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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Cut your Indian friends and colleagues some slack today. 😭

Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

At #CVPR2025 today at a workshop by folks from Mila Quebec titled VLMs 4All sites.google.com/view/vlms4all I’ll be posting here from the workshop today Already I’m so taken by the very open and welcoming space the organisers have created

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VLMs-4-All 2025

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Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy @mctd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We hosted a convo with @mayameme.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social to celebrate her new book on ethics, driverless cars, and AI futures. She spoke about agency, design and how we think about new tech, and moral decision-making. Overview of the convo ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/auto-correct...

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

No matter if you can’t come to my book launch event on Thursday in Cambridge; @dmuravyov.bsky.social interviewed me for the Network Cultures blog and we had a really great chat. Great working with you again Dmitry 🙏🏾✨☺️

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This is going to be an amazing book!

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

@bitnik.bsky.social will support projects against Tech Facism. “The proposed artistic projects can be tactical, performative or metaphoric, among others. We are looking for daily acts of resistance, interventions, how-tos” Full call: error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Sometimes you see someone on the bus wearing something silly and you know they were lured and scammed by an Instagram ad.

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Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"We should not take AI companies’ word for it when they tell us where we are headed. It is up to society and its institutions to steer innovation away from risks and toward benefits." A great piece with no mention of stakeholders and a shoutout to @mayameme.bsky.social new book Auto-Correct.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Within AI innovation, there's a strong technical idea of AI 'safety' that would love to be able to contain risk and ethical concerns. (@mayameme.bsky.social's excellent new book discusses the fantasy of ethics-by-design)

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Nature have picked up our survey. We think it's the largest survey of AI researchers ever conducted. Here's a quick thread on some of the headlines @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Will AI improve your life? Here’s what 4,000 researchers think

Scientists working on artificial intelligence are more confident than the public that the technology will benefit people.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

DEI in corporate India survives www.thehindu.com/society/dei-... “Indian businesses are in such critical need of talent that they must necessarily act to expand their talent pools — something borne out by an uncoordinated but widespread focus on DEI”

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India Inc.’s DEI push: Amid Trump’s DEI rollback in the U.S., corporates in India commit to stay true to the diversity and inclusion agenda

DEI specialists in India navigate challenges as U.S. companies scale back programs, while Indian firms lead inclusion efforts.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The UK AISI is doing something very interesting with their societal resilience grants program by (re)framing AI safety as a societal issue and by supporting research from a number of sectors that have a deep understanding of safety. I’m thrilled to be a new grantee www.aisi.gov.uk/work/strengt...

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Strengthening AI Resilience | AISI Work

20 Systemic Safety Grant Awardees Announced

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I just got copies of my first book 🥹

Indian woman in a leather jacket and sporting long red bead earrings is holding up a copy of a book called Auto-correct

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I’m sad to hear about the passing of Jonathan Sterne. I was on a panel with him once during the pandemic and felt I had achieved something important by virtue of digital proximity 😅 To those who didn’t know his work, this post from Duke will lead you to discover this stellar media theorist.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

They assure me it’s real and happening somewhere in a press in the Netherlands. Thank you to so many of you who pre-ordered. It’s coming! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...

book cover in purple and green tones being printed

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Delighted and honored to be with @thaophan.bsky.social in meatspace and @zentralwerkstatt.org virtually next week at Goldsmiths to share something quite different for the first time

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Perfecting the right kind of grovelling tone for a FAcCT rebuttal is quite a task when you’re simultaneously trying to write a grant proposal about how awesome and urgent your future work will be

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Yay our paper got accepted so maybe I’ll be @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle this year -bc I already have US visa. Thanks for nothing, Europe: Sad to have missed 4S /Easst last year. *There are still no Schengen appointments available*

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

VFS sucks Trying to apply for a Schengen for May-June and there are no appointments ..

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 04/03/2025

So great to see this come out. At @digitalwitnesslab.org we were shocked by how easy it was to illegally purchase firearms on WhatsApp, the platform isn't even doing the bare minimum it could to prevent this. Heres the story from @restofworld.org bsky.app/profile/rest...

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Harry Law’s latest newsletter argues that ‘Ai slop must flow’ as necessarily part of how technolgoies get from bad to better learningfromexamples.com/p/the-slop-mus… I know Harry thru work. I read his newsletter fairly consistently and tagged him in the original post. cc @zentralwerkstatt.org

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Why are 18 in every 100 Germans voting for the AfD? Has there been a study ?

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This on @lawhsw newsletter arrived and instantly bothered me: learningfromexamples.com/p/the-slop-mus… I write a long thread on X about why.Hope it comes out with the right tone!

