iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Olivier Bénis @olivierbenis.net · 06/10/2026

La suite pour la postérité : "En revanche, j'adresse un message de soutien à l'ensemble des membres des forces de sécurité intérieure qui sont blessés."

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Renaud Epstein @renaudepstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

L'offensive réactionnaire contre les sciences sociales et la démocratie universitaire s'intensifie. A la manœuvre, un ministère McCarthyste qui diffère la nomination d'un enseignant élu par le CA de son institut & des journalistes en mode CNews/réalité alternative www.lefigaro.fr/sciences-po-...

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Sciences Po Bordeaux : inquiétudes autour de l’arrivée d’un nouveau directeur «très marqué à gauche»

DÉCRYPTAGE - Le ministère de l’enseignement supérieur a sollicité l’avis de son collège de déontologie avant de valider l’arrivée de Gilles Pinson, candidat «maison» élu en juin dernier.

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Sharing a call for abstracts for a session I'm hosting with Antoine Courmont at the next @rc21.bsky.social conference in Vienna! We're looking for research that investigates the way platform capitalism is remaking inequality between cities. Here's the link to apply: rc21-vienna2026.org

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

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Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Our special issue is finally out! 🎉 With Antoine Courmont, I had the privilege of working with a stellar group of scholars to examine Google as an urban actor and highlight its uneven, shape-shifting power across cities. Please read, share, and let us know what you think!

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Very excited to be hosting this upcoming talk for @citiesabit.bsky.social. Registration is open to all :)

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 24/09/2025

🔔 Upcoming online talk (Cities Agenda – Sciences Po) 📅 2 Oct 2025 | 17:00–18:30 (GMT+2) 🎙️ Join #USFInternationalFellow Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence & Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins 💬 Discussant: Patrick Le Galès 👉 Register: ow.ly/F5vo50X10H9

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Out with ‘abundance’, time for:

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Horrible news. I owe an enormous debt to Michel’s work. A truly transformative thinker and an unbelievable loss. My thoughts are with his loved ones. www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...

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Michel Callon (1945-2025)

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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

There is a new Chotiner interview that really underscores what is unique about Israel's genocide in Gaza: it would be very easy for the world to stop it if only a few countries wanted to.

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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima…

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 05/08/2025

The British media outlet ITV also went on a Jordanian airdrop and simply ignored the Israeli government’s illiberal demands: www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Extremely stoked to share a recent publication of mine in the journal Cities! Based on research I conducted last year, I look at what happens when 'innovation' takes root as a policy priority for city governments, through the prism of 'digital twin' projects. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’

City Digital Twins (CDTs) are digital platforms that combine urban data to support city monitoring through predictive simulations and the visualizatio…

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

on reddit, the website at the end of the internet nymag.com/intelligence...

Reddit's relationship with Al is similarly tense: As a training corpus, Reddit is immensely valuable; after years of unauthorized scraping, the company has official licensing deals with Google, which sometimes turns its content into Al-generated search "Answers," and with OpenAI, which uses Reddit's vast archives to give its chatbot depth and outside sourcing and to help it sound like a normal person - or at least a normal redditor. Meanwhile, Reddit moderators are battling a flood of inauthentic content generated by chatbots that were trained, of course, on Reddit. They're getting tired while users, less certain that other commenters are real - and less sure of their ability to tell and noticing the rising tides of slop elsewhere - are drifting into mutual suspicion.
Huffman suggests that, just as Reddit was rewarded for offering an alternative to more baldly growth-and-ad-driven social media, it could serve a similar role in the post-ChatGPT world as a refuge for actual human interaction in a sea of generated text.
"Social media made Reddit make more sense, and I think now that the web is kind of dying, sadly, that evolution helps Reddit make more sense," he says.
"Reddit in that era is, Reddit is not social media.
And now, we're entering this new era where Reddit is not AI."

