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Siobhan O'Flynn

@sioflynn.bsky.social
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Canadian Studies UofT. 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦 Kids' data privacy, AI & policy; Social AI, Ghostbots, Griefbots; Digital Humanities, Digital & Geolocative Storytelling; Game Studies. T'karanto, Treaty 13

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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 10h
“Perhaps nothing better illustrates the culture of privilege abuse at Meta than the swag purchased by members of the Teen Accounts team, aka “Project Nido.” “Notably even that decision was reviewed and signed off on by Instagram legal.” nypost.com/2026/09/25/b...
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Instagram made ‘attorney-client privilege’ swag hats for employees who concealed kids safety docs in court battle
A photo of the so-called “swag” hats surfaced in documents released in California federal court where a coalition of school districts have accused Meta of fueling social media addiction. The “a/c/p…
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 12h
From 2022. Wild. Palmer Luckey, defense contractor and the father of modern virtual reality, has created a VR headset that will kill the user if they die in the game they’re playing. Luckey is the founder of Oculus, a company he sold to Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion www.vice.com/en/article/p...
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Palmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the Game
The man who created the Oculus Rift has invented a virtual reality headset that will explode the forebrain of a user who dies in a video game.
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 12h
Exactly why CEOs, CTOs & other C-suite execs being named in current productivity lawsuits is so important.
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 12h
I’m up at 5 thinking about exactly this.
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 12h
“The Federal Trade Commission will probe AI firms including OpenAI and Anthropic to gauge risks to consumers, in the first major US regulatory action following reports of rogue AI incidents and warnings about the technology’s existential risks.” www.semafor.com/article/09/3...
semafor.com
US watchdog to investigate AI labs for potential consumer harms
The probe comes one day after top tech leaders signed a self-regulatory AI accord at the White House.
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 18h
That’s me. So many US trips I would made. Conferences. Art events. Holidays. Family. Nada. Not now.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 18h
SMH that this is even a news story
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cornell University has agreed to an independent investigation into how the school handled fraternity sexual assault allegations, governor says
abcnews.com
Cornell agrees to independent review of how it handled fraternity sexual assault allegations: Governor
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called for the outside review, saying what happened raised "serious questions about Cornell campus culture."
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....
dair-institute.org
Surveillance Watch
This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Political Cartoonists are the best. deAdder rocks it every time he sits down and draws his next masterpiece.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a sweeping California package cracking down on public corruption, crypto fraud, ticket scams, privacy abuses and more, including a new law barring public officials from launching meme coins.
meidasnews.com
Newsom Signs Sweeping Anti-Corruption Package Cracking Down on Meme Coins, Crypto Fraud, and Self-Dealing by Public Officials
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of anti-corruption and consumer protection legislation, MeidasTouch has exclusively learned, delivering one of
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New T for fall: “Gone Rogue” Blame it on the Agents.
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More??
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 25/09/2026
'Ethical' hacker who faced prosecution doubts OpenAI will face consequences over Medicare breach
abc.net.au
'Ethical' hacker doubts Open AI will face charges over Medicare hack
As questions linger around whether OpenAI will face legal consequences for its Medicare hack, a man who faced decades in jail for alleged cybercrimes says Australian law comes down harder on individuals than organisations. 
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Guessing he doesn’t care. Too busy changing the world. Humanity. Whatever.
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Read the NY Post with the NY Times article. Many details repeated. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...
nytimes.com
The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side
Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No no no no no. Trap.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 25/09/2026
How can AI support a multilingual & multiracial democracy? On Sept. 28, CDT, GW Law’s Multiracial Democracy Project, & the Bernard Center for Law & Technology will bring together experts to examine multilingual AI & language equity. Free to join in D.C. + virtually. Register: cdt.org/events/impac...
Impacts of AI on Multilingual and Multiracial Democracy Symposium
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
💯💯💯💯💯
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
With the latest OpenAI hack of an Australian gov website, add another hack to the WSJ timeline
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😳😳😳
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
18% 👏👏👏
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I remember the day I remember first listen really really loud on a club sound system.
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Epic. The human heads are about to come off.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
lemonde.fr
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now we just need to get this to apply to Lough Neagh and other water bodies across Ireland used as sewers for industrial quantities of excrement.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Malery Nguyen is leading our papermaking workshop. As an undergrad, Malary took an Art of the Book class, which included a session on papermaking, which invited a lifelong practice of experimentation 🥰
Malery helping a participant scoop up pulp from a vatMalery helping a participant flip over her moldKhori ornamenting her paper with mushroom pieces
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026
Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History”, Alex Andriesse on the world of 18/19th-century board games in which players progress chronologically through history itself: publicdomainreview.org/essay/progre... publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8286679...
