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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Perplexity AI head describes the endpoint of cascading logics of automation (from automated data collection to sense making, to response). In a word, agentic AI: "Comet leads to a true personal assistant that can be an agent for you and take actions. It’s our transition from answers to actions."
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
In case anyone in Ljubljana might be interested, I'm doing a public talk Monday, 23 June at 11 am, in the library of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. "“Granular Biopolitics: Biometrics, Surveillance and Automated Governance” Open to the public.
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
oligarch vs. despot. If it were Russia the winner would be clear. In neoliberal land where the government relies on Musk for core functions (low earth orbit satellite delivery, global comms, etc), maybe less so?
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Interesting twitter phenomenon: random MAGAs and pseudo-conspiracy theorists who don't trust the media are putting their faith in Grok and Perplexity for fact-checking. The old institutions for adjudicating rival accounts of reality are on the wane. But the new ones are simply scraping the old ones.
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
this is pretty amazing article: a deep dive into the workings of a dramatically reconfigured media environment...
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Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This French article is great not just because it interviews @timothyjgraham.bsky.social but also because the visualisations are really well done. Oh, and apart from tge deconstruction of his megaphoning RWNJ, it also provides a Deep Dive into the Muskian Projkek.
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Looks like travel to the US will now require vaccination boosters.
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"The right wing aesthetic project is to flood the zone – unsurprisingly, given their scatological bent, with bullshit – in order to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty." AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
You guys need to wise up, you’re not dealing with conservatives or libertarians trying to implement conservative or libertarian policies. You are dealing with fascists trying to destroy the idea of the truth and replace it with the exercise of power.
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
David Brooks in the NYTimes has a revelation. He is shocked, shocked to learn that gambling is taking place in this establishment... "The simplest answer is that Trump really seems not to give a crap about the working class" -- DB
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
When I was a kid in NYC, a family friend from Europe described to me what he thought was distinctive about Americans. "Most people see a glass on the table, and they know if they push it, it will fall off...Americans will just keep pushing until it falls off." The glass is falling.
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moniartist.bsky.social @moniartist.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Well the irony in that now, is Humanities will be the only programs universities will be able to afford to fund 🥴
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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"AI then becomes a tool for replacing politics. The Trump administration frames generative AI as a remedy to 'government waste.' However, what it seeks to automate is not paperwork but democratic decision-making" Love @eryk.bsky.social's writing and this piece is no exception. 👏👌
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There is a simple solution to the CBS/Trump lawsuit. The Harris campaign should sue Fox and insist Fox release the unedited versions of all their many edited interviews with Trump.
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
c.f. "robodebt"
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I suppose it was bound to happen. Silicon valley feeling liberated by not having to pretend to live up to the hype about being the good capitalists, etc... Every company has got to find a way to live up to its P/E ratio. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions that it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.
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Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández @ariadnamf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Our piece on Community Notes and its narrow understanding of the disinformation problem is now live on @techpolicypress.bsky.social. It is based on our paper on the topic, which can be found here: eprints.qut.edu.au/254907/1/Mat...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Maybe it's better not to mess around with certain federal functions. It's not a game.
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Instead, these below-the-fold changes are very clearly designed to avoid having to penalize people like Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene for the increasingly dehumanizing language they use against these specific groups. You can tell because of the changes they *didn't* make. 🧵 9/11
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The second death of the author.... Springer is publishing "machine-generated" literature "overviews" for 170 Euros (hardcover -- library edition, presumably?). link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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An Introduction to Civics and Citizenship Education
This book examines the current state of educational and policy-level initiatives in civics and citizenship education.
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This really drives the point home: government of the billionaires by the billionaires for the billionaires... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Mark Zuckerberg sports $900,000 watch as he calls time on Meta fact-checking
Tech giant CEO wore Greubel Forsey ‘Hand Made 1’, which retails for $895,500, as he announced policy overhaul
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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
There's lots of hot takes on Zuckerberg's content moderation decision, and then there's Julia Angwin's, who uses it to explain that Meta is no longer growing through innovation and is reduced to political groveling. buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/...
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Heavy Lies Mark Zuckerberg’s Crown
Hi friends — The new year is upon us, and it has already been quite revealing. As Robert Caro wrote in his magnificent biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, “power...
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It's worth understanding Trump's reverence for Putin. In the US, until recently, the political class has been beholden to the economic one. In Putin's Russia, it's the other way around. Oligarchs are beholden to Putin. Trump was never able to join the ruling economic class. Went bankrupt too often.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Who remembers AltSchool? What a great cautionary tale of edtech and data-driven schooling exuberance for our current AI moment. Funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Zuckerberg and Founders fund, it was a Silicon Valley experimental lab school for the kind of AI schooling hyped everywhere today ... 1/5
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
From the annals of social recession (hint: capital was never really comfortable with ceding much control over content to users...AI provides a strategy for clawing it back): www.404media.co/zuckerberg-t...
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Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
"I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated."
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
capitalism's weird complicities (#1,000,000): academic publishers contracting with AI companies need to push out more content faster to feed the training beast. Universities want academics to publish more publications faster to feed the rankings beast.
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Social glut goes in hand-in-hand with social recession. This is a bid to regain more centralized control over content. Imagine trying to cut through the clutter of AI-generated profiles, all designed to manipulate you according to platform priorities. www.ft.com/content/9118...
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market? It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today. That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Commercial algorithms shape our information environment...not always to our benefit. What would an algorithm that promoted public service values look like? How might we develop and use one? We will consider this at a free event today at UniMelb. events.humanitix.com/what-is-a-pu...
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What is a Public Service Media Algorithm, and Why Might We Need One?
Get tickets on Humanitix - What is a Public Service Media Algorithm, and Why Might We Need One? hosted by ADM+S Centre. Woodward Conference Centre, 10th floor, Law Building, 106/185 Pelham St, Carlto...
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It would be wonderful if we could imagine the possibility of developing online spaces and tools for young people to communicate and create without subjecting them to comprehensive forms of commercial surveillance and manipulation by platforms that are interested only in exploiting them for profit.
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Matt Crosslin @grandeped.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
About 5-ish years ago I did some research on chatbots specifically connected to course materials and FAQs from the prof. Don’t remember that article? The data was unpublishable. Students generally just didn’t like the bots, and asked weird questions just to try and break them.
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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · 27/11/2024
Our upcoming public panel 'What is a Public Service Media Algorithm, and Why Might We Need One?' will foreground critical discussion around automation's role in the future of public service media, featuring ADM+S AI James Meese alongside industry experts from our partner organisations ABC & Google.
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In addition to trying to figure out how to regulate the hyper-commercial media that have taken over our information system, what about envisioning a public service media alternative? Free event hosted by bsky.app/profile/adms... at Melbourne Uni this Wednesday: events.humanitix.com/what-is-a-pu...
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
there something vertiginously anomic about a world in which law enforcement gets swallowed up by conspiracy theory. Plenty of examples in the US (x.com/NC5PhilWilli...). And now cash at the FBI.
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markandrejevic.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The fact that we are willing to accept the use by schools of an ad-supported, auto-play equipped, surveillance-driven platform like YouTube continues to boggle my mind. Can we create a public service, not-for-profit alternative education platform?
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