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Sabine Barthold

@sabinebarthold.bsky.social
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Urban Scholar, Social Scientist, Open Science Enthusiast, Digital Transformation, Global Cities, Climate Change

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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 26/03/2026
📢 Announcing the Open Social Awards ✨ Alongside PublicSpaces and Waag Futurelab, we aim to honor the work of independent builders around the world, creating innovative products for the open web! More details below… newpublic.org/OSA
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Open Social Awards | New_ Public
The awards aim to recognize and celebrate the breakthrough products of developers building on open protocols such as ATProtocol and ActivityPub.
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Playtester ↗ @playtester.io · 11/03/2026
Bike through Sapphire Valley with Cali and Kira in this solarpunk pixel-art open-world RPG demo, making deliveries, meeting friends, playing minigames, and reflecting on life and loss. Play the demo: playtester.io/petal-runner #IndieGaming #GameDev #Gaming #IndieDev #IndieGame
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Tired of dystopian sci-fi? You might like Solarpunk. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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Tired of dystopian sci-fi? You might like Solarpunk.
A recent literary genre imagines what happens when our climate changes—and so do we.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 08/03/2026
While being public-facing is part of the job, we also recognize that knowledge mobilization comes w/risks. (Threats of job loss, bodily harm, sanctions by nation state, we have experienced it all.) We've also compiled a list of resources to mitigate some of the risks. km.socialmedialab.ca/resources
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/03/2026
A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. www.404media.co/this-app-war...
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to…
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Sabine Barthold @sabinebarthold.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Feel like something needs to be done and things need to change, but don't know where to start? Have a look at this beautiful toolbox for a better world and get inspired! beautifultrouble.org
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Beautiful Trouble
Creative tools for a more just world.
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
👉 Just published: "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies" - Book of Abstracts of the Weizenbaum Conference 2025. #WIConf25 ➡️ doi.org/10.34669/WI.... 🔗
Cover of the publication
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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 15/07/2025
Reuters reports on our Eurosky initiative whose goal it is to establish a full, legally compliant #ATProto stack in Europe. But not only that - we’re working on a commons moderation service that can act as an incubator for smaller ATProto devs.
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European project Eurosky aims to reduce reliance on US tech giants
A group of European technology entrepreneurs has unveiled the Eurosky initiative, a government-backed project to create infrastructure for social media offerings and reduce reliance on U.S. tech giants.
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Sabine Barthold @sabinebarthold.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
www.wired.com/story/enshit...
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The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"Natural scientists have been far too naïve about how their equivocal comments about large-scale CDR and other geoengineering approaches will be used by policy makers to argue against the rapid phase out of fossil fuels." - Prof. @jamesgdyke.info, @gsiexeter.bsky.social
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The climate centre is barking mad
The climate movement will fail if it doesn't respect both political and physical realities
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/06/2025
‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 🔗 www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...
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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 26/06/2025
A house divided.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis, who died on Monday at 88, was a strong and vocal environmental advocate and used his papacy to help inspire global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. He framed climate change as an urgent spiritual issue and helped push the world to take action.
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How Pope Francis Helped Inspire the Global Movement Against Climate Change
Francis framed climate change as an urgent spiritual issue and helped push the world to take action.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 24/02/2024
Two years ago today, 🇷🇺 launched a full-scale invasion of 🇺🇦, escalating a 10+ yr war of aggression. Upon learning about it, we knew that the fog of war would be thick & there would be a need to quickly separate facts from misinfo. So we spent the night building conflictmisinfo.org
conflictmisinfo.org
Russia-Ukraine ConflictMisinfo Research Portal
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