It's a powerful pitch, to the extent it remains true.
But it doesn't quite capture just how strange and risky Reddit's position is in 2025. Being one of the last islands of humanity on a dying web may make you more appealing to, well, humans. But it also makes you even more valuable to the companies doing the killing. Reddit is an alternative to a web that's harvested, polluted, and depleted by tech firms in a race to dominate Al. It's also an increasingly valuable data source for tech firms in a race to dominate AI. How long can it be both?

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I’m going to say it… that’s what a machine learning political order does. It intensifies a politics by trialling and experimentation. The hackathon has been policy space for a long time. www.cambridge.org/core/service...

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Here is the longest blog post I've ever written (4k words). "The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines" I end with a teaching approach for writing, AI-related & non-AI related. I hope you'll read the whole thing! Thank you. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

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The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines

Ending with a solution for teaching writing

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

sciencedirect.com

City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’

City Digital Twins (CDTs) are digital platforms that combine urban data to support city monitoring through predictive simulations and the visualizatio…

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

In a parallel life, I designed political posters. Some of them were pretty damn good. Here’s one of my favourites, for @suebigoil.bsky.social and @avilewis.bsky.social

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Extremely excited to share my first academic publication in @metropolitiques.bsky.social! In it, I trace the way firms' offers are reshaped by local politics, raising questions about how we characterize the role of digital platforms in the city today. metropolitiques.eu/La-fabrique-...

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La fabrique des jumeaux numériques urbains : le cas de Dassault Systèmes

Provenant du monde de l'industrie, les jumeaux numériques sont de plus en plus mobilisés dans la gestion urbaine. Or, ces outils, présentés par les acteurs privés qui les conçoivent comme un moyen de ...

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Excited to present with my colleague Luca at this workshop tomorrow with the @ccds-aup.bsky.social! Looking at medieval city-states, company towns and contemporary smart cities, we argue that city "autonomy" is incapable without symmetrical processes of automation and othering. Abstract below :)

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The rise of end times fascism

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...

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The mental tyranny of AI writing

An arduously long blog post

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is sad and useless. The BC price on carbon was one of the only examples of genuinely redistributive climate policy I’ve had the luck to encounter. Gas was more expensive, but as a broke student I received upwards of 400$/yr through the Climate Action Tax Credit to (more than) offset this cost.

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The decimation of public information infrastructure along with the LLMification of knowledge robs us of a coherent and collectively recorded past. Hard to believe the individualized convulsions of a data centre in Indiana can offer any basis for organized action ngl. But I suppose that’s the point.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Trudeau: I think Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us. I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Elon: “Heil Hitler” the press: “hmmm I wonder what he means by this”

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A big day for Frederick Jackson Turner

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

What such proclamations — and smart city / Neom-ish boosterism — fail(s)to do is contextualize these claims in relation to similar arguments made about earlier media technologies (the web! 📺! ☎️! print!) and 1000s of years of entangled media + urban histories (the subject of my 2017 book)!

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How A.I. Could Reshape the Economic Geography of America (Gift Article)

As the technology is widely adopted, some once-struggling midsize cities in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South may benefit, new research predicts.

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Evergreen finding here. Robots need more help than they offer! (Akrich Callon and Latour - 2002 - "The Key to Success in Innovation Part I: The Art of Interressement")

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

don’t comply in advance also applies to the enclosure of all hitherto existing cultural production and expulsion of labor

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Here’s me doing some shameless promo for the Urban School at @sciencespo.bsky.social. Admissions are now open for their master’s degrees—which you can learn more on by reading about my experience there at the link below :) www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/stud...

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Student profile: Oskar Steiner

Graduate from the Governing Ecological Transition in Cities Master's programme, research track

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Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

In 2024, we were lucky to welcome 8 new PhD students working on the radical right in Europe, participatory democracy, digital tools in cities, overtourism, ... Discover their subjects: www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude... Follow them are on Bluesky -- see next post cc @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social

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European radical right, overtourism, digital tools in cities, citizen participation: discover the projects of our new PhD students

8 new PhD students joined the CEE in 2024

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 14/11/2024

Solidarity with Maori and their allies in Aotearoa facing a far-right attack on their rights and the country’s foundational treaty, signed with the Crown in 1840.

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