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Efpraxia_Z

@efpraxiaz.bsky.social
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Professor at Durham University Business School #DUBS | Research on #InformationSystems, interested in #metaverse She/her | Mother of dogs | Views my own

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Has any technology been so AGGRESSIVELY sold to the public as AI? I can't think of any other example in my lifetime.
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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
You cannot save academia if you refuse to put your foot down on those seeking to abuse the subaltern. You must get rid of them and be decisive in it. Degrading the ability to stop people like this because "well, they're just harming trans people" is why creeps like Confas can get anywhere.
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General Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/07/2026
After laying out his “plan” for the officials before him, he revealed that it was all satire in protest of Flock. “I would never do this to you,” he said to the council. “Could I? Probably. But I wouldn't because it's wrong.“ Read @samleecole.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/casa-grande-...
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Only In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Boston is suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. The city says the companies deliberately designed addictive features like endless scrolling, notifications, and algorithms that harm kids' mental health. The lawsuit joins more than 1,500 school districts nationwide.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
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enepe @enepe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
La diagonale du four
Photographie architecturale minimaliste en noir et blanc, montrant l'angle de deux façades de bâtiments. La façade de droite, composée de panneaux carrés réguliers, est traversée en diagonale par une grande ombre triangulaire projetée par le bâtiment voisin, créant un contraste net entre zone claire et zone sombre. La façade de gauche, plus texturée, est entièrement dans l'ombre.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Alfred Hitchcock Wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to Design the North by Northwest House: An Architect Just Built It for $45 Million
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Alfred Hitchcock Wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to Design the North by Northwest House: An Architect Just Built It for $45 Million
Villains who live in opulent, remote modernist houses may have been a cliché since the last century, but given Hollywood's addiction to the tried and true, they do still turn up now and again. Unsurpr...
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Dystopos @dystopos.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Every time he says this the preserved corpse of Jeremy Bentham should appear at the door crying “who watches the watchmen?” and Michel Foucault should look down and whisper “no.”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026
Every one of these guys: Totalitarianism is good bro, trust me.
“Radical transparency is coming. A future where you can know anything, anytime, anywhere. A future where no one can hide,” he wrote on Substack. “We are wrapping the planet in an ‘Sensor Ecosystem’: a living, multi-layered sensing system that runs from the cameras in your home, to the phone in your pocket, to autonomous cars and humanoid robots on the ground, to drones and flying cars in the air, all the way up to a constellation of satellites imaging every square meter on the Earth every single day.” 
Diamandis’ comments come roughly two years after Oracle founder Larry Ellison said something very similar. ”
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/06/2026
Experience: I met my husband in the Dull Men’s Club
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Experience: I met my husband in the Dull Men’s Club
Luke spoke about how he irons his T-shirts and keeps a strict budget spreadsheet. I was hooked
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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Extraordinary credit to Sadiq Khan for pushing through this deeply controversial policy. This is what can happen when politicians are prepared to stick to their principles.
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Efpraxia_Z @efpraxiaz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
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‘They kill games, we fight back’: the activists campaigning to keep video games playable
When a company decided to shut down an online game’s servers, there wasn’t much the players who had bought that title could do – until a group called Stop Killing Games began lobbying for new consumer...
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Suraj has a point.
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Holly Baleen @hollybaleen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Chair of Sex Matters is currently crowdfunding for a quick SRY swab, to potentially use in schools. My Daughter is 20 now but if I’d heard they’d used something like this on her I’d have been down that school faster than shit off a shovel. It’s possibly one of the most evil things they’ve done.
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Hello all. A quick update from me.
My sex screen assay is progressing well.
I promised rapid: I can detect SRY from a cheek swab in about 30 minutes. I am currently testing whether I can drop it to 10 minutes without compromising reliability.
I promised cheap: The current cost per assay is about E2. I am currently testing whether I can drop this to below the pound line, and it's very promising.
I promised accessible: The assay could be run by any grassroots sports coach, school nurse, and my Mum.
I promised on-site: This is where my lab efforts are currently focussed. I've always held "from the UK to Uganda" as a principle, and ensuring easy deployment is crucial. I'm currently learning a lot of materials science...
The other main push is setting up various blinded, larger-scale tests. This will require lots of form filling.
If anyone wants to help me hit my final budget target, my crowdfunder is here.
©) Emma Hilton • @FondOfB... • 22 Dec 25
Every girl deserves a fair chance in sports.
Developing a rapid, low-cost sex screening method can protect women's categories and promote equality. Your support can make this vision a reality. Please share an...
