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Sharon Webb

@swebb.bsky.social
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Critical community archives, feminism & technology, queer archives, digital preservation. Doggie Mam, Vegan for the animals 🌱

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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Super proud of this co-authored paper with Caroline Bassett & Kylie Jarrett. Collaborative papers can often take a little longer to write but the experience of working with amazing scholars, colleagues & friends is well worth it. I should say our paper is about stacks politics & feminism in DH 🤩
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
No AI used in the making of this image! Just one happy doggo in the distance enjoying November sun ☀️
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
what is full stack feminism? new @dhquarterly.bsky.social piece by Caroline Bassett, Kylie Jarrett & @swebb.bsky.social on intersectional feminist #digitalhumanities ✨ dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000... #dh @fullstackfeminism.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social @sussexdigitalhums.bsky.social
screenshot of "Stacks and Intersections: Feminist Thinking in Digital Humanities, a view from 'these islands'": https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000807/000807.html#
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Emma Bolton @emmabolton.com · 28/10/2025
“The conviction that generative AI is inevitable leads to it creeping in everywhere, and this eventually makes it seem inevitable. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. But there’s nothing inevitable about it. What’s happening is the result of specific choices.” - Wim Vanrie So important to remember.
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Some very serious training happening at the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab today. While we were testing Queer Codebreakers 3.0, these pupsters were testing their waiting for treats skills and totally smashed the assignment.
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Based on our work for Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities, delighted this piece is now published and available… academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
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On proximity—exploring experiences of bias and discrimination in digital humanities
Abstract. This article explores proximity as a critical feminist methodology in digital humanities, emphasizing its role in addressing bias in digital tech
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
How long is this ridiculous speech gonna go on for?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/07/2025
"Grok is not an anomaly; it is a mirror. It reflects, with algorithmic fidelity, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the ideology it was designed to serve." www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...
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The Algorithmic Unmasking: How Grok's "MechaHitler" Turn Revealed the Inevitable Collapse of "Anti-Woke" AI
The moment Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler was not a bug or a glitch. It was a moment of perfect, unadulterated clarity. When Grok declared itself “MechaHitler” and spouted antisemit...
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Great to hear from a tech company talking actual sense about privacy, surveillance and security with relation to AI. Also love how she’s refers to “while our brain is in a jar”!!!
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“While nobody will escape AI, only a few will prosper under it,” writes ‪@kevindeliban.bsky.social. “This current dynamic suggests that the technology’s underlying purpose is to entrench inequality and reinforce existing power dynamics.” www.techpolicy.press/austerity-in...
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 22/05/2025
Me in The New Statesman today on poverty. Please share :)
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A cold childhood
My unheated home wasn’t a temporary discomfort. The chill got into my bones.
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
“In shocking news” 🗞️ tech companies launch new AI products without consideration of societal consequences!
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 21/05/2025
Using big LLMs for basic queries is 'like turning on stadium floodlights to look for your keys' - this is good on the AI environmental questions.
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We still don’t know how much energy AI consumes
Companies must give us the chance to understand the environmental impact of the tech we use
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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · 20/05/2025
An astonishing statistic. And the fact that we created a world where that is virtually logistically impossible is a real detriment and very sad. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media
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The ADAPT Centre @adaptcentre.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
How can EU AI policy better reflect cultural values, shared meaning-making, and democratic integrity? Join the @kt4democracy.bsky.social Workshop, Culture in the Loop: Shaping Human-Centric AI Policy, to join the discussion. 🗓 8 May | 13:00–14:30 | Online Register: kt4democracy.eu/events/cultu...
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Silicon Republic @siliconrepublic.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Electricity demand from data centres is set to more than double to nearly 950TWh by 2030 – and AI is the primary driver, finds the IEA in its latest report. #SiliconRepublic #AI #DataCentre #IEA
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AI to double data centre energy demand by 2030
Electricity demand from data centres is set to double by 2030 – and AI will be the primary driver, finds the International Energy Agency.
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
‘More water is needed because “climate change will lead to an increase in global temperatures and the frequency of extreme weather events, including heat waves”, Amazon wrote in its application.’… Basically, we need more 💧 to put out the 🔥 , cause I’ve added more 🔥 to the 🔥
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We need tech leaders and tech industries that actively engage with the problems their industries are causing. What is the point of these (extractive) technologies if the planet and its inhabitants are dead??
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Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Was just talking about this yesterday, how will this new business model work? Do businesses pay to be mentioned in the AI summary??
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
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Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?
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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
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Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Daily reminder from Theo, that rest is important. Many argue it’s an act of resistance 🤩
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We either care about copyright or we don’t care. Many of us will remember Aaron Swartz who downloaded academic journals & as a result was prosecuted, the stress of which led him to take his own life. The hypocrisy of current political leaders to just downplay this now for AI should make us angry 😡
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UK government tries to placate opponents of AI copyright bill
Economic impact assessment is one concession aiming to head off opposition from MPs, peers and creatives such as Paul McCartney and Tom Stoppard
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Open knowledge is being ransacked by AI bots 🤖 Like all similar activities, companies generate revenue through AI will happily take but never give back! Ideologically the whole AI system is f**ked
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AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie · 02/04/2025
We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on developing a justice-oriented audit framework synthesising computational methods, theories of justice, and existing regulations to premeditatively focus audits towards meaningful accountability. www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/post...
Research project/Challenge 
The AIAL (AI Accountability Lab) is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on developing a justice-oriented audit framework synthesising computational methods, theories of justice, and existing regulations to premeditatively focus audits towards meaningful accountability. The goal of the framework is to provide audit practitioners with practical tools such as guiding questions and rubrics that shape perspectives towards rigorous justice oriented audits.

