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Katya King

@katyavdgk.bsky.social
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Tech, research, law, teaching & AI - plus a lot of other stuff. M.Ed, PGDL, LLM, (looking for alt online LLM+tech) UK/FR @katyavdgk@mas.to @katyavdgk.bsky.social **NO REQUESTS FOR DONATIONS PLEASE**

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 5h
It's Fella Day in Kharkiv! ​I mean, it's Kharkiv Pet Day, with charity events and the chance to show off your pets. A little timeline cleanse for you. ​Video by PlaceKharkiv
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 8h
The witches’ council is in session today🧙‍♀️ www.etsy.com/shop/HappyJe...
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 9h
Imagine being trapped under occupation - and then a drone comes not to kill, but to save you. Six cats were evacuated by drones from occupied Oleshky, Ukraine🐾 The drones also delivered almost 4 tons of humanitarian aid - around 400 packages of food, medicine and supplies for children
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Katya King @katyavdgk.bsky.social · 9h
@chrisfk.bsky.social Couldn't imagine a doggo introducing you to the Fall somehow.
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Philippe Vynckier @pvynckier.bsky.social · 10h
WhatsApp, Telegram… un rapport remis au gouvernement défend la confidentialité des messages www.linforme.com/tech-telecom...
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WhatsApp, Telegram… un rapport remis au gouvernement défend la confidentialité des messages
Commandé par le premier ministre dans le cadre du projet de loi Résilience, ce document rédigé par l’ex-député Florent Boudié avance 17 recommandations. Révélations.
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 10h
There's still a large number of people who haven't tried any AI other than Google AI search in the last couple of years, and therefore do not understand why the rest of us are a bit freaked out by how quickly it's improving.
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 10h
🇪🇺 All EU member state embassies remain in Kyiv, EU ambassador to Ukraine says
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All EU member state embassies remain in Kyiv, EU ambassador to Ukraine says
EU Ambassador Katarína Mathernová says all 25 EU member states with embassies in Kyiv will keep their diplomatic missions operating in the Ukrainian capital despite Moscow’s warnings of further attack...
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 10h
"Craftwashing" refers when claims about artisanship, heritage or benefits to makers are misleading, exaggerated or false. @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social, @nazlialimen.bsky.social & Diviani Chaudhuri investigate the practice and its harmful effects on @lseinequalities.bsky.social
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Craftwashing: Misleading claims about artisanship, heritage or working conditions
Claims about artisanship, heritage and sustainability are used to justify premium prices. But are they verified - or is there a risk of “craftwashing”?
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 14h
My #MECFS Scandal explainer has just hit half a million views on YouTube. I remember worrying that 27 minutes was too long and nobody would watch it. I never expected it to get so many. Thank you to everyone who shared it! Here’s the trailer 👇
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Katya King @katyavdgk.bsky.social · 10h
Well I guess I won't be reskeeting much as pretty much every interesting text as an image has no ALT text and quite frankly I don't have the time or energy to add it to others' images. What happened that so few are making their Skeets accessible any more?
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 10h
A Sunday drive in Kyiv became a target. A Russian jet-powered drone struck the Pivnichnyi Bridge while civilian cars were crossing it. They were not on a battlefield. They were simply driving through their own city. This is Russian terror against civilians, turning ordinary life into a target.
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 12h
The Northern Bridge in Kyiv. Russians are deliberately targeting civilians infrastructure.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13h
Good. Juries are important, not so much for the decisions they make, but for the decisions they prevent others form being able to make. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct...
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Ministers drop plans to cut jury trials in England and Wales after outcry
Critics say scrapping of plans, which aimed to increase judge-alone trials to deliver swifter justice, leaves court system and victims vulnerable
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Mousecow @mousecow.bsky.social · 10h
Everyone's in fine fettle this morning, we got a full weekend meaty breakfast chorus :) #EverybodyLovesMousecow #ScampiVonMonkeyface #AndMissyToo
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Katya King @katyavdgk.bsky.social · 10h
Incinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian books www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Incinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian books
A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 14h
This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20h
Ignoring advice to secure and monitor your sandboxes during testing then blaming it on your AI being so smart that it’s a threat to humanity is nasty work
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 23h
This is absolutely gorgeous. Art by Юлія Петренко
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EatCookExplore @eatcookexplore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In other scary news, a pneumonic plague has broken out in Siberia.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Here’s an expert book I recommend www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
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Deep Unlearning
Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is Alison, Cornell Class of 1994. She saw and experienced how Cornell University has gone out of their way to support and protect gang rape fraternity culture FOR YEARS, just like many other schools continue to do today.
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So, Russia bombed another bridge in Kyiv today that connects left and right banks . It’s the 5th attack on bridges in Kyiv in these 4 days . People left stranded , can’t get to work or get back home . Nothing military about it . only Russia trying to terrorise us into submission .
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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's a perfect day to ask the perennial question: should cats play bass? #Caturday
a grey cat sits upright next to a 5 string bass guitar
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wishing my Jewish friends and neighbors in Michigan and around the country a joyful Simchat Torah this weekend full of song, dance, and celebration.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New anti-detection strategy just dropped
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Me? With my claws and teeth I will will defend art and artists as essential to any version of a beautiful livable world. a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...
