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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 26/09/2026

hello bluesky go watch my friend Sarah's debut music video right now it's a masterpiece and she's a masterpiece. now do it now. ok thank you very much www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnjl...

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Sarah Khatami - Play House

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have a new paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social w/ the briliant @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com We show that what we pay attention to online is a lot more politically diverse than what public engagement signals would suggest... sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

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Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement

Article: Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement | Sociological Science | Posted July 21, 2026

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 23/07/2026

new paper with the dream team :-)

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 24/05/2026

I lost a free tote I got at a chicago bookstore in NYC today and was so sad I wrote to ask if I can buy a replacement and now they're mailing me a tote from chicago on the house 🥹

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 19/04/2026

PhD defense :) biggest of shout outs to the best committee I could wish for, @jatucker.bsky.social @cbarrie.bsky.social @gmcclendon.bsky.social @andyguess.com and Pat Egan -- feeling very lucky!

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Decifer Studio @decifer.tech · 23/03/2026

NEW: How To Train Your Chatbot AI chatbots have become increasingly common. How much do you know about how they actually work?

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Decifer Studio @decifer.tech · 23/03/2026

Now in English, Arabic, French, and Italian. Live at: howtotrainyourchatbot.com

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 24/03/2026

new new new!! proud of this one, please try it out and let me know what you think <3 howtotrainyourchatbot.com

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Decifer Studio @decifer.tech · 23/03/2026

How to Train Your Chatbot is built by @aliaelkattan.com, @lujain.bsky.social, Sarah Al Yahya, @raminrahni.bsky.social, Jonah Senzel. Translations by Sarah Al Yahya (Arabic), Kiara Jouhanneau (French), and @tommi.space. Funded by the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 06/01/2026

feels nice to be from the greatest city in the world

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 16/12/2025

snow in nyc is like the most beautiful sight you've ever witnessed for 24 hours, then you're on the brink of death every time you step on the sidewalk for the next week

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 09/12/2025

can a benevolent nerd please make a streaming platform-agnostic jamming tool (you can jam to the same songs across diff platforms) and a playlist sharer (you can share a playlist of songs and it opens in any platform) thank you very much

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

why the hell do doctors offices want me to scan my palm with amazon one palm scan reader or take a selfie to verify my identity to check into my appointments

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 26/11/2025

my favorite completely placebo pseudoscience is that i somehow convinced myself that i can relieve physical pain by listening to the strokes. i can't explain it but it works

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brendan @schlage.town · 21/11/2025

Great piece! > I argue that skateboarding, too, is a pedagogical instrument… > The playfulness skating allows is not about turning cities into playgrounds but turning individuals into people who can find playgrounds in cities.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 17/11/2025

“Reflecting on her experiences of skateboarding in Cairo, New York and other cities as a form of ‘rolling ethnography’, Alia ElKattan positions ‘seeing like a skater’ as a new way to approach urban landscapes.” @aliaelkattan.com lands a gnarly reflective shred without bailing

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Seeing Like a Skater: Skateboarding as Poetic Technology

Reflecting on her experiences of skateboarding in Cairo, New York and other cities as a form of ‘rolling ethnography’, Alia ElKattan positions ‘seeing like a skater’ as a new way to approach urban lan...

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 26/10/2025

every signal chat is like turtle (low cap) changed their name to mousetrap (offline 3:40pm - 4:20pm) changed their name to cheesecake (no cap) i can't do this anymore

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

This is now out in journalqd.org/article/view.... Please be in touch with any questions if you intend to use! Great to work with @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com on this! Watch out for them

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An enriched, multimodal social media dataset of a UK General Election campaign | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 15/10/2025

i'm a bit of a music critic myself

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 06/10/2025

does anyone wanna give me a great job with maximum flexibility without having to market myself whatsoever ok no worries if not

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 30/09/2025

we were paying $145 for wifi i called to cancel the service they changed it to $30 lol not even trying to pretend its not a scam

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

We can dunk on Silver. But the folks wildly hyping Adams in 2021-22 included Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. The desire for a prominent BLACK politician who was pro-police and hostile to the BLM movement was broadly shared within elite Dem circles. They ignored obvious signs he was corrupt and inept.

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 28/09/2025

eric adams dropped out. great day for new york city. bad day for seekers of Very Funny Content

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 25/09/2025

if you are on the fediverse @tommi.space is successfully peer pressuring me into being more there than here - created a new account for a fresh start, come hang: pan.rent/@alia :)

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Alia ElKattan (@alia@pan.rent)

2 Posts, 4 Following, 3 Followers · getting a PhD, falling on a skateboard, believing in a free palestine

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 23/09/2025

"Love is immortal and sorrow is immortal and the Midan is immortal and the shaheed is immortal and the country is immortal. As for their state it is for an hour. Just for an hour. Abu Khaled The morning of Friday, 9 December 2011 Cell 6/1 Ward 4 Tora Investigation Jail"

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 22/09/2025

presidential pardon for alaa abdelfattah... many tears today. may all our prisoners follow.

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Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · 20/09/2025

If you’re not on @openstreetmap.bsky.social do you even exist? 😆 Well, now the Internet Archive Europe is officially on and off line! 🙌 Come visit us when we have reading room hours and open events. Stay tuned for more into about that later on.

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publictechmedialab.bsky.social @publictechmedialab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A big, warm welcome to @aliaelkattan.com, our newest member at the @publictechmedialab.bsky.social! 🥳 Alia is a PhD candidate at @nyu.edu, where she researches how technology mediates how we learn and engage with politics, with a focus on AI technologies. See more: ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu

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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 09/09/2025

breaking glass ceilings by going on the academic job market with a great deal of delusion and unsubstantiated optimism

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

If you’re wondering why I’m not really posting garden pictures this year it’s because it just feels really weird and kinda wrong to demonstrate food abundance when there are so many starving folks from Gaza on here.

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 20/08/2025

attending a conference that happens once every ten years and it really skews your perception of time....

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 19/08/2025

incredibly bizarre that the big controversy theatre in NYC politics is that a candidate living in a $2300 1-bedroom is stealing from the poor, etc. we've lost the plot. everyone should live in rent stabilized units! no one should be paying $5000 for a 1 bedroom!!!

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 14/07/2025

i'm sorry i will literally never get how women in other cultures change their last names when they get married. there is no man in the world i could ever give up kattan for 😭

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 09/07/2025

can you even imagine how honored I felt for Bryan to switch out of WFMU to listen to my friends and I play music

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 07/07/2025

my instagram series is just a series of people who don't know each other going "i love ireland". and you know what. good for you

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Alex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS @alexstrook.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

Fake website servic welcome page. text reads:

"Your favorite tool is now ruined by AI"
"you might not like it but shareholders love it"

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city.

His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation.

That Trump included praise for Eric Adams in his authoritarian threats is unsurprising, but highlights the urgency of bringing an end to this Mayor’s time in City Hall. At the very moment when MAGA Republicans are attempting to destroy the social safety net, kick millions of New Yorkers off of healthcare and enrich their billionaire donors at the expense of working families, it is a scandal that Eric Adams echoes this President’s division, distraction and hate.

Voters will resoundingly reject it in November.

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