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hybrid designer+researcher working with #systems & #futures. Innovation advisor for renewables at an energy company. 🏳️‍🌈 😷 clean air advocate; board: systemic design association, prev fjord, aho_oslo.

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Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I broke my personal rule in not engaging with any agentic/generative a.i. ever because a polar art exhibition offered a conversation with a glacier as if glaciers don’t already speak as per pan-Indigenous knowledge and found that the man who made the glacier a.i. gave the Thwaites glacier a sexy baby ASMR vocal fry lady voice which is what I deserve for breaking my personal rule in not engaging with any agent/generative a.i. ever.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In a world of Sam Altmans, be a Stanislav Pertrov. 🌅
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
switched kiosks. input the info. you truly cannot make this shit up
We cannot find a flight in your booking
Please seek assistance
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026
I’m only into #FlyFishing but the rivers will not work if the primary and old-growth forest are cut for pulp and paper. It is niche in Finland to oppose this. But since we want to restore rivers, better meanwhile support the Sámi folks. #Nature and people.
My fly fishing rods lean on an old tree.My hand on an old tree.
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s another kind of grief, building and living in times of decline
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath
Detailed math as shared in the post. “How much does your commute cost (or save) society? Source is Discourse Media.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
They’ll keep telling us it’s inevitable but NYC and other large school systems are starting to say no to AI, recognizing it’s not a legitimate tool for k-12 learning. Even some universities are putting their foot down, like U Chicago (and some law schools) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools
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Emlyn Jones @gremlyn27.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He's so playfully antagonistic.
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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 28/08/2026
Spirit Airlines went under and left behind 500 million Teams messages. Google bid $10m. A startup building AI agents to work inside simulated companies bid $12.5m. Ten years of telling people to work out loud, and here we are. By me for @reworked.bsky.social www.reworked.co/collaboratio...
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Everything You've Ever Typed at Work Just Became an Asset
We spent 10 years pushing people to work out loud. Spirit's data sale is teaching everyone a good reason to stop.
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isaac @sevier.io · 28/08/2026
Weather forecasting in my lifetime has become nearly perfect thanks to the government investing in constant and high quality data collection up until now. Some dark ages shit is happening because there's enormous money to be made by breaking everything.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
In a short span of time we went from people speculating that companies were listening to their conversations to companies offering listening to your conversations as a feature.
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Plaud is launching AI earbuds
An AI wearable, but for your ears.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I've added a link to the English translation. How race-scientists weild systematic doubt and participatory scrutiny in order to recast themselves as arbiters of truth. The 3 year hunt for Jason Arday wasn't only about his destruction. The ultimate trophy is epistemic dominance.
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Comment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason Arday
Le racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses …
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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Site built by Professor Jason Arday's former students: "He was sunshine personified" leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...
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Everything Good About Jason Arday
First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
Cartoon image of a street with much of the space taken up by a car with a single driver, while the rest of the street has people tightly packed in a bus, a bus shelter and riding bikes in a bike lane. Adding insult to injury, the driver says “damn those bike paths and bike lanes taking all the space.”
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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Osamu Nishi: I like the sound of water, and sometimes I want to be squeezed by large arms. I think I was a fish caught by a bird in a previous life.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 16/08/2026
These AI detection programs are starting to look an awful lot like fire extinguishers sold by arsonists
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
As Langdon Winner put so well 40 years ago, don't fall into the trap of accepting "RISK" as a good framework for these conversations. Business interests love framing their violence in terms of "risks & rewards" bc as a society, we love to heroize & reward risk-takers. Talk instead about "HAZARD."
But from the point of view I've described here, the risk debate is one that certain kinds of social interests can expect to lose by the very act of entering. In our times, under most circumstances in which the matter is likely to come up, deliberations about risk are bound to have a strongly conservative drift. The conservatism to which I refer is one that upholds the status quo of production and consumption in our industrial, market-oriented society, a status quo supported by a long history of economic development in which countless new technological applications were introduced with scant regard to the possibility that they might cause harm. Thus, decades of haphazard use of industrial chemicals provide a background of expectations for today's deliberations on the safety of such chemicals. Pollution of the air, land, and water are not the exception in much of
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sanyo personal stereo equipment, 1984 ad.
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New SaaS (Spam as a Service) just dropped
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thinking about Aaron Swartz and Jason Arday this week.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Layoffs in show business, layoffs in animation business, layoffs in design, in tech, in public sector jobs, large scale layoffs in academia, layoffs in
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Also: @chadwellmon.bsky.social's piece on the logics and poetry and politics of web search is just brilliant. (I'm especially taken bc it's such a thoughtful coda to the search & discovery class we just wrapped up; I wish we had been able to read this together!)
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What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Full context on the Atlanta town hall not even 8 weeks ago where worker after worker warned about how past mergers had decimated their lives: newrepublic.com/article/2136...
