Narratives which present smart algorithms as the major driver behind the successes of machine learning (ML) systems and ideas of automating ML development fail to acknowledge the contributions made by...

On Tuesday 22 July 2025, a one-day workshop titled Government Records and AI was held at the Mercure Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester, as part of the LUSTRE/GLOW initiative led by Professor Lise Jaillant ...

A book about how we gave computers the power to decide for us

Identify birds (visually), through an app.

An all day event outlining a social science of databases.

Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.

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Critical Art vs. Prank Politics, an online symposium on creative tactics for post-moral paradigms.

Hito Steyerl was named #2 most influential person in the art world in Artforum. Her work has consistently challenged the relationship between art and technology in an age of climate change. In this ne...

This essay explores how desiloization strategies facilitate the emergence and increasing centralization of private platform power, rather than flattening and democratizing access to and control ove...

As any data protection lawyer and privacy activist will attest, there’s nothing like a well-designed and enforced data protection law to keep the totalitarian tendencies of modern Big Brother in check...

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The CSV magician. Contribute to medialab/xan development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the past year the Israeli military has posted on social media footage of more than 1,300 strikes in Gaza. But who was actually killed?

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In the past few months, a range of grassroots initiatives have gained significant momentum to duplicate US government agency data. These initiatives are inspired by recent reports that scientific data...

The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.

Inside the dangerous effort to dodge censorship and document the horrors of Israel's war against Gaza.

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One of the motifs that regularly appear in Hieronymus Bosch's works are owls. Bosch was probably the owliest artist of the times.

Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration

Who needs a DDoS (Denial of Service) attack when you have a new president? As of February 2nd, thousands of web pages and datasets have been removed from U.S. government agencies following a series of...

The workshop will invite short interventions on ecologies and scale to open up an interdisciplinary discussion on the potential and limits of understanding the politics of zoom.

Cambridge Core - Criminal Law - The Cambridge Handbook of Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations

Join us at CESTA for an engaging talk exploring the concept of Mnemaps and their role in understanding mnemocultures by Stanford Humanities Center's "All This Rising" Lecture Series speaker Professor...