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Scrolling through an STS conference program and feeling ATTACKED by the words "science fiction as method." You'd have to have a very screwy bad conception of social scientific method to believe any such thing is possible. It arises from STS being historically weak wrt methods.

Incredibly excited to tell y'all about a project I've been working on for nearly a year with my Data & Society colleague Jenna Burrell, PhD: a special issue of First Monday, "Ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power". Every article of the 8 is a banger. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me, @nielsvdoorn, Cheryll Soriano, andrea pollio & Julie Yujie Chen journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS

Artificial Genocidal Intelligence, the AGI we should be talking about. accessnow.org/publication/ar…

Bye, bye Twitter.com

Germany’s AfD is so extreme it was kicked out of the far-right grouping in the European Parliament last month, but Elon Musk thinks their policies “don’t sound extremist.” That’s because he’s also a fascist.

"Only 65 randomized controlled trials of AI interventions were published between 2020 and 2022, a review shows. Meanwhile, regulators such as the FDA have approved hundreds of AI-powered medical devices for use in hospitals and clinics." 🚩🚩🚩 nature.com/articles/d4158…

So proud to announce this 😁😁😁 - today, journalists from three media organizations – Follow the Money, EUobserver and Investigate Europe – are launching a new newsletter to expose the lack of transparency within the European Union. We call it the Secrecy Tracker. Why...