Yiannis Kalaitzis
@yianniskalaitzis.bsky.social
Having studied philosophy and political theory,
preferring reading than writing, mainly interested in
ideology, power, and digital environments.
preferring reading than writing, mainly interested in
ideology, power, and digital environments.
While the regulatory procedures based on laws are always helpful, it is obvious, once again, that the main aspects of the digital sphere (platforms, data, AI etc.) are political issues, because they have to do with power and the inscriptions of it. So, we need political -not legal- answers to them.
The EU promised to lead on regulating artificial intelligence. Now it’s hitting pause.
Under pressure from the U.S. and tech companies, the EU is backing away from plans to rein in highly risky technologies.
www.politico.eu
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
While the regulatory procedures based on laws are always helpful, it is obvious, once again, that the main aspects of the digital sphere (platforms, data, AI etc.) are political issues, because they have to do with power and the inscriptions of it. So, we need political -not legal- answers to them.
"So, if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one."
So far so good mr. Mamdani...
So far so good mr. Mamdani...
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"So, if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one."
So far so good mr. Mamdani...
So far so good mr. Mamdani...
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"create “public media centers”—publicly-owned hubs in every community federally guaranteed but locally governed+democratically operated. establish new anchor institutions universally available to everyone—not unlike the ideal version of public schools+libraries."
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
The Media We Need Requires Structural Transformation | Public i Contact
publici.ucimc.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"create “public media centers”—publicly-owned hubs in every community federally guaranteed but locally governed+democratically operated. establish new anchor institutions universally available to everyone—not unlike the ideal version of public schools+libraries."
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...
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Researching Christopher Lasch. What impresses me today more than the contents, however, is his stylistic ability to connect widely different phenomena without sounding unhinged. If I talk about Freud, disaster movies, workplace culture and mass media on a single page, people would be concerned.
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Researching Christopher Lasch. What impresses me today more than the contents, however, is his stylistic ability to connect widely different phenomena without sounding unhinged. If I talk about Freud, disaster movies, workplace culture and mass media on a single page, people would be concerned.
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Arendt argues that political life, like aesthetics, is characterised by an innate, albeit now widely ignored, human need for self-display through performances that are not labour, or routine, or ritual, but what she, following Rosenberg, called ‘action’.
aeon.co/essays/harol...
aeon.co/essays/harol...
Harold Rosenberg exhorted artists to take action and resist cliché | Aeon Essays
Throughout decades of writing, Harold Rosenberg exhorted artists to resist cliché and conformity and instead take action
aeon.co
October 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Arendt argues that political life, like aesthetics, is characterised by an innate, albeit now widely ignored, human need for self-display through performances that are not labour, or routine, or ritual, but what she, following Rosenberg, called ‘action’.
aeon.co/essays/harol...
aeon.co/essays/harol...
"A lie creates the immediate impression that one believes something that happens to be false, but that does not mean that one is not what one seems... Hypocrisy turns on questions of character rather than simply coincidence with the truth."
- David Runciman
- David Runciman
October 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"A lie creates the immediate impression that one believes something that happens to be false, but that does not mean that one is not what one seems... Hypocrisy turns on questions of character rather than simply coincidence with the truth."
- David Runciman
- David Runciman
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"Could [journalism] shape the foreground [of AI content] as the sensemaking layer that anchors trust? The News Atom is a metadata blueprint designed to respond to this question."
Read @sannuta-raghu.bsky.social here. She is an inspiration. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-...
Read @sannuta-raghu.bsky.social here. She is an inspiration. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-...
Introducing the News Atom: a metadata blueprint for journalism in the age of AI
Our Indian Fellow Sannuta Raghu presents the News Atom, a concept to wrap each sentence in a news story with metadata about what type of knowledge it contains, if and how it was changed, how it connec...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"Could [journalism] shape the foreground [of AI content] as the sensemaking layer that anchors trust? The News Atom is a metadata blueprint designed to respond to this question."
Read @sannuta-raghu.bsky.social here. She is an inspiration. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-...
Read @sannuta-raghu.bsky.social here. She is an inspiration. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-...
Funny when people thing that we are talking about another sector of the economy and not for an inscription in our cultural paradigm. In other words, it's not so much about the entities behind the digital accelerated sphere, it is about the dominant ideology driving them on.
The AI valuation bubble is now getting silly | Nils Pratley
The broad parallels are genuinely close to the madness of the late-1990s dotcom bubble
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Funny when people thing that we are talking about another sector of the economy and not for an inscription in our cultural paradigm. In other words, it's not so much about the entities behind the digital accelerated sphere, it is about the dominant ideology driving them on.
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Breaking: Dutch court rules that Meta needs to offer chronological/ non algorithmic feed as clear and stable option (to Dutch users).
Changes must be implemented in two weeks. 100,000 euro fine per day if non compliant.
Case brought fwd by @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social
nos.nl/l/2584891
Changes must be implemented in two weeks. 100,000 euro fine per day if non compliant.
