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Estelle Platini

@estelle.eurosky.social
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I discuss entanglement, beliefs, entitlement. (I purposely do not propagate news.)

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 18h
That's the mentality that has driven Indigenous people from the land they responsibly stewarded. The mentality that allowed majority working class and Black neighbourhoods in the US to be razed to make way for highways, meaning there are now large parts of the country where you can't live w/o a car.
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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 19h
From the depths of my weary soul, we won't tackle the climate crisis if we accept that there are sacrifice zones and 'inconvenient' human populations that we can ignore, allow to be exiled or eliminated.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 16h
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Wolfy D. Lucca 🌘🐺 @spookalucca.tv · 04/10/2026
omg, the "be friends with someone guilt free" is so real. the mental gymnastics people do to avoid confronting the abusers in their circles is staggering. (and the blame and social fallout usually ends up on the victims because of this)
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 15h
#DíaInteramericanoDelAgua #AI La caricatura en el diario Excélsior, de México:
Caricatura: un río forma una diagonal de la parte superior izquierda de la imagen, en la que se ve su cauce a tope, a la inferior derecha, en la que apenas se percibe un hilo de agua. En la parte superior, un gran figura antropomórfica con apariencia de androide, succiona el agua desde la orilla, en el resto del cauce, varias personas se acercan con recipientes al riachuleo que queda y voltean hacia la figura antropomófica.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“mirrors, amplifies & at times defends the Australian gov’s position at the expense of accountability interviews in pursuit of the truth. This is particularly prevalent with Israeli guests. This signals to audiences, not only whose voices matter, but crucially whose lives matter.“ #Auspol #Genocide
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 16h
ICYMI: Across 42 interviews, we observed a difference in language and questions whether the guest was from an allied country or not, as well as a deference reserved for officials Ukraine & Israel - even if interviewee answers contradicted credible evidence www.ettemedia.com/war-of-words...
ettemedia.com
War of words: How ABC 7.30’s interview approach differs widely by conflict
An exclusive data analysis of interviews conducted on ABC’s 7.30 — and what they tell us about the broadcaster's bias.
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 05/10/2026
Here are considerations for statisticians and scientists, about system thinking and onboarding context 🧵 #liveability #inference #modeling #modelling #complexity #systems #generalization #statistics #models #ML #evolvability #doubleDescent #overfitting #stats #probabilities #feedback
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Campus sexual assault is not an “institutional problem” merely in the sense that assault takes place at an institution. It is an “institutional problem” in the sense that the institution fosters the conditions for the problem, punishes the victims, and colludes with the perpetrators to cover it up.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The late Lauren Berlant’s major contribution to criticism was to show how American identity since the Reagan era is sustained through affective investments in fantasies that are structurally unsustainable. Berlant showed how these investments shape political & personal life under neoliberalism.
Cover of Berlant’s “The Queen of America Goes to Washington City.”Cover of Berlant’s “Cruel Optimism.”Copy of Berlant’s “The Female Complaint.”Cover of Berlant and Edelman’s “Sex, or the Unbearable.”
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I guess I have one other thing to add: a lot of the manosphere stuff is basically what berlant calls cruel optimism. it gives you "tips" for attracting women that don't actually work so you'll come back and (ideally) shell out more $$ for more tips. this is also how the diet industry works!
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sexual violence also boomerangs back into settler society – as colonial fascisms are wont to do – taking on a banal ubiquity within/among Israeli communities. An estimated 230 sexual assaults take place per day in Israel – 10% above the OECD average – w. a shockingly low relative rate of indictment.
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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶 "Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects." … said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
also: remember that mainstream medka played a big role in turning public opinion away from stronger Title IX reforms with boosting bad actors and misinformation
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community.” 🧵
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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Pushing down AI has capitalist motives but #AI use is dangerous for the consumer. Here are arguments 🧶
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's a dumb small thing but I have so much resentment towards my degree-granting institution over the ways it set up procedures and rules that were clearly designed to make it harder for us to help those students and to make those students stop telling us things.
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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
"In the latest sign that artificial intelligence is fueling higher health care costs, a group of insurers released a report Thursday claiming that hospitals’ use of A.I. was responsible for nearly $1 billion in additional expenses over two years." NYT: strategichealthcare.net/wp-content/u...
Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I.
Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their
longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
"I don't know." Here I slowly spin a yarn about learning, imperfection, imagination. 🧶 #impostorSyndrome #adultism #writing #research #education #higherEd #imagination #learning #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #teaching #Baldwin #reform #teachers #academicChatter #philosophy
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not a single perspective here from someone who didn’t write the report. This isn’t journalism, it’s an author’s abstract. Every para is just “this is what the paper says.” It’s exactly what you would get if you asked an undergrad to read it and write a summary. Or get one from a chatbot.
theguardian.com
AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’
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Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What is wrong with these people?! Like, genuine question are they all mentally unwell? Cosplaying a nazi while visiting an immigrant housing shithole.
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 27/09/2026
#Forests need sustainable management and strengthening Indigenous rights and resources. “She realized that, you know, the people were also a very important part of the complex forest relationships”. @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social interviews @ericagies.bsky.social:
news.mongabay.com
Reciprocity, not extraction: Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry
Forester and scientist Suzanne Simard is well known for her landmark 1997 paper, which demonstrated that two distinct species of trees could share resources. At the time, it turned traditional Western...
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 26/09/2026
democratic leadership has no intention of punishing the perpetrators but only aping their anti-immigrant and anti-trans rhetoric and policies, while they cozy up to big tech to get donations flowing again. without a commitment to throw jeffries aside, they're making sure that 2028 goes to the gop.
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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
This long-form article shows the awfulness of Biden, but also of Blinken, Sullivan, Austin, Finer, who all try to: - minimize their complicity; - deflect the blame onto their former manager. "Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu":
newyorker.com
How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran
Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.
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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
"I show how fossil fuel use can function as a violent compensatory practice in reaction to gender and climate trouble." 🧶 #cars #masculinity #manliness #patriarchy #oilAndGas #fossilFuels #energy #authoritarianism
Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire
Cara Daggett
https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818775817

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As the planet warms, new authoritarian movements in the West are embracing a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny. Rather than consider these resentments separately, this article interrogates their relationship through the concept of petro-masculinity, which appreciates the historic role of fossil fuel systems in buttressing white patriarchal rule. Petro-masculinity is helpful to understanding how the anxieties aroused by the Anthropocene can augment desires for authoritarianism. The concept of petro-masculinity suggests that fossil fuels mean more than profit; fossil fuels also contribute to making identities, which poses risks for post-carbon energy politics. Moreover, through a psycho-political reading of authoritarianism, I show how fossil fuel use can function as a violent compensatory practice in reaction to gender and climate trouble.
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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“According to the AAD, expert assess. have predicted that a strain of #H5birdflu will soon cause a “significant mortality event” during the upcoming breeding season for the island’s seals... the research base staff would likely have a front-row seat to a gruesome sight if they ended up staying.”
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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
"Why not birth intellectual community and creationright laws?" Read a thread:
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If there is no interview stage, it will be impossible to assess the actual competence, knowledge and ability of the applicants. AI is trained on pre-existing content, and is by definition incapable of true innovation. It does not think, it is not intelligent: it plagiarises and iterates, badly. ...
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Katia @katiatee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"For nearly five centuries, European planters made dizzying fortunes in sugar, made possible by enslaving workers in colonized lands. Sugar became so integral to European profiteering that it started being produced on a global scale. Canadian investors, too, have reaped massive sugar profits."
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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling? For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle. Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl 🧶 #humanities #acceleration #higherEd #academicChatter
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
I had a conversation with a DEI professional in another country last week, and y'all know I'm a critic of DEI as a framework, but she said something while discussing where the US is on the path to genocide: The goal of DEI work is to prevent genocidal ideas from taking root.
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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
Disruption requires care. Disruption shifts burden to the opponent. 🧶
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What an absolutely brilliant scorching indictment of Sheeran, the BBC, and all the assholes both-siding a genocide www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
lrb.co.uk
Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
Given much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
12. it is usually better to focus on people, and why people are doing things a) why are tech CEOs saying these things? b) why are bosses so excited about it? c) why do we write, draw, and make art? d) what is the fucking point?
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ditto for univ leadership and some colleagues inviting eugenicists and fascists for "debates', while labelling us racialised staff as "unreasonable."
