Tony Roberts

OpenAI mass surveillance of Americans using GPT and autonomous weapons is now on the table.

India Is Using AI to Police Identity and Expel Minorities The Indian state of Maharashtra is developing an AI tool that uses accent, tone, and word choices to identify and deport migrants, writes Suvradip Maitra.

Automating Racism: Indian academics are building neo-colonial AI tools to measure racial characteristics of humans as a basis for exclusion and discrimination in access to fundamental rights and essential services. Coming soon to an authority near you.
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We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

True, but data centres are military targets irrespective of whether they are used for military purposes. One of the first targets taken out in Iran was a data centre. Data centres are critical infrastructure. Not only do they drain local water and electricity resources they are military targets.

Emma Walmsley’s pay rose almost 50% to £15.6m in final year as GSK boss Bulk of 2025 renumeration came from share bonuses as drug company’s now former CEO benefitted from stock rise

GSK CEO got 50% pay rise to £15.6m.

Did you?

Neoliberals moan about rise in minimum wage. Govts preach pay restraint to workers. Silence on profiteering, hikes in exec pay/perks, dividends, share buybacks.

The state devoted to welfare of the super rich.

When you say "government of service" do you serving Israel or serving arms exporters?

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

🚨 When white supremacist leaders are stockpiling weapons, snatching people off the streets, and building vast concentration camps, you don't need to be a history professor to know what's happening. 🚨
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Mob bosses have top lawyers

Why are we working on Data Centres? - Action to Protect Rural Scotland Today we are launching a campaign on the environmental impact of data centres. Here Kat Jones, APRS Director, explains why this is vital work for APRS as a countryside charity.

Scottish Countryside Charity to employ campaigner to oppose AI data centre construction. Producing more AI slop will come at environmental cost.
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RayBan are being sued for covert Luxury Surveillance

40 nations in The Hague propose sanctions on Israel over its settlement policy in West Bank The Hague Group recommends arms embargoes, traveler screenings to enforce international law, according to statement - Anadolu Ajansı

"History will judge us not by the speeches we delivered, but by the actions we took."

Read more from yesterday's meeting of The Hague Group in Anadolu Ajansı.

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

⏮️ Catch up on our recent PhD In Conversation event featuring @naikalema.bsky.social in conversation with academics on 'Decolonising Global Digital Transformation', drawing on her research on the World Bank Group’s Global Digital Transformation initiative

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the harder the industry invests on pushing narratives of AI as (only) positive, inevitable, and inherently good for society/business, the more any criticism of this narrative becomes “too radical”, “unworkable” and “unrealistic”

Investigating dual-use technology and the darker side of innovation We are living through a moment of profound transformation as military imperatives and corporate interests are no longer separate threads in the fabric of technological innovation. Instead they are…

New profiles just dropped in our Dual-Use Technology series! Want to learn more about how companies develop commercial tech that feeds the military industrial complex and vice-versa? Read our most recent reports on Thales, Leonardo, Elbit and Skydio 🕵️‍ pvcy.org/dualuse

A tendency to casually facilitate killing children while at school being among the commonalities

I wonder if Claude would be “anxious” because the military is using it to bomb schoolgirls or because it’s poisoning the air around data centers or because it’s going to crash the economy or because it’s encouraged thousands of psychotic delusions or all of the above

Extremist clerics bless warlord

The US is in the grips of religious fundamentalism,
led by a white supremacist pedophile megalomaniac.

AI is the erosion of creation
AI is the erosion of agency
AI is the erosion of criticality

The reason elite-owned media supports war and the public do not is because it is our family members who have to soldier to death so that the elites are able divide the sp-oils of war? #filthylucre #draftBarron

How many times wrong can a person b

Tech Bro Ideological Apparatus

Shareholder Control and the New Politics of Platform Regulation The TikTok deal in the US reveals a new era of tech oligarchy. Paddy Leerssen unpacks why platform ownership matters and how it can be held accountable.

US Tech Bros now have ownership of the means of narrative production sufficient to manipulate beliefs and behaviours.
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They Too Are the Earth – Niyi Osundare They too are the earth The dying distant deaths Women battling centuries Maleficent slavery

My favourite verse in Osundare's poem is the last:

"Are they of this earth
Who fritter the forest
and harry the hills
Are they of this earth
Who live that earth may die
Are they?"

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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

Trump announced plan to change the name of the Department of Defence to the more accurate Department of War Crimes. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

We are hiring a Head of Global Advocacy and Internet Policy at the Internet Society! This is a rare opportunity to join our team and shape the future of the Internet during one of its most challenging eras. 1/5

Remember when they told us it would be fine to let corporations self-regulate? We can trust Corporate Social Responsibility professionals to incorporate ethics and social indicators into the business model they said. Now they are struggling with whether it's OK to help regimes surveil and kill.

Should our company's products help a fascist government to surveil, manipulate and kill? This is now the focus of corporate social responsibility!