Balkan post-soc doing critical digital studies
Joined July 2012
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@PrecAnthro mentioned here as one of the good examples of academics organising against precarity and raising awareness of it
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Young victim of Israel’s pager attack tells Iraqi TV “I was playing on my phone at home. I heard the pager ring, I didn't know that sound. I grabbed it, and I barely had time to press OK before it exploded”
When Biden officials make pager jokes, this is what they’re laughing at:
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Tracing the infrastructure of AI to mines, chip factories, data centers, and e-waste dumps, our video of the week unveils the environmental harms of the supply chain capitalism data centers.
Feat. Ana Valdivia at @oiioxford
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Using AI to simulate its architects and generate alternate histories, our hidden gem of the week revisits Chile’s Cybersyn project as a means to counter neoliberal capitalist realism and expand economic imagination.
By @lukemunn & @liam_magee
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Y'all write about them creating "superintelligent" machines when they can't even have speech transcription tools that don't randomly add things.
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Raise your hand if you are with @SMARTYMobileUK and have not had mobile reception for weeks or months on end. Major failure of this company and no solution offered to customers so far. Can a mobile provide even be allowed to operate if they don't provide reception for months?
An article that deserves more citations. Kaljund on how Estonia reimagine issues of national sovereignty and security through the infrastructure of the cloud #cloud #datacenters anthrosource.onlinelibrary.w…
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Fresh off the press. Our analysis of alignment and its roots in historical debates about linguistic science and statistics, with @liam_magee and Karen Soldatic
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The submission prepared by Julia Rone and colleagues builds on the discussions from a workshop that gathered researchers (myself included) and activists in mid-June and focuses specifically on data centres and their environmental and social impact in UK and the EU.
We need better policymaking and particip on data centres. Our response to @EU_Commission's consult on digital futures outlines 4 priorities:
🟢transparency
🟢research, collab, and digital literacy
🟢financial incentives
🟢national moratoria & EU-wide law
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🎉 Launching online today:
"Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500."
Dive into our large-scale interactive visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. 🧵 calculatingempires.net/
A huge percentage of data in data centres is not even used, i.e. 'rot data'. From the workshop on democratic participation in computing infrastructures at Minderoo centre for technology and democracy
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Enjoy the beautiful and poignant writing of @andretwp
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Nearly 50 years after it was made, a pristinely restored Manthan, India’s first crowdsourced film received a red-carpet world premiere at Cannes alongside classics from Godard and Kurosawa. This is the story of its 4K restoration. #cannes2024
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In the wonderful world of student essays written through AI translation, McLuhan's The medium is the message becomes Media is information. And who am I to judge when the medium itself hath spoken.
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Four days left to apply for the first @EASAinfo summer school in ethnography ‼️
𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗡𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗖 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
💫 The first ever EASA #PhD summer school
📅 July 17-22, 2024
📌 Barcelona #EASA2024 Venue: @UOCuniversity
⏰ Please apply before May 17, 2024!
More info ⤵️
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Read eight contributions from regional experts across the world to get a sense of national narratives and geopolitical ambitions that drive the current state-of-play. An executive summary of key themes across these regions is HERE: ainowinstitute.org/general/a… 6/6