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Somewhere in your company is The Spreadsheet. At least one person is responsible for updating The Spreadsheet. Multiple people update other databases based on what The Spreadsheet says. As long as The Spreadsheet exists, nothing can be automated.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Puts me in mind of the famous Eric Williams quote, “British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it”
Trump claims credit for Iran deal that averts depression
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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 10/06/2026
my siblings in Christ those are some bold assumptions
In our base case, we make the following assumptions: (a) critical technology and engineering challenges (namely radiation impact and GPU reliability) are sufficiently solved or mitigated by ~2040, (b) large cost categories (launch, radiators, and solar) also achieve sufficient cost-down scaling, and (c) a generally bullish outlook on overall AI demand and chip production ramp.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 05/06/2026
Wikipedia editors vs. AI Slop: The volunteer army wrangling the world’s chatbots restofworld.org/2026/wikipedia-ai-t…
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The volunteer Wikipedia army protecting against AI slop
The editors are both populating and fighting the world’s regional language AI engines.
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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The European Parliament will this week replace Google with France’s Qwant – a European alternative search engine – as the default on its computers, according to an email seen by @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/europea...
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European Parliament to ditch Google for European alternative | Euractiv
France's Qwant will this week become the default search engine on MEPs' computers
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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer
A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
@drdavidnicholl.bsky.social & I argue that Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk is entirely within his rights to block the Met Police Palantir deal in our letter in The Times. Not obvious that his critics have read the legislation or understood the highly questionable process used here.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Please take care of yourselves and each other. LGBT+ Helpline Scotland (0800 464 7000 helpline@lgbthealth.org.uk) is open until 9pm tonight (Thursday). The UK national LGBTQIA+ support line (0800 011 9100 switchboard.lgbt) is open until 10pm every day. You matter, you are needed, you are loved.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
These guys really could have sold AI as “this is going to make your lives better.” Instead they picked “this is going to take your job and ruin all the art you love and you better embrace it or get left behind.” And they expect applause at commencement speeches!
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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 15/05/2026
time to pivot my career
search keyword: "no-as-a-service"
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Half-expect to be told next the £5m was for a secure ballroom in Clacton.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Jesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future
“Potentially, what you could do with [AI] is obviously use it to engineer storytelling and change storytelling,” Russo said. “So you have a constantly evolving story, either in a game or in a movie or a TV show. You could walk into your house and save the AI on your streaming platform. ‘Hey, I want a movie starring my photoreal avatar and Marilyn Monroe’s photoreal avatar. I want it to be a rom-com because I’ve had a rough day,’ and it renders a very competent story with dialogue that mimics your voice. It mimics your voice, and suddenly now you have a rom-com starring you that’s 90 minutes long. So you can curate your story specifically to you.”
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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/04/2026
Oruka's experimental drug helps clear psoriasis in mid-stage study reut.rs/41TQyUn
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Oruka's experimental drug helps clear psoriasis in mid-stage study
Oruka Therapeutics said ​on Monday that interim results showed ‌its experimental drug helped clear psoriasis within 16 weeks, ​meeting the main goal ​of a mid-stage study ⁠and sending shares up ​43.4% in premarket trading.
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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
There are teens out there who've survived more than one mass shooting
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026
Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Life as a neighbour of the EU is a permanent negotiation whatever your relationship status. And you have to compete for attention with all of the others in the same position. Which is the reality more than saying the EU isn't interested but... what can you really offer?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
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Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I hope Bsky doesn't ban me for this, but after this ep I had to provide a selection Ancient Delos penises as proof. Including giant statues of penises, decorated with penis-bird-creatures, or a carving of a penis meeting a penis, with a penis for a tail, and another penis for a penis. So sorry. A x
Human-sized statue of a phallus in Delos, standing on a plinth decorated with a sort of featherless chicken with a penis instead of a head.More penis statuary, thought to be part of a series that lined one of the main streets in the centre of Ancient Delos.A selection of penis-related stuff in a display at the Delos Museum.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet… It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.”
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Nick Kellett @nickkellett.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
She's gonna print out 95 pro-Trump tweets and nail them all to the door of the nearest church
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Simon Woodgate 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @simonwoodgate.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"But we're not immigrants, we're expats"
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Above all, there are no winners, only losers. Iran is left with a brutal state, a traumatized population, a decimated infrastructure and worse economy. Lebanon's best chance at a viable state in a decade is obliterated, with yet another generation of rebuilt infrastructure bombed to rubble.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.
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SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 06/04/2026
As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though
recent Axios story on maternal health policy referenced
"findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. On the surface, there's nothing unusual about that. What wasn't originally mentioned, however, was that these findings were made up.
Clicking through the links revealed (as did a subsequent editor's note and clarification by Axios) that the public opinion poll was a computer simulation run by the artificial intelligence start-up Aaru. No people were involved in the creation of these opinions.
The practice Aaru used is called silicon sampling, and it's suddenly everywhere. The idea behind silicon sampling is simple and tantalizing. Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use A.I. agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
neal stephenson also dislikes the pervert glasses www.theverge.com/tech/899797/...
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The man who coined Metaverse now says Meta’s glasses are creepy
Neil Stephenson has changed his mind about VR and AR.
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