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We have a new series called:

🦚The Cloud is a Factory🌵

Devika Narayan is our first speaker and will give a talk titled:

Cloud Capitalism 🌶️🌶️ 🌶️

Followed by workshop to discuss papers by up & coming scholars working on computational infrastructures. Please join & help spread the word.

Devika’s talk @spui25: https://algosoc.org/events/the-cloud-is-a-factory-cloud-capitalism (streaming)

Workshop @ UvA: https://algosoc.org/events/workshop-cloud-capitalism
16 & 17 March 2026
#titipi #algosoc #pip

Cloud Capitalism | AlgoSoc

Algosoc

RichiH has a strong message to kick this one off, definitely saying what everyone is feeling

Sedista Jan 31

Eva Wolfangel Jan 28

Ihr habt euch für Geschenk-Links qualifiziert. 🎉
Hier meine aktuelle Geschichte zu Microsoft und dem FBI. (und irgendwann plaudere ich mal aus dem Nähkästchen, wie die Kommunikation mit der Pressestelle velief - ist eigentlich schade, dass man nicht direkt ein 'Making of' dazustellen kann)
https://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2026-01/fbi-microsoft-bitlocker-schluessel-ueberwachung-datenschutz-gxe?freebie=c6a2b2a1

#microsoft #fbi #cybersecurity

FBI und Microsoft: Microsoft öffnet dem FBI die Tür

Microsoft hat Ermittlern Zugriff auf verschlüsselte Daten seiner Kunden verschafft. Und wieder stellt sich die Frage: Sollte man sich auf US-Tech-Firmen verlassen?

DIE ZEIT

Sedista Jan 15

Mediathekperlen Jan 15

Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp – „Watching you“ (2024)

Als hätte „Minority Report“ in deutschen Amtsstuben das Denken ersetzt. Der Dokumentarfilm von Klaus Stern stellt den Menschen vor, der diese Vision verkauft – und mit ihr eine technoide Version der Totalüberwachung salonfähig macht. Dass der Film dabei selbst ein Teil dieser Normalisierung wird, ist die bittere Pointe. Er zeigt, was er nicht kritisiert. Das ist sein größtes Problem. (ARD, Neu)

Zum Blog: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/watching-you-die-welt-von-palantir-und-alex-karp-2024/

Sedista Jan 14

Corporate Europe Observatory Jan 14

🎁 Just before the holidays, the European Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights.
Together with LobbyControl, we analysed the proposed Digital Omnibus and mapped how closely it aligns with Big Tech’s lobbying demands. The result is alarming: what’s being framed as “cutting red tape” is actually about cutting rights.

👉 https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/article-article-how-big-tech-shaped-eus-roll-back-digital-rights

Sedista Nov 21

TITiPI Oct 10

"It is important to remember two facts about the behavior of capitalist corporations (of their business-as-usual logics): these companies are not ethical and do not keep their promises, that is why even in this case we need to stay vigilant. But also, as seen in other cases known as ‘Disaster Capitalism’, Big Tech will jump in after disasters and war. It is likely that the very same corporations that enable genocide, will also offer the solutions for humanitarian rescue. We can imagine Big Tech will offer their services for building health, "greener" digital infrastructure and education. Now that the so-called peace agreement has been announced, we need to stay vigilant to how humanitarian operations might be loaded with rampant extraction under the guise of sneaky benevolence. The question is which corporations are going to jump into grab the loot of war and pillage the rebuilding of public services."

A TITiPI bulletin on Microsoft and Israel:
https://titipi.org/pub/A_TITiPI_bulletin_on_Microsoft_and_Israel.html

Sedista Nov 21

TITiPI Nov 21

Next Friday, Nov 28th at our shared studio in Brussels:

Talk+opening by Romi Morrison, who will speak about their current practice, unfolded from the question "What are the repertoires for holding ourselves through a constantly disruptive present?" as well as the future conditional tense: That which Will Have Had to Happen.

Join us✨

+ info: https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Talk_by_Romi_Morrison

Sedista Nov 6

10 years ago, a group of us started looking at the rise of computational infrastructures. 8 years ago we held a panel, saying this is finance+tech coming together to create infrastructure players that are too big to fail. https://share.google/s0zbPw7IigTOYaY0O We spent covid warning about how the same companies used the pandemic as an opportunity to push their infra (clouds+ end devices). AI2.0 ballooned it. Politicians knew! so, if the crash now comes, who should we consider responsible and hold to account?

CPDP 2017: RETHINKING BIG DATA.

YouTube

Sedista Oct 22

Timnit Gebru (she/her).Oct 22

Stanford is prosecuting 11 pro-Palestine protesters on felony vandalism charges & demanding $300K+ in restitution. Consider signing this petition to drop the charges: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/support-the-stanford-12-drop-the-charges-on-students

Unsurprising although disgusting to see my alma mater on the wrong side of genocide.

Watch them use the activism of the students whose lives they’re trying to destroy in some orientation story in a few decades.

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Sedista Oct 18

7sleepersmusic Oct 18

"#Microsoft built a data centre in the northwestern Netherlands despite opposition from local farmers, promising it would only need between 12 and 20 million litres of water annually. Dutch media later revealed the data centre was consuming more than four times that — as locals were being asked to limit their own water use. " #Tech #Environment #ClimateChange cc: @cbcnews https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data-centre-canada-water-use-9.6939684

Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News

Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.

CBC