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Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society @torontosri.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Who gets to shape the future of AI—and on what terms? Join us April 29 for SRI’s 2026 Graduate Workshop, exploring trustworthy AI, governance, and the future of intelligent systems. 📍 Toronto + Online 🎟️ Registration: sri-graduate-workshop-2026.eventbrite.ca #AI #ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance
On April 29 SRI hosts the 2026 Graduate Workshop, exploring trustworthy AI, governance, and the future of intelligent systems.

This event is in Toronto and Online. Registration details are in the link provided.
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Joseph Wilson @josephwilsonca.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Join me for the launch of Humans of AI from U of T Press with @danbrownefilm.bsky.social on March 26 in Toronto #AI #Anthropology #STS #LLMs www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...?
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Book Launch: Humans of AI by Joseph Wilson
Join author Joseph Wilson in conversation with Dan Browne for the launch of Humans of AI: Understanding the People Behind the Machines!
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Bruce Schneier on the Agentic AI trilemma: “Fast, smart, secure; pick any two. Fast and smart—you can’t verify your inputs. Smart and secure—you check everything, slowly, because AI itself can’t be used for this. Secure and fast—you’re stuck with models with intentionally limited capabilities.”
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Agentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem - Schneier on Security
The OODA loop—for observe, orient, decide, act—is a framework to understand decision-making in adversarial situations. We apply the same framework to artificial intelligence agents, who have to make t...
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Next frontier in AI safety is.....adversarial poetry? arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...
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Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Started a thread in the other place and bringing it over here - I really think we should be more vocal about the opportunities that lay at the intersection of these two options! So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 08/10/2025
if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
People need to start investing in, like, Polaroids and Technicolor film if you ever want to use photographic or video evidence in a courtroom after 2026
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
There's a trend going around TikTok to have ChatGPT create visual alphabets (because the output is always full of ridiculous mistakes). I generated this one to use an example to help explain WHY AI image generators make these kinds of mistakes. It turned out even better/worse than expected.
a colorful visual alphabet labeled AI Ethica Alphabet, with letters, icons, and brief explanations. Examples include:  B is for Bias with "Consent: AI can reflect and amplify unfair prejudices"; G is for Governancs with "Governance: Rules and oversight for safe i deployment"; G is for Governance with "Justice: injured indegeend If train ing snhzenic data repeordity"; P is for Regulation with "Oversight: Humans must se-powy important AI tasks"; R is for Regulation with "Guality Data: Good data prevents poor or biased outputs"
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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 30/06/2025
"China’s robotics market is projected to grow at an annual rate of 23% and reach $108 billion by 2028... By 2050, China is expected to have 302.3 million humanoid robots in use, far ahead of the U.S. projection of 77.7 million" www.nbcnews.com/world/china/...
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A bumbling game of robot soccer was a breakthrough for embodied AI
The soccer tournament was played by AI-powered robots in Beijing on Saturday. China is investing tens of billions of dollars to extend its lead in next-gen robotics.
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dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Read this thread ⤵️
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
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dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Stay cool out there
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Jeff Clune @jeffclune.com · 23/06/2025
How it felt to know AGI is coming soon long before the world was paying attention. officechai.com/ai/building-...
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Building AI Felt Like Watching An Alien Intelligence Arrive: Early OpenAI Researcher
OpenAI had stunned the world by releasing ChatGPT in November 2022, but it turns out that the researchers working on the technology were even more stunned at what they'd developed. Jeff Clune, a fo...
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dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This story is too dumb not to be a plant
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“One major culprit behind the wave of depersonalisation is the widespread reduction of individuals to data. Feeling invisible can stem from repeatedly experiencing standardised interactions” aeon.co/essays/our-c...
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Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
the modern information environment
Google search "do apples contain lycopene?" The AI overview says "No, apples do not contain lycopene" whereas the highlighted search result begins "Apples contain lycopene"
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Douglas Adams saw it all coming.
