MJ Lira
@mjlira.bsky.social
Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Digital rights advocacy and research | Peruvian in London
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MJ Lira
@mjlira.bsky.social
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Just wrapped up a fantastic reading group session with the unbeatable @karenhao.bsky.social. Thank you so much @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social for making this happen and all who attended!
✨ alternative digital futures are possible! ✨
✨ alternative digital futures are possible! ✨
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⏮️ Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age
Catch up on our recent #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social,
@ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti.
📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/ZJbQSUn
Catch up on our recent #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social,
@ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti.
📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/ZJbQSUn
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
⏮️ Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age
Catch up on our recent #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social,
@ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti.
📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/ZJbQSUn
Catch up on our recent #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social,
@ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti.
📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/ZJbQSUn
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
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Tapping the sign again
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Tapping the sign again
Some days are so bleak you need to make pastina from scratch
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Some days are so bleak you need to make pastina from scratch
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Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
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«ChatGPT told a young mother in Maine that she could talk to spirits in another dimension. It told an accountant in Manhattan that he was in a computer-simulated reality … It told a corporate recruiter in Toronto that he had invented a math formula that would break the internet …» #ParanoiaMachine
For the last few months, we've been talking to current and former employees of OpenAI to understand what went wrong with ChatGPT this year and how the company is fixing it. Here's the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
«ChatGPT told a young mother in Maine that she could talk to spirits in another dimension. It told an accountant in Manhattan that he was in a computer-simulated reality … It told a corporate recruiter in Toronto that he had invented a math formula that would break the internet …» #ParanoiaMachine
Ok but was he being nice towards Zohran or lowkey patronizing… 😶
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Ok but was he being nice towards Zohran or lowkey patronizing… 😶
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I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
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"Parasocial bonds with technology aren't a personal failing; they're an expected outcome of systems built to optimize attention and retention." I’m quoted in Star today about how AI systems are built to feel familiar and likable through social cues. starmagazine.com/parasocial-r...
Parasocial Relationships With AI Inspire Cambridge Dictionary Word Of The Year — And Warnings From Experts
The Cambridge Dictionary 2025 Word of the Year is “parasocial,” a term long used to describe the one-sided relationship between an obsessed fan and a celebrity, but which is now used to describe one-s...
starmagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Parasocial bonds with technology aren't a personal failing; they're an expected outcome of systems built to optimize attention and retention." I’m quoted in Star today about how AI systems are built to feel familiar and likable through social cues. starmagazine.com/parasocial-r...
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À la COP30, nous sommes en train d'être évacués après qu'un important incendie se soit déclaré sur le site.
À un jour de la fin des négociations climatiques qui s'avèrent très tendues, le symbole est hallucinant.
(Le feu est maitrisé et tout le monde va bien)
À un jour de la fin des négociations climatiques qui s'avèrent très tendues, le symbole est hallucinant.
(Le feu est maitrisé et tout le monde va bien)
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
À la COP30, nous sommes en train d'être évacués après qu'un important incendie se soit déclaré sur le site.
À un jour de la fin des négociations climatiques qui s'avèrent très tendues, le symbole est hallucinant.
(Le feu est maitrisé et tout le monde va bien)
À un jour de la fin des négociations climatiques qui s'avèrent très tendues, le symbole est hallucinant.
(Le feu est maitrisé et tout le monde va bien)
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Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
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'After Technocolonialism' - a book panel @mediacomgold.bsky.social to discuss 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' published by @politybooks.bsky.social with Helen Kennedy, @andreamedrado.bsky.social Nirmal Puwar & @jolittler.bsky.social November 26th, 5-7pm, all welcome! ⬇️
After Technocolonialism
A panel discussion about the book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' with Helen Kennedy, Jo Littler, Mirca Madianou, Andrea Medrado and Nirmal Puwar.
www.gold.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
'After Technocolonialism' - a book panel @mediacomgold.bsky.social to discuss 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' published by @politybooks.bsky.social with Helen Kennedy, @andreamedrado.bsky.social Nirmal Puwar & @jolittler.bsky.social November 26th, 5-7pm, all welcome! ⬇️
Come on Scotland! 🏴
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Come on Scotland! 🏴
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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this is how you do investigative journalism
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
this is how you do investigative journalism
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Nuestro nuevo informe “Resistir para existir: Pueblos indígenas en aislamiento” destaca las enormes amenazas que enfrentan.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Nuestro nuevo informe “Resistir para existir: Pueblos indígenas en aislamiento” destaca las enormes amenazas que enfrentan.
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New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences
Fantastic resource! 🃏
♥️ We’ve created a deck of tech, data and elections playing cards! They give electoral observers and civil society the necessary tools to explore the role of technologies in the electoral process. privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Fantastic resource! 🃏