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Disruption Network Lab
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Events and research focused on exposing systems of power and injustice.
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1 year ago today we published the research papers of our first round of fellows. The research remains urgent and is Open Access - read the papers now! Link in bio / dnlb.org/dnipapers.

Our 2023–2024 fellows were Lisa Ling, Jack Poulson, Naomi Colvin & Joana Moll
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Our podcast on Technopolicing and Civic Control is dropping soon – subscribe now in your favorite podcast app! disruptionlab.org/po...
Part of Re Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action. Co funded by the European Union.
@reimagineeurope
#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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A new research paper by Tatiana Bazzichelli, Artistic Director of Disruption Network Lab, examines how communities can challenge and disrupt harmful systems through collective action and critical investigation.
Read it here
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#dnl #newperspectivesforaction #pilotstudy
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Former U.S. Air Force imagery analyst Lisa Ling on AI, drone warfare & the invisible systems driving modern conflict.
Read more: untoldmag.org

Discover more insights from Lisa Ling in To the Kill Cloud -
🔗disruptionlab.org/ki...

#dni #technoviolence #killcloud #disruptionlab
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Safa Ghnaim on how technology reinforces violence and how collective care and awareness can resist it.
Read her interview: www.ilmitte.com/2025...

Watch her talk from Technoviolence: disruptionlab.org/te...

#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction #technoviolence #digitalrights #disruptionlab
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Terry Albury: “U.S. agencies have a blank check to pursue supposed threats - targeting the left and minorities.”

Watch his keynote at Technoviolence: disruptionlab.org/te...

#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction #technoviolence #disruptionlab #whistleblowing #surveillance

November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Global Scream turned protest into collective voice.
Join @krenz.anna Nov 14 Berlin.
@reimagineeurope #MappingResistance #newperspectivesforaction
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Art can resist, reclaim, and reimagine.
Join @krenz.anna Nov 14 Berlin for #MappingResistance.@reimagineeurope #newperspectivesforaction
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Resistance has many faces.
Join @krenz.anna Nov 14 Berlin.
@reimagineeurope #MappingResistance #newperspectivesforaction
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Our Artistic Director Tatiana Bazzichelli joins Artivism.today – Ma La Polizia (7–8 Nov, Viareggio IT), exploring how art & activism resist control and repression.
More: artivism.today

