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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 6d

Soooo, is there a Mrs. Pope?

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 6d

Mr. Pope, sir, please step outside of the vehicle with your hands clearly visible. Thank you Your Holiness, sir

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Marijn Sax @marijnsax.bsky.social · 6d

Rechter: Instagram en Facebook moeten algoritmevrije optie krijgen - nos.nl/l/2584891

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you 👍😊👊

Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 6d

Really happy to be joining the AIMD Lab, one of the most exciting research spaces in Europe to study tech and media!

AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social · 7d

@ferraribraun.bsky.social just joined our lab! As a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam's Media Studies department, he's interested in how digital technologies have been changing the production environments of news organisations.

Welcome, Agustin!

More info: www.aim4dem.nl/about-agusti...

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Vera Moreijn @veramoreijn.bsky.social · 7d

Ik herhaal ook hierover weer mijn plea: media, alsjeblieft, BESTEED HIER AANDACHT AAN. Wilders' programma staat vol met punten die voor trans mensen het leven volstrekt onmogelijk zouden maken. Ik heb er NIET EEN krant of tv-programma over gehoord. Nogmaals, ik licht het desnoods punt voor punt toe.

dr. Marina @drmarina.bsky.social · 7d

Wilders: “More and more people today have enough of the woke-madness and transgender ideology.” Is transgender een ideologie? Feit is dat ook bij Wilders transgenders niet veilig zijn.

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 9d

"Every sovereign AI initiative should be mandated to serve the public good. These systems must legally demonstrate that they fulfill publicly defined goals, with their performance measured and reported openly"

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 9d

We must move past a simplistic view of techno nationalism and embark on the challenging work of establishing digital infrastructures that are powerful, participatory, transparent, and fundamentally accountable to the people they serve, writes @Vaibhav Chhimpa.

How National AI Clouds Undermine Democracy | TechPolicy.Press

The global rush toward digital sovereignty overlooks a significant and growing threat to the democracies it claims to defend, writes Vaibhav Chhimpa.

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Merijn Oudenampsen @merijnoudenampsen.org · 14d

Goede repliek op dat rare item over eenkennige universiteiten van @nieuwsuur.nl.

Opinie: De universiteit is geen talkshowtafel

De druk op academische vrijheid komt niet vanuit studenten, maar vanuit politieke partijen die zich willen bemoeien met de inhoud van colleges. Ook media dragen daar aan bij door onvoldoende kritisch ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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publictechmedialab.bsky.social @publictechmedialab.bsky.social · 16d

The @publictechmedialab.bsky.social just got bigger! Welcome @ferraribraun.bsky.social, who is joining us as a research fellow!

Agustin is a PhD researcher at the AlgoSoc Consortium, affiliated with Media Studies and the @ivir-uva.bsky.social at UvA.

See more info: https://ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu/

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 19d

Been talking nonstop about this shameful episode for the past two days & this point needs to be underscored: It's the culmination of longstanding structural defects in our media, not simply the bad actions of bad actors. What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is a downstream manifestation of systemic probs:

Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 20d

Talked to Jim Rutenberg at the NYT about whether there were any historical precedents in the U.S. for Trump's frontal assault on our media, especially this kind of FCC intervention focused on silencing dissent, directly violating free speech, etc. Could think of none: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...

Trump Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring Media to Heel

www.nytimes.com

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 23d

"We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting..."

Imma be honest with you, I don't think this qualifies as reputable science

Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 23d

Doing de poldermodel but your only stakeholder is Wierd Duk

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 23d

I don't know what is going on at Nieuwsuur this season. Their coverage of the fascist demo in London was also spectacularly off the mark

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 23d

We were chatting about this in the office the other day, is there a single reputable study that backs the claim that phones are addictive, or did everyone just badly read Addiction by Design and just went with it?

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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 24d

Together with Marc Tuters and @robtoes.bsky.social I wrote an essay on the Charlie Kirk assassination, the Groypers - Nick Fuentes connection and the state of memetic political violence today oilab.eu/frozen-antag...

Frozen Antagonisms: Charlie Kirk, Groypers, and the Meme Politics of Violence – OILab

oilab.eu

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 26d

I really believe that disentangling this apparatus is the task for social sciences and the humanities in the foreseeable future. Nothing else is as urgent as this

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 27d

I can’t quite put it into words yet, but something is happening, a kind of global singularity—a fusion of tech/media/news/government/employment which allows the global elite to push single agendas: “You WILL care about Charlie Kirk. You will NOT care about Palestine. You WILL fear cancel culture.”

Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 27d

Think we are up to 8 bbc news alerts about charlie kirk.

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Guus Valk @guusvalk.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · Aug 26

Literally tho, I came to verify a thing about the Luddites and stayed for the whole ride

Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · Aug 26

Picked this up last year to quickly check a couple of facts and I simply couldn't put it down.

Strongly recommend it

Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Aug 26

Coming soon in paperback!

The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · Aug 24

It's been over 15 years since the original was published and 8 since the follow-up, but Tarlton Gillespie's papers on the platform metaphor remain a fundamental read to avoid falling into these traps

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

culturedigitally.org/2017/08/plat...

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · Aug 12

Idk, man. Sure, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore might have theorised this, but the most intelligent radical leftists of 2020 have decided that our entire political horizon should be mayoral primaries, so I'm afraid that we all need to start wearing NYPD hoodies

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · Aug 10

De cloud is officieel genoemd "infonuagique". Ze zijn de beste

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · Aug 8

Sad to hear about the passing of Michel Callon, one of the most important STS scholars ever

Sylvain Bourmeau @sylvainbourmeau.bsky.social · Aug 7

Je suis triste ce soir d’apprendre la mort de Michel Callon, que j’ai commencé à lire au mitan des années 1980, en même temps que son ami et co-auteur Bruno Latour. Quel choc ce fut, en 1986, de lire son article (devenu célèbre) sur les coquilles Saint-Jacques dans la baie de Saint-Brieuc…

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · Aug 6

There's blood on our servers.

Conor Humphries @conorhumphries.bsky.social · Aug 6

Files suggest that by July this year, 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data – equivalent to approximately 200m hours of audio – was held in Microsoft’s Azure servers in the Netherlands, while a smaller proportion was stored in Ireland. @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

www.theguardian.com

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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · Aug 4

All of those contextual elements seem pretty important for both identifying possible craters and accurately informing your audience