What a beautiful editorial for the 7th edition of #Branch magazine "A sustainable internet for all". Digging into emergent 'good trouble' tales that rattle unjust systems & uplift more-than-human regeneration. Thank you Julia Kloiber @[email protected] [email protected] & ▇ kit braybrooke ▇▇▇ branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-7…

How it feels to be a first-year PhD student

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Welcoming the arrival of the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group - "an ongoing conspiratorial, applied research framework focused on the intersection of digital culture and information technology" tldr.nettime.org/@asrg

cartography-of-generative-ai.net · What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?

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this is what the internet was meant to be each website is a person's bookshelf

NEW: Indian voters have received more than 50 million AI-generated calls in the voice of politicians including PM Modi in the months leading up to & during India's general elections. Our in-depth story for WIRED on the use of AI this election season. wired.com/story/indian-e…

"Every bombed village is my hometown.” —James Baldwin

🚨 New: My FAccT’24 paper! Across 75 interviews with engineers & activists; and thinking with STS, Black feminist, & decolonial theory, I examine: What counts as knowledge in AI ethics? Whose labor and experience does this legitimize? davidwidder.me/epistemic.pdf

My article from last year breaks this down further, showing how hyperconsumption, over-production & discard culture by the global elite & wealthy, esp in the Global North, are destroying planetary resources & boundaries, esp for the global poor. Free PDF: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ge…

~ A big wave from #EASST2024 in Amsterdam this week 🪱 & You're invited: Join us in planting the more-than-human seeds (literally + figuratively!) on Wed morning at 10:30🌱 🌱🌱nomadit.co.uk/conference/eas… Looking forward to seeing many favourite kindreds across all our worlds ~~ 🐝

Bertolt Brecht died on this day in 1956 "Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality but a hammer with which to shape it"