#dnl36 #disruptionlab #artivism #tatianabazzichelli
Poster for Artivism Today – Ma La Polizia, featuring a pixelated, yellow-green image of a person’s face partially obscured by light and shadow, giving a video-screen effect. Text in bold white pixel font reads: “ARTIVISM TODAY · MA LA POLIZIA · VIAREGGIO · 7–8 NOVEMBRE 2025 · C/O RI.CRE.AZIONE COLLETTIVA.” At the bottom, a small circular logo shows an astronaut-like figure with the text “Laboratorio Intergalattico Giacomo Verde Artivista.” The design has a vivid blue border.
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Art empowers, resists, and reimagines.
Join @krenz.anna Nov 14 Berlin.
@reimagineeurope #MappingResistance #newperspectivesforaction
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Streets became scenes of resistance in Instant Theatre.
Join @krenz.anna Nov 14 Berlin.
@reimagineeurope #MappingResistance #newperspectivesforaction
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Join @krenz.anna Nov 14 19:00 Stadtwerkstatt Berlin for #MappingResistance.
@reimagineeurope #newperspectivesforaction
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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DNL MEET-UP: Techno-Policing & Civic ControlWith Sonja Peteranderl & Matthias Monroy Artists, activists, citizens:When we gather, change begins!📍 Stadtwerkstatt Berlin#dnl36 @reimagineeurope #newperspectivesforaction
October 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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WWYD if commercial tech firms decided who the police should suspect?
German police already use Palantir’s Gotham for profiling. Join our Talk & Q&A, Berlin, 16. Oct. Free w/ registration: disruptionlab.org/te...
#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction
The post has a background that is half colorful patters and the other half an abstract image where the word POLICE can be seen. In the foreground there is bold white text that reads: What would you do if commercial tech firms decided who the police should suspect? German police use Palantir’s Gotham platform to analyse data from phones, social media, and official records. Critics warn: private tech firms are shaping state policing priorities. (Source: IamExpat Germany, 2023)
October 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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WWYD if algorithms replaced human judgment in deciding who is a suspect?
In 2023, Germany’s court ruled Palantir’s predictive policing unconstitutional. Join our Talk & Q&A, Berlin, 16 Oct. Free: disruptionlab.org/te...
#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction
What Would You Do Post Series The post has a background that is half colorful patters and the other half an abstract image where the word POLICE can be seen. In the foreground there is bold white text that reads: What would you do if algorithms replaced human judgment in deciding who is a suspect? In 2023, Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled that the use of Palantir’s predictive policing software in Hesse and Hamburg was unconstitutional — automated suspicion violated civil rights.
October 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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WWYD if your face ended up in a police database without your consent?
Germany’s INPOL holds 5.5M+ faces & is being connected to AI recognition. Join our Talk & Q&A, Berlin, 16 Oct. Free w/ registration: disruptionlab.org/ev...
#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction
What Would You Do Post Series The post has a background that is half colorful patters and the other half an abstract image where the word POLICE can be seen. In the foreground there is bold white text that reads: What would you do if your face ended up in a police database without your consent? Germany’s INPOL database stores over 5.5 million faces, many taken from IDs and documents, and is now being connected to AI-driven facial recognition. Pilot projects already test live face scans in Saxony.
October 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Matthias Monroy is a journalist & activist focused on civil rights, policing & security tech in Europe. He edits CILIP & reports for nd.DerTag.
🎟️ Free entrance with registration disruptionlab.org/ev...
#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction #TechnoPolicing
A colorful background with a portrait of a person with short blond hair, smiling to the camera. This person is activist and journalist Matthias Monroy who will be speaking at the Techo-Policing and Civil Control Meet Up by Disruption Network Lab
October 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Sonja Peteranderl is an investigative journalist & founder of BuzzingCities Lab. She covers crime, digital violence & security tech, and teaches at Hamburg Media School.
🎟️ Free entrance with registration disruptionlab.org/ev...
#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction #TechnoPolicing
A colorful background with with a black and white portrait of a person with long dark hair in an up-do, turned 3/4 to the camera smiling. This person is investigative journalist Sonja Peteranderl who will be speaking at the Techo-Policing and Civil Control Meet Up by Disruption Network Lab
October 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Join Sonja Peteranderl & Matthias Monroy for a Talk & Q&A on predictive policing & facial recognition in Germany.
📍 nGbK, Berlin
📅 Oct 16, 2025 | 7–9pm
🎟 Free w/ registration: disruptionlab.org/ev...
#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction #Technoviolence
October 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Journalist Namir Shabibi investigates how Big Tech & cloud infrastructures enable surveillance & targeting, shaping how civilians & migrants are controlled.

#DNI #thekillcloud
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October 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Artist & scholar Tiara Roxanne investigates how predictive analytics & AI reduce migrants & Indigenous communities to data points on the border of Mexico and the US.

#DNI #Killcloud
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October 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Whistleblower Cian Westmoreland investigates the global “Kill Cloud” – the global infrastructure of satellites, data centers, algorithmic targeting systems, and human operators that erase accountability.

http://thekill.cloud

#DNI #thekillcloud
An informative carousel post of three slides with black backgrounds and colorful patterns with text introducing a DNI Research Topic for the 2025-2026 DNI Fellowship: Investigating the Killcloud: AI, Big Tech & Migration Control An informative carousel post of three slides with black backgrounds and colorful patterns with text introducing a DNI Research Fellow for the 2025-2026 DNI Fellowship: Investigating the Killcloud: AI, Big Tech & Migration Control. This slide introduces one of the three fellows: Cian Westmoreland An informative carousel post of three slides with black backgrounds and colorful patterns with text introducing a DNI Research focus for the 2025-2026 DNI Fellowship
October 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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How should technology serve society not oppression?
The 2025–2026 DNI Fellowship asks: Which powers control AI? Who is targeted? Who is accountable? Findings will be shared at our Nov 2026 conference in Berlin.

http://thekill.cloud

#DNI #AI #CivilRights #Surveillance #KillCloud

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October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The 2025–2026 DNI Fellowship investigates how AI, Big Tech & predictive tools are weaponised in war zones, border regimes & cities exposing injustices & ethical challenges of data-driven warfare.
http://thekill.cloud
#DNI #AI #Surveillance #CivilRights #Killcloud
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October 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM