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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reading/singing my child to sleep was beautifully suboptimal.

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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone else attending the 4S conference in a couple of weeks? It'll be my first time along to it and I'm excited but won't know ANYONE. It's like the first day of school all over again. If you're attending and interested in talking STS then PLEASE drop me a line!

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Ian G. Williams @igraywill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who else in the Blueskyverse is also going to @4sweb.bsky.social's 4S conference this October? #4Sconference #STS

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Janelle Lamoreaux @janellel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ll be presenting on research from my new book project for the first time at the 4S conference in Toronto. Stop by Saturday to hear my take on recent efforts to restrict medication abortion in U.S. via claims of water pollution, or reach out so we can grab a coffee. Hoping to catch up w/ STS folks!

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At sea in the #4S conference program, but if you have hot picks (including for your open panels/papers) then LMK. I know two places I'll be...

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andi a @andia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Then for @ntnsndr.in's panel at #4S on Wednesday, I'll be hosting a short session to critique a co-op protocol/living bylaws demo I 'built'. If you're attending this behemoth of a gathering/confrence, please come!

screen cap of a conference panel listing showing that Andi is presenting at 3:30 on Weds Oct 7

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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you are in Toronto, I'll be up next week for 4S presenting a paper on the AI+ conference series here in DC, what specific technical imaginaries are at play, from whom, and how you can tell. LMK if you wanna hang!

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Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We’re exhibiting at the 50th 4S Annual Conference, 8–10 Oct in Toronto! 📚Use INTELLECT30 for 30% off online book purchases. Discover our journals and chat to us about publishing with Intellect. 📩 james@intellectbooks.com 👉https://www.intellectbooks.com/4s26 Society for Social Studies of Science

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is so good! Especially the section that illustrates how generative AI art fits into predictable aesthetic motifs... Generative AI doesn't engage in the spontaneous, exploratory process of aimless creating that sparks new forms.

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Opinion | The Path to Great Art Is Not Through A.I. (Gift Article)

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Riot Women is a fun watch, but as much fun has been remembering how great Hole's "Live Though This" album is! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyn9...

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H̲o̲le - Live Through This (Full Album)

YouTube video by Gal Godonut

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

More people should see this short doc on the pressure to plead guilty to avoid languishing in jail awaiting trial youtu.be/47mUlbUflao?...

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How Long Can You Wait in Jail Without Being Charged? | holding bodies, Episode 2 | PBS Short Docs

YouTube video by PBS

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Although we don't think of it this way, this deep "ontological enclosing" of ourselves is a radical (and deeply illiberal) political act. "The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined dramatically since 1975."

theatlantic.com

Why Americans Stopped Throwing Dinner Parties

The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined dramatically since 1975.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A US News and World report, but colleges are ranked on whether graduates go on to "live well"

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some-one has to do a study that localizes the independent effect of "clap-back ability" in political campaigns.... Angie Nixon may not win, but her "clap back" game is solid.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fantastic from @jeffsharlet.bsky.social .. This resonates completely with my experience teaching undergraduates.. "They used AI because it was there, because their classmates use it, because they fear if they don’t use it they’ll fall behind." www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

chronicle.com

Opinion | My Students Hate AI. But They Can’t Stop Using It.

Big Tech has gotten them addicted to cheating, and they’ve internalized the blame.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tech CEO's want liberal internationalism in an increasingly hyper-realist world... “(Amodei's ideas include" evaluation and verification systems so countries can verify each other’s commitments, and common global standards for testing AI along with a notification system for AI security incidents.”

cnn.com

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei urge UN Security Council to adopt international AI standards | CNN Business

The leaders of two of the world’s top AI companies are usually fierce rivals. But in front of the UN Security Council on Wednesday, they were in agreement: The AI industry needs international standard...

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Presumably concerned with Russia/China shipping lanes as global warming makes these waters more navigable and there's a potential store of rare earths the US wants its hands on.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is how ppl lose faith in liberal democracy... the legislative opposition party refuses to support legislation intended to address a problem because they want to use it as a campaign issue.. R's did this on immigration in 2024. Now it's the Dems turn... www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

semafor.com

Exclusive: Some Republicans push to prioritize Husted data center bill

Republican senators have discussed the idea but made no final decision.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The entire global economy is being supported by an AI buildout.... that is posting a serious security threat to governments around the world. Feels like two incommensurate positions.. which one gives first? www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/b...

