Next week will be the last of our talks for 2023 at #MFU! But lucky for you we have two wonderful talks lined up. On Thursday 14 December the folks at Memefest will be giving their final talk in our 4 part series on Radical Intimacies. Poster details in thread 1/10

Next Thursday is the last of our four Radical Intimacies book launch sessions in collaboration with Melbourne Free University. This time two fantastic mental health activists will talk about how they see the ideas of the book and how they can make use of them in their work. Come and join us

The three book launch sessions so far were centered around talks by co-authors of the book. This - our last one in collaboration with the Melbourne Free University invites to mental health activist who engaged with the ideas in the book and will explain how they can use them.

The three book launch sessions so far were centered around talks by co-authors of the book. This - our last one in collaboration with the Melbourne Free University invites two mental health activist who engaged with the ideas in the book and will explain how they can use them.

Prompt-Specific Poisoning Attacks on Text-to-Image Generative Models arxiv.org/abs/2310.13828

theintercept.com/2024/01/12/ope…

India farmers' protest: X admits to taking down posts and accounts bbc.com/news/world-asi…

The reality of the Australian supermarkets: high-tech surveillance and control theconversation.com/the-secret-sau…

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This is an amazing book, we could not recommend it more!

This is very interesting and good! And open access too! Attention, moral skill, and algorithmic recommendation link.springer.com/article/10.100… Hannah Forsyth she/her 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.soci

Our podcast of the week discusses the corporate and financial actors that underpin our geopolitical order, the lessons for movements of resistance, and the possibilities for transformative change. With Thea Riofrancos & Ozzi Warwick for Transnational Institute buff.ly/3TdyyQ8

For no particular reason, a thread of resources about protest camps. 1/x Protest Camps in International Context: Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance Edited by Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel and Patrick McCurdy policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/protest-camps-…

Melbourne Free University, with the next great session!

Research on Australian universities showing a nearly complete lack of university expertise in their governing bodies

Definitely worth reading, Stephen Duncombe is great!

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/108…

We are shifting to BlueSky social as X is increasingly becoming a space that is too hostile. We might still post one or the other thing here in time but we hope to leave completely soon. Come and find us: Memefest.bsky.social

Memefest just dropped the Radical Intimacies podcast episode 1# : a dialogue between Oliver Vodeb and Colombian maverick anthropologist Arturo Escobar, looking into the nature and politics of participatory design. Check it out: tinyurl.com/4dbz6x3h