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Explain this to me like I’m 10. If you buy back your own debt, does that become an asset? Thinking 2008 sub-prime mortgage tranches. What is this? www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Treasury Falls Short of $6 Billion Maximum for Long-Term Bond Buyback
The U.S. Treasury bought $4.08 billion of its own long-term debt Thursday, less than the $6 billion maximum it announced a day earlier. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent increased the cap of the depart...
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
💗
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wow
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is like to see @jilltxt.bsky.social
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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shape the "Urban Future" We are offering 10 PhD positions in our new DFG Research Training Group starting April 2027. Join us in studying urban transformations, water-health links, and sustainable cities. Deadline: Oct 19, 2026 🔗Apply: masterapplication.uni-bonn.de/movein/hoste... #PhD #ZEFBonn
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NPR @npr.org · 23/09/2026
Critics say a slowdown of AI development among the largest companies could consolidate the power of frontier labs, just as many others are trying to catch up. n.pr/4cYIlUK
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How an 'AI freeze' could make big AI companies bigger and hurt smaller firms
Critics say a slowdown of AI development among the largest companies could consolidate the power of frontier labs, just as many others are trying to catch up.
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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great thread, great blog and report. And since we're plugging past work that is newly relevant, my heart has always been with this 2023 one: muse.jhu.edu/article/898331
Situated Knowledges and Partial Perspectives: 
A Framework for Radical Objectivity in 
Computational Social Science and 
Computational Humanities
Laura K. Nelson 
Just as the invention of the telescope revolu-
tionized the study of the heavens, so too by 
rendering the unmeasurable measurable, the 
technological revolution in mobile, Web, and 
Internet communications has the potential to 
revolutionize our understanding of ourselves 
and how we interact. . . . Three hundred years 
after Alexander Pope argued that the proper 
study of mankind should lie not in the heavens 
but in ourselves, we have finally found our tele-
scope. Let the revolution begin. 
—Duncan Watts
We have entered a new era of scholarship in the social sci-
ences and humanities: the computational era. Rooted in the 
analysis of unprecedented amounts of social data and cultural 
material, computational social science and computational humanities 
blend traditions from the social sciences and the humanities with tools 
and approaches from computer science, engineering, and linguistics. 
This disciplinary cross-pollination has unearthed old disciplinary debates, 
including those around epistemology: what constitutes knowledge and 
the goals of knowledge building and, particularly in the interpretive 
social sciences and the humanities, the role of objectivity in knowledge 
creation. 
Objectivity in science and scholarship has always been a contested 
terrain; it is no different in the computational era. While there are 
complexities and nuances to debates about objectivity, broadly speak-
ing since the nineteenth century,1 epistemological debates in science 
have revolved around the appropriate role of the subject in generat-
ing objective knowledge.2 On one side of this discourse is the ideal 
of science and scholarship as the pursuit of disembodied objectivity.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OpenAI recently claimed to solve one of math’s biggest questions: the Navier-Stokes problem. But now three mathematicians have showed OpenAI’s work dodges the question rather than solving it.
scientificamerican.com
Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?
OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 22/09/2026
Spoke to President Marcos of the Philippines. We just agreed on a 🇪🇺🇵🇭 free trade deal! This comes just 3 years after my visit to Manila to relaunch the negotiations. I want to thank Maroš Šefčovič for yet another trade success. link.europa.eu/66H8yF
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
staff at the boiling people alive factory complain of mental toll of boiling people alive
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Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Stop asking AI CEOs what society needs. The alarm sounded by AI chief executives about the very products they have raced to market amounts to a remarkable admission of failure and a spectacular failure of governance. ↘️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com
Stop asking AI CEOs what society needs
Imagine inviting oil companies to design climate policies or car companies to make traffic rules
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not surprised.
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Super cool. I’m listening ( & bookmarking for the am )
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yup. Question is- Finally! Just in Time Too late.
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BC AG is suing OpenAI for failing to notify after alarming chat logs triggered internal reviews. OpenAI continues to refuse to release these chat logs. FYI the Florida AG is pursuing a criminal investigation of OpenAI after the 2025 Florida State U mass shooting www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
B.C. government suing OpenAI for alleged role in Tumbler Ridge mass shooting | CBC News
B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma said the province is suing OpenAI for its failure to notify law enforcement of threats made on its platform, ChatGPT, before the mass shooting.
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Am I alone in wanting to throw things when I hear radio chat about "maxxing" & "looksmaxxing" with zero clue of the origin of the phrases?
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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh look! A spine!
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