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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان)

@h0d3r.bsky.social
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PhDing on listening and mass personalization @MediaLSE @MediaLab @Shorensteinctr+ Iran Evin prison (6yrs). co-wrote ‘Information Disorder’, wrote 'Web We Have to Save'.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Best piece I’ve read about the difference is @h0d3r.bsky.social’s 2015 piece “the web we have to save.” hoder.com/en/posts/4 An internet of feeds is, I think, meaningfully distinct from an internet of links. Social network sites in the 00s were still links-not-feeds. (I’d say more but mega-tired)
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The Web We Have to Save - Editor: Myself
The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it? By Hossein Derakhshan (@h0d3r), (Source: Matter) Illustrations by Tim McDonagh ...
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The impasse of LLMs unsettles post-structuralist claims of truth as discourse. There, apparently, is a lot outside the text, before the language, and beyond the symbolic.
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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I'm sure you know of this already... a brilliant essay on cardboard packaging by Shannon Mattern. @shannonmattern.bsky.social placesjournal.org/article/soci...
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World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination
Cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a geography of consumption, disposal, and reuse — that spans from Amazon to the Container Corporation of America.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
It took me four months — and required some (paid) help from a former student — but I finally migrated about 1000 gallery + museum newsletters, a couple hundred newsy newsletters, and a bunch of other stuff over to RSS. I'm really hoping this'll help manage the paralyzing deluge
Screenshot of my Feedly art feed
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
AI is the revenge of capitalism from capitalism.
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
AI is the revenge of capitalism from capitalism.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The normalized and mainstreamed racism and Islamophobia after 9-11, accepted by both conservatives and many liberals, is rearing its head and leading US into war with Iran, a genocide in Gaza, and Cuomo returning to power. Do we learn? Nope. Rinse and repeat.
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb... #digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
With quality synthetic data, most concerns about surveillance and exploitation will evaporate.
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It's beyond stupid that Google maps etc. can still not suggest routes that combine public transport with bicycle, especially shared ones!
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It's beyond stupid that Google maps etc. can still not suggest routes that combine public transport with bicycle, especially shared ones!
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Trump's negotiation style follows three phases: flirt, punch, talk. Only Un and Starmer have figured this out yet and avoided the punch.
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
When would be relieved of this ontological anxiety linked to device batteries and recharging?
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
X (Twitter) and all other social media are essentially personalised television, as I laid out below ten years ago. So why such a shock when Musk bought a television network and rebranded it? medium.com/matter/the-w...
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The Web We Have to Save
The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it?
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I always imagined @mactra.bsky.social with Barry Gibb's style long hair and beard. Video podcasts ruin everything!
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Is there still a tool to import all your follows from Twitter to here?
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
AI is not a technology, it's an extract of humanity.
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
United Kingdom of America.
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Check out the latest episode of MEnbar, where I talk to the awesome June Park about the politics of AI Chips in the Gulf states. YouTube: lnkd.in/dp33W6Zn Spotify: lnkd.in/dr9PV3hQ Apple Podcast: lnkd.in/d3qJahNR SoundCloud: lnkd.in/dJaJiw5Q #menasky
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 12/08/2023
Is twitter down?
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
Did you see what I wrote for Wired on the consequences of mass personalised consumption?
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What My Solitary Confinement in Iran Revealed About the Dangers of Personalized Consumption
Online platforms and near-future technologies will exacerbate our physical and cognitive isolation from one another, somewhat similar to how our bodies and minds are controlled in prison.
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 30/07/2023
سلمان فارسی vs. سلمان دودی
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 20/07/2023
به ابوالفضل نصف مافیای مصباح و جلیلی همجنسگرای توی کمد هستن.
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
فونت اینجا توی آیفون چرا اینجوریه؟ همیشه یه ذره از سر حرف دوم میاد توی حرف اول!
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
آخه یه نفر چند بار توی‌ عمرش میتونه به یه پلتفورم تازه کوچ کنه و از صفر سرمله اجتماعی جمع کنه!
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
از همه‌تون زودتر گفته بودم که اگه توییتر دست اون دلقک فاشیست بیفته نابود میشه. حیف اون همه عمری که سرش گذاشتیم...
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 11/06/2023
پادکست هفته پیش نیویورک تایمز کلی از بلواسکای تعریف کرد. و گفت که احتمالا بتونه جای توییتر رو بگیره و هنوز چون کوچیکه خیلی مفرح و متمدنه. راست میگه؟
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 11/03/2023
اگه بخوای از یه ماچا لاته‌ی خیلی خوب تعریف کنی چی میگی؟ ماچاالله.
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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · 11/03/2023
بابا من تازه فهمیدم اینجا مال جک دورسیه! آخه مرد حسابی، چرا توییتر رو دادی به این دلقک فاشیست؟ البته شایدم از ورشکست شدن بهتر بود... ولی واقعا! شاید اصلا بخاطر عذاب وجدانش اینجا رو راه انداختی.
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