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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 10/05/2025

Vannevar Bush is rolling in his grave.

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 07/02/2025

NEW: What do we know about China's new AI safety institute? China fielded a new organization ahead of the AI Action Summit next week in Paris. It appears positioned to represent China in a setting it had been left out of. digichina.stanford.edu/work/what-do... w/ colleague Caroline Meinhardt 1/

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What do we know about China’s new AI safety institute? - DigiChina

Excluded from the international AISI network at its first meeting, China positions CNAISDA to take a seat at the table

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 05/02/2025

They are trying to force NSF staffers to take the DOGE deal by pushing from the top down as well.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 30/01/2025

Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban. Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

having finished David Golumbia’s ‘Cyberlibertarianism’, I’ve tried to collect some thoughts, a 🧵— i’ve decided to do more posting about interesting reading here

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 29/01/2025

Good journalism is often assumed to be dead in China. Yet, according to @fangkc.bsky.social, Chinese quality journalism remains remarkably resilient in the face of the formidable challenges it faces. It has adapted, evolved, lost some strongholds, and found new life in alternative spaces.

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Quality Journalism in China Is Not Dead; It’s Just More Dispersed Than Ever

This essay maps the evolving landscape of quality journalism in China, exploring where reliable information thrives under increasing restrictions. Analysing the roles of state-owned institutional medi...

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

David Golumbia’s posthumous ‘Cyberlibertarianism’ is such an interesting read on this relationship between the far right and a wide range of ‘digital rights/digital freedom’ groups (‘cyberlibertarians’ as he calls them) — not everyone is equally culpable but few are innocent here

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WIRED @wired.com · 28/01/2025

Scoop: Elon Musk’s lackeys have taken over the Office of Personnel Management—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management

Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

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Belinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Donate to Wikipedia. Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 23/02/2022

Over the moon, deeply honored, tickled pink ✨🎈 'Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation' was awarded the Joseph Levenson prize!!! @AASAsianStudies @PrincetonUPress many thanks to the committee! www.asianstudies.org/aas-2022-prizes @MichiganESC @umsi...

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AAS 2022 Prizes - Association for Asian Studies

The AAS is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s...

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 11/11/2021

📢✨ So honored to learn that my book #prototypenation won the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the @EastAsiaAnthro Incredible to see my work recognized by scholarly community I deeply cherish and hold in such high esteem. Big thanks to the committee and congrats to Lyle Fearnley

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 17/06/2021

Immensely proud of my doctoral student Cindy @kaiy1ng who just submitted her important dissertation "Afterlives of Authority" an ethnography of how the promises and machineries of data science, AI, and agile software shape environmental state sciences and governance in Indonesia!

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 11/05/2021

when cloaked in a language of positivity such as inclusion, diversity, and technological progress racist forms of violence endure, diffuse, and are normalized. from @ruha9 's amazing #CHI2021 keynote on insidious spikes, the violence of dreams of frictionless design and more

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 08/05/2021

Weina Zhao spricht mir aus dem Herzen; about transnational identity, how racism and colonialism come together in austria and china and beyond; österreichisches Schubladendenken und die Furcht vor dem "anderen": ...

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 05/05/2021

Fantastic issue! @interactionsMag has developed a much needed critical voice in computing research and design @danielarosner @alxndrt with #criphci #queeriousfutures and super sharp analysis of #covidpreneurism among other wonderful contributions

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 01/05/2021

I just donated to this campaign. Sanitation workers, primarily from the Dalit community, manually remove human waste from dry latrines, sewers, and septic tanks and face significant health risks, in addition to financial hardships and caste discrimination gofund.me/347addf3

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 08/03/2021

Join us to talk all things "China and the Digital" in German, in this fantastic interview series by Alexandra Stefanov at #chinaimpulse #china #digitalisierung; live through March 10 - register here: www.china-impulse.de/china-und-die-…

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 19/09/2020

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time." - RBG #notoriousRBG watched the documentary when it first came out in the theater, recommend watching it this weekend if you haven't seen it yet. We will continue the fight RBG.

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 02/06/2020

Performative allyship is deadly by Holiday Phillips link.medium.com/RCPE0KJSZ6

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 13/04/2020

Exciting update on our gofundme campaign; nurses at Sinai-Grace hospital in Detroit received the first batch of 200 N95 masks this weekend (more already on the way from China!). Many thanks for your tremendous support. Inspired to help?:...

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 10/04/2020

please consider supporting this important gofundme campaign to get urgently needed PPE for Detroit hospitals. I am helping them out by getting FDA approved N95 masks from China....

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 21/01/2020

check it out! our #digitalprecarity manifesto is out! with @kaiy1ng, @lnakamur, Meryem Kamil, Anna Watkins Fisher, Iván Chaar-López, Irina Aristarkhova, and Tung-Hui Hu #socialtext...

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 20/01/2020

Join us via live stream or in person for the launch of our new ESC Center at the University of Michigan! #escplan this Friday Jan 24, with @marc_dacosta @themonroeprice @michaelannedye @zephoria @JuliaAngwin @niftyc @Grid_Iso @ShobitaP @DocDre Jen Gennai ...

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 03/09/2016

Anita Chan giving a fabulous talk on processes of "tropicalizing"… www.instagram.com/p/BJ4thKYB4RklC0Y…

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 02/09/2016

Nadya Peek rocking the discussion of our first panel on utopias and… www.instagram.com/p/BJ29aUsh3X1DYdy…

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 25/08/2016

Austrian secretary of state Harald Mahrer argues that taxes diminish innovation thinking, he couldn't be more wrong #europeanforumalpbach

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 21/06/2016

Extremely honored I got invited to visit the white house yesterday… www.instagram.com/p/BG6-wASC-uEGTTr…

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 12/05/2016

@dawnnafus suggests teaching algorithmic literacy is not a neoliberal empowerment story. why this push against a neoliberal critique?

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 21/08/2015

shaowen bardzell gives us the language & tools for #feministutopianism #antagonisticdesign #aarhus2015 dont replace utopianism with realism!

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 19/08/2015

#aarhus2015 what is a form of political action that rejects an overly simplistic binary between THE capitalist system and "our stance"?

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 19/08/2015

#aarhus2015 why are #telekommunisten presenting their work at #transmediale but not in the belly of the beast e.g #TED or #foocamp or..?

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 01/08/2015

#sketching15 Carlyn giving a fantastic talk on the rhetoric of failing… instagram.com/p/52fZhHC-o_pRo5b-JCX…

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 01/08/2015

Carlyn giving a fantastic talk on the rhetoric of elites on failing to… instagram.com/p/52fZhHC-o_pRo5b-JCX…

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 25/05/2015

excellent @thisamericanlife w @goldkorn @KaiserKuo & others on China-US: "the more they know about each other the less they like each other"

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Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social · 20/03/2015

"it's too easy to be critical, because we are still technocratic" robert goodspeed countering Latour with Dewey #STSMatters2015

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