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Scott Timcke

@scotttimcke.bsky.social
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Senior Research Associate, Research ICT Africa. Focusing on AI, Property, and Democratic Theory in the Polycrisis.

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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In the second of Research ICT Africa's policy briefs in the African Just AI series, I examine the issue of democratic fundamentals to argue that work on these takes priority over the promise of AI in African elections. Do give it a read. #democracy #AI #Africa researchictafrica.net/research/foc...
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Focus on the democratic fundamentals: What comes before the promise of AI in African elections
In the second instalment of Research ICT Africa’s Just AI policy brief series, researcher Scott Timcke argues for a shift in focus from technological quick-fixes to the core democratic conditions [......
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
When you think running 116 MILES in 17 hours(!!) is a professional fail...my goodness. Sometimes we are too hard on ourselves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1d3...
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My Second Attempt at Running For 24-hours (around a 400m track this time!)
YouTube video by Vo2maxProductions
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Jaime Casas @jaimecasas.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Private investor-driven AI is "anathema" to democracy. @scotttimcke.bsky.social connects the dots between AI's current trajectory, growing inequality, and the weakening of democratic structures. A powerful analysis. #DigitalDemocracy #WealthInequality #AISafety www.techpolicy.press/ai-inequalit...
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AI, Inequality, and Democratic Backsliding | TechPolicy.Press
Investor-driven AI development is anathema to the material conditions that enable democracy, writes Scott Timcke.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Not exactly what Claude Lefort meant.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The era of edicts.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Upgradable.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Techno Border Imperialism.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Another elephant graph.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Institute for Research on Male Supremacism @irms.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What is Male Supremacism? Check out the graphic below for our definition of it, and register today to learn more about it at our conference on April 24- 26! bit.ly/IRMS2025 #IRMS2025 #IRMSConf
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Duncan Green @duncangreenlse.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New blog claxon! Today we launched the LSE's 'Activism, Influencing and Change' site and programme, which I'll be running with Tom Kirk (@globalpolicy.bsky.social). If that's of interest, please repost and head on over to blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-inf... to read/subscribe/comment
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trade Wars Are Class Wars.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A recent piece of mine on agentic AI and democracy in Transforming Society. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/03/04/h...
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How agentic AI challenges democracy - Transforming Society
Scott Timcke, author of 'Algorithms and the End of Politics', explores how agentic AI, with its autonomous decision-making, threatens democratic principles by undermining transparency, accountability,...
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We need more Mississippi Burning.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Beyond farce.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Woefully unqualified from temperament to skills to experience.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Drugs and / or reactionary white South African brain. I saw lots of this in the late 90s.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
When you need the press and a spreadsheet to keep track of your siblings...
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Might as well call it the American Ukraine Company to really harken back. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations
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transcript Verlag @transcript-verlag.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"As the AI race accelerates, this kind of rich, multidisciplinary analysis becomes increasingly essential for understanding the promise and pitfalls of AI products." Thank you @scotttimcke.bsky.social!
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Jeremy Harding On NLR.
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Jeremy Harding · On NLR
For more than sixty years, New Left Review has remained loyal to its Marxist origins as a journal of the left for...
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
There is romance in this world. www.espncricinfo.com/story/pakist...
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Breetzke bats his way from scratchy to sublime in ODI debut to remember
Matthew Breetzke shows he can get past 30-40 as he scored 150 on ODI debut to break records and signal the start of something special
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
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Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
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Ewan Sutherland @sutherla.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
So much easier with the link bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/algorithms-a...
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Algorithms and the End of Politics
Algorithms and the End of Politics - How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life; EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book is a timely analysis of the growing impa...
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A recent book, AI – Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence ed. Peter Klimczak & Christer Petersen @transcript-verlag.bsky.social explores #AI’s technical constraints, societal impacts & ethical dilemmas. #Review by @scotttimcke.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social #AIActionSummit 👇
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AI – Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence
In AI – Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence, editors Peter Klimczak and Christer Petersen compile research that explores AI’s technical constraints, societal impacts and eth…
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
NEW✨ AI – Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence ed. Peter Klimczak and Christer Petersen @transcript-verlag.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. #Review by @scotttimcke.bsky.social 👇 #AI #AIActionSummit2025 @elysee-france.bsky.social
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AI – Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence
In AI – Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence, editors Peter Klimczak and Christer Petersen compile research that explores AI’s technical constraints, societal impacts and eth…
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Want to better understand the current moment? Give this a read.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The greatest moment in broadcast television history.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Silvermine, Cape Town.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Inbox zero at work... ...but all at the expense of my personal inbox.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Not too hard to imagine that most would prefer to get rid of online scams and a warming planet.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A moment of Cape Town zen.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Deneys Reitz on J. B. M. Hertzog: "He was a strange man. Like General Smuts he was university-bred and a fine classical scholar but he was a fierce hater."
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
Camps Bay from the top of Lion's Head.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
I'm excited to announce that I'll now be acquiring in Media Studies, Communications, Rhetoric, & Music/Sound/Audio Media Studies full time as I move off the philosophy list to grow these areas for Palgrave. I acquire in all these fields broadly. HMU to talk books!
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Hout Bay from Chapman's Peak, yesterday in the mist.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/w...
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Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead
He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days in solitary confinement.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Rietvlei yesterday.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
From Keith Haring's journals
The problem facing modern man now is compounded by the increasing power of technology and its misuse by those in power who wish only to control. The mentality of people who are motivated by profits at the expense of human needs is perfect for the computer. Computers are completely rational. They save time and money. They can keep records of every transaction. Money is the opposite of magic. Art is magic. The worlds of art and money are constantly intermingling. To survive this mixture the magic in art has to be applied in new ways. Magic must always triumph.” — June 13, 1984
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Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
New textbook by Christian Fuchs on the foundations of media, economy, and society. It is available in English and German. Info: English: fuchsc.net/books/media-... German: fuchsc.net/books/grundl... #booksky #authors #writingcommunity #Blueskybooks #books #media #communication #economy #society
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
All I want for Christmas is for Elgar to score a double.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
Christmas Day drive to Hout Bay.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
My book of the year.
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
"We have oil interests. Stay away."
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Scott Timcke @scotttimcke.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
A generation has passed. www.espncricinfo.com/story/mooda-...
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Moonda: Elgar's retirement draws curtains on a 'certain era' of South African cricket
His place in the side coincided with South African Test success, and his personality always made him stand out
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Institute for Research on Male Supremacism @irms.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Amazing internship program from Collective Power provides summer stipends for student interns to be placed at various reproductive justice organizations. We've loved our interns through the program the last few years and highly recommend students apply! collectivepowerrj.org/collective-r...
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