Reposted by Jayapapayamaia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members. 356155455442
Reposted by JayapapayaRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 19/11/2025It's very notable that this room has plenty of developers and builders, and whenever someone says that deregulation is stupid they're getting full-throated applause. The people pushing deregulation are disconnected from those of us who are building the future. #EuroskyLive 26321
Reposted by JayapapayaGeorgia Harper @mindtheflap.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Turns out both DownDetector and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe use Cloudflare so are currently, themselves, down 19639187
Reposted by JayapapayaTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025just opening up the new Epstein docs at random: 614270377817
Reposted by JayapapayaPhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 11/11/2025The first of what we can hope will be many legal victories for the music industry in its fight against the AI pirates. A Munich court ruled that OpenAI had breached copyright law and was liable to be sued for damages for appropriating content without authorisation. 212226
Reposted by JayapapayaDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/11/2025the @ec.europa.eu's President von der Leyen is uncritically echoing AI hype & corporate PR, particularly that “AI would approach human reasoning in 2026”. we find this unacceptable & ask the Commission President to retract it. please sign this open letter if you agree 36832
Reposted by Jayapapayadaniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social · 08/11/2025RIP Paolo Virno. He was one of the funniest and warmest philosophers. vimeo.com/112510961?fl...vimeo.comLuoghi Comuni - Hegel & Techno RavesPaolo Virno talks about Virno and Techno. Excerpt from the Film "Luoghi Comuni" ("Common Places") 04521
Reposted by JayapapayaAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Thinking again how perverse it is that Musk was given a $1T salary as his cuts to USAID has led to 600,000 deaths. What a shameful world. 011630
Reposted by JayapapayaDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/11/2025Three Moves to Stop Broligarchy (Break, Build, Enforce) by Cori Crider and Robin Berjon mzf.st/15 hands down one of the most refreshing talks at MozFest 513825
Reposted by JayapapayaRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 07/11/2025Data collection at scale is a national security issue. This trading is happening even with GDPR protections. And yet the Commission is advocating changes that would remove such data from the scope of the regulation. 12813
Reposted by JayapapayaMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed. 605122449693
Reposted by JayapapayaLouise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 08/08/2025My essay “Because the twin is not a copy: the politics of digital twins” - written for a 2023 workshop organised by Christoph Borbach & out now in a special issue on digital twinning in #NewMedia&Society #DigitalTwins #algorithms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comBecause the twin is not a copy: On the politics of digital twins - Louise Amoore, 2025This essay explores the changing form of the digital twin as a political technology in the age of deep learning and generative artificial intelligence (AI). It ... 24317
Reposted by JayapapayaNathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 08/08/2025Have you noticed that everyone in certain subcultures keeps using the term "first principles"? I explore its origins for Compact magazine: www.compactmag.com/article/how-...compactmag.comHow Engineering Replaced PoliticsIf an extraterrestrial—or, for that matter, a human being from anywhere else—were to land in Silicon Valley, the traveler would encounter a distinctive dialect of American English. 095
Reposted by JayapapayaLouise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 01/08/2025We are looking for a Senior Manager for our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social A key person in our team & a future valued colleague. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio... & feel free to DM me. Also look out for our October research fellows posts.durham.taleo.netSenior Manager - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic LifeClick the link provided to see the complete job description. 0912
Reposted by JayapapayaHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Francesca Albanese will be remembered as one of the bravest women of the era, standing against genocide despite the daunting forces arrayed against her. Sanctioning her, rather than the war criminals who are starving and murdering Palestinians is another moment of shame for the US trib.al/Oe77sphtrib.alU.S. Imposes Sanctions on U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca AlbaneseSecretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, for investigating Americans and Israelis over the war in the enclave. 220987
Jayapapaya @jayapapaya.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Day 2 of perhaps the best-named tech conference so far this year! Tech people want, which by the way is NOT AI powered kill machines. See you at 17:00 CET 152
Reposted by JayapapayaDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!! 191143202
Reposted by JayapapayaDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/ 381446683
Reposted by JayapapayaMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 05/06/2025As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress. 373881929
Reposted by Jayapapayaonion person @junlper.beer · 08/06/2025it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up 378250994644
Reposted by Jayapapaya𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 03/06/2025maybe the real computer was the 700 Indian developers we exploited along the way 061
