MJ Lira
Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
- Reposted by MJ LiraNEW: A new tool searches your LinkedIn connections for people who are mentioned in the Epstein files. 404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.
- Reposted by MJ LiraDuring her visit, @abeba.bsky.social will be taking part in our Technomoral Conversations event exploring AI narratives and counter-narratives – a collaboration w/ @braiduk.bsky.social & @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social 🗓️ 11 Feb 18.00-19.30 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online 🎟️ edin.ac/3MZEm0a
- Reposted by MJ LiraAdele Walton’s sister Aimee died at 21 after going on a notorious self-harm forum. But when Adele approached a tech CEO to talk about online safety at a Davos debate, she was threatened with removal @adelewalton.bsky.social for the Nerve on why it matters when tech companies do not show humanity👇🔗
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- I’m not afraid of god. I am afraid of men.
- Reposted by MJ Lira"the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women"--Noam Chomsky
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- Reposted by MJ LiraLiam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
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- Reposted by MJ LiraICYMI: Last week the UK Govt admitted a serious error over data centres and the environment: www.theregister.com/2026/01/23/u... Read more here: www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/01/22/u...
- Fantastic event last night. Here’s to more creative spaces to discuss critical AI. 🙌 Below, @noortjem.bsky.social and @alex-taylor.bsky.social.
- Reposted by MJ LiraSCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...
- Can’t help but think how Rabbie Burns and my local 19th century bard, Mariano Melgar, would’ve been besties. Happy Burns night, all.
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- It’s ok to take time to mourn and process. Digital rights defenders, academics and activists, we need to look after ourselves now more than ever ❤️🩹
- Reposted by MJ LiraInternal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
- Reposted by MJ LiraNew: Amid the escalating situation in Minneapolis, ICE posted in the Federal Register asking companies to provide info about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities” www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
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- Reposted by MJ Liraif you’re passionate about AI accountability research and enjoy working in a vibrant lab with a multi-disciplinary team but not interested in doing traditional academic work, this position might be for you
- I’m looking for my right-hand person to come help me run the @aial.ie - Job Title: Lab Coordinator, AI Accountability Lab (0.8 FTE) - Pay Scale: (€58,999 - €69,325 per annum pro-rata) - Closing Date: 11-Feb-2026 12:00 Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Main Responsibilities👇🏾
- Reposted by MJ Lira“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
- Bought a bunch of daffodils… in January. That is obscene, but so is this year so far.
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- The ai arms race be like
- Vox populi 💪
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- Stay warm. Say safe. This year is proving to be brutal ❤️🩹😔🙏
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- Reposted by MJ Liranot saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s
- No puedo dormir pensando en los civiles que murieron por este “meme”. I cannot sleep thinking about the civilians who died because of this “meme”.
- The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
- Reposted by MJ Lira🌟New book! SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour, edited by Ergin Bulut, Julie Chen, Rafael Grohmann, and Kylie Jarrett. us.sagepub.com/en-us/sam/th...
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- Sorely needed
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- Reposted by MJ LiraMaduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
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- Como países colonizados, por siglos hemos buscado quedar bien con los “norteños” para poder sobrevivir. Entiendo que estos acontecimientos van a reforzar a la derecha neoliberal latinoamericana. No olvidemos en nuestros países vecinos que estamos tan en riesgo como nuestros hermanos venezolanos.
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- Reposted by MJ LiraWhatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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- Reposted by MJ LiraI wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
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- May our strength match this year’s energy. 🌱
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- Late night screenshots of potential contenders for the lit review. More likely to be read than all those saved pdf files. #academicsky
- This is the perfect Xmas gift 🎁
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- Reposted by MJ LiraJoin us for the book launch of Global South Creator Cultures on Tuesday, 20 January, 17:30–19:00, at King’s College London. Further information and registration details: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @mediaindustries.bsky.social
- Ok this got me in the feels.
- Reposted by MJ LiraI have issued two changes to my book regarding the water footprint of data centers. I've detailed the changes and the context behind them here: karendhao.com/20251217/emp.... Given the nature of book changes, I wanted to make sure anyone who has an existing copy of the book is aware.
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- Reposted by MJ LiraI wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
- Celebratory walk in the park
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- I scroll through LinkedIn with the exact same caution I used as a child when playing with the spilt mercury drops of broken thermometers. 🌡️ I fear too much exposure to it might cause irreversible damage.
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- Seriously.
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- Big tech firms are force-feeding us AI because it’s been already paid for. This triggers childhood memories.
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- Reposted by MJ LiraThe shift to a "digital only immigration system" is already causing distress and exclusion for many migrants. Our work with the University of Warwick has shown significant issues with the system. We will be launching our report later today detailing the problems. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