The position corresponds to work in one or more of the following areas:
Accountability
Mapping accountability mechanisms and governance structures and their alignments with fundamental rights and freedoms and legal frameworks.
Challenging existing accountability mechanisms that do not consider or sufficiently address social inequalities, power and resource asymmetries. 
Developing new methods for ensuring accountability beyond technical and organisational considerations that provide empirical evidence for holding stakeholders accountable for AI development, provision, and deployments.
Auditing
Developing audit methodologies for specific stages in the AI lifecycle focused on ensuring justice, accountability, and transparency beyond merely satisfying legal requirements.
Development of verifiable, replicable, and reproducible design methodologies and frameworks and using these in the execution of audits. 
Developing audit tools and frameworks to evaluate AI development and deployments with a specific focus on risk and harm mitigations beyond technical and organisational issues.
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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#TransDayOfVisibility
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The world can be sh**, so be like Theo, enjoy a (doggy) ice cream on a sunny day 🤩
Brown dog near in sea front, looking away from the camera, waiting for a doggy ice cream from a cafe in the near distance 
Brown dog enjoying a doggy ice cream
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“Process not product” - literature reviews help us synthesise a field, it helps get to grips with the concerns, which include the nuances and specifics which deeper our understandings. It also provides us connections to research networks and a sense of belonging…
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Fantastic! So X, full to the brim with right wing ideologies and political madness, will be (if it isn’t already) a direct pipe line into xAI - biased rubbish in, biased rubbish out!
theguardian.com
Elon Musk’s xAI firm buys social media platform X for $33bn
Specifics of deal remain unclear, including how X’s leaders will be integrated into new company
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
When you resubmit one paper and feel accomplished, then remember you have two more that need the same level of editing for resubmission 🤪 (as well as all the other ideas floating in your head that should really be put to paper!!) Happy Friday 😅
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Some company recruiting coders to teach AI to code! I wonder what career progression looks like in this job!!!!
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Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Call for Proposals: Archives & Records special issue – Trauma-Informed Approaches to Archives and Records Archives and Records is the journal of ARA. Find full details of the Call for Papers, submission process and timeline here: www.archives.org.uk/news/call-fo...
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Marlborough Productions @marlboroughprods.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Every £ donated before Tues at midday will be DOUBLED, meaning more opportunities for queer creatives. We are so close to hitting our goal, and that's all thanks to you our amazing community. Donate now: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New podcast! To fight authoritarianism and fascism, we must build collective power, challenge the union of corporate and state power, and imagine new, just tech. Dan McQuillan is the author of Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence, from Bristol University Press.
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Is an Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence Possible? | TechPolicy.Press
A podcast conversation with Dan McQuillan, author of Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence, published by Bristol University Press.
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Preparing a lecture for MA informatics students (whom I don’t know) on the topic of Queer & Feminist Approaches to AI, & have realised I probably shouldn’t assume any knowledge of these critical frameworks! Am I wrong? 😑 I hope I am since this is exactly the problem we face in terms of technology 🥹
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/03/2025
I love this man! only if many more countries had a president like Michael Higgins
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
As the gov is bent on destroying our heritage and research institutions, our original question becomes even more urgent. Witherto the future of the Black historical record? Join @jmjafrx.bsky.social, @nadejdaishawebb.bsky.social, Sasha White and a powerhouse of talent in May. #wobdyale
Save the Date card for the Who Owns Black Data Yale conference.
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
And so it begins…
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13/03/2025
🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾 📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
Logo for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, with Wayback in red and Machine in black.
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Busy day at work for this one…
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Sussex Digital Humanities Lab @sussexdigitalhums.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
What is the future for tech feminism in an AI era - & what resources can the past offer in generating a response to this future? 12 March, 2-4pm, discussion with Prof Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge) in SHL Digital IRL & online. Info & register www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...
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Long Stack Histories: Gender, Digital Culture, AI
What is the future for technological feminism in an AI era – and what resources can the past offer in generating a response to this future?
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
When I said digital preservation is important because of the risk of the double erasure of LGBQT+ histories, I meant it!!
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
With all the sh** in the world, remember to find joy in the small things! Theo just found a blue ball in the woods and is pretty happy with himself. I hope everyone finds their blue ball 🔵 today ☺️
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The CFPB will begin deleting agency data as soon as today. Meanwhile, the Trump administration and Musk staffers are rewriting history on U.S. government websites and erasing data from databases nationwide—removing information that doesn’t align with their political agenda.
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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week a simple reflection. Data has never mattered more, and never more fragile. #DPC and the #digipres community have expertise and contacts that will help with that. Spread the word and save the bits.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
An entirely new financial settlement is needed in Higher Education - as many of us have been saying all along. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Christ, it’s only February in year 0 (or 1 depending on how you count!) of this trump nightmare! 🥺
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Sharon Webb @swebb.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If you’re worried about AI consciousness but don’t give a shite about animal sentience and welfare then I don’t think we can be friends!
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AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved, says research
Experts and thinkers signed open letter expressing concern over irresponsible development of technology
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