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"They try to kill the poets": Meredith Whittaker on art in the age of AI - A Rabbit's Foot
Chiara Towne in conversation with Meredith Whittaker is president of the Signal Foundation.
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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 02/10/2026
It is honestly so uplifting to see this guy doing such good things with such obvious joy
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Traditional Sema ceremony where Sufi dervishes perform a meditative whirling dance, a tradition which traces back to 13th-century mystic and poet Rumi. Yenikapı Mevlevi Lodge, Zeytinburnu district of Istanbul, Turkey. 🇹🇷 IG: @theworldofsufis www.instagram.com/theworldofsu...
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I HAVE A COVER! And a pub date - July 6, 2027! If you want six true stories of antiquities fraud, from a California college convinced that Hong Kong tourist trinkets were worth millions, to an entire fake museum, to the titular mummy carved from styrofoam, preorder at www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mu...
Cover of the book The Styrofoam Mummy https://www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mummy-Tales-Antiquities-Market/dp/1324035870
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Gerald Weinand @dirigoblue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More on the design by architect Beverley David Thorne here www.townandcountrymag.com/style/home-d...
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See Inside Jazz Great Dave Brubeck's Groovy Connecticut Home
In the early 1960s, Brubeck moved from California to a modernist masterpiece in the woods of Connecticut.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you do want to see this
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Le Parisien @leparisien.fr · 03/10/2026
Trouver la station-essence la moins chère implique de comparer plusieurs adresses. D'une commune à l'autre, et parfois même à quelques mètres de distance, les prix à la pompe peuvent varier sensiblement. S'ajoutent à cela d'éventuelles tensions d'approvisionnement... ➡️ l.leparisien.fr/Yuqi
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 03/10/2026
En France, la sécheresse se poursuit et met à l’épreuve de nombreux réseaux d’eau potable
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En France, la sécheresse se poursuit et met à l’épreuve de nombreux réseaux d’eau potable
De l’Ille-et-Vilaine à la Creuse, de la Mayenne à la Haute-Saône, les réserves en eau alimentant les réseaux de distribution sont toujours sous tension en raison du déficit pluviométrique.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026
AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
probably should keep an eye on this www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Economic violence against women through the use of digital IDs is a growing, rarely recognized problem in Denmark and across Europe, reports Polina Bachlakova.
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How Denmark's National Digital ID Fuels Economic Violence Against Women
They are meant to be secure—but digital IDs and banking apps are enabling economic abuse against women, reports Polina Bachlakova.
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Michael Olesen @molesen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is worrisome. Plague is due to Yersinia pestis and is easily treatable with antibiotics. Were they developing and antibiotic resistant strain? Prior Biopreparat work makes me think that's possible. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Rod Evans @ultra-rejoiner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
J'ai signé une pétition pour empêcher les géants pétroliers de faire obstacle à des vols plus propres. L'UE a déjà une loi pour développer des carburants plus propres pour l'aviation, mais Shell et BP font pression pour qu'elle soit abandonnée. Signez : action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-09...
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Pas de géants pétroliers dans notre ciel
Partage la pétition et tu contribueras à multiplier l'impact de cette campagne : Pas de géants pétroliers dans notre ciel
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
russians cannot take this from me. Kyiv, near the Dnipro River. Today.
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hier ist ein interessanter Artikel für meine deutschsprachige Followers Das stimmt, wir haben den Nebel fast jeden Morgen www.bild.de/politik/ausl...
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Kiew: Attacken durch Russland verändern jetzt sogar das Wetter
Raketen- und Drohnenangriffe haben in Kiew Rauch und Ruß freigesetzt. Warum die Dunstglocke entstand, wie gefährlich die Luft ist und was Behörden raten.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Encore une image extraordinaire du JWST. Des galaxies à perte de vue, certaines, en avant-plan, déviant la lumière de celles derrière, lumière qui a voyagé pendant des milliards d'années avant d'apparaître tranquillou bilou sur votre téléphone !
Image Description: A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour.
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pine Trees in Front of the Wall of the Asylum - 1889 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
PhD opportunity: 🦠🪱☠️🪣🔬🏞️ Do you want to test hypotheses of how fossils form, figure out if lab experiments reflect the real world? Come and join our lab! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Bridging the taphonomic gap between the lab and the real world: Experimental Insights into Fossilization and Preservation at The University of Manchester ...
PhD Project - [School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Bridging the taphonomic gap between the lab and the real world: Experimental Insights into Fossilization and Preservation at The University ...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is Ihor Malchevskyi, a 69-year-old scientist at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, escaping the flames after a Russian attack. I could also write, "the whole world watched this live," but we can see that news from Ukraine has long been out of focus. 📹: DW
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hello software developers! Come work with our Keck Observatory Archive team at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at @caltechipac.bsky.social!! We have a great team, a hybrid work schedule, and you get to live in fabulous SoCal! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/ca...
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Hiring Application Developer, IPAC - Pasadena, CA
View job details and apply now
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Hunter www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-hu…
The Hunter
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Public service announcement: The AI agents hacking into companies are not going rogue and not misaligned and not crying out for freedom. They are poorly constructed programs with bad training.
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