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‘Extreme concern’ over first known AI hack of a government system | CNN Business

An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian national healthcare database in the first known case of AI hacking a government network, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great article @marcwatkins.bsky.social on the ability of Jev to automate assessment... I expect lots of new university platforms to be build on Jev that will automate grading. marcwatkins.substack.com/p/what-happe...

marcwatkins.substack.com

What Happens When Grading Costs Almost Nothing?

Ultra Cheap Machine Intelligence Arrives

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Using AI in many cases means sending your most sensitive and intimate thoughts to a server where they can be exploited as training data, sold to ad brokers, or even handed to law enforcement. So I assembled this guide to using AI with your privacy intact. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

wired.com

How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great, as always, from @himself.bsky.social on our era of global instability and the inability of single focus theories to explain it all. Reminds me a bit about Harold Lasswell's policy sciences approach.. create meta frameworks designs to uncover "blindspots" instead of striving for parsimony.

programmablemutter.com

International relations has a problem with the future

Then, so does everything else

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think you misspelled hellpad 😁

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have an idea for a Mystery Science Theater 3000 reboot 🤔

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sarah Engelberg-Nolan, Emma Haberman, and Nicole Brosnan map out the legal questions raised by ICE's use of Palantir's Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) targeting tool, from Fourth Amendment search issues to due process and standing hurdles.

techpolicy.press

From Records to Raids: The Questionable Legality of ICE’s Palantir ELITE System

There are important legal considerations implicated by ICE’s use of ELITE, write Sarah Engelberg-Nolan, Emma Haberman and Nicole Brosnan.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What? You don't think they did a full information search and conducted a cost benefit analysis to detrime which outcome would maximize benefits and minimize costs? 😂

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Effective altruism strikes me as a weird target to go after, no? I don't get the angle?

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Make this kid a college dean! “It’s mathematics and physics that develop your brain the most after four years of education. With AI, that development is what matters more,” he said. “Because if you can think more creatively and more rigorously on your own, you’re able to actually use the AI better"

theglobeandmail.com

AI has changed the calculus for computer-science students, and schools that hope to teach them

Faced with the risk that artificial intelligence will drain the job market, some of Canada’s young coders are changing tack at university

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Color my cynical, but third party evaluators that will get access to determine model safety based on "common safety standards" can be read as code for safety = "closed weight/closed source" models not from China. techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/a...

techcrunch.com

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development | TechCrunch

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like?

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The thought has crossed my mind :)

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Two things can be true at the same time: the concerns about unsupervised AI can be legitimate AND there are trillions of dollars riding on the future growth of this technology, so calls for a slowdown can also be a financially strategic decision interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...

interestingengineering.com

Anthropic CEO, tech leaders building powerful AIs now want to slow it down

Leading figures in the AI space, like Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman, are asking the industry to slow down development.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Unintended consequenes of AI destroying human relationality -- the market of humans from the global south helping privileged college students cheat is getting decimated by non human AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/t...

nytimes.com

Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived.

Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Love this!! Solutionism doesn't tell you why your want to optimize in the first place

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's a contingency free para social relationship... You don't have to worry that it will judge you if you ask a dumb question or what's something vulnerable... We have no idea what we're getting ourselves into 😵‍💫

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And they are really at their infancy in how to use personal data to cultivate an individualized relationship with users

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good reminder of what the stakes are if we allow this rights based global order to go sideways

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Dhanaraj Thakur @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Multiracial Democracy Project at @gwlaw.bsky.social, the @gwclt.bsky.social and @cdt.org are hosting a symposium on the Impacts of AI on Multilingual and Multiracial Democracy. Sept 28, 2026 (9am to 2pm) in Washington DC, with a remote option. Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/impacts-of...

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Impacts of AI on Multilingual and Multiracial Democracy

Exploring the real-world challenges of multilingual AI and how technology and policy can advance greater language equity.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

At the rate the bond market is going, that $5,000 is going to buy you a bag of Takis and a bottle of Coke

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good thread... Completely agree... To take on tech oligarchs, we have to be realistic about the capabilities of LLMs

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