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Felicitas Macgilchrist

@discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
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Exploring the culture and politics of educational technology. Especially interested in critical and speculative methods. Always on the lookout for cooperative […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.coop/@discoursology, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
@David See there it is, the hope! But given the past, I’m afraid we can assume capitalism (as the profit for some, based on the exploitation of many) will shape-shift, survive and still be a disaster for most of the world. (Sent with warmth!)
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altpapier @altpapier.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
In einem Interview mit @netzpolitik_feed sagt Simon Strick anlässlich der VÖ seines Buchs „Faschisierung. Fluchtlinien des Digitalen“: „Soziale Medien sind darauf ausgerichtet, Ereignisse herzustellen, auf die man reagieren kann (…) Das Problem ist (…) nicht nur Rechtspopulismus, sondern eine […]
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
@David A better economy to replace this one?
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
@David you’re optimistic: There won’t be a post-final stage capitalism. And then an after-the-post-final-state capitalism …
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Leigh @newbabyfly.schism.ink.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
Sticker sheets turned out so cool! Couldn't resist getting a whole bunch of individual fucks too! Sub to sticker club anytime in October to get a sheet! ✨ ko-fi.com/newbabyfly/tiers #art #fediartist #fuckai #stickers #artshop
Photo of a 5x6.4 inch sticker sheet with various anti-ai designs. Additional die cut "fuck ai" word bubble stickers are  scattered around the edges
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
“We don’t just visualize data. We visualize perspectives, power, and possibility.” Now there’s a formulation. Great talks planned though! #DataDialogues in Frankfurt. datadialogue.eu Thanks @danderlan
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RMU Data Dialogue 2026
The Data Dialogue is a format and platform for sharing and discussing data-related topics. It provides a space for data enthusiasts to connect, learn, and collaborate on various data projects.
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Talking to someone in the swimming pool today: she was wondering why schools are such a mess today compared to “back in the day”. And I had just read Mark Fisher (Capitalist Realism) on education: schools used to be (Foucault) disciplinary institutions and teachers authoritarians. But today […]
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
To all potential writers of proposals: Please don't submit proposals in Claudish. It sucks the lifeblood out of the reviewers.
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
I know you're not supposed to answer them, but... then they have the last word?
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
Oh wow, I have missed the trolls. Haven't been trolled since Twitter. I found them now (but not on Mastodon, thankfully, in one of those other "social" media.)
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Well, gosh, who would have thought … (oh wait, quite a few people)
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
EN: Are you an American multi billionaire? Are you looking for the right advertising space? We still have some ad slots available to offer you. For a nominal fee—0 euros, in fact—you can have your logo appear on the footer of our parliament’s website. #LeaveX #Democracy #France
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Thomas Kahle @tomkalei.mathe.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#math version of this: - Look, we used AI to solve all hard math problems super quickly. - How do the solutions work and what do they say? - I’m pretty sure that’s your job.
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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Why We’re Banning AI www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-wer… #AI #NoAI
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Reading Golumbia‘s Cultural Logic of Computation. For “the individual, and maybe even from the perspective of informal social groups, the empowering effects of computerization appear (and may even be) largely salutary.” But for “institutions, computerization has effects that we as citizens and […]
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
AbdouMalique Simone wrote years ago: “Infrastructure is the materialization of anticipation”. Is that not so appropriate for today’s “AI”.
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Finally, a sensible school strategy for AI! First dedicated AI literacy teacher in Scotland: “But rather than teaching pupils to embrace AI, Laycock's mission is to ensure they can question it, challenge it and use it responsibly.” www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6qjk9n7g…
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Scotland's first AI teacher warns pupils: Don't trust everything it tells you
Jamie Laycock says schools must help youngsters understand both the opportunities and dangers of AI.
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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server! Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development. We believe ournalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step […]
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Locally Hated Pin. With social media, it's all too easy to be hated globally. Now being hated locally, that's an art form. It takes honest, despicable work to make everyone in a five mile radius despise you. collabs.shop/e80him
An enamel pin shaped like a brown sidewalk cafe sign with gold trim. The text on the sign reads "LOCALLY HATED," with a small coffee cup and croissant illustration below.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Oh, the irony. Schools (in Germany) try to reduce the use of "genAI" among students in classrooms, while giving them iPads and Goodnotes, which has "AI features". "Whether you're brainstorming on a whiteboard or taking detailed notes in your notebook, Goodnotes AI helps you effortlessly […]
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Nautilus director of organising Martyn Gray said: “For centuries, every seafarer, every maritime nation, and every decent human being has lived by an unwritten, unbreakable law: when life is in peril on the sea, you launch. You do not hold a committee meeting on the slipway. You pull them out […]
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
“”Can a bridge decide to collapse?” The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have […]
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Ionica Smeets @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
What a hero: Nihar B Shah interviewed authors of papers that would have been desk-rejected to see if they understood their own papers. medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-… #FuckAI
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/09/2026
Today is the day! Cyberselfish—the book that nailed Silicon Valley's dangerous narcissism 26 years ago—is back in print!
