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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 6h

Congratulations!!! 🥰

MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 6h

Grief doesn’t begin to describe what I am feeling for my country right now.

La palabra “duelo” no llega a describir lo que siento por mi país en este momento.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 7h

"Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 6h

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We Can Make an Impact.

Save Lewisham Shopping Centre! Stop Gentrification and Social Cleansing in Lewisham!

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Rppc @realrppc.bsky.social · 2d

Presidente de la República, José Jerí: Acusado de violación.
Presidente del Congreso, Fernando Rospigliosi, promotor de la amnistía contra violadores de DD.HH.
Fiscal de la Nación, Aladino Gálvez, suspendido y acusado de corrupción por el caso Hermanitos.

Esto es ahora el Perú.
Nos espera la calle.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Peru’s Congress has voted to remove deeply unpopular President Dina Boluarte from office as a crime wave grips the South American nation.

Peru’s Congress votes to remove President Boluarte as a crime wave grips the country

Peru’s Congress voted to remove deeply unpopular President Dina Boluarte from office as a crime wave grips the South American nation.

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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 3d

Went to a collage workshop with an old friend. Tumblr era resurgence.

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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 4d

Last night the sky was insane.

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 9d

Syllabus of the undergrad course I'm teaching this term on Media Workers & AI, with funding from University of Toronto’s Global Classrooms Funding Initiative, connected to the Creative Labour and Critical Futures project.

creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/blog/teachin...

Teaching on AI: Media Workers & AI Course - CLCF

CLCF Co-Lead Rafael Grohmann is teaching a course on Media Workers and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Media Studies.

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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · 19d

🌱 Mine and Güneş's new paper calls for DH practices that prioritise environmental accountability, decolonial perspectives, and ethical collaboration.

Read here: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000...

#DigitalHumanities #Sustainability #EcologicalCare #EnvironmentalJustice

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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 9d

Fantastic event last night with @couldrynick.bsky.social and Baroness Kidron. A genuine exchange of ideas and concerns around policy and the core issues involved in tackling Big Tech’s business model. A sliver of hope.

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 12d

📢 Can human solidarity survive in digital spaces shaped by commercial platforms?
Join us Thurs 2 Oct for the hybrid launch of The Space of the World by Nick Couldry — a deep look at how our online world has evolved and what’s next.

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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 12d

* todas las anteriores.

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✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 13d

The @acls1919.bsky.social has an open call for their Digital Justice Seed grants for projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to understanding of racial/social justice issues. Deadline: November 20, 2025

ACLS Digital Justice Grants

The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program is designed to address the inequities in the access to support for digital work across various fields.

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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · 14d

In July, Keren Weitzberg, @empo11on.bsky.social and @margchee.bsky.social wrote about the digital ID proposal.

The three experts say that the current proposal presents a false choice between digital exclusion and mass surveillance.

A few key points 🧵
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

The Britcard – progressive or concerning? | British Politics and Policy at LSE

The Government is considering Labour Together's proposal to introduce mandatory digital ID cards in an effort to tackle irregular migration. There are problems with that.

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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 14d

Autumn crocus 🍂

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✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 16d

@pulitzercenter.org seeks applications for their reporting initiative focused on AI and surveillance technologies and their impact on communities around the world. Deadline: December 31, 2025

AI Reporting Grants

We seek applications for our reporting initiative focused on AI and surveillance technologies and their impact on communities around the world. We value accountability and data reporting...

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 16d

Here's the press release for digital ID and it is quite the shopping list of features. My first concern here is for the team who need to deliver quickly against the mix of a general purpose "do everything" app and a fairly specific set of features set out here www.gov.uk/government/n...

New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK

A new digital ID scheme will help combat illegal working while making it easier for the vast majority of people to use vital government services. Digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks ...

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Mariel Garcia-Montes @marielgm.bsky.social · 19d

Insightful research on #surveillance in Peru by Hiperderecho documenting the legal framework, FOIA limitations, and especially a list of cases kept secret by the government (starts in p60). [In Spanish, pdf link]: hiperderecho.org/wp-content/u... Tagging @surveillancemw.bsky.social

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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 23d

In a new collaborative research report, Hiperderecho explores how social media content moderation systems fail Quechua-speaking users across Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador - pointing to a new form of linguistic inequity.

Read the report: cdt.org/insights/mod...

Moderating Quechua Content on Social Media

In this project we seek to critically examine how content moderation systems operate in non-English contexts, particularly in indigenous and other languages of the Majority World (i.e., the Global…

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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 27d

Proud to be part of this initiative. Hope, solidarity and enjoyment in tech are acts of rebellion. Join us! ✨

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 27d

Morning! Society for Hopeful Technologists newsletter #2 is arriving in inboxes now. A little bit on Musk and X, much more about future plans + organising buttondown.com/society-of-h... and great to have a group of fellow organisers coming together 💪

#2: Hopeful Actions

What's next for the Society for Hopeful Technologists: events, principles, and opportunities to get involved.

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 27d

🙋‍♀️Our Society for Hopeful Technologists newsletter #2 is out! 📩Make sure you have subscribed to it to get all the news📨 It's such a pleasure to be part of this group and strategise towards a more Hopeful tech future 🌅
We will be organising events and come together to decide how it will work ✨️

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 27d

Morning! Society for Hopeful Technologists newsletter #2 is arriving in inboxes now. A little bit on Musk and X, much more about future plans + organising buttondown.com/society-of-h... and great to have a group of fellow organisers coming together 💪

#2: Hopeful Actions

What's next for the Society for Hopeful Technologists: events, principles, and opportunities to get involved.

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 28d

Other Tech Worlds Are Possible. Comic book is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese! Partnership with the Tech Sector of the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil (MTST), @germana-fazgibi.bsky.social

English: digilabour.com.br/comic-book-o...
Portuguese: www.nucleodetecnologia.com.br/hq

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 29d

A hate-driven agenda stoked by politicians & pundits has fuelled violence, intimidation & division.

But we know the truth:
❌ Free speech is NOT a cover for hate speech
❌ Inciting hatred is NOT defending freedom
❌ Migration is NOT to blame for political and economic turmoil. It’s a scapegoat.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Sep 11

Working on the next update of the Society of Hopeful Technologists newsletter today, which will be wending its way to inboxes soon. There are currently 564 subscribers ❤️. You can join them here buttondown.com/society-of-h...

Society of Hopeful Technologists

Sign-up to keep in touch with the discovery phase of the Society for Hopeful Technologists (working title).

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