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Alicia DeVrio

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🔜 asst prof of digital media @ Georgia Tech | current Jacquard resident @ Tyler School of Art | AI resistance, language ideologies, weaving structures, ... | uhleeeeeeeshuh.com

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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Such a fun collaboration, truly!!!
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🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Grateful to have won Best Paper: Social Science at AAAI/ACM AIES, but more so, for what I learned in collaboration with Alicia.
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you're a #CSCW2026, check out @jordant.bsky.social's talk on Tues, Oct 13 at 9:54 a.m. in the Skylight Ballroom & the full paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.... n+2(???)/n
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"I Just Don't Want My Work Being Fed Into The AI Blender": Queer Artists on Refusing and Resisting Generative AI | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Art-making is a collective social activity through which queer people engage in political resistance, develop identities, archive queer memory, and form community. However, in recent years, generative AI has disrupted queer artistic communities. Through ...
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Also — speaking of scrutinizing larger systems of power, I was honored to collaborate on @jordant.bsky.social's paper appearing (& awarded honorable mention!) at #CSCW2026 this week on queer artist resistance to generative AI. n+1/n
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Many thanks to @ali-alkhatib.com @blairaf.com @kenholstein.bsky.social @narijohnson.bsky.social @sachnishal.bsky.social & our anonymous reviewers for reading drafts & helping us improve our work! n/n
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you’re at #AIES2026, catch @davidthewid.bsky.social presenting this on Wed, Oct 14 at 10:45 a.m. — and regardless, you can find the full paper here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI.... 3/n
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View of No More Plaudits for Algorithm Audits: A Provocation
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We provide some starting suggestions for how to do this, from expanding notions of what is considered valuable evidence to taking direct action to destroy harmful algorithmic systems. 2/n
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Are algorithm audits meaningfully fixing issues in algorithmic systems? In our paper at #AIES2026 this week, @davidthewid.bsky.social and I argue that it’s time to deprioritize algorithm audits & instead shift scrutiny to the larger systems of power in which audits sit. 1/n
image of first page of the AIES 2026 paper titled "No More Plaudits for Algorithm Audits: A Provocation" by Alicia DeVrio & David Gray Widder
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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
if you are at #4s2026 and are looking for a space to collectively explore the crucial question of our times -- how do we win? -- then check out our panel this saturday
taking back technopower: sts & strategic interventions for the fight against technofascism (great font)
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Dr. Jordan Taylor @jordant.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I had a wonderful time discussing algorithmic resistance on this panel last Sunday!
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thanks for coming, & love your zine!!!
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Tomorrow!! #FAccT2026
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Organized in collaboration w @inhacha.bsky.social @shira-a.bsky.social Audrey Le Meur, @ali-alkhatib.com @davidthewid.bsky.social
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Join our #FAccT2026 CRAFT session on resistance to & refusal of AI this Sunday, June 28 at 2:15pm! panel discussion w Renée Sieber @cyberlyra.bsky.social @ali-alkhatib.com @jordant.bsky.social @stoopt.bsky.social @hagenblix.bsky.social & collage workshop to explore resistance together
Poster for the “Visioning Resistance” CRAFT workshop at FAccT 2026, held on June 28, 2026 in the Hémon Room from 2:15-4:30pm. 

Panel & Collage Workshop on Adversarial Responses to Artificial Intelligence. What can FAccT researchers learn from resistance and refusal of Al?

Panelists: Renée Sieber, Janet Vertesi, Ali Alkhatib, Jordan Taylor, and Sophie Toupin
Moderator: Hagen Blix
Organizers: Alicia DeVrio, Inha Cha, Shira Abramovich, Audrey Le Meur, Ali Alkhatib, and
David Widder

Optional: Bring your own scissors and scrap paper. Collage your conference ephemera!

