More often than not these days, the epithet, "deep state" seems simply to refer to the laws, the Constitution, and the rule of law and those who work to support it.

what's the collective noun for a day of zoom meetings? A nightmare of meetings?

In 2016, Google changed a single line in its privacy policy, indicating the most significant boost to its surveillance machine in a decade: linking behavioral data across ads and user accounts. A recently unsealed internal doc provides details on this project, known as Narnia2:

I talk to Sam Sellar (lead editor of Discourse) about publishing in academic journals ... we talk about common reasons for articles getting desk-rejected, how to be a good peer-reviewer & why scholarly journals still have a future: soundcloud.com/eetheducatione…

The huge push from independents to stop gambling advertising reflects what we are hearing from our communities. All parliamentarians need to step up, listen to this message and not accept anything less than the total ban the Murphy review recommended.

Very exciting to see my translation of a “new” essay by Michel Foucault, “Message or Noise?” (1966), now available open-access in Parrhesia. Here, Foucault takes up the question of medical thought and practice through the frame of information-theory parrhesiajournal.org/wp-content/upl…

Algorithms decide what we see on social media, yet giant tech companies keep the details of these #algorithms & how they influence us, a closely guarded secret. The Australian Internet Observatory is working to change that 👉🏼 ADM+S CI Daniel Angus (he/him) @[email protected] explains. open.spotify.com/episode/5HrxZN…

!!! Foucault's acute -- and ironical -- engagement with information theory, "Message or Noise?," is finally translated into English, with given a fine-grained & discerning introduction, by Christopher O'Neill Both texts open access here. parrhesiajournal.org///

Just published a paper in Communications Earth & Environment where we use the CARDS machine learning model to detect climate misinformation in 5 million climate tweets, finding over half of misinformation tweets involve personal attacks Mark Andrejevic Yuan-Fang Li Travis Coan nature.com/articles/s4324…

Remember back in the day when legislators worked themselves into a lather over the imagined prospect of the owners of social media platforms picking sides in a presidential election? Good times...

seems somehow appropriate that (deepfake) Musk has become the biggest internet scammer...nytimes.com/interactive/20… Christopher O'Neill

The "language" in LLMs is a misnomer. These devices do not have access to language. They provide a pastiche, and then invite us to pretend that it's language. The move here is to trap us into misunderstanding what language is.

Trump is defining an "honest" election as one that he wins. This is not simply saying there is no way he can lose, it is annulling the process itself. I'm not sure the coverage is capable of grasping the magnitude of this madness.

Annals of social recession 16.0...Don't talk to the person. Just make them pose to surrender some more data.

Refeudalization is watching Elon Musk spar with Taylor Swift on Twitter.