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
RE: union.place/@smolwaffle/11726364848… Being back Norman Fairclough! These headings (passive voice) are in the Beginner’s Guide to News Analysis or the Discourse Analysis 101… New tech, same rhetoric #DiscourseStudies @DiscourseNet
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Berlin FediDay @berlinfediday.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
🏫🌐 Neu im Fediverse! 🎉 Es gibt jetzt den Account @fedimachtschule! 🚀 Du hast Interesse daran, das Fediverse in die Schulen zu bringen? Dann: 👉 Account folgen 📧 In den E-Mail-Verteiler eintragen 💡 Ideen, Erfahrungen & Infos in das Pad eintragen Lasst uns gemeinsam das Fediverse in die Schule […]
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Compare and contrast with machine-reading: "...we dwell on the enigmatic echo of a word, taste it, and then swallow the implications of a paragraph".
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
"Consider the technical discrete “actants” of reading: the word, sentence, paragraph, page. Each of these units is encountered and felt as aesthetic and motor‑sensory encounters. Reading the word sparks associations and smells, while the sentence deviates and snakes across the page, the […]
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
"Philosophical inquiry into technology is what we need most today, as generative fabulations by infant-like algorithmic mechanisms further diminish our trust in the authenticity of texts."
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
"As part of their training, ((LLM technologies)) scour the internet, sweep through texts of dubious authority, and rummage through our language rubble." Elizabeth de Freitas on LLMs. de Freitas, E. (2024). Fragile texts and machine readers: trans/in/dividual reading tactics in a complex […]
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
@tommi Prefigurative!
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
@magsamond terrifying thought! Utterly. They were sooooooo good
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
@magsamond splendid! Was just talking about ILTA again a few moments ago!
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Nepal‘s foreign minister, Shisir Khanal, on #climatejustice “We have contributed so little to climate change,” he said. “It is imperative for those in the global community who benefit from larger, much more polluting economies, and whose historical contribution to greenhouse gases is much […]
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Important information on the "Knight in Shining Armor Saves the Girl" trope: This is actually pretty rare in actual folk tales - usually it is later addition when those tales were turned into literature in order to make them a better fit for bourgeois narrative tastes and preferences of gender […]
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
How can people not notice their overuse of negative parallelisms? (“It isn’t x. It’s y.”) One manuscript had five in one paragraph. Another had eight on one page. Most of the x’s are straw figures. #academicWriting
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
About AI music in Grace Chan’s Every Version of You: it’s like cotton candy: “It hits you like pure sugar. At first, it’s delicious. But the more you eat it, the more you realise it’s just the same sticky shit. And then, after a while, you realise you’re just eating mostly air.” Couldn’t say […]
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Ivan Illich was born 100 years ago today. This is a picture I took in April of the door to the house where he once lived. There is no better place to start getting to know him than this Lost Prophets podcast […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
@DiscourseNet They did! Only one vote against the resolution. (6 abstentions). 164 in favour.
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Hope the UN votes to #CorrectTheMap today www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/…
Map showing land masses in their correct sizes in relation to one another. So the continent of Africa is not the same size as Greenland. Guardian subtitles the picture: The 1973 Gall-Peters world map has been used as an alternative to the Mercator. Photograph: Michael Schmeling/Alamy
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
@Lapizistik @perspektivbrocken Gegen Fußnote 2 bin ich sowieso. Es war ein Versuch, ja, aber die Veränderungen waren leider eine Verschlimmerung der damaligen Verhältnissen. Was sich verbessert hat, ist dass es kaum noch Kettenkarussell 2-/3-4-monatsverträge gibt - aber das hat nichts mit dem […]
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Good News Community @good-news-community.mastodon.cosmicnation.co.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
A former dairy farm in North Somerset is set to become a climate-resilient nature reserve, giving birds, bats and newts more habitat and creating a new place for people to connect with wildlife. Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd76ve… @goodnews #GoodNews #NatureRecovery […]
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Collapsology. Politische Bildung in der Post-Apokalypse. Am looking forward to reading this book.
Screenshot of the cover of this book, with black background and stark white letters:  Werner Friedrichs / Tonio Oeftering (Eds.) Politische Bildung in der Postapokalypse: Die Zukunft vom Ende her denken
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Petition gegen Dauerbefristung in der Wissenschaft. Again. It's worth signing every single time. Might work at some point […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Overheard on the elevator this morning: "But if AI didn't really work as well as they say people would say something about it" *I turn and look directly into the camera* Credits roll.
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
@mhoye I am loving reading this saga.
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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
This will be great: CfP Discursive Imaginaries of Change - Heterotopias, PowerKnowledge, and the "Great Transformation", 19–21 July 2027 | Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany #discoursestudies #academia #DNC2027
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