The poster is a collage using brightly-colored paper in yellow, blue, green, pink, and red; the title is styled in chunky black paper-cutout letters. Images of pencils and raised fists are also pasted around the text.
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blair @blairaf.com · 02/06/2026
I'm looking for a new PhD student to come join me at UAlberta & Amii to study trans perspectives on AI policy & the future of AI as part of my new lab. The position is fully funded and offers access to a range of supports - more details in the poster below!
Flyer with qualifications and details for the PhD position.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
As part of our series “Reimagining the Future of Digital Health,” @puellaludens.bsky.social considers what historical and contemporary practices of mutual aid can teach us about how to develop skills for the collective governance of healthcare at a grassroots level. datasociety.net/points/lesso...
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thanks!!
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thank you!
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thanks, Willie!
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thank you!!
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
✨I am recruiting a PhD student to start fall 2027.✨ More info to come, but please feel free to share & email me about this in the meantime!
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
At Georgia Tech, I look forward to continuing my work on understanding & supporting bottom-up resistance to harmful AI systems, as well as further integrating my artistic weaving practice with my research practice.
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I couldn't have done it without support from many mentors, collaborators, and friends. I'm immensely grateful for those who believed in a PhD applicant with no prior research experience, who helped me navigate the complexities of graduate school, and who made academia feel more welcoming and human.
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I’m excited to share that • Last week, I successfully defended my dissertation, & • In Jan 2027, I will start as a tenure-track assistant professor of Digital Media at Georgia Institute of Technology 🤠
Alicia giving her thesis defense presentation titled "Understanding & Supporting Bottom-Ip Resistance to Harmful AI Systems"
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
!!! thank you so much for coming — & also for writing many things (street-level algos, to live in their utopia, destroy ai, defining ai, the list goes on!) & being in conversation with me in ways that have been hugely influential to my own thinking & work
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Spread the word: "The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library."
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Luddite Lab
Research and case studies.
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jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · 20/05/2026
As agentic AI rapidly transforms internet infrastructure, how do we ensure disabled people's needs are not displaced? In a new article by me and @frank.computer, we argue that accessibility must not be treated as an incidental benefit of rapid AI expansion. Read below:
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Ember McCoy @embermcc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
8 more days to submit an abstract to our 4s panel, "Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions in the fight against technofascism." Looking forward to an engaging conversation centered on the (totally small, very easy) q: "how do we win?" Apply by 4/30: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
hi STS people! are you engaged in political struggle against fascism? do you have things to share: strategic reflections, organizing artefacts, etc.? do you have thoughts about how we will win? if so, you should submit something to our open panel at 4S this year! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
Title: Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions for the fight against technofascism 
with authors and research areasThe current moment is characterized by resurgent struggles against technofascism. These struggles include community resistance against data centers, strategic actions against tech companies complicit in genocidal violence, and organizing efforts across many sectors against the proliferation of AI in the workplace. This open panel gathers people engaged in these sites of struggle to collectively consider the following question: how can STS approaches advance these struggles against fascist technopower, and work towards constructing more liberatory futures?

In addressing this question, we seek to surface the incipient militant potential of STS, often submerged under scholarship that muddies strategic analysis and disarms political action through the register of subversive critique. Through close attention to relationality and sociality, STS may help build solidarities while unsettling the sedimented categories that impede movement building (Breymen et al, 2017). By incorporating materialist, political economic accounts of technology, STS may help push beyond the boundaries of "ethical tech” by revealing the imbrications of economic and financial processes with technoscience (Birch, 2013). And as a roving, interdisciplinary field attuned to embodied and situated practices (Haraway, 1988), an STS lens may help ensure that analyses are constantly attentive to the lively contingencies of on-the-ground struggles.
We seek to explore theories born through political struggle, and examples of how STS theory informs praxis. Submissions may include, but are not limited to: strategic reflections from organizers and activists; historical accounts that can inform future organizing and activism; or the analysis of organizing artefacts (e.g., propaganda, slogans, campaigns) and their role in advancing political struggle. We will facilitate this panel as an open discussion among folks situated across different sites of struggle, aiming to provide a space for advancing the struggle against technofascism through the development of relationships, theories, and strategic insights.
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CMU Griffin School of Computer Science @scsatcmu.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
@hcii.cmu.edu PhD candidate Alicia DeVrio explores the tension between stability and collapse through woven forms.
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Weaving Sociotechnical Resistance at The Frame Gallery - School of Art | Carnegie Mellon University
For Alicia DeVrio, a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute, the loom is a site of sociotechnical resistance.
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Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
✨I'm on the faculty job market! ✨ I’m a University of Chicago Computer Science PhD Candidate building more sustainable computing ecosystems 💻🌱 I develop computational approaches for reducing, reusing, and recycling e-waste (I like to call it recomputing e-waste) read more: jasminelu.site 🧵 (1/7)
On the left 'recomputing e-waste' with 'recycling, repairing, reusing, reducing' below it. On the right, a large lifecycle graph with mining, manufacturing, using, recycling, and discarding labeled. Green arrows coming out of and going back into the using node labeled repairing and reusing, with four images of projects alongside. An arrow for reducing from using to landfills with a project image. And finally, a label of full stack recycling with several arrows coming out and returning.
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
✨I’m on the academic job market ✨ I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥 I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action More info: cella.io
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Cella M. Sum –
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
a bit tangential but I've been pretty interested in "misuse" as a category as well, especially given how LLMs have been marketed as "relevant in any context"/"general use"
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field? My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question. Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579
Screenshot of the CSCW 2025 paper "The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry" 