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There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It
Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/08/2026
*taps sign* Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Pygmalion Lens 	
1) 	Feminised form: Is the AI, by its (default or exclusive) external characteristics, portraying a hegemonically feminine character? 	Yes/No
2) 	Whitened form: Is the AI, by its (default or exclusive) external characteristics, portraying a character that is inherently white (supremacist), Western, Eurocentric, etc.? 	Yes/No
3) 	Dislocation from work: Does the AI displace women from a role or occupation, or people in general from a role or occupation that tends to be (coded as) women's work? 	Yes/No
4) 	Humanisation via feminisation: Are the AI's claims to intelligence, human-likeness or personhood contingent on stereotypical feminine traits or behaviours? 	Yes/No
5) 	Competition with women: Is the AI pit (rhetorically or otherwise) against women in ways that favour it, and which are harmful to women? 	Yes/No
6) 	Diminishment via false equivalence: Does the AI facilitate a rhetoric that deems women as not having full intellectual abilities, or as otherwise less deserving of personhood? 	Yes/No
7) 	Obfuscation of diversity: Does the AI, through displacement of specific groups of people, “neutralise” (i.e., whiten, masculinise) a role, vocation, or skill? 	Yes/No
8) 	Robot rights: Do the users and/or creators of the AI grant it (aspects of) legal personhood or human(-like) rights? 	Yes/No
9) 	Social bonding: Do the users and/or creators of the AI develop interpersonal-like relationships with it? 	Yes/No
10) 	Psychological service: Does the AI function to subserve and enhance the egos of its creators and/or users? 	Yes/No
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“the economy is a ‘wholly owned subsidiary’ of nature”
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Avian Face-Tool 🦡 @beakmoo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I just found out there's a creature called a puffleg hummingbird, that wears a tiny pair of fluffy white trousers.
A green, shiny bird wearing fluffy white trousers.
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Trial is a great piece of theatre because it explores in painful detail a fact we all already know - the wreck families go through when “entrepreneurs” cut corners to prioritise profits, and transfer the risk and consequences to everyone else. #EIF #Edinburgh
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Beautifully stated.
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
@jerthorp.bsky.social thought you might enjoy this ✨
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Came here for the international festival but the best thing so far might just be the free ticket event I got handed to by a cheerful woman at the redstop. Honestly, did not expect this. - #fringe #edinburgh #eif
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/08/2026
did I miss the classic greek discourse window or does everyone still want to know that you can 3D print a trojan horse kit as a gift for all your most greek classicy friends??? makerworld.com/en/models/24...
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Miniature Trojan Horse Kit Card - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld
Download this free 3D print file designed by berri3D. This kit card is inspired by one of the most famous legends of Greek mythology, the Trojan Horse. Although miniature sized, the wheels move and th...
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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 06/08/2026
Wildfire smoke can trigger storms. 🌩️ On 17 August 2025, thunderstorms formed across Spain far from active fires. Data from Meteosat-12 showed drifting smoke meeting humid air, helping clouds grow, and lightning develop. Find out how this unfolded in our latest article: bit.ly/4hRrrKX
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I do think that petromasculinity would (and in many sectors will) go bankrupt first to protect itself.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026
"Our role as academics is to protect this one institution. This is why we receive tax money; why we're basically civil servants. The role of the university is even lost on many, so bears repeating: produce knowledge and educate at the highest level. AI destroys both at their core"
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Germany to ban Meta’s Pervert Glasses? ​Hamburg’s Data Protection Office warns that recording people in public with smart glasses violates privacy laws. The tiny LED indicator light isn't prominent enough to prevent secret filming in public spaces. 1/2 www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
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Hamburger Datenschutzbeauftragter: Verbot von Meta Glasses möglich
Der Hamburger Datenschutzbeauftragte Fuchs warnt vor Meta Smart Glasses: Die Brillen, die kaum von normalen Brillen zu unterscheiden sind, ermöglichen heimliches Filmen. Ein Verbot sei nicht ausgeschl...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I realize these are all things that sex workers have told us and could tell us better. Consumer-facing AI is basically a sex worker so of course it’s personalizing various iterations of financial domination for men because that’s what they want.
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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Through extraordinary efforts, @windbornewx.bsky.social successfully navigated a controllable balloon above powerful Typhoon Dolphin, descended into its eye, then collected multiple vertical profiles as we circled inside its eye. A first of its kind type of hurricane data collection.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
This is ... horrific
lawsuit, Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them usina industrial- grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors' books to train its Al
This process took advantage of a egal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder's say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physicak texts into digital ones - rather than redistributing them as new copies a iudqe found this to be "transformative." and therefore
protected by fair useOne small book seller said that in April, he suddenly went from selling no more than 20 books a week to hundreds. and he's almost certain that the customers are Al labs. noting the random selection of the books and how they all have ISBNs He added that his inventory is full with rare and out of print books. meaning that an Al company could be destroying some of the few remaining copies that can be found
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Egregious, destroying books that have been preserved through wars and disasters @shannonmattern.bsky.social
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“Sometimes I read a print book because a print book can’t read me back.”
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.
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PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What a scrumptious feast. It’s reads like this that make me feel lucky we still have folks who like to geek out, write and share it with us all www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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