Douglas Adams quote about the Electric Monk
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
DuoLingo: we're not going to cut any jobs, but we want to use AI to limit how much more hiring we have to do while still growing and addressing "bottlenecks" that used to make us hire consultants. AI panic monkeys: DuoLingo are cutting jobs!!! #AIEthics #FutureOfWork #FoW
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
Bar graph titled "Top 20 Countries by Research and Development Spending." The United States leads significantly in spending, followed by China, Japan, and Germany. Other countries include the United Kingdom, South Korea, France, and Australia, among others.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/05/2025
rarely has there been a purer example of human progress created by someone repeatedly pressing a button labeled “DO NOT TOUCH”
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I get at least three heartbreaking, incoherent emails a day now from random strangers who believe they’ve awakened an LLM god or LLM consciousness of a new dimension. The most salient quote from the screenshots below: “(An LLM) will never just say, ‘Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??’”
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It took me a very long time to learn "do your best" does not mean "give 100% effort even at the expense of your physical or mental health" or "give A+ effort even when it is clearly not appreciated or valued". Sometimes doing your best is heating up a can of soup and going to bed early.
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dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is a phenomenal essay to re-read closely today.
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dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Thanks for all your hard work @jagmeetsingh.ca
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dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Important read. Everything must be understood through the political economy of collapse.
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
pro tip: if you can afford to blow $250 million on a losing campaign in Wisconsin, you can afford to pay a 90% top tax margin
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"In Greenland what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain." snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-g...
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The Imperialism Has no Clothes
JD Vance in Greenland
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Everything will come to revolve around whether or not this patch of text is or is not a “war plan,” and that will prove undecidable because the very phrase will be tokenized as a unit of exchange in the language game, rather than functioning as the signifier for what we can all see for ourselves.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
In memoriam photo of Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)
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dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📽️ This week I’ll be sharing a programme of recent work with the Ad Hoc screening collective, including several local premieres. Thursday March 20th 8PM @ Innis College, University of Toronto
Poster for Ad Hoc screening of “Lines of Force: Films and videos by Dan Browne”Still image from POEM (2015)Still image from LINES OF FORCE (2018)Still image from RECIPROCITY (2020)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
You literally cannot tell this incredibly cool part of American history without centering Native American identity. It is an powerful demonstration of how diversity provided tangible military advantages over an enemy committed to White supremacy. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
As the U.S. entered World Wars I and II, the military needed an efficient means of protecting its radio, telephone, and telegraphic messages from enemy intelligence. During this time, many Native Americans joined the armed forces and had a unique skill that would prove instrumental to the war effort. Each Native American tribe had their own language and dialect that few outside the tribes understood, many of which were not written down.

Before their arrival in France during World War I, the Germans had broken every American code used, resulting in the deaths of many U.S. Soldiers. However, the Germans never broke the Native Americans’ “code,” and these Soldiers became affectionately known as Code Talkers.
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dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This should be obvious.
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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Want to help Save the CBC? Here are the things you can do RIGHT NOW to help the cause. We are a grassroots organization and we need individuals to contribute as a community! Together we are stronger, so please take time to do these things and help Save the CBC! Links: buff.ly/g6n31iJ
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Supporting Canadian also means supporting Canadian media! I'm a big magazine girly and especially love @chatelainemag.bsky.social, @thewalrus.ca, Herizons This Magazine and Maisonneuve.
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dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Are there any Bluesky feeds that filter accounts by geographic region? Looking for a Canadian-only timeline.
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The Majestic Goose @majestic-goose.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Don't Defund the CBC. Defend the CBC! Our sovereignty is under attack and our public broadcaster is more important than ever. It’s a critical institution that costs Canadian taxpayers less than $3/month per person. It’s not perfect but it’s OURS! #defendthecbc #savethecbc #cdnpoli
A goose with a CBC logo shield with arrows sticking to it and a hockey stick shaped sword rallying Canadians to support the CBC and defend our culture
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A rabbi asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and the day was on its way back.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
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dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Such an honour to share some of my recent work with Ad Hoc. Huge thanks to Stephen Broomer for continuing to program great experimental films in Toronto.
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