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Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 14d

🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?

Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks for sharing!

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 27

Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency by @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @casey-lynch.bsky.social in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency

This article interrogates the reconfiguration of human-technology relationships through urban artificial intelligence (AI), complicating how the human subject is understood and invoked within urban...

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jun 23

Excited to share a new open access article with @casey-lynch.bsky.social, just out in @urbangeography.bsky.social:
"Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency":

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jun 23

New article in Urban Geography! @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and I question concepts of intelligence, autonomy, and agency in urban AI literature through a discussion of the critical posthumanisms of Braidotti, Latour, and (in particular) Hayles to multiply the sites and actors of urban AI politics.

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Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jun 23

doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency

This article interrogates the reconfiguration of human-technology relationships through urban artificial intelligence (AI), complicating how the human subject is understood and invoked within urban...

doi.org

Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jun 23

New article in Urban Geography! @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and I question concepts of intelligence, autonomy, and agency in urban AI literature through a discussion of the critical posthumanisms of Braidotti, Latour, and (in particular) Hayles to multiply the sites and actors of urban AI politics.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Apr 25

Governance can't be automated. A new one from me in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Governance can’t be automated

On the corners of the Holborn viaduct in central London, there are four statues: Commerce, Agriculture, Fine Art, and Science. The figure representing Science looks like she should be in Ancient Greec...

www.science.org

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 19

If you’re comfortable, here’s a form to submit info on terminated NSF grants for greater collective transparency and insight among grantees:

Kudos to @scott-delaney.bsky.social for putting together.

airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Mar 7

It's pruning season in the wine vineyards. on CAs Central Coast. Gerardo is grinding the branches and trunks that other workers pruned to make mulch that will be used to control weeds, improve soil health, and help the vines withstand extreme temperatures. #WeFeedYou

A farm worker sitting on the tractor he uses to move the grinder

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Australian Geographer @austgeo.bsky.social · Feb 28

Iveson, K., & Melo Zurita, M. de L. (2025). The ups and downs of telecommunications infrastructure: the urban geopolitics of communications cabling in colonial Sydney. Australian Geographer, 1–31.

#geosky

The ups and downs of telecommunications infrastructure: the urban geopolitics of communications cabling in colonial Sydney

Australian Geographer

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Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · Feb 24

First proper article in five years, due to life stuff. If you’re interested in work, automation, the future & imagination this may be of interest #geosky

doi.org/10.1177/0263...

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Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jan 30

@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Feb 13

Have you always wanted to learn about social and ethical dimensions of geotechnologies? #GéoTechE free online course now open for sign up! www.geoversity.io/courses/geot... Including introduction to #CriticalRemoteSensising #GeoAIEthics #CriticalDataStudies and much much more!

www.geoversity.io

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Feb 12

“African Tech Workers Rising is organising for better wages, mental health protections and professional standards in Kenya and beyond. We are doing this because AI is not magic. Behind every algorithm are thousands of hidden workers labelling, training & moderating data under precarious conditions.”

I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour | Sonia Kgomo

Tech firms must invest in and respect the people who filter social media and label the data that AI relies on, says Sonia Kgomo, an organiser with African Tech Workers Rising

www.theguardian.com

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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · Feb 12

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE
@rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham.

Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes

DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇

www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

'Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance' CfP at the RGS-IBG, Birmingham 2025 — Regional Futures

Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, Birmingham 2025 Session Organisers: Prof Ayona Datta, Dr Fenna Hoefsloot, Dr Mariana Reyes ...

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Feb 9

I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing @erinmcel.bsky.social “Silicon Valley Imperialism” published by @dukepress.bsky.social. Spoiler alert: it’s excellent! You can read my review in Dialogues in Urban Research here: doi.org/10.1177/2754...

What is Silicon Valley Imperialism? - Sophia Maalsen, 2025

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · Feb 4

May we stop entertaining industry self-regulation as a viable constraint now?

Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance

Google published principals in 2018 barring its AI technology from being used for sensitive purposes. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, those guidelines are being overhauled.

www.wired.com

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Jan 30

Are you thinking through questions about authoritarianism & AI? Do you like geographers? If so, please consider this session on ‘Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI’ by @casey-lynch.bsky.social & @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social & myself which we are hoping to get up at this year’s RGS-IBG.

Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jan 30

@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

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Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jan 30

@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · Jan 15

👆Presentations by fantastic scholars @samkinsley.uk @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @marxist.af @casey-lynch.bsky.social Matt Zook, Jingya Dai, Sanjana Krishnan, Otello Palmini, Luis Lozano-Paredes, Elizabeth Resor.

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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · Jan 15

Thrilled to announce our triple session on 'Urban AI Spectrums' in the @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2025 meeting in Detroit. Co-organised with Federico Cugurullo and Caprotti.

Join us on 26 March 2025, Room 330A, Level 3, Huntington Place.

www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

'Urban AI Spectrums' triple session at the AAG 2025, Detroit — Regional Futures

Urban AI spectrums Sponsored by the Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group (CISG) and the Digital Geographies Specialty Group (DGSG) in AAG Organisers: Federico Cugurullo (Trinity College Dubli...

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🦋Comisiones Obreras @ccoo.bsky.social · Jan 7

Cualquier posibilidad de negociación colectiva desaparece. Una especie de espiral del silencio. Se debe considerar la culminación del modelo socioeconómico neocapitalista. Al menos, hasta ahora… ¿Podría comenzar a cambiar?

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🦋Comisiones Obreras @ccoo.bsky.social · Jan 7

#GenteConClase Nº 79 “Caso Glovo o el principio del fin de la precariedad pedaleante” #PincharElGlovo
genteconclase.ccoo.es

Las personas empleadas en las plataformas como Glovo no establecen una relación de dependencia en el trabajo respecto a otras personas, sino respecto a un algoritmo opaco.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jan 5

“While SB 1120 does not entirely prohibit the use of AI technology, it mandates that human judgment remains central to coverage decisions. Under the new law, AI tools cannot be used to deny, delay or alter health care services deemed medically necessary by doctors.”

New California law prohibits using AI as basis to deny health insurance claims

While SB 1120 does not entirely prohibit the use of AI technology, it mandates that human judgment remains central to coverage decisions

www.mercurynews.com

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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · Dec 27

Barcelona now the European spyware centre, especially for Israeli experts avoiding the live war for cybercrime thinly disguised www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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