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Jamie Driscoll @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social · 10d

The tiny numnber of far-right and just one of the anti-racist groups.

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Jamie Driscoll @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social · 10d

When 150 far-right tried to march through Newcastle yesterday, 3000 Geordies stopped them. I’m proud of our city and its people.
My article is a first-hand account of the day.
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Geordies weren't letting far-right fascists spout hate in their city this weekend

A far-right rogues gallery of racists came to Newcastle on Saturday 27 September - and yes, racists is the correct term. Or fascists...

www.thecanary.co

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · 11d

Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · 11d

Today Newcastle stood united. ✊🏼

The far-right were in town trying to spread their hate and division. Only about 200 turned up.

Over 3000 canny geordies, including dozens of Majority members stopped them marching and sent them packing!
#TheyDidNotPass #NaePasaran

Image of a crowd of protesters at grey’s monument in Newcastle, holding placards saying Majority against racism.

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Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · 14d

📣Victory! 📣

Advance UK conference in #Newcastle cancelled.

Their leader convicted drug dealer & violent thug, Tommy Robinson, won’t appear - huge thanks to Majority members on the frontline & community groups & campaigners leading the fight.
#NotInOurCity
#WeAreTheMajority

= ChronicleLive
NEWS
IN YOUR AREA WHAT'S ON NUFC SAFC
NEWS
Newcastle City
Council-owned hotel
cancels planned launch of new party backed by Tommy
Robinson
BUSINI

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Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you missed our sold out conference on Saturday, this is a brilliant summary from @northeastbylines.co.uk

If you’re done sitting on the sidelines join us today 👇🏼

Packed out Majority
Conference with Zarah Sultana and Jamie
Driscoll
Over 300 packed Newcastles Discovery
Museum as Jamie Driscoll and Zarah Sultana launched a call for new politics
by Anya Cook - 08-09-2025 09:02
AA

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Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am very excited and honoured to be the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant, starting January 2026 🔆 @erc.europa.eu. The five-year project will explore the broader social, political, and ethical implications of training algorithmic models on synthetic data. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

New project to investigate societal consequences of using synthetic data to train algorithms

Researchers in the University of York’s Department of Sociology will lead one of the first large-scale, systematic social science studies of synthetic data.

www.york.ac.uk

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Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for winning the Green party leadership with a stunning 84.6% of the vote.

There is a real appetite for genuine change in this country, and a broad progressive coalition will bring it.

We look forward to working with Zack and the Greens in the future!

Picture of Zack Polanski. Leadership elections results
New Leader
Zack Polanski
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party,
both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Aug 15

I love collaborative research, and I am proud of this paper and all the effort that went into it. I would like to thank the collaborators Kristian Bondo Hansen, Nanna Thylstrup, Ruowen Xu, Alex Preda, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Till Straube, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor.
Let me know what you think!

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Aug 15

We also investigate the limits of current conceptualizations of hybridity and hybridization, and call for future research on these topics that stays close to the technologies under studies and the multiple human and more-than-human contributions that make them possible.

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our paper finally has a house in Distinktion's Volume 26, Issue 1 (2025): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We investigate how general purpose technologies AI&blockchain produce hybridization of 1. material infrastructures 2. power, politics and institutional arrangements 3. domain expertise.

Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies

This article proposes three distinct perspectives on and approaches to the study of hybridisation across society, industries, and academia enabled by General Purpose Technologies like AI and blockc...

www.tandfonline.com

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Jun 13

OpenAI will not “embed” its tools in college life, it is already changing the nature of what it means to learn, to read or think critically. It does not embed in the world, it makes the world in its image. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

www.nytimes.com

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jun 10

The 10th STS Italia Conference kicks off tomorrow, 11 June, in Milan. If you’re around, you’re very welcome to join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me for our two sessions on ‘Simondon & AI’ in the afternoon. Abstract details here: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...

fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Dec 12

CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.

For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

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Jamie Driscoll @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social · May 28

I’m straight, but for years I’ve flown the Pride flag behind me in every TV interview because I support freedom, tolerance and solidarity.🏳️‍🌈
The decision by the County Durham RefUK administration to take it down signals hostility. This letter from Bishop Auckland Pride explains it beautifully.

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Majority @majorityuk.bsky.social · May 27

“Labour has become the oppressor…..Labour’s oh-so-clever strategists are moronically gift wrapping the country for Nigel Farage.”

Majority puts people at the heart of politics. The political class are not going to save us, we have to save ourselves.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George Monbiot

Labour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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

Don’t miss @selinnugent.bsky.social’s great piece in the AI & Society special issue that @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and I are guest editing, exploring evolutionary analogies in AI research and how biological diction shapes imaginaries of AI as individuated systems link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Apr 10

Really exciting and timely stuff on the materiality of computing infrastructures. Thanks so much @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for sharing your work with us and to our brilliant audience for an engaging discussion! 🙏

Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Apr 10

This was a fantastic event with a great and engaged audience. I have learned so much from the questions I received and I have now a lot of food for thought on topics of AI's materiality, environmental impact, edge and cloud infrastructures, and much more

Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Apr 9

Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thanks to the organizers @benedetta.bsky.social, @sj-bennett.bsky.social, @srravya.bsky.social, Aditi Surana and Lara Dal Molin. Thank you also to the members of the audience @pipt.bsky.social, and more whose contacts I don't have at the moment. Events like these are what academia should be about!

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Apr 10

This was a fantastic event with a great and engaged audience. I have learned so much from the questions I received and I have now a lot of food for thought on topics of AI's materiality, environmental impact, edge and cloud infrastructures, and much more

Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Apr 9

Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!

AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations

⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Apr 9

Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!

AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations

⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO

Between Dark and Green Silicon: Geographies of Cloud and Edge AI

This talk by Ludovico Rella discusses how tracking energy consumption traces the material political economy of Edge and Cloud AI

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations

⬇️ sign up here:
shorturl.at/uVTdO

Between Dark and Green Silicon: Geographies of Cloud and Edge AI

This talk by Ludovico Rella discusses how tracking energy consumption traces the material political economy of Edge and Cloud AI

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · Mar 10

In their fascinating exchange, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and colleagues argue that technologies like AI and blockchain cause hybridisation in the realms of materiality, power and expertise www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies

This article proposes three distinct perspectives on and approaches to the study of hybridisation across society, industries, and academia enabled by General Purpose Technologies like AI and blockc...

www.tandfonline.com

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Feb 21

I may add also @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @susanaaires.bsky.social

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jan 31

The deadline in next Monday, 3 February

@susanaaires.bsky.social
@ludovico-rella.bsky.social

fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Dec 12

CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.

For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Jan 30

Excited to be heading to Paris for this fantastic lineup of scholars on #AI #materiality and #infrastructures! Thank you Loup, Valentin, Hugo, Adrien and Theo for inviting me!
@ana_valdi, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Aurélie Bugeau, @Algosoc_ERC

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Jan 29

It is hilarious for OpenAI to panic about distillation and IP theft, after they argued that material on the internet is fair game. Not to endorse DeepSeek, but openness seems a performative tool to defend one's position in a military industrial complex shorturl.at/L686K

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.

shorturl.at

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