Emrys Schoemaker
@emryss.bsky.social
digital, social & political transformation; research & policy @ Caribou Digital & fellow @ LSE & Graduate Institute, Geneva; RT ≠ endorsement
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All #EuroskyLive sessions are now available to watch here
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featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
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featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
Eurosky: sovereign European technology
Eurosky is building European infrastructure for the open social web - the foundation that lets startups create safer, fairer social web products and services that users actually control, enabling Euro...
vimeo.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
All #EuroskyLive sessions are now available to watch here
vimeo.com/showcase/eur...
featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
vimeo.com/showcase/eur...
featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Mirror mirror on the wall…who’s that who keeps looking at me?!
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Mirror mirror on the wall…who’s that who keeps looking at me?!
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from Pitchbook daily newsletter. good luck with that, looking forward to it
![Musk wants X to be "purely AI," and is trying to replace all of the social media company's engineering staff with Grok. Two brothers from Ukraine are helping him do just that. [The Information]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2aiipqemoobrrilfx4jbm6pb/bafkreibekhw7m33fchgyec5w2pqj2m3oe6lzv4lylww6l7tsxkvvqt2gfm@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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India continues to innovate in #digitalID - will be interesting to see if this can be eIDAS / EUDI compliant…
UIDAI’s Latest Aadhaar App Turns Your Phone Into a Secure Digital ID Wallet buff.ly/552cqTu
"The newly launched Aadhaar app… functions as a secure digital wallet where users can store, display, and share their Aadhaar credentials safely and conveniently."
Quite interesting.
"The newly launched Aadhaar app… functions as a secure digital wallet where users can store, display, and share their Aadhaar credentials safely and conveniently."
Quite interesting.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
India continues to innovate in #digitalID - will be interesting to see if this can be eIDAS / EUDI compliant…
Years-old bugs in open source took out major clouds at risk • The Register
Years-old bugs in open source took out major clouds at risk
: Fluent Bit has 15B+ deployments … and 5 newly assigned CVEs
www.theregister.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Years-old bugs in open source took out major clouds at risk • The Register
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"“When powerful tech giants introduce new technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence, human rights can be the first casualty,”" news.un.org/en/story/202...
UN rights chief: AI misuse and corporate influence present ‘clear and present’ challenge
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, says major companies and fast-moving technologies are creating new challenges for tackling rights abuses – and that governments and businesses n...
news.un.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
"“When powerful tech giants introduce new technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence, human rights can be the first casualty,”" news.un.org/en/story/202...
Wonderful world, beautiful people
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Wonderful world, beautiful people
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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
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This is not the first time that Deloitte has been caught using generative AI to generate references to support their arguments. Any organization that has a report from Deloitte should do a careful review and rethink using Deloitte.
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/07/d...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/07/d...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is not the first time that Deloitte has been caught using generative AI to generate references to support their arguments. Any organization that has a report from Deloitte should do a careful review and rethink using Deloitte.
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/07/d...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/07/d...
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New article w @cearadau.bsky.social
Connecting feminist theory with technology studies, our lens - technosocial reproduction - explains how tech interventions should replenish rather than deplete the overlooked work people already do to sustain life.
www.eflux.com/architecture...
Connecting feminist theory with technology studies, our lens - technosocial reproduction - explains how tech interventions should replenish rather than deplete the overlooked work people already do to sustain life.
www.eflux.com/architecture...
Humanitarianism - Margie Cheesman et al. - Technosocial Reproduction and Humanitarian Reason
A white van rolled through the gates of a refugee camp in mainland Greece, its driver unloading a stack of pre-packaged lunches.
www.e-flux.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
New article w @cearadau.bsky.social
Connecting feminist theory with technology studies, our lens - technosocial reproduction - explains how tech interventions should replenish rather than deplete the overlooked work people already do to sustain life.
www.eflux.com/architecture...
Connecting feminist theory with technology studies, our lens - technosocial reproduction - explains how tech interventions should replenish rather than deplete the overlooked work people already do to sustain life.
www.eflux.com/architecture...
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🎧: Peter Thiel’s company has worked with Trump’s ICE and the Israeli military. Now it’s embedded in the British state. @libertyhq.bsky.social investigative journalist Mark Wilding joins the Prospect Podcast to discuss.
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company. Mark Wilding joins the podcast
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🎧: Peter Thiel’s company has worked with Trump’s ICE and the Israeli military. Now it’s embedded in the British state. @libertyhq.bsky.social investigative journalist Mark Wilding joins the Prospect Podcast to discuss.
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I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
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For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
Social Security Data Is Openly Being Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
wrd.cm
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
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This is a must-read analysis of the Trump administration's disgraceful, Kremlin-authored plot to sell Ukraine down the river and rehabilitate Putin's Russia as a respectable economic and political actor.
Europe cannot be complicit in this betrayal.
Europe cannot be complicit in this betrayal.
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This is a must-read analysis of the Trump administration's disgraceful, Kremlin-authored plot to sell Ukraine down the river and rehabilitate Putin's Russia as a respectable economic and political actor.
Europe cannot be complicit in this betrayal.
Europe cannot be complicit in this betrayal.
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Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem.
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem.
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
This is the thread we need for the times we live in:
You know, I want to read more utopian fiction. Something has changed in me. What are some of your favourite reads imagining a future where we all survive this, and build something together?
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is the thread we need for the times we live in:
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I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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As the EU #Digital #Sovereignty #Summit takes place in Berlin, Dr Kirk & myself explore why looking beyond the 'big state' framing of digital sovereignty is key - and the particular challenges that 'small states':
Small States, Big Stakes: Reframing Digital Sovereignty for the Many
If the last century’s struggle was over who controls information, Emrys Schoemaker and Tom Kirk argue that the next may be over who controls the infrastructures of trust. As leaders of the European Un...
www.globalpolicyjournal.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
As the EU #Digital #Sovereignty #Summit takes place in Berlin, Dr Kirk & myself explore why looking beyond the 'big state' framing of digital sovereignty is key - and the particular challenges that 'small states':
Sovereignty is green:
BRICS are greening. Our report finds. netzeropolicylab.com/brics-going-...
Clean energy and green manufacturing for BRICS countries is no longer just about climate but has increasingly become central to national economic and security strategies.
www.netzeropolicylab.com/brics-going-...
Clean energy and green manufacturing for BRICS countries is no longer just about climate but has increasingly become central to national economic and security strategies.
www.netzeropolicylab.com/brics-going-...
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Sovereignty is green: