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Louise Amoore
@amoorelouise.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
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Louise Jane Amoore, is a British geographer and academic, who specialises in geopolitics, biometrics, state security and the ethics of machine learning. She is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University. From 2017 to 2023, she was a member of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG), a non-departmental advisory body which is the "only formally accountable ethics committee" within the UK Government's Home Office. .. more

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 12d
The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social annual conference 2027 theme is #LatentSpaces details are here, we look forward to your abstracts by 30 November. Join us to discuss how AI latent spaces reconfigure knowledge, society & culture.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 22h
Same ❤️

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23h
My dog is my anti-Internet. Whenever I think everything sucks, I look up and that feeling goes away
A white fluffy fox-faced dog sleeping on her bear stuffie

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 1d
Well @paullangley.bsky.social October is done but surely this is still coming? 🫧
amoorelouise.bsky.social Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Sep 20
In 2007 @paullangley.bsky.social quietly predicted there would be a global financial crisis. He wrote a book about it before it happened. I remember it, we were eating breakfast. This summer whilst lighting a BBQ he said that this October could likely be the next major one… 🤔

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 1d
Won’t the retail investors be suitably spooked by now? “Pensions of those whose books stolen by Anthropic left holding the grenade”….. 😞

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
Greige

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
Ooh yes I had a partitioned Mac too ❤️ Forgot about that

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
Now we are distanced from the software that distanced us from code?

Reposted by Keith Williams

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MikeCrang @crangma.bsky.social · 2d
But distance from code was what Apple sold: to the extent that in his 30 Sep 1994 magazine column Umberto Eco told a joke about the religious wars of Catholic catheticistic Mac vs Calvinist scriptural DOS

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
Context for this nonsense: all the talk about how to opt out of AI & thinking about what it felt like when the machine was not foreclosing what we might become

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
The first computer I ever used was an Acorn BBC in 1983/4. I remember it vividly & using BASIC to make little graphics (PLOT, GCOL) & a turtle maybe? 10 PRINT “HELLO”

Reposted by Steve Peers

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 2d
omg, which is it? WHICH IS IT?!?
Screenshots from Apple News: GRAZIA Claudia Winkleman just wore a brown coat, which means we all need a brown coat this winter now too BRITISH VOGUE Alexa Chung Proves A Grey Coat Is All You Need This Winter

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
Congratulations, it’s a wonderful achievement.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
But then I guess I have missed out that Generation Z had their Raspberry Pi.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
Feeling really rubbish & on horrible antibiotics. Then the postman delivered @robinjames.bsky.social Good Vibes Only & cheered me up 📖 it’s a must read… and the @dukepress.bsky.social design vibes 🔥

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
I’m trying to express how this experience has reversed. Every document & platform now crowds our thoughts out with demands for prompt interaction.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
I completely understand Generation Z’s fondness for vinyl, cassettes, my 22 year old has a 1930s typewriter, it’s beautiful. But something that’s harder to explain is that 1980s computing did not distance us from the code. I had forgotten that I wrote my masters thesis on a 1990 IBM & in WordPerfect
A c.1990 IBM PC

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
I think that’s a yes. If @andrewleyshon.bsky.social says it’s a yes, it’s a yes.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2d
& to think that our kids wondered what we would talk about once they had moved out….

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 2d
Looks like it, according to the FT: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... $6.3bn in 30 minutes: how the world’s biggest heist unfolded

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 2d
Yes and no. According to @financialtimes.com
"About $3.8bn worth of Ethereum was stolen ... by exploiting a new feature introduced last year intended to enable users to give automated software the power to authorise transactions on their behalf"
amoorelouise.bsky.social Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 3d
Did Binance lose $6.3billion from crypto wallets because of agentic transactions, resonant your “bots with bucks”?
paullangley.bsky.social Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 18d
A new paper on the embrace of agentic AI by the leading global payment intermediaries
durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5863626