Case brought fwd by @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social
nos.nl/l/2584891
Rechter: Instagram en Facebook moeten algoritmevrije optie krijgen
Bits of Freedom eiste dat in een rechtszaak en kreeg gelijk van de Nederlandse rechter.
nos.nl
October 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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in case this helps
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The Story of Shit, book by Midas Dekkers
A wonderfully wry, erudite and altogether charming investigation into the most rarely discussed of bodily functions: defecation.
www.textpublishing.com.au
September 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
in case this helps
www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-st...
www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-st...
Sometimes you need a departure from reality in order to fully grasp its burden.
Max Richter - The Departure (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Max Richter
www.youtube.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Sometimes you need a departure from reality in order to fully grasp its burden.
What is happening when different accounts follow different political parties (in Germany, before the recent elections) and then leave the algorithms to fill the rest of the feed? AfD get's promoted overwhelmingly (in Tik Tok and X), despite the initial preference of the user...
Political bias on TikTok and X in Germany
TikTok and X recommend pro-AfD content to non-partisan users ahead of the German elections
globalwitness.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What is happening when different accounts follow different political parties (in Germany, before the recent elections) and then leave the algorithms to fill the rest of the feed? AfD get's promoted overwhelmingly (in Tik Tok and X), despite the initial preference of the user...
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Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy
Abstract. This volume introduces a “connection action” framework for explaining democratic backsliding. We bring together a mostly political science compar
academic.oup.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Excellent elaboration by @eric-reinhart.com on what counts as « violence » from anthropological, philosophical and psychoanalytic angles.
“What counts as “violence,” and what counts as “order,” are always political determinations made by those in power”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
“What counts as “violence,” and what counts as “order,” are always political determinations made by those in power”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review
Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.
www.bostonreview.net
September 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Excellent elaboration by @eric-reinhart.com on what counts as « violence » from anthropological, philosophical and psychoanalytic angles.
“What counts as “violence,” and what counts as “order,” are always political determinations made by those in power”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
“What counts as “violence,” and what counts as “order,” are always political determinations made by those in power”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
Follow the money...
US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK far right
An American tech billionaire was instrumental in funding the far-right figure’s rise to stardom – and even paid for his new set of teeth
uk.news.yahoo.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Follow the money...
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FOLD IT IN, DAVID.
September 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
FOLD IT IN, DAVID.
It's just the beginning.
Albania PM’s AI-generated “minister” becomes cause of high tensions and chaos in Parliament (Video)
Tirana, 18 September 2025, dtt-net.com - Albania parliamentary majority today in a tense session adopted government’s program without debate amid protest of opposition over AI-generated new “member” o...
dtt-net.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It's just the beginning.
"After centuries in which visionaries of all stripes dreamed of what humanity might achieve together, the only indubitable 'progressive' goal that humanity can pursue today, in view of ecological and other threats, is to simply 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑒."
- Against Progress
Slavoj Zizek
- Against Progress
Slavoj Zizek
September 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"After centuries in which visionaries of all stripes dreamed of what humanity might achieve together, the only indubitable 'progressive' goal that humanity can pursue today, in view of ecological and other threats, is to simply 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑒."
- Against Progress
Slavoj Zizek
- Against Progress
Slavoj Zizek
If something goes wrong it would be a technical and not political issue I suppose...
Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister
Diella, who is powered by artificial intelligence, will handle public procurement.
www.politico.eu
September 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If something goes wrong it would be a technical and not political issue I suppose...
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Seeing Like a Platform
Quickly and easily listen to The Tech Policy Press Podcast for free!
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September 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Amazing book, the title of which hints at the book written by James C. Scott "Seeing like a State". It points to a new epistemology of our era, mapping the ways that power and society interact through and within the digital field. It's open access!
- Seeing like a platform
P.Tornberg, J.Uitermark
- Seeing like a platform
P.Tornberg, J.Uitermark
Home
On the rise of a digital modernity
www.seeinglikeaplatform.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Amazing book, the title of which hints at the book written by James C. Scott "Seeing like a State". It points to a new epistemology of our era, mapping the ways that power and society interact through and within the digital field. It's open access!
- Seeing like a platform
P.Tornberg, J.Uitermark
- Seeing like a platform
P.Tornberg, J.Uitermark
I've read a lot of posts the last days insisting that Bluesky is the main social media for academics nowadays. The problem, in my view, is that we still don't have something equivalent to the old mailing lists, with a more conversational approach, apt to the opportunities of a today's platform.
August 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I've read a lot of posts the last days insisting that Bluesky is the main social media for academics nowadays. The problem, in my view, is that we still don't have something equivalent to the old mailing lists, with a more conversational approach, apt to the opportunities of a today's platform.
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Submitted the final version of my next book on AI, Big Tech, and the geopolitical struggles over them. Now hopefully nothing important happens on those topics before it comes out...
Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...
Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...
April 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Submitted the final version of my next book on AI, Big Tech, and the geopolitical struggles over them. Now hopefully nothing important happens on those topics before it comes out...
Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...
Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...
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But what would our metaphysics and ethics look like if we learned that reality was against us?
aeon.co/essays/philo...
aeon.co/essays/philo...
Philosophers must reckon with the meaning of thermodynamics | Aeon Essays
Everything eats and is eaten. Everything destroys and is destroyed. It is our moral duty to strike back at the Universe
aeon.co
August 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
But what would our metaphysics and ethics look like if we learned that reality was against us?
aeon.co/essays/philo...
aeon.co/essays/philo...