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Luis Morales-Navarro

@luismn.bsky.social
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learning sciences phd candidate @penn 🌈 🐛🐞 | youth's understanding of socio-technical systems + constructionism + algorithmic justice luismn.com

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This is what I say to people who suggest that generative AI has been enshittified. No, boo-boo, these things were born shitty.
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I mean I'm glad that I'm helping educate young people on TikTok and all that but also my 72 year old father just told me that he told all of his friends that he meets weekly at Waffle House in south Georgia to watch my Facebook videos about how large language models work.
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 06/11/2025
what if technology wasn't something that was done to us, but instead something that we do?
And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. *And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.*
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
Screenshot of a paper entry:
Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI
Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler
(There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/11/2025
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2025
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 07/08/2025
writing is thinking, drawing is thinking, telling stories is thinking. i understand the earnest impulse to get rid of "the boring stuff", but even the boring stuff is thinking. depriving yourself of time to think about things is sad, but depriving kids of time to think about things is just cruel.
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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 05/08/2025
Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
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Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
“The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 10/07/2025
Every "tech" guy is just a VC guy in a subculture that gets called "tech" for no particular reason. Most real "tech" - like, i dunno, cutting edge materials research - doesn't get called that while "a new pizza delivery app" does
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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 07/07/2025
A very odd thing about Artificial Intelligence as a discipline in computer science is that it historically shifted from “understanding the human brain better” to “we give up on understanding the brain and will just replace humans despite having no fucking clue”
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
In this #WIConf2025 session on GenAI and Algorithmic Impact, Yasmin Kafai and @metaxa.net talk about computational empowerment and break down #AI #auditing into simple steps for end users. Contributions by @luismn.bsky.social
two rows of audience, the presenters and a tv screen
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Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Writing is a skill to be trained! I also worry that we’re losing sight of how writing is a crucial form of thinking. Plenty of ideas don’t fully develop until you’ve tried to work them out on the page, and I see AI writing assistance actively robbing students of this crucial idea development phase
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 24/05/2025
it feels like the call of our times is to figure how to make abstract/non-immediate harms (like climate, tech, how hurting one hurts us all) resonate enough for many people to act against their material/immediate comfort
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Would it hurt people in tech to go and *talk* to someone with a degree in education? Most people don't understand what schools do. TL;DR: it's a lot more than info dumping into student's heads and it is certainly a lot more than daycare.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/05/2025
When I see this, I wonder what happens when it gets the translation wrong — potentially in an offensive way — and the speaker doesn’t know, but also how it will get people to change their speech patterns to be legible to the automated system, as we know people already do with voice assistants.
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Here is Pope Leo’s page. Edit history is already fascinating: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Le...
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Pope Leo XIV - Wikipedia
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
One of the organizing principles I am constantly working to embrace in my own life is that once people arrive to the fight with genuine readiness to act, no matter how late they are, they are welcome and can be organized and moved
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today. I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.
A hardcover copy of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone. The black cover features a vertical strip with the title and a photo of Atlanta’s skyline.
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Why let corporations decide what is true or important? asbruckman.medium.com/why-let-corp...
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Why Let Corporations Decide What is True or Important?
It’s not good news that Facebook is turning off fact checking — but the system was already fundamentally flawed. Commercial platforms make…
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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
From Ursula K. LeGuin’s introduction to “The Left Hand of Darkness:”
“The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future-indeed Schrödinger's most famous thought-experiment goes to show that the ‘future’ on the quantum level, cannot be predicted— but to describe reality, the present world.

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge), by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets), and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futur-ologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.

The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don't”“recommend that you turn to the writers of fiction for such information. It's none of their business. All they're trying to do is tell you what they're like, and what you're like—what's going on—what the weather is now, today, this moment, the rain, the sunlight, look! Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don't tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies.”
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Calling her "clairvoyant" and the like is just another iteration of the "magical negro" trope. She paid attention and wrote about issues that wealthy white folks didn't want to see.
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Emma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
✨ Very excited that my book proofs arrived! “The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice” will be out with @dukepress.bsky.social in May 2025 ✨ It’s starting to feel real!
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 04/01/2025
a gentle reminder that a chatbot does NOT have personality, identity, gender, volution, intentions, or feelings... it is a computer program that's extremely good at predicting the next word in a sequence based on previous words it has "seen"
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 03/01/2025
At Literary Hub, @julie-phillips.com writes about Ursula's activism, and her essay "The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water."
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The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism
In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Historian here. Can confirm!
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The Research Whisperer @therealrw.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"Overall, Black and Hispanic faculty received 7% more negative votes from college committees and were 44% less likely to receive unanimous “yes” votes than their white and Asian colleagues." - Kate Langin, Science www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicSky #PhDsky
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Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process—at one particular point
Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds
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Andres Rodriguez Caceres @andresrodca.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New #sociology research paper from me and Julia Behrman: Demarcation and Difference: Language and Indigenous Self-Identity in Latin America. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Abstract:
Indigeneity remains a major axis of stratification in Latin America, making questions of when and why people identify as Indigenous central to understanding and addressing inequality in the region. Using representative Latinobarometer data from 16 countries, collected between 2007 and 2020, the authors analyze the two most widely used instruments for the identification of Indigenous people in Hispanophone America: self-identification and respondents’ mother tongue. Descriptive analysis shows that though the majority of respondents are nonspeakers and nonidentifiers, nonnegligible proportions of respondents are identifiers and speakers, identifiers and nonspeakers, and nonidentifiers and speakers. In multivariate analyses, the authors test factors associated with identification conditional on linguistic background. The findings support hypotheses that privilege and, in some cases, social mobility are negatively associated with Indigenous identification and of race as a “master category.” The authors also document that Indigenous identification has increased over birth cohorts. The results contribute to the literature on the complexity of measuring Indigeneity in the Latin American context.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This editorial is rather astonishing in urging the public to move from "fear" to "caution" regarding the use of AI in medicine, without fully acknowledging the challenges that AI in clinical care and medical research have already posed, and without recommending the guardrails needed to garner trust.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Reconnecting with the Twitter homies on Bluesky
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Luis Morales-Navarro @luismn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Here are two pretty 🦄🦄 unicorns my 4yo niece drew. I love the necklace around the neck of the big one.
Two unicorns drawn by a 4-year-old child using crayons. One is in black and white; the other one has a colorful horn and something that looks like a necklace around its neck.
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