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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 1d

Sonja Peteranderl is an investigative journalist & founder of BuzzingCities Lab. She covers crime, digital violence & security tech, and teaches at Hamburg Media School.
🎟️ Free entrance with registration disruptionlab.org/ev...
#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction #TechnoPolicing

A colorful background with with a black and white portrait of a person with long dark hair in an up-do, turned 3/4 to the camera smiling. This person is investigative journalist Sonja Peteranderl who will be speaking at the Techo-Policing and Civil Control Meet Up by Disruption Network Lab

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 3d

Join Sonja Peteranderl & Matthias Monroy for a Talk & Q&A on predictive policing & facial recognition in Germany.
📍 nGbK, Berlin
📅 Oct 16, 2025 | 7–9pm
🎟 Free w/ registration: disruptionlab.org/ev...
#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction #Technoviolence

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 5d

Journalist Namir Shabibi investigates how Big Tech & cloud infrastructures enable surveillance & targeting, shaping how civilians & migrants are controlled.

#DNI #thekillcloud

An informative carousel post of three slides with black backgrounds and colorful patterns with text introducing a DNI Research Topic for the 2025-2026 DNI Fellowship: Investigating the Killcloud: AI, Big Tech & Migration Control

An informative carousel post of three slides with black backgrounds and colorful patterns with text introducing a DNI Research Fellow for the 2025-2026 DNI Fellowship: Investigating the Killcloud: AI, Big Tech & Migration Control. This slide introduces one of the three fellows: Namir Shabibi

An informative carousel post of three slides with black backgrounds and colorful patterns with text introducing a DNI Research focus for the 2025-2026 DNI Fellowship

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 5d

Artist & scholar Tiara Roxanne investigates how predictive analytics & AI reduce migrants & Indigenous communities to data points on the border of Mexico and the US.

#DNI #Killcloud

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 5d

Whistleblower Cian Westmoreland investigates the global “Kill Cloud” – the global infrastructure of satellites, data centers, algorithmic targeting systems, and human operators that erase accountability.

http://thekill.cloud

#DNI #thekillcloud

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 6d

How should technology serve society not oppression?
The 2025–2026 DNI Fellowship asks: Which powers control AI? Who is targeted? Who is accountable? Findings will be shared at our Nov 2026 conference in Berlin.

http://thekill.cloud

#DNI #AI #CivilRights #Surveillance #KillCloud

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A digital fly of the Disruption Network Institute with a black background with blue and red patterns introducing the fellows of the 2025-2026 DNI Fellowship: Cian Westmoreland, Tiara Roxanne, and Namir Shabibi

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 6d

The 2025–2026 DNI Fellowship investigates how AI, Big Tech & predictive tools are weaponised in war zones, border regimes & cities exposing injustices & ethical challenges of data-driven warfare.
http://thekill.cloud
#DNI #AI #Surveillance #CivilRights #Killcloud

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 6d

The Disruption Network Institute opens its second fellowship round.
2025–2026 focus: Investigating the Kill Cloud: AI, Big Tech & Migration Control.

http://thekill.cloud

#AI #Surveillance #CivilRights #KillCloud #BigTech #MigrationControl #DNI

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 9d

Join Sonja Peteranderl (BuzzingCities Lab) & Matthias Monroy for a Talk & Q&A on predictive policing & facial recognition in Germany.
www.disruptionlab.org/event/techno...

📍 nGbK, Berlin
📅 Oct 16, 2025 | 7–9pm
🎟 Free w/ registration (70 seats)

#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction #Technoviolence

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 17d

Day 2 of Technoviolence ended with a critical panel on Big Tech & a powerful keynote by whistleblower Terry Albury & journalist Lynzy Billing.
Rima Sghaier’s workshop closes the weekend.

Next up: Techno-Policing.

#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 18d

KEYNOTE: Secrecy, Surveillance & Grassroots Resistance

Terry Albury (Former FBI Agent, Whistleblower, US)
Lynzy Billing (Investigative Journalist and Photographer, UK/AF/PK)

Moderated by Caitlin L Chandler (Writer, Journalist, US/DE).
#dnl36 #technoviolence

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 18d

Exploited, Extracted, Erased: The Global Logic of Big Tech
Safa Ghnaim speaks!

