
AI as a Fascist Artifact
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AI* summaries/AI Overview (by あ) — Semble
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Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social)
AI* and healthcare/medicine (by あ) — Semble

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

📏 When machines start calling the shots

Information Civics

Data Feminism

The Secret History of Facial Recognition

The politics of ‘platforms’ - Tarleton Gillespie, 2010

Towards the Post-Naive Internet

Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era
aturi.to — Tour the Atmosphere

atpotato

Dripline: We built you a garden 🌼 | Hypha
Lichen
Smoke Signal

Germ Network

Everest Pipkin

Digital Topology & Economic Power
bandukwala.me
LN 040: The venerable hyperlink
everest-pipkin.com
Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die

The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits

Comcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch | TechCrunch
And as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.

DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns

We found a website you can’t leave

Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy

70 years of AI hype

Techno-capitalism, Crisis Epistemology, and Disaster Ableism: How (not) to Respond to Generative AI in Higher education (My presentation @ #PhiDisSocCh6)
CSDL | IEEE Computer Society
Operation Voder: AT&T, Bell Labs, and the Labor of Techno-Utopia at the 1939 New York World’s Fair
Weizenbaum examines computers and society - The Tech

The Folly of Technological Solutionism: An Interview with Evgeny Morozov - Public Books
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

AI as the new avatar of American capitalism
From the Platform Society to the AI Society: Towards Critical Studies of Generative AI

LLMs and performative productivity

Techno-capitalism, Crisis Epistemology, and Disaster Ableism: How (not) to Respond to Generative AI in Higher education (My presentation @ #PhiDisSocCh6)
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions…
computingwithinlimits.org

Appropriate Measures — Real Life
Appropriate Technology
Folk Tech – tech for life
Bee 🐝 (@sweetbee.vip)
Bee 🐝 (@sweetbee.vip)
We Build On Hope @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

Information Civics

Beyond Horseless Carriages: Building Communities for the Decentralized Era, Rudy Fraser
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Imagine This: A Web Without Servers - Tara Vancil - JSConf EU 2018
A Sapphirepunk Manifesto
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Poetic Computation (by Pouria) — Semble
Weird Wide Web 🐑 (by Sebastian) — Semble
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Extreme Citizen Science (by Joel Chan) — Semble
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