Mastodawn

ICalzada 2d ago

New #Book just arrived!

#DatafiedDemocracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged: #TechnoPolitics in #SmartCities & Datafied #NetworkStates

https://link.springer.com/book/9783032118875

ICalzada Dec 5

Proofs submitted!

My new #book Datafied Democracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged @springernature_ct is forthcoming by 1/1/2026 🚀

Explore how AI, data governance, and #technopolitics are reshaping democracy and political economy

📘 Preorder:

https://link.springer.com/book/9783032118875

#AI #Web3

Julian Oliver Oct 9

LLM tools used in medicine found to be loaded with white male bias.

"The findings by researchers at leading US and UK universities suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less “empathy” toward Black and Asian ones."

Every time someone says 'AI', ask 'whose AI?'

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/ai-medical-tools-found-to-downplay-symptoms-of-women-ethnic-minorities/

TY @Christina

#ai #bigtech #technopolitics #racism #patriarchy

AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities

Bias-reflecting LLMs lead to inferior medical advice for female, Black, and Asian patients.

Ars Technica

Henrique Parra Aug 31

Tesla é condenada após hacker recuperar dados de acidente mortal.
#digitalforensics #citizenscience #technopolitics
https://olhardigital.com.br/2025/08/29/pro/tesla-e-condenada-apos-hacker-recuperar-dados-de-acidente-mortal/

Tesla é condenada após hacker recuperar dados de acidente mortal

Um hacker recuperou dados que a Tesla dizia não ter sobre um acidente. O material levou a um veredicto de US$ 243 milhões contra a empresa

Olhar Digital

Julian Oliver Aug 3

TVNZ (Television New Zealand) interviewed me about some of the work we're doing at Nīkau, and infrastructure activism more broadly. It was on TV nationally here this morning, archived soon after on YT.

Apparently a longer version is in the mix somewhere, will follow up.

For now, here's a privacy preserving copy of what was aired today:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ozKC9xMK1yQ

#aotearoa #uspol #infrastructure #technopolitics #privacy

ScienceOpen Jul 29

'Automating Governance in China?' - a Leiden University Press book on #ScienceOpen:

📕🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/book?vid=e2eb3f5c-7595-4fcc-a46f-a0fe9eb90112

#DigitalGovernment #ChinaStudies #TechnoPolitics #Governance

Automating Governance in China?

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d2713293e44">This book considers the interplay between the affordances of technologies, the experiences and processes of technological systems, and the process of learning and adaptation by state actors as part of governance reform in China. It offers detailed studies of specific projects and applications that are automated or quasi-automated in organising and governing social, economic, and cultural lives in the world’s largest techno-authoritarian regime. Written by scholars from six countries across four continents, case studies illustrate new modes of digital governance employed by the Chinese government, as it interacts and collaborates with technology companies, ordinary citizens, and other key stakeholders. They offer new insights on the deployment of automated decision-making in authoritarian governance, and on its application and implementation in real-life scenarios. In a broader sense, the book contributes to global debates about the integration of decision-making technologies in governmental practices. </p>

ScienceOpen

PoLiTiPeT Jul 12, 2025

ping @asmamhalla.bsky.social ⬆️ re #TechnoPolitics

@homohortus

Julian Oliver Jul 12, 2025

A good read on the pervasive US-born 'platform class', outlining the ideologies and reductionism that drive the dissolving of public services and institutions into digital platforms - privately run and cranked up on automation.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/11/doge-silicon-valley-tech-utopia

#technopolitics