Hey, remember back when Google’s motto was “don’t be evil” and people actually believe them? That was hilarious. Google is not your friend: theguardian.com/environment/20…

👉We are very excited to announce the launch of the special issue of Computational Culture on “Apps and Infrastructures” (open access🔓), eds. Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond, @nieborg.bsky.social, & Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social)! 👉We also revamped the journal’s website!✨ computationalculture.net/issue-seven/ (thread below)

.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Could I run ads on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal? Mark Zuckerberg: I don’t know the answer to that off the top of my head. I think probably.

"To make visible the ongoing call-for-action for equal rights and fair payment in the arts, the researchers and artists Ahmet Öğüt and Burak Arıkan founded the outstanding online platform Code of Acquisitions." artfridge.de/2019/10/interv…

Breaking: We've seen Sidewalk Labs's "yellow book," a document from 2016 that lays out the company's founding vision, including a social credit system, tracking and predicting people’s movements, and data-driven criminal justice processes theglobeandmail.com/business/artic… #topoli

Fantastic article on "Homophily: The Urban History of an Algorithm" in e-flux by Laura Kurgan Dare Brawley Brian House jiazhang @whkchun, including discussion on "racial attitudes", omitted data, conceptual inflection points, early "like" buttons & more: e-flux.com/architecture/a…

Happy to launch a new project! "The Hidden Life of an Amazon User" sheds light on the environmental costs of Amazon’s aggressive monetization of its users: the user is not just exploited by means of free labor, but is also forced to assume the energy costs of such exploitation.

Amnesty: "How the business model of Google and Facebook threatens human rights" amnesty.org/en/documents/p…

#Neural [#bookreview] #Gadget #Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of #SocialMedia - @josshands - Pluto Press - review > bit.ly/2Hlom3y

Digital socialism, Reimagining social democracy for the 21st century by Evgeny Morozov (on how to reduce the power of Google and Facebook and the ownership and control of infrastructure) eurozine.com/digital-social…

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My review of @josshands' excellent book 'Gadget Consciousness' is available now at: marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/18032_…. Required reading for anyone interested in radical political responses to the age of social media and the internet of things.

Introduction to A Research Agenda for Digital Politics: elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/97… Elgar Politics Network Politics LSE British Politics and Policy

New article in Javnost - @josshands discusses the revival of public reason during the COVID 19 pandemic - but also the threats of the right misusing notions of postmodernism and reason to undermine meaningful deliberation. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

LLMs like GPT4 will empower employers to sack workers, who will later be reemployed in precarious lower paid roles to fix the ensuing problems. Never mind 'Prompt Engineer' you can look forward to 'GPT Output Cleaner' & 'BARD Sanitation Operative'. #gpt #precarity #carework

« Call on all #AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. » Letter signed by major AI researchers, including #Bengio and #Musk futureoflife.org/open-letter/pa…

I'm all in favour of a reasoned dismantling of disingenuous bullshit like the 'pause AI' letter, as long as we remember it isn't going to be resolved by discourse. This is a political struggle which will ultimately be decided in our workplaces, communities and streets #resistAI