*Maybe AI is a really strong conservative force that only goes where the convenient Big Data already is
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d12n Research Cluster @ Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University (NL) • Digit(al)ization of culture, society, and scholarship
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Looking for examples: do you know any open source projects that have updated their contribution process to handle AI-assisted PRs thoughtfully?
Specifically interested in:
* PR templates that ask for intent/reasoning
* Policies around comprehension checks
* Other methods for adding more friction to creating a PR
Would love to learn from communities already experimenting here
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I'm going to Cables of Resistance, a movement conference for anti-fascist/anti-climate delay tech activism in Berlin in April. Anyone else I know planning on being there?
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Queen @cwebber in conversation with @jboy is something you do not want to miss 👀👀👀👀
Come to Social Media: We Can Change the Defaults! Free attendance, registration required.
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If you're in Amsterdam next week, our Executive Director @cwebber is giving a keynote: "We Can Change the Defaults: Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media" https://spui25.nl/programma/we-can-change-the-defaults-building-networks-of-consent-and-spaces-of-joy-in-the-ruins-of-social-media/
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Sharing this short piece, “The Matthew Effect in AI Summary,” about dynamics of cumulative advantage (and patterned reputation-laundering) in AI summary-and-citation tools from both the giant AI co’s & the big scholarly publishers https://www.jeffpooley.com/2025/11/the-matthew-effect-in-ai-summary/
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In Ecuador’s Pastaza province, the Kichwa community of Pakayaku has kept 400 km² of Amazon rainforest free from mining, oil and logging through a self-organised guardian force. 45 women patrol the territory, enforcing ancestral laws and mapping sustainable livelihoods in a “plan of life.” Their vigilance has preserved both forest ecosystems and cultural autonomy amid growing national extractive pressures. https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/indigenous-guardians-successfully-keep-extractives-out-of-ecuadors-amazon-forests/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Hey, there is a job opening at https://xpub.nl ! 🖨️ 💻 🔥
The Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing (aka XPUB) focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks. XPUB is a two-year, full-time program for practitioners either looking to extend their toolbox and ways of working, looking for new forms of collaboration, and/or looking for a space to step back and contextualize their practice in a larger historical theoretical understanding.
0.2 FTE, scale 11
You will be working with @automatist @ccl @G1ngG1ng @l03s @lidia_p @manetta and Steve Rushton
If you have questions you can DM @xpub
#fedihire #art #job #design #education #communityserver #publishing #infrastructure
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very looking forward to this keynote by @cwebber!
Social Media: We Can Change the Defaults
> Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media
Thursday, November 27 at 20:00 UTC+1
SPUI25, #Amsterdam (or streamed online!)
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In this OSINT project, Francesca Bria and José Bautista map the network of private platforms supporting authoritarianism in the U.S. and Europe.
Unlike old authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible. …
Each layer reinforces the others. Ideology justifies investment. Investment captures state power. State power secures contracts. Contracts build infrastructure. Infrastructure becomes indispensable. Indispensability generates returns. Returns fund more ideology.
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia!
https://apache.be/2025/10/24/belgian-ai-scientists-resist-use-ai-academia
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I will not talk with a chatbot
I do not want it while I shop
I do not want it on Windows X-box
I do not want it in Firefox
I do not want it in my house
I do not want it on my mouse
I do not want it here or there
I do not want it anywhere.
I do not want AI and Spam
I do not want them Sam-Alt-Man
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#Amsterdam, take note: Thursday, November 27, 2025 @cwebber of @spritely will give a keynote at #Spui25:
We Can Change the Defaults: Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media
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@cwebber's keynote wraps up this workshop I am organizing in Amsterdam on Nov 26-27:
https://nias.knaw.nl/events/code-as-critique/
The workshop brings together practitioner-researchers working on #permacomputing, #ServerCollectives, and #NetworksOfConsent to learn from one another and reflect on transformations of technical practice.
There are still a few spots available. Contact me if you'd like an invitation.
https://fed.leiden.digital/@d12n/statuses/01K82VPYD0FG9E6JADA9Z08HXJ
#Amsterdam, take note: Thursday, November 27, 2025 @cwebber of @spritely will give a keynote at #Spui25:
We Can Change the Defaults: Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media
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🔗 Ghost Workers in the AI Machine
This report by Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 9009 draws on a survey and in-depth interviews to shed light on the working conditions of North American data workers:
Despite being touted as the definitive technological breakthrough of this century, the conditions under which AI models and tools are produced by data workers, in a highly opaque and fissured global supply chain, are still underexplored. Studies of data workers in the Global South have begun to fill gaps in knowledge about the low-paid outsourced labor behind AI, but less is known about U.S. data workers’ conditions.
The report concludes with a discussion of how workers can build collective power, and how policymakers can take worker perspectives seriously as they address data workers’ labor conditions.
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Our institute is hiring a Lecturer in #VisualAnthropology and #Multimodal #Anthropology
https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/355045/lecturer-visual-and-multimodal-anthropology/
Our institute is hiring a Lecturer in #VisualAnthropology and #Multimodal #Anthropology
https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/355045/lecturer-visual-and-multimodal-anthropology/
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Very pleased to have been a part of this project - a great collaboration.
My contribution, an article, was specifically on helping chart a pathway for climate-facing organisations to shift from big tech platforms to self-hosted and sovereign infrastructure.
You can download the book free, or pre-order in print.
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We have a postdoc vacancy with the algosoc project situated in our programmable infrastructures team at TU Delft (the Netherlands).
The post focuses on the following: How do computational infrastructures (clouds + end devices) expand into sectoral/public organizations? Are current (digital) policies adequate in responding to their impact on administration of justice?
Please help spread the word and encourage people to apply. Contact me for questions.
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