CELLA M. SUM, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
ANNA KONVICKA, Princeton University, USA
MONA WANG, Princeton University, USA
SARAH E. FOX, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Abstract: The tech industry’s shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product managers, customer support specialists, QA analysts, logistics workers, gig workers, and union staff organizers. Our findings reveal that, contrary to popular narratives of prestige and privilege within the tech industry, tech workers face fragmented and unstable work environments which contribute to their disempowerment and hinder their organizing efforts. Despite these difficulties, organizers are laying the groundwork for a more resilient tech worker movement through community building and expanding political consciousness. By situating these dynamics within broader structural and ideological forces, we identify ways for the CSCW community to build solidarity with
tech workers who are materially transforming our field through their organizing efforts.
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Hybrid workshop where you can hear from Lucy Suchman, HCI legend and organizer with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the amazing Joan Greenbaum with Computer People for Peace, and other awesome organizers from #notechforapartheid and other tech-ademia organizing efforts
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Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Very excited to share this workshop I'm helping to host on August 19: "From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing" tech-organizing-reflections.github.io
a simple, dark green flier with a bold, white text header:
From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing

The flier includes the following text and details: 
Hybrid Workshop @ Aarhus - Tuesday August 19, 8:30–11:30 am EST / 2:30–5:30 pm CEST  
Computing is a field plagued with presentism, oriented towards the new in ways that limit our design and research practices - as well as our capacity to understand and collectively respond to emerging crises. To improve our sensemaking and strategizing about today's crises, this workshop explores what Tamara Kneese has deemed the last decade's shift from "techlash" to "tech fash". What have we learned from the era of misinformation and bias, of "surveillance capitalism" and tech worker organizing that can inform our struggle against the increasing power of a techno-fascist oligarchy? We will also look towards previous generations of computing professionals and activists, who likewise sought to address the harms of emerging automated systems and the complicity of computing within violent, imperialist projects. This workshop will create space for participants to explore these questions collectively, bridging past and present moments in an effort to devise strategies moving forward.

RSVP by Aug 12 https://tech-organizing-reflections.github.io/
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Dr. Jordan Taylor @jordant.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🏳️‍🌈🎨💻📢 Happy to share our workshop study on queer artists’ experiences critically engaging with GenAI Looking forward to presenting this work at #FAccT2025 and you can read a pre-print here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.09805
Academic paper titled un-straightening generative ai: how queer artists surface and challenge the normativity of generative ai models

The piece is written by Jordan Taylor, Joel Mire, Franchesca Spektor, Alicia DeVrio, Maarten Sap, Haiyi Zhu, and Sarah Fox.

As an image titled 24 attempts at intimacy showing 24 ai generated images with the word intimacy, none of which seems to include same gender couples
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
+ some related work from the team at #ICLR2025 !!
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Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
New ICLR blogpost! 🎉 We argue that understanding the impact of anthropomorphic AI is critical to understanding the impact of AI.
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Presenting this at #CHI2025 tomorrow, Monday, April 28 in the "Expressive Machines" (lol 🤷‍♀️) session at 4:44 p.m. in Annex Hall F206
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Yes, I’ll be there — would love to chat and hear more about your work!!
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
& Check out more of our related work from this summer in this great bsky thread: n/n
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This paper comes out of a great summer at MSR FATE. Thanks to my coauthors @myra.bsky.social @lisaegede.bsky.social @aolteanu.bsky.social Su Lin Blodgett and our reviewers. Check out the whole paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 4/n
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A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies
Recent attention to anthropomorphism -- the attribution of human-like qualities to non-human objects or entities -- of language technologies like LLMs has sparked renewed discussions about potential n...
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Especially important are challenges around the nature of language & tensions involved in shifting conceptions of human-likeness of technology. Check out Section 5.2 of the paper for more on this related to standard language ideology & risks of dehumanizing humans. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 3/n
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Recent discussions have considered when anthropomorphism might be inappropriate. We encourage use of our taxonomy for more targeted identification and mitigation of harmful impacts stemming from anthropomorphism of language technologies. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 2/n
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
How can we better think and talk about human-like qualities attributed to language technologies like LLMs? In our #CHI2025 paper, we taxonomize how text outputs from cases of user interactions with language technologies can contribute to anthropomorphism. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 1/n
Image of the first page of the CHI 2025 paper titled "A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies" by authors Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu, & Su Lin Blodgett
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Thoughts on what’s happening now, as technopolitics becomes politics and AI — as a technical and ideological system — is poised to become the government. mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-fork-in-th...
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A Fork in the Road
AI is an excuse that allows those with power to operate at a distance from those whom their power touches.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 06/12/2024
hi, i wrote a post - "Defining AI". ali-alkhatib.com/blog/definin...
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Ali Alkhatib: Defining AI
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
(in other news pls add me to starter packs 🥺👉👈 I do HCI research on harmful algorithmic systems & the ways that everyday people act to resist them)
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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Bluesky-specific feeling: starter pack fomo???
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