"We were excited to have a panel accepted on the role of technology in genocide in Gaza at this year’s Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels. However, CPDP then requested that Access Now & others remove the word “genocide” from panel titles & descriptions. We declined."

Thinking of everyone marching against racism in Amsterdam today, and getting ready for our Tilburg University strike in a couple of weeks…

Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

The Editorial College at the journal Migration Politics seeks proposals from an editorial team that is willing to take on the management of the journal for a four-year term starting in December 2025.
The full call is here: migrationpolitics.org/call-for-pro...

Day 1 of the national strikes against cuts in higher education and research 🟥

First op Leiden 💪🏽

@woinactie.bsky.social

Students and parents: now is the time to fight for your, your kids’ and future generations’ education.

Nederlanders moeten het bij ramp of aanval minstens 72 uur gezellig kunnen hebben met elkaar

…because all of us out here until now trusted US defence contractors implicitly

Anyone who thinks the words ‘privacy’, ‘trust’ and ‘control’ currently belong in the same sentence as ‘information’ is selling something.

WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

#ProtectNotSurveil position paper:
We demand the full rejection of the #Europol reform! 👎

Here’s why:

❌ Fails to protect migrants or reduce border deaths
👁 Power grab by Europol
🛑 Criminalisation of migrants and solidarity organisers

Read more:

"It’s a major complaint of the [Palantir-affiliated] authors of The Technological Republic that ppl today shrink from saying what they think... I agree, and I’m going to break the taboos. The Technological Republic is a terrible book: badly written, tedious, and... full of bad ideas."

Really nice state-of-the-art synopsis from @linadencik.bsky.social on #datajustice, useful for understanding both our current weird regulatory moment, and the more important question of what the notion of justice in relation to datafication and #AI is for: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This 👇 doesn't grow old!
Sacha Baron Cohen is brilliant.
(The Dictator, 2012)

this is another reason why 'AI safety' was and is a red herring. it starts from the existing business models and market agenda of tech firms, and is a way of ensuring restructuring and governance reform can't happen. It creates safety from regulation for tech firms, not safety from harm for people.

*actual* tech ethics is something that is imposed from below, through changes in governance that give affected people concrete ways of resisting harm and shaping tech. Or engage in creating entirely different tech. Companies will never be in favour of it because it happens at their expense.

For those doing critical research on tech, the abrupt evaporation of 'tech ethics' beginning from the US is not surprising. It was a business strategy (albeit involving good and dedicated people) not a set of beliefs. It's interchangeable with other business strategies, and was always contingent.

Does a single webpage that just lists the latest happenings in the ongoing American crisis/coup, with sources, exist? Or do we need to make one?

and it's pronounced Chal - chiu - tlic - weh - ye - catul

Niagree

remember this guy?
youtube.com/shorts/Kb7zW...

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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