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Natalie Sontopski

@stromponsky.bsky.social
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Researcher 🔮 More-Than-Human Design //STS // Feminism // Critical AI

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
To whom it may concern.
Ein junger Typ in so nem casual getragenen Business Hemd mit Brille hält ein Schild, auf dem steht: 
You seem to be scrolling a lot for someone who has a book to write.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Little peer review induced mini rant inocming! I love Donna Haraway's work. I also read a lot of her texts. This is not always fun because Haraway has a notoriously dense and dynamic way of writing. So I had to read her texts more than once. As one should in academia to fully grasp a text. (1/3)
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Dagmar Hoffmann @dagmarhoffmann.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Martina Heßler (TU Darmstadt) plädiert für die Entwicklung einer gesellschaftlichen Error Literacy, die die neuartigen Dimensionen des Nichtverstehens von KI-Modellen und ihrer Fehler zur Basis des Handelns macht. Quelle: Forschung & Lehre 4/26 #Technikkompetenz #ErrorLiteracy #AI #KI
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
when i submit a manuscript for review
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 11/05/2026
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.
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👻Notorischer User dieser Plattform🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I think I remember this Black Mirror episode
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Can't we just have anything nice without turning it into a data hoarding surveillance kraken for profit?
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How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.
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Agentur für soziale Perspektiven @aspberlin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Sie sagen es offen. Alles liegt auf dem Tisch. Niemand tut mehr so, als ginge es um etwas anderes. #StopPalantir
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This feels like MORE WORK FOR MOTHER by Ruth Schwartz Cowan, which explored the irony that many of the technical advances in housework and the kitchen did nothing to ease the burden on women but instead increased it.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Does anyone know where I can stream or watch the 2010 Weizenbaum doc "Plug and Pray"? I can't seem to figure out where to find it.
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Blitz Pride Mode @chums.yorha.vip · 16/02/2026
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Remi Kalir @remikalir.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Roses are red Violets are blue You can resist AI hype Luddites were sexy, too
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In a not so surprising turn of events, we are back to women being basically witches again.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Can't wait for the near future where I will be misinformed by a customer service chatbot, misdiagnosed by a medical chatbot, misidentified by a face-recognition system and misrepresented by a legal chatbot.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
*sighs deeply* She can't teach an AI model to have morals, only to imitate her understanding of what having morals means. Its a pattern imitation machine, not an intelligent machine, people!
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
By no means do I have a musical ear but I can't believe how bad the sound quality at Spotify is. Its basically just very flat. I switched to Deezer two months ago and its a whole new (better) world of listening to music.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
There will be a backlash eventually but I fear for the students in school and university right now who are basically lab rats for AI curriculums created by tech companies and do not realize they get robbed of a proper education.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Well, sound like a marvelous idea where nothing can go wrong! The city and its inhabitants will definitly profit from this surely well-informed AI push with improved infrastructures for health, eduation and business because who better to trust with sensitive data than Big Tech?
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I would describe my PhD writing process as learning while writing while also somehow managing to take one step forward and two steps back with each new written section.
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Berit Glanz @beritmiriam.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Hallelujah! Die EU-Kommission leitet endlich (!) ein Verfahren gegen X wegen Grok ein.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Littel Tip: There is this little thing called a hard disk drive where you can save all your digital files. It also comes in a portable version. And there is an ancient practice know as "back-up", which is specifically designed to avoid mishaps like this.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Ruhezone im ICE der Deutschen Bahn funktioniert heute nach dem Motto "Nur wer möchte", wer stattdessen lieber das ganze Abteil an einem einen Facetime Anruf mit seinem Bro teilhaben lassen will, darf das natürlich gerne.
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Onikunooooooooooo~! @onikuno.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...
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One developer’s tool strips AI and other junk from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
A developer released a free tool called “Just the Browser” that disabless AI features, ads, and other unwanted junk in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
No shit, ey - Smart Brillen sind dermassen surveillance coded, dass von Anfang an klar war, wofür Nutzer*innen diese Gadgets nutzen werden: Um anderen Personen ohne Consent zu filmen.
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Smart-Brillen werden genutzt, um Videos von Frauen gegen ihren Willen ins Netz zu stellen
Auf mehreren Social-Media-Accounts wurden über hundert Videos hochgeladen, in denen Frauen nach ihrer Nummer gefragt wurden
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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Pure trolling at this point.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Oh hell no.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I feel this. A lot. Like A LOT.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 24/11/2025
Home Depot is running a surveil Santa ad that also has Santa dropping off more surveillance gear for the family, in this world there is only surveillance
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
If you are planning to attend the stsing conference in Bochum next March, may I point you to our case? We happily accept attendants and are looking for a fun, interdisciplinary crowd eager to discuss all things more-than-human, anthropocene and toolkits. Come and join us! stsing.org/before-ruins...
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From industrial ruins to ecological renewal. Developing a toolkit for actionable interventions. | The 2026 conference of stsing e.V.
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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
Baotou tailings dam, Inner Mongolia: Brown sludge shoots out of a pipe into a grey-brown wasteland stretching to the horizon, where tiny industrial buildings can be seen. Source: Liam Young/BBC, URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earthLithium mining fields, Silver Peak, Nevada: An aerial photograph of a desert landscape, with what looks like a chessboard made up of swimming pools, the fields where lithium is mined, contrasting turquoise with the surrounding desert. Source: Doc Searly, Wikimedia, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Peak,_Nevada#/media/File:Chemetall_Foote_Lithium_Operation.jpg.Differently coloured cargo containers in the port of Barcelona, stacked on top of each other like Lego bricks. Source: OneLoneClone/Wikimedia, URL: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-Container#/media/Datei:Puertobarcelona2.jpg.Meta’s Stanton Springs data center in Georgia: An industrial complex illuminated in blue and yellow at night, separated from a neighbouring forest by fences. Source: Peter Essick/Fast Company, URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91396678/meta-georgia-data-center-stanton-springs.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The relationship of eugenics and AI goes waaaay back. @timnitgebru.bsky.social did an execellent talk about this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT...
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SaTML 2023 - Timnit Gebru - Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through AGI
YouTube video by Nicolas Papernot
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What hell feels like: Transcriping interviews and hearing your own, slowed down voice on repeat for hours. Have my spoken words any meaning? Can I not form at least one coherent sentence when talking to other people?
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Most important lesson in the age of AI: "how do you develop the skills of discernment? This one is very very important: do not let the AI do the work for you before you have learned how to do it yourself. "
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Große Empfehlung an alle, die sich eine Übersicht über digitale Technologien und deren komplexe und teilweise desaströse geopolitische, ökologische und kapitalistische entanglements im Anthropozän verschaffen möchten.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
When STEM discovers sociology but instead of giving credit, sells this as new research. I see this happening a lot in STEM and it makes me furious.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Ever wondered what " your data is stored in the cloud" means? Contrary to real clouds, the digital cloud is based in massive noisy loud data centers and far less celestial - some would even describe living next to them as hell. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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A humming annoyance or jobs boom? Life next to 199 data centres in Virginia
Data centres were billed as a boon to Virginia’s economy. Now, residents are concerned about their impact on real estate and electricity costs.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Content creation has become so cynical that homeless people are now pawns for allegedly "random acts of kindness". These content creators are very aware of their privacy but do not care for the privacy of a vulnerable and marginalized community.
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Natalie Sontopski @stromponsky.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I love stumbling on resources like that, because teaching is hard and inspiration is always welcome. I am especially drawn to the unit about the iconic "More Work for Mother" from Ruth Schwartz Cowan.
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