Reposted by JayapapayaJeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 03/06/2025We deserve to know the full scale of this government’s complicity in crimes against humanity. My piece for @theguardian.com on why I’m tabling legislation tomorrow for a full, independent, public inquiry into the UK’s role in the Gaza genocide. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comHow exactly has Britain supported Israel’s military assault on Gaza? The public has a right to know | Jeremy CorbynWhen I was Labour leader, the Chilcot report condemned the party for its disastrous war in Iraq. We need a similar inquiry now, says MP Jeremy Corbyn 21658208
Jayapapaya @jayapapaya.bsky.social · 24/05/2025"The 149, the king of busses..." This novel made me feel seen. London summers x 010
Reposted by Jayapapayamaia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 23/05/2025joined by Phil Zimmermann (creator of PGP), Vikram Subramanian (ex-googler) and Dr. Jaya Klara Brekke (CSO Nym Technologies) i will be giving a talk about surveillance at ETH Zürich next tuesday sign up for in person or live stream attendance: privacytalk.thealternative.ch/en 825845
Reposted by JayapapayaKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/05/2025- effective altruism - rational environmentalism - climate realism Any movement that has a name that implicitly insults everyone else working on a problem (as ineffective, irrational or unrealistic) is just guaranteed to be trash 37847170
Reposted by JayapapayaOscaaarrrgh @skeletonoscar.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Babe wake up, they're transvestigating the new Pope let's fuckin gooooooooooo 1564561970
Reposted by JayapapayaThe Exploding Heads @explodingheads.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Is AI a good thing? 3023241154
Reposted by Jayapapaya.doc @erebusodora.bsky.social · 26/04/2025as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip 11692270
Reposted by JayapapayaPaul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 23/04/2025AI is trained on academic books without the consent of authors who are now also expected to train and assess the use of AI by their students without consultation from university leaders who are also engaged in academic redundancy programmes. It's not only AI that can 'connect the dots'. 052
Reposted by JayapapayaJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/04/2025total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b... 18696483743
Reposted by JayapapayaJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?" Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders." 5134621050
Reposted by JayapapayaLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10/04/2025‘And on what policies do their opinions have an effect? There is no democratic mandate for almost anything: pouring shit into rivers; declining real wages; skyrocketing inequality; the destruction of the universities; the underfunding of hospitals; and so endlessly on.’ — China Miéville 0174
Jayapapaya @jayapapaya.bsky.social · 10/04/2025People in crypto have been socialised into being ok w scams, rugs and pump and dump schemes - always seeking to outsmart eachother n the market. Whether Trump gets away with this tariff shit depends on just how deep that socialisation has sunk into the psyche of the US population. 000
Jayapapaya @jayapapaya.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Anyone been analysing these tariff announcements as simple market manipulation? 010
Reposted by JayapapayaTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 08/04/2025The only people doing real "responsible AI" work 👇🏼 "Microsoft...terminated...two software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad & Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military during Microsoft’s Copilot and 50th anniversary event..." techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/m...techcrunch.comMicrosoft reportedly fires staff whose protest interrupted its Copilot event | TechCrunchMicrosoft has reportedly terminated employees who protested during the company's 50th anniversary and Copilot event. 221677
Reposted by JayapapayaJeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Last month, I wrote to the Prime Minister calling for an independent inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Today, more than 30 MPs have supported that call. This is not going away. We will campaign for as long as it takes to establish the truth. 231010274
Reposted by JayapapayaCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down 29906296
Reposted by JayapapayaSander @sanderregter.bsky.social · 02/04/20253 dead so far at Krome ICE detention center in Florida. Max capacity was 500, they have over 4,000 and not enough water and food. Reports say they get 1 cup of water per day. These are already death camps. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n... english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...eu.usatoday.comImmigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detentionNo shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations. 7418791405
Reposted by JayapapayaHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/03/2025An Oscar-winning director is attacked and then disappeared. Time for the international film community to step up. apnews.com/article/no-o...apnews.comOscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained, activists sayActivists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military. 1227123
Jayapapaya @jayapapaya.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Re-reading this and I highly recommend Virilio for people in the US right now. Virilio is the philosopher of speed as a vector of power via technology (dromology). Perhaps some useful tactics can come from it. 030
Reposted by JayapapayaChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025It's pretty wild to see what the Tesla Takedown people have built from nothing, totally organically in just two months. actionnetwork.org/event_campai...actionnetwork.orgJoin me at the TeslaTakedownThe #TeslaTakedown movement is growing! Join us for an event in our community—or find one of more than 100 events every week across the country. And if there's not one near you, it's easy to sign up t... 1052385917442
Reposted by JayapapayaHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I wish there were a social etiquette around these things. Guests should know if they’re in the presence of a listening device 614763
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