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NoName999 @noname999.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Must be nice to be in a country that coddled people who look like you for almost 5 centuries that you openly admit to being a self centered asshole and still think yourself a good person demanding symapthy. Must be nice 🥲
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wonder if this was the price Saudi had to pay in order to get the US to send jets to bomb Yemen: www.ft.com/content/ac10...
ft.com
Saudi Arabia quits China-led cross-border currency platform
Kingdom’s central bank withdrew from programme which is part of Beijing’s effort to develop an alternative system to the dollar
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We don't talk enough about the experience all historians have in front of the classroom where you say the thing you always say, have been saying for years, and all of a sudden, it takes on new meaning
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
4/ "If we don't, our rivals will." In 1963 JFK warned that 15 to 25 countries could have nuclear weapons by the 1970s. Today there are nine. Treaties and export controls limited the spread of the most powerful weapon ever built.
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In this episode @danaelkurd.bsky.social talks about how the settlers and the Israeli state are working hand in hand to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the West Bank, and how we should understand the relationship between the two actors.    linktr.ee/ICHHpod
In this episode @danaelkurd.bsky.social‬ talks about how the settlers and the Israeli state are working hand in hand to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the West Bank, and how we should understand the relationship between the two actors.   

https://linktr.ee/ICHHpod
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shooting unarmed innocent people is bad. Really bad. Inexcusable. Racist and gullible people really believe that all 50 million immigrants are dangerous and deserve this violence. But... cops are way worse than ICE. There have only been 13 days in 2026 when cops *didn't* shoot someone.🤷🏿‍♂️
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you want an example, here. The major corporations are already training their AI to engage in corporate espionage and subterfuge. And yet, Google, one of the most powerful companies in the world, gets to hide behind the “rogue AI” bullshit and avoid consequences.
Guardian story with edit: Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies with says its Gemini AI model crossed out
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/01/2026
Pygmalion Displacement: 9) Social bonding: Do the users and/or creators of the AI develop interpersonal-like relationships with it? 10) Psychological service: Does the AI function to subserve and enhance the egos of its creators and/or users? PDF: doi.org/10.31235/osf... @spookyachu.bsky.social
Pygmalion lens1)Feminised form:Is the AI, by its (default or exclusive) external characteristics, por-traying a hegemonically feminine character?Yes/No2)Whitened form:Is the AI, by its (default or exclusive) external characteristics, por-traying a character that is inherently white (supremacist), Western, Eurocentric, etc.?Yes/No3)Dislocation from work:Does the AI displace women from a role or occupation, orpeople in general from a role or occupation that tends to be (coded as) women’s work?Yes/No4)Humanisation via feminisation:Are the AI’s claims to intelligence, human-likenessor personhood contingent on stereotypical feminine traits or behaviours?Yes/No5)Competition with women:Is the AI pit (rhetorically or otherwise) against women inways that favour it, and which are harmful to women?Yes/No6)Diminishment via false equivalence:Does the AI facilitate a rhetoric that deemswomen as not having full intellectual abilities, or as otherwise less deserving of per-sonhood?Yes/No7)Obfuscation of diversity:Does the AI, through displacement of specific groups ofpeople, “neutralise” (i.e., whiten, masculinise) a role, vocation, or skill?Yes/No8)Robot rights:Do the users and/or creators of the AI grant it (aspects of) legal per-sonhood or human(-like) rights?Yes/No9)Social bonding:Do the users and/or creators of the AI develop interpersonal-likerelationships with it?Yes/No10)Psychological service:Does the AI function to subserve and enhance the egos of itscreators and/or users?Yes/No
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Marie Manalili @mariemarm.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I don't know but when folks prefer to settle differences in private, that usually means they need more room to be nasty. It could be trauma but right now I prefer to keep things relatively public so that I can get admissible evidence if/when they become horrible to me. 💅
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 18/09/2026
“In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAI’s argument that training AI on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely scrape news made ‘a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’’”
arstechnica.com
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bringing shame back! Can’t shame the politicians if the media don’t feel ashamed and offended by their behavior.
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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
“The authoritarian practices required by fossil capital in the global south were often geographically separated from liberal forms of governance in the West. This made it possible for many… to remain ignorant of their complicity in fossil authoritarianism.” from Cara Daggett’s “Petromaskulinität”
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But, as @talkingpointsmemo.com reported last week, the Bureau is removing the guardrails that protected the agency from political interference. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ex-staf...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Census Quietly Changes Charter for Key Policy Committee, Opening Door for Political Interference
As the Census Bureau wades deeper into politics, governance changes at an...
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