Greatly enjoyed the political philosophy of @jamespatton.bsky.social ‘s Duskpunk. Drawing from Mbembe’s Necropolitics, in this blogpost I explain why the game’s resource of plasm is such a great narrative mechanic. Check out the game on steam! codedmass.com/2026/04/04/d...
Cross-border investigation: @lemonde.fr, @elpais.com, and @netzpolitik.org reveal how, between 2016 and 2023, @frontex.bsky.social illegally transferred the personal data of over 13,000 people to Europol.
Published by @wearesolomon.bsky.social 👇
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Suspending the right to asylum and cutting food rations is not "getting tough" but a blatant breach of EU law. The @ec.europa.eu should of course intervene, but @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu will not bother an ally with infringement proceedings. www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2025/07/10/g...
Looking forward to discussing my book with the amazing Delphine Dogot, Kristina Irion, and Maša Galič on 15 December. Join us in person or online through the link below!
Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks.
Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...
Journalists and rights defenders in Europe are under spyware surveillance.
We join civil society in calling on the EU to act. Now.
Spyware like Graphite is too invasive to comply with human rights.
www.ecpmf.eu/civil-societ...
The Transnational Association of Legal Scholars has reopened its Academy - this is a week-long, intensive, online training for a selected 16 grad students. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/14/c...
“The goal [is] to concentrate the entire Gazan population into the remaining 25% of the territory and to debilitate them to the extent that they either flee, are permitted to leave or simply wither away. And western govts and big tech are happy to facilitate it.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Sophie in't Veld
RSA - Refugee Support Aegean
Laurens Naudts
Plixavra Vogiatzoglou
Framer Framed
Douwe Korff
Follow the Money EU
European Centre for Press and Media Freedom
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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Illan wall
Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...
On behalf of the Spyware Coordination Group, a coalition of civil society and journalist organisations advocating for transparency, accountability, and the protection of fundamental rights in relation...
In his 2003 essay “Necropolitics”, the Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe posits that the “ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, …
Athens suspends asylum requests from North Africa amid rising migrant arrivals and tensions with Libyan authorities following EU delegation’s rejected visit to Benghazi.
my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it
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Can AI predict future criminality based on everyone’s data, and should it?
Dr @plixavra.bsky.social’s new book explores the challenges posed by pre-crime practices, inc. their questionable effectiveness and ambiguous application of human rights.
Join us 15 December.
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Register for the AI for Good Summit 2025. Choose General, Leader or Virtual Pass for in-person or online participation.
i have been hesitant to participate in the “AI for Good” Summit, that takes place in Geneva annually. but this year, i have been given a keynote (not a panel or similar participation) so, i said yes. here’s the first draft of my talk
Dr Abeba Birhane
On 15 December, join us for the book launch of Dr Plixavra Vogiatzoglou's timely new book, which critically assesses how mass data surveillance frameworks intersect with predictive policing technologi...
