First was an engaging session on the role of data science in understanding and shaping the public interest at the LSE with @abpowell.bsky.social, @chrishwiggins.bsky.social, and Erin Young www.youtube.com/live/tLIV4xg... (2/5)

Last week, DSI and the Department of Media and Communications (@lsemedia.bsky.social) hosted a talk on data science's role in public interest – from access to info to democracy.

Speakers included Chris Wiggins, @abpowell.bsky.social and Erin Young.

Watch here▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIV...

🤖 The power of #data: #ethics #politics & #publicinterest @lsedatascience.bsky.social

📅 Thurs 8 May 2025 6.30-8pm

@abpowell.bsky.social & experts discuss important questions around the role of data science in understanding & shaping the public interest

Find out more: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

This is exciting. This is (something like? Some part of?) what I was hoping to see, hoping to create. If you'd like me to come and talk about deceptive stories of technology, or do tech policy tarot, get in touch. We could collab on sensible things too :-)

💬 Minkälaisia rooleja teknologiaan liittyvissä tarinoissa ja narratiiveissa voi havaita? Pitäisikö nykyisille tarinoille ja narratiiveille miettiä vaihtoehtoja?

Tätä pohdittiin 29.1. Scholarly Talkissa
@abpowell.bsky.social sekä diskussanttien Yana Boevan & Santeri Räisäsen kanssa. Lue lisää 👇

Where can we find other stories for tech policy? My "Repairing Systems and Stories" at U Helsinki gets beyond critique by playing around with narrative structure - involving live Tarot readings for policy projects. Enjoy! www.helsinki.fi/fi/unitube/v...

glad you liked it!

And if you're still reading - I think this article really shows how joyful creativity can counter the debilitating deluge of AI-schlock in academia and elsewhere. Come for the AI policy; stay for the Shakespeare jokes.

I've got the most fun, hilarious, enlightening article with Fenwick McKelvey in this special issue. It's all about the **drama*** of AI policy-making publicera.kb.se/jdsr/article...

Are you working on automation of care? The private/public spaces of genomic databases? Epistemic justice? Submit to 4S open panel hosted by @philippseuferling.bsky.social and me - focusing on deceptive narratives and health and care systems. www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem... we are Open Panel 47.

TOMORROW! London friends, come to this LSE talk / book launch for #Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful, chaired by @abpowell.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social For those further afield you can join remotely, details below ⬇️ Book details here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

I've written a few pieces about the idea of the 'more-than-human, looking at 'otherness' 'risk' and 'danger', and how more-than-human ecologies don't only repair the artificial fracture between society and nature, they also allow for deep reflection on humanity itself. ugp.rug.nl/potcj/articl...

I need to make a confession. I don't know how to "do" social media any more. I'm a different person than I used to be. The previous person was into Networking. This person is mostly interested in Doing The Work. I like the memes though, thanks.

This line really got me: "even though women academic experts posted as frequently as male experts on Twitter and followed and engaged with similar numbers of people, they, amassed, on average, only half as many followers as their male colleagues. Male experts also got nearly double as many likes"

I'm so happy to see this. I've been thinking recently about "digital innovation harm reduction" - that is, rebalancing how innovation is thought about, who benefits from it and how it is done. Rachel's done so much of the heavy lifting to start and connect work in this area - hope to join in

Wonderful! Already shared to my students.

I have mixed feelings about a focus on AI metaphors. If one knows that an LLM is an elaborate autocorrect, one might read 'intelligent machine' as a metaphor to critique. But much of public press is shaped towards the idea that the robots are smart, and there's nothing we can do about it.

News from Aotearoa, where the treaty governing the country has *two versions* - only one that Māori signatories agreed to. Soon to be published is a PhD by my student Henry Lyons investigating the epistemic, ontological and land-based issues that have resulted, in the here and now

I have a periodically pinched nerve in the neck which makes a migraine-like effect.... stress triggered obviously. But no stress here! Totally relaxing time! Nothing awry at all! (etc)

I've discovered I might have nerve headaches for four years. That'll bring the twitch

Thinking about how to avoid US owned compute...? "How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing: A unit of Europe’s largest retailer is offering IT services to companies wary of big providers such as Amazon and Google" www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

“One of the many fascinating facts in the report is that businesses based in the town centre earn 20% more profit when there’s a bank and post office on the high street. It’s clear that public realm improvements can provide multi-dimensional benefits.”
www.livingstreets.org.uk/press-media/...

Hello to everyone. These days most of my energies are going to teaching that the current arrangements of power/discourse/technology are not inevitable - but I did write this short thing recently on how AI is expensive blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

New - and ever more crucial report - on carceral AI, a growing class of algorithmic and data-driven practices designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control people.

Recommendations, report, and beautiful artwork too!
www.carceral-ai.com Spearheaded by @dashapruss.bsky.social