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If journalists on here are on the story about the UK’s failing phase out of the BRP pls let me tell you what it’s like to get on a plane from Europe (or anywhere) to the UK. They want you to carry printouts of SHARE CODES 🤯which mean nothing to gate staff and airlines.

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Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Many of us scientists in the Global South have been sciencing forever with limited resources, higher costs for infrastructure and reagents/consumables, high bureaucratic burden, no overheads, and still contributed to the generation of knowledge. We’ve developed adaptive strategies.

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cfi-cambridge.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A new report just released by the CFI explores the growing role of AI companions in healthcare and mental wellbeing. Co-authored by Dr Tomasz Hollanek and Dr Aisha Sobey the report outlines opportunities, risks and policy implications.

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New Report Examines AI Companions in Health and Mental Wellbeing - LCFI

A report published by The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) explores the growing role of AI companions in healthcare and mental wellbeing. The report entitled AI Companions for He...

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Creative Content Coalition for AI Safety | CCCAIS 🌎💧🐬 @cccais.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Using several methods and lines of evidence, this study confirms that climate change made the catastrophic LA wildfires more likely,” Theo Keeping, wildfire researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires at Imperial College London said, according to a press release. #LAFires #ClimateChange

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Los Angeles Wildfires Were More Likely Due to Climate Change: Report - EcoWatch

The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles were more likely to form and more devastating due to climate change, the World Weather Attribution found.

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WIRED @wired.com · 11/02/2025

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

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Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US

The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Amazing that @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social has a lovely little documentary about Sylvia Wynter. I wish it had gotten into the concepts a bit more, but still v charming. I’m impressed a news site would commission this 🫶✨ aje.io/vkxgyf

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Sylvia Wynter: Beyond man

Radical philosopher, Sylvia Wynter calls on us to rethink the very notion of what it is to be human.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Delighted that @thaophan.bsky.social will be speaking online at @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social Centre for Drones & Culture on Tuesday 21/ 9am BST about this fantastic project about Australia as a site for the testing of drone delivery trials. V compelling work. Details below.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

On measured enthusiasm and emphasizing the work of scientific work in thinking about how AI technologies might support research and discovery (with some quotes from me)

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The Vulture story about Neil Gaiman is heartbreaking. For his victims, and for all of us who adore his work. It’s so wild

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

“It is thanks to their innumerable contributions that the performatively aware yet historically shallow canon of ketamine realism was even written and published. Editors are not salivating for salacious accounts of Düsseldorf.” On the death of Berlin, thebaffler.com/salvos/break...

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Breaking Glass | Alex Cocotas

The cosmopolitan creative class has exhausted their bohemian version of Berlin.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Over the holidays I migrated my personal blog/newsletter Menopassé off Substack and to Ghost. Here’s the latest post that assembles some menopause-related advertisements I’ve been getting on IG. The menopasse.ghost.io/holy-grail-m...

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'Holy Grail'/'Massive Difference'

For the past six months I have been collecting screenshots of advertisements I see on Instagram. Specifically, I have been tracking ads I am shown ever since I started looking up, learning about, and ...

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The Good Robot Podcast @goodrobotpod.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

NEW EPISODE! We talk to the artist/coder/critical AI scholar Sarah Ciston about their badass chatbot Ladymouth, which responds to trolls and incels on hate forums. Watch/listen now on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts! youtu.be/-EnzPpjmeGk?...

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Using Feminist Chatbots to Fight Trolls With Sarah Ciston

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Concept maps are one of my fav things in the world; it is very interesting to see the growth and shape of this (these) field(s)

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The perfect foil to Demi Moore is Kathy Bates showing up in sneakers. Where were you in the 1990s, Demi; aside from on the cover of VF naked and pregnant. You’re just in time for GenZ but too late for GenX. We are not getting any awards for our healing journeys 😑

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Reminder ! You have a month or so so apply for two great permanent jobs at @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social - In design /HCI and Ai, and in the social science of Ai. Pls come be my colleague !

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Touring the three living temples - Airavatesvara, Brihadisvara, Gangaikondacholapuram- built by Chola kings at the height of their powerful empire circa 1003-1100 CE. Breathtaking. Many learnings about Tamil history and culture, devotion, religiosity, and the temple industrial complex in TN

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I am really excited for this new anthology from Blaft Publications, India’s best (only?) SF publisher: The Book of Anticaste SF: www.blaft.com/collections/... Launches in Delhi, Bangalore, and London (!)

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The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF

Releasing today! Paperback orders will ship before the end of December Hardcovers by Jan. 7, 2025 Click here to pre-order the eBook An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, &am...

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