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Alia ElKattan

@aliaelkattan.com
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critical tech researcher | free palestine

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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 11h
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Champion Trees - Higher Taste
Listen to Higher Taste on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service
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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
YouTube video by Sarah
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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 23/07/2026
go to the beach!!!
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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
shoutout to Exile in Bookvile & 33 1/3 <3
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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 · 27/04/2026
new friko is so good btw tidal.com/track/487209...
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Friko - Certainty
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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 20/04/2026
Thank you so much Avi!!
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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 20/04/2026
Thank you so much for reading! I definitely regretted not having my board on me last time I was in London -- next time for sure :)
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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 · 10/01/2026
congrats Doctor Ingrid!
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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 09/01/2026
this track's been my lifeline lately tidal.com/track/470617...
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Champion Trees - Higher Taste
Listen to Higher Taste on TIDAL
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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 06/01/2026
consistently
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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 · 25/12/2025
idek anymore!!!!
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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 22/12/2025
Made a lil site today whydontyouaskchatgpt.com
whydontyouaskchatgpt.com
RealGPT
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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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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 23/11/2025
thanks so much for reading (and sharing) brendan, it means a lot!
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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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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 23/11/2025
yes!! i had similar thoughts about walking with a camera after writing this piece :)
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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 21/11/2025
Aw thank you so much Sacha!!
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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 17/11/2025
THANK YOU FOR READING YUSUF means the world! also this is the only time I don't bail when it comes to skateboarding lolll
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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
mediapolisjournal.com
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 · 17/11/2025
you should write a paper about that
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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 17/11/2025
I wrote about skateboarding, Graeber, and Weizenbaum for Mediapolis' special issue on "Playable Cities". Had lots of fun with this one :) www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/seei...
mediapolisjournal.com
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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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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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
journalqd.org
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
so blatant 😭
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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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Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com · 29/09/2025
very interesting i'll def give this a read!! i do want to understand the nuances of this better so thank you for sharing
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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 · 26/09/2025
yes im very easily influenced
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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
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/24901
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Half an Hour with Khaled: A Piece Smuggled Out of Jail by Alaa Abd El Fattah.
[The following was written&nbsp;by Alaa Abd El Fattah, after the&nbsp;peice was&nbsp;smuggled out of the Tora Prison on 9 December 2011. It was published in Arabic on Al Shorouk and in English on the ...
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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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