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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

didn't realise to what extent culture / cool artists, record labels etc migrated here from X/twitter, leaving X a barren desert of culture / of only tech people

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CompSciOxford @compscioxford.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Professor Max Van Kleek @emax.bsky.social is speaking at the King's AI Summit: Workforce Futures at King's College London next week on the panel discussion 'The Workforce of 2030: What Will Change – and What Won't?'. 16:05 Tuesday 19 May 2026 Strand Campus Further details: kingsaisummit.com

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King's AI Summit 2026

King's College London AI Summit 2026 — bringing together leading researchers, industry pioneers, and policymakers to shape the future of artificial intelligence.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 27/09/2025

Ditto lists and starter packes: you should be able to remove yourself from those. Yes, there are useful lists and starter packs, but some of them are clearly hostile and in bad faith. It's a failure of safeguarding that you can't remove yourself.

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

let's make bsky the un-linkedin and the anti-X it would be nice if this place was not about 'networking' or selling SaaS products. or boasting about your personal successes for 'tips for personal growth' or about hate, scams, and porn (x).

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"I used emdashes before ChatGPT-and they didn't make me any less human."

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I have also found that basically none of my posts on X get any views anymore; it must be the fact that I mostly write about science, critical tech, and high education – things that MAGA doesn't believe in.

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Adorno: In Defense of Truth aworkinglibrary.com/writing/in-d... The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power [...] has attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false, which the hirelings of logic were in any case diligently working to abolish.

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In defense of truth

Things have come to pass where lying sounds like truth, truth like lying. Each statement, each piece of news, each thought has been pre-formed by the centres of the culture industry.…The extreme...

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

elon has left his role at the white house. this _has_ to be a good thing.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The students calling this "Chinese Exclusion Act" redux are right. Trump is trying to do a "greatest hits" of the most shameful parts of US history. apnews.com/article/chin...

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Chinese students anxious and angry after Rubio vows to revoke visas

Chinese students in the U.S. are scrambling to figure out their futures after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday some students would have their visas revoked.

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

"Cathedral of tech debt" should be my callsign

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

or maybe ... revise and resubmit for peer review (stole from reviewer 2 must be stopped)

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

once again i am the target audience of Black Mirror. incredible season

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Garrett Wollman @gwollman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

"Although technology has made information vast and reachable, it's also turned the entire internet into a sludge pile."

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Another computer scientist here; definitely agree with historical context from Judah. Another point: where have all the great end-user-programming and data management tools like hypercard and filemaker gone? why are we forcing non-devs to write _typescript_ ffs? Even I shouldn't.

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positron96.bsky.social @positron96.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Hi Max, my colleague and I wrote this article on why GenAI does not have to undermine education. Please help us share it by reposting to promote dialog. www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

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Frontiers | Shaping integrity: why generative artificial intelligence does not have to undermine education

The integration of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in education has been met with both excitement and concern. According to a 2023 survey by the Wor...

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

AI is a growing issue for moderators on Reddit and Travis has been on it (I co-authored). This qualitative work provides some context on what problems and challenges mods (at CMV and other subreddits) see and how they resist.

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Nontheless - Research Thread 🧵 – new HCI / HCAI research we're presenting this week at #chi2025 in Yokohama, Japan from the Human Centred AI Group Human Centred AI / Human Centred Computing group at Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford > Good luck all! In randomised order --

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

My travel grant and panel at #chi2025 was cancelled by the Trump Administration's actions to cut all civilian travel connected with DOD funding. Very sad I will be missing out in Yokohama, Japan this week!

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Katie Seaborn (Aspire Lab) @aspirelab.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

We’re launching Ignite: Grassroots initiatives in the #HCI community to uplift and empower researchers around the world who are experiencing challenges to networking, fundraising, and travel opportunities. You can help! You can apply for help! Spread the word. ignite-us.team #igniteus

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We are Ignited

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Again, our 27 page open access paper on these, and the perils that ensue from using them. By me, @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net doi.org/10.1016/j.jr... #meta #ar #arglasses #raybanstories

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Redirecting

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

if one actually cares about what experts think -- and not just follow AI hype, this is an interesting report that provides historical perspective the AAAI 2025 Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research > aaai.org/wp-content/u...

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

interesting benchmark - but i would _really_ love to see a comparison of code quality in terms of architectural features, simplicity, code modularity, secure coding, privacy by design etc instead of just looking at the completed running result. composio.dev/blog/gemini-...

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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison

This blog-post compares the coding capabilites of new Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental and Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

while a cool analysis from anthropic, this is a reminder that you should assume (unless you have a specific zero-retention contract otherwise) that LLM providers save everything you input into them > www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

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Anthropic Economic Index: Insights from Claude 3.7 Sonnet

The second update from the Anthropic Economic Index

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/01/2025

1. Nobody Owns Our Techno-Future: www.dair-institute.org/blog/technof... 2. A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education: www.dair-institute.org/blog/educati... 3. An Internet for Our Elders: www.dair-institute.org/blog/elders/

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A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/01/2025

We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.

Two Black women and a Black man floating in space with planets and other circular objects. The background is purple and their clothing is in yellow and brown.

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Ev (they/them) @evmakesthings.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

@rudyfraser.com describes the need to move beyond “horseless carriages” and how we need to use the open social web to build new things vs replicating the old. Skeuomophisms are the first step to developing something new. #ATmosphereConf

Diagrams of a skeuomorphism showing a physical calculator becoming a digital calculator

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

it seems that - insufficient resilience due to anaemic capital investment and too low a minimum standard - and relentless privatisation which pursues economic efficiency over risk resilience > www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Heathrow: How did a single fire bring down Europe's busiest airport?

Questions have been raised over what caused the outage and why back-up systems failed?

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

"Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna break down all the science-fictional flights of fancy, and painstakingly reveal the troubling reality that lies beneath. The AI Con is required reading for anyone who wants to survive the twenty-first century." @charliejane.bsky.social Pre-order at thecon.ai

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THE AI CON

How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

FULL KEYNOTE -- me + Guy K at SXSW on why privacy is a fundamental guarantor of a gorgeous, good life (not an absence, not a vacuum, not abstract). And how AI threatens privacy. And why Signal is so special and why you should use & love & support it ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7...

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The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE

YouTube video by SXSW

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Technofascism: when AI tools can fabricate stories about people with views opposed to the official party position that cannot be fact checked since there is nobody to ask for the evidence they have to support such claims. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

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Yale Scholar Banned After A.I. News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link

The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Academics: if you are looking to leave the US for the UK, we welcome you: Be prepared for: -much lower salaries, +much better tenure process, -much higher taxes, -slightly depressing weather, +lovely academic environment, +civil rights, +decency and respect, +great culture and humour

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electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

absolutely love this - the benefit of an open platform is that you can build stuff like this: - top links shared across bsky every _hour_ / day / week - theblue.report/hour/

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The Blue Report

The top links on Bluesky, updated hourly

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 17/10/2023

“You’re not just trusting me to not play nice with governments. We literally don’t have the data, which is the only way to actually preserve privacy.” @meredithmeredith.bsky.social talks about how Signal resists authoritarian threats to privacy restofworld.org/2023/signal-...

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Signal President Meredith Whittaker on resisting government threats to privacy

The encrypted messaging app is on the front lines of battles over encryption in India, Russia, and Iran.

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