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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 2h

MIT Press. "The tech religion continues to need an agnostic *reformation*, by which I mean we need much less confidence in grand AI pronouncements." If you're not following @gregmepstein.bsky.social, you should be. Look for his book "Tech Agnostic" in paperback February 2027:

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 2h

UWIS. Following recent concerns about the speed of AI development and security incidents, reporter Stefan Milne of @uwnews.uw.edu spoke with five researchers including Information School faculty Aylin Caliskan, Chirag Shah and Ryan Calo.

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 2h

"flu jabs.." (the great pharma..)

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 3h

chuckle chuckle..one could almost write: "ffs or wtf or stfu.."

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Bob @bobappleyard.me · 3h

@jemgilbert.bsky.social highly relevant illustration of the contested nature of expertise

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 3h

chuckle chuckle.."i confess..i expose myself.." [always a good one..]

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 4h

Theory, Culture & Society. ICYMI: Joshua Reeves and Ethan Stoneman, 'From the Confessional Booth to Digital Enclosures: Absolution as Cultural Technique' - examines the confessional booth as an architected space that prefigures digital forms of data capture and production.

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 4h

Bloomberg News. Google’s James Manyika says AI’s risks are real and regulation is necessary — but responsibility has to be shared across industry, government and society. Read this weekend's interview with Mishal Husain: 📷️: Ruhani Kaur/Bloomberg

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 5h

Alan Rusbridger. ChatGPT tells me there’s only one MP qualified to regulate A.I., and only four congressmen. What hope is there of democratic oversight? "That debate in the Eighties was itself an echo of the famous and prolonged discussion in the 1920s between the philosopher John Dewey and the

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 5h

"nanny..nanny..nanny.." ("hello nanny..") [not exactly "hello queenie" now is it..?]

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 6h

I wanna be Instamatic I wanna be a frozen pea I wanna be dehydrated [Chorus] In a consumer society In a consumer society In a consumer society [now that's more like it..]

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 7h

"poly market this..(poly market that..)

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 8h

"Instead of reflecting real life, modern media functions as cautionary, heavily structured folklore engineered to deliver moralistic compliance.." [Ai..]

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 8h

"hey..provide us with another grimm fairytale.."

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 8h

"supermarket sweep..?" (nay.."polymarket vacuums..")

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 8h

The Guardian. UK urged to act as Polymarket takes bets on whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail. "Market manipulation and insider trading risks reach new levels in the context of prediction markets, particularly on DLT-based [distributed ledger technology] www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 9h

"warrior in woolworths.." ?

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 23h

"Ai and it's limitations, blind spots and technical overreach(s).." (can we do something about that..?")

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 23h

The Guardian. OpenAI’s Medicare attack has exposed Australia’s ‘tech debt’. Fixing it could bring a big bill for taxpayers. A Victoria government cybersecurity audit of its IT servers found 25% of the operating systems used by servers were no longer supported by the vendor, with 48%

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 23h

"is it live..or is it memorexxxx.."?

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"yes me julie.." (that was her name lads..) on of..

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICYMI. molly taft. i did a little Climate Week postmortem on data centers: co2 emissions are far & away the most alarming part of the buildout. but there hasn't been much of a reckoning beyond climate spaces kind of wondering when it'll enter the larger convo, if at all, and what that may look like

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

IC&S. #OutNow in #iCS In this article, the author proposes a media-genealogical approach to situate the claim of ‘democratization’ within a broader development in the infrastructuralisation and platformisation of computing.

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Duke University Press. Latin American and World Histories: Old and New Approaches to the Pluribus and the Unum. Jeremy Adelman. The rise of world history courses in American universities appears to pose important challenges to Latin American history. read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...

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Latin American and World Histories: Old and New Approaches to the Pluribus and the Unum

The rise of world history courses in American universities appears to pose important challenges to Latin American history. Some say that globalization dissolves cultural differences into a sort of tra...

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i augustus durham (rp by ken wissoker) I am excited to announce a new endeavor: The Blackhurst Project! Partnering with the Blackhurst Cultural Centre and A Different Booklist, we have developed a Project for cultivating black thought in this current sociopolitical moment—a think tank, so to speak

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TLP. A new generation of far-right extremists are using social media to enhance their message and the size of their following. Elettra Scrivo reports on Núcleo Nacional, the fringe neo-Nazi movement getting just enough mainstream attention to look far bigger than it actually is.

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"fetal(ise)..[no not infantilise..] yourself within/inside the digital membrane.."

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oligopoly Go! The games industry has been consolidating since 2020. The data says it hasn’t even peaked yet. Joost van Dreunen. Sep 30 The ten largest game makers account for $100B in combined revenues superjoost.substack.com/p/oligopoly-...

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Oligopoly Go!

The games industry has been consolidating since 2020. The data says it hasn’t even peaked yet

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

don't say: "fook me..even disneyfication has been disneyfied.."

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

chuckle chuckle "is it christmas yet lads.." (glitterati..)

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"the pm on the kippax.." (trials and tribulations..)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026

Days after a loss of hundreds microbetting at a Yankees game, DraftKings sent a notice to our reporter: “Took a loss? Now take a beat.” Then came a promotion: A 20% profit BOOST on bets of up to $250 for an unlimited number of live bets on baseball plate appearances. Full story: propub.li/4xUdksA

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

non-equilibrium state of emotional resource extraction: $\text{Parasocial\ Toxicity}\propto \frac{\text{Fan\ Investment}}{\text{Celebrity\ Autonomy}}$

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"celebrity/fandom..fandom/celebrity.."

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"catch a fallen star and put it in your pocket.."

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Guardian. Guardian Opinion cartoon Ben Jennings on Andy Burnham’s suggestion that the Brexit question could be revisited – cartoon

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Masja_@_Brill. New journal issue of Studies in World Cinema Indigenous cinemas from South-Asia, edited by Shohini Chaudhuri and Swapna Gopinath brill.com/view/journal... Contact: see www.brill.com/SWC @themhra.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @asianstudies.org @scmstudies.bsky.social

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"This is the book—‘the half that’s yet to be told.’ The visit of Emperor Haile Selassie I to the Caribbean captured the hearts of many of my generation and ignited a Rastafari revolution. My life changed when I saw the nail prints in Jah hand... ” - Rita Marley

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"starlink..the battery of our whole (or entire) livelihoods.."

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