#dnl36 #technoviolence

Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 18d

Exploited, Extracted, Erased: The Global Logic of Big Tech
Lya Cuéllar speaks!

#dnl36 #technoviolence

Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 18d

Exploited, Extracted, Erased: The Global Logic of Big Tech
Sarah Ciston speaks!
#dnl 36 #technoviolence

Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 18d

Exploited, Extracted, Erased: The Global Logic of Big Tech

R.Sghaier speaks

#dnl 36

Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 18d

Day 1 of #Technoviolence erupted with urgency: whistleblowing, platform decay, algorithmic violence. We traced how power hides behind code and how communities reclaim visibility. Grateful. Ready for Day 2! #dnl36 #technoviolence #TechJustice

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 19d

Dismantling the Algorithmic Gaze with Anni Garza Lau and Gro Sarauw of the Ghost Agency.

#dnl36 #technoviolence #happeningnow

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 19d

Breaking down the Algorithmic Gaze with Heba Y. Amin

#dnl36 #algorithmicgaze #livestream #discussion

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 19d

Thoughts on the Algorithmic Gaze with Jennifer Kamau of International Women* Space

LIVESTREAM NOW!

#dnl36 #technoviolence #iwspace

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 19d

Book Launch:
On Platform Brutality
-Geert Lovink

#dnl36 #live #booklaunch #platformbrutality

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 19d

JOIN US LIVE FOR THE Q&A
www.disruptionlab.org

BREAKING THE CODE OF SILENCE

#dnl36 #ifeomaozoma #tammarrianrogers

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 19d

Lynzy Billing's New Lines essay retraces her childhood in Jerusalem. At #dnl36 she joins Terry Albury to expose state violence and systemic injustice.
Source: newlinesmag.com/firs...
#newperspectivesforaction

An image with a white background containing a New Lines Magazine headline, "Retracing a Childhood in Jerusalem: The author wanted never to return to Israel, but after Oct. 7 she went in search of the spaces between competing narratives"- titling the an article about Lynzy Billing. The image contains a black and white photo of Ms. Billing and a Disruption Network Lab banner graphic that has a quote from Ms. Billing, " "We learned how to administer our own adrenaline shots and went through daily drills [...] training to respond to a biological and chemical weapons attack. And just as I had done in earlier years, at any chance I got I would go and photograph war."

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 20d

YOU'RE INVITED!

YT LIVESTREAM: www.youtube.com/@Dis...
FB LIVESTREAM: fb.me/e/57gqsGxjG

Part of Re-Imagine Europe. Co-funded by the European Union.

#dnl36 #technoviolence #newperspectivesforaction #livestreaming #digitaljustice #whistleblowers #SystemicInjustice

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 20d

At #DNL36, whistleblower Terry Albury and journalist Lynzy Billing unpack the deep violence of surveillance and secrecy—from the FBI’s profiling tactics to CIA-led raids abroad.
A conversation about truth, risk, and resistance.
🎟 disruptionlab.org/te...
#Technoviolence #DNL36

A digital flyer for the Disruption Network Lab conference, Technoviolence displaying the title of a keynote, Secrecy, Surveillance & Grassroots Resistance. The flyer has colourful linked chains in the background.

The image displays a portrait of the speakers, Terry Albury, Lynzy Billing as well as the moderator, Caitlin L Chandler. The image has colourful linked chains in the background.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 20d

Big Tech's violence spans borders—from AI-led war to erasure of marginalised voices.
At #dnl36, experts from Tunisia, El Salvador, Palestine & the US expose its logic & offer tools to resist.
🎟️ 19–21 Sept · Berlin
#dnl36 #technoviolence #newperspectivesforaction

A digital flyer for the Disruption Network Lab conference, Technoviolence displaying the title of a panel: Exploited, Extracted, Erased: The Global Logic of Big Tech . The flyer has colourful linked chains in the background.

The image displays a portrait of the panelists: Rima Sghaier, Lya Cuéllar, Sarah Ciston, and Safa Ghnaim as well as the moderator, Nil Uzun. The image has colourful linked chains in the background.

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