality, with life-or-death stakes in global majority countries.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Publishing Partner: Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC). Reviewer: Ernest Cornel Oduor (Senior Communications Officer, KHRC).

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🗓️ 🎟️ Nov 27–29 Berlin Conference: Testing Grounds: The Kill Cloud, AI & Migration Control - with Cian Westmoreland, Namir Shabibi, Tiara Roxanne & many more. 🔗 See dnlb.org/links

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The author’s recent journalism and investigative ethnography in Kenya exposes how police exploits Safaricom's ubiquitous data collection for surveillance and targeting, and how software by Neural Technologies enables it.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mobile networks and their relevant technologies are central to the surveillance and targeting of vulnerable peoples, particularly migrant and border communities - with life-or-death outcomes.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Independent journalist Namir Shabibi draws attention to advances in mobile location intelligence, and the ‘transference’ of military-intelligence analytics to everyday policing and law enforcement, augmented by machine-learning algorithms.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

⚡ New Research – Read Now 🔗 dnlb.org/ns ⚡ 📃👀 Telecoms, Ubiquitous Surveillance and State Crime: A Case Study From Kenya 👤 Namir Shabibi, Independent Investigative Journalist

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📄 You can have a look at previous research by Lisa Ling, Jack Poulson, Joana Moll & Naomi Colvin 🎟️ Nov 27-29 Berlin Conference – Testing Grounds: The Kill Cloud, AI & Migration Control 🔗 More info on dnlb.org/links

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Since September 11 2023, the Disruption Network Institute has enabled seven fellows across two fellowship rounds. Through year-round research and events, it has been exploring the role of data capitalism, technological warfare, and surveillance technologies.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

⚡Three years ago today, we founded the Disruption Network Institute – a hub for investigation and empirical research on the impact of AI and data-driven technologies on the wars of today and tomorrow.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📃👀 Read Architecture of Disappearance: The Kill Cloud’s Dispersal of Violence 📺 Stream all his previous talks for free on our YouTube channel dnlb.org/links

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Architecture of Disappearance is the result of years of collaboration. You will hear more about this from Cian Westmoreland at our upcoming conference “TESTING GROUNDS: The Kill Cloud, AI & Migration Control”, on November 27-29 at Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cian Westmoreland - Before the bombing of Gaza & Iran (25/04/2022)

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Every layer of the Kill Cloud [is] part of the weave through which distant lives, moral worlds, and consequences are bound together in relations of complicity and harm. 📃👀 Read Architecture of Disappearance: The Kill Cloud’s Dispersal of Violence… dnlb.org/links

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Kill Cloud does not merely observe reality, it constructs it. 📑 Read: dnlb.org/links ⚡Out now: Whistleblower Cian Westmoreland exposes the Kill Cloud: an organism of humans and machines in which responsibility is diffused to the point of disappearance.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

⚡ New research: dnlb.org/cw Whistleblower Cian Westmoreland exposes the Kill Cloud: a distributed socio-technical architecture that fuses ubiquitous sensing, artificial intelligence, and autonomous weapons into a planetary apparatus of force. 🔗 More: dnlb.org/links

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Term coined by whistleblowers Cian Westmoreland and Lisa Ling, the Kill Cloud is a warfare apparatus that stretches through sea, land, air, space and cyberspace. It involves commercial operators and platforms as well as technical assets ultimately impacting and harming the Global Majority.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🔴 05/10 - “Automated Extraction: Tactics of Surveillance and Targeting Indigenous Peoples at the US-Mexico Border”👤Tiara Roxanne, Scholar and Artist · US/DE ABOUT THE INSTITUTE: Since 2023, the Disruption Network Institute programme investigates “The Kill Cloud”.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📆 NEXT:🔴 14/09 - “Telecoms Networks, Ubiquitous Surveillance and State Crime: A case study from Kenya”👤Namir Shabibi, Independent Investigative Journalist · UK

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

After conducting research into civilian casualties connected to his unit’s operations, he left the military to study International Relations.

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