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RE: https://fediscience.org/@suomenantropologi/115614886106180185
Vale Keith Hart. That keynote from 2010 (link below) was (and still is) a compelling argument for reconnecting value theory to practical political economy by weaving together Marx's commodity fetishism, the concept of plural economy inspired by Mauss, and the digital revolution's radical cheapening of information.

«Generative AI is nothing more than a form of social suicide that must be reined in before it’s too late. It cannot be allowed to reach the level of proliferation that social media has achieved, as it may then be impossible to properly roll it back, but also because the social harms from this stage of the digital revolution (if we still want to call it that) will be amplified to an unimaginable degree.»
https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-societal-disaster/

The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled new proposals to ease regulations on AI and data privacy.
The EU has for years sought to rein in tech companies on various issues,
but is also attempting to balance this with the need to compete with tech firms in the United States and East Asia.
"Europe has not so far reaped the full benefits of the digital revolution,"
EU economy commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said.
"And we cannot afford to pay the …

EU proposes softening AI and data privacy regulations
The EU is responding to calls by businesses and member states that have argued the bloc needs to keep up with tech innovation. Meanwhile, cookie consent pop-up banners are also set to be scaled back.

The Programmable Liquid-crystal Active Coronagraphic Imager for the 4-m DAG telescope (PLACID) instrument - Discovery Space and Status: #Exoplanet Imaging with PLACID’s LCD Technology: https://www.europlanet.org/epsc-dps2025-bringing-the-digital-revolution-to-direct-exoplanet-imaging-with-placids-lcd-technology/

Must read: "Flight Tracking, OSINT, Roblox: The Cyber frontline of Gen Z's Revolution in Madagascar" by @andrinivo
#Madagascar

Knowing Unknowns in an Age of Information Overload
Saurabh Khanna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10413 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10413

Knowing Unknowns in an Age of Information Overload
The technological revolution of the Internet has digitized the social, economic, political, and cultural activities of billions of humans. While researchers have been paying due attention to concerns of misinformation and bias, these obscure a much less researched and equally insidious problem - that of uncritically consuming incomplete information. The problem of incomplete information consumption stems from the very nature of explicitly ranked information on digital platforms, where our limit…