Dr Alina Utrata
@alinau27.bsky.social
Tech & Politics. Career Development Research Fellow at St Johns College, Oxford. PhD from Cambridge University via Queen's University Belfast & Stanford. Host of Anti-Dystopians. she/her
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Dr Alina Utrata
@alinau27.bsky.social
· Nov 13
The Anti-Dystopians | Alina Utrata | Substack
The Politics Podcast About Tech. Click to read The Anti-Dystopians, by Alina Utrata, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Hello Bsky!
Re/intro: I'm a political theorist of technology corporations & Silicon Valley at Oxford University. I host and produce the Anti-Dystopians, the politics podcast about tech (with new episodes incoming!)
Podcast: www.alinautrata.com/podcast
Newsletter: alinautrata.substack.com
Re/intro: I'm a political theorist of technology corporations & Silicon Valley at Oxford University. I host and produce the Anti-Dystopians, the politics podcast about tech (with new episodes incoming!)
Podcast: www.alinautrata.com/podcast
Newsletter: alinautrata.substack.com
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It’s not an island of strangers it’s a government of cowards - @zackpolanski.bsky.social dropping the truth again on Question Time
"You're a government of cowards"
Zack Polanski calls out the Labour government's inhumane approach to asylum- highlighting continued austerity as the root cause of structural issues in our society
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Zack Polanski calls out the Labour government's inhumane approach to asylum- highlighting continued austerity as the root cause of structural issues in our society
join.greenparty.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It’s not an island of strangers it’s a government of cowards - @zackpolanski.bsky.social dropping the truth again on Question Time
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"You're a government of cowards"
Zack Polanski calls out the Labour government's inhumane approach to asylum- highlighting continued austerity as the root cause of structural issues in our society
join.greenparty.org.uk
Zack Polanski calls out the Labour government's inhumane approach to asylum- highlighting continued austerity as the root cause of structural issues in our society
join.greenparty.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"You're a government of cowards"
Zack Polanski calls out the Labour government's inhumane approach to asylum- highlighting continued austerity as the root cause of structural issues in our society
join.greenparty.org.uk
Zack Polanski calls out the Labour government's inhumane approach to asylum- highlighting continued austerity as the root cause of structural issues in our society
join.greenparty.org.uk
Wow the racism and sexism of instagrams new “ai creation tools” really hit the timeline hard and fast
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Wow the racism and sexism of instagrams new “ai creation tools” really hit the timeline hard and fast
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Absolutely cracking blog post from @simonxix.com calling for collective investment in staff and community-owned, open-source infrastructures in place of costly proprietary systems, based on the BL incident. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences
Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Absolutely cracking blog post from @simonxix.com calling for collective investment in staff and community-owned, open-source infrastructures in place of costly proprietary systems, based on the BL incident. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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@raycraib.bsky.social has done some great writing about these sorts of projects and their looooong history
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
@raycraib.bsky.social has done some great writing about these sorts of projects and their looooong history
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If people falling in love with their LLM boyfriends was not on your 2025 bingo card, then I’m talking to someone who actually could have predicted it.
Listen to Dr Jenny Carla Moran’s (incredibly timely) research about robots and love on latest Anti-Dystopians!
open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...
Listen to Dr Jenny Carla Moran’s (incredibly timely) research about robots and love on latest Anti-Dystopians!
open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...
December 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
If people falling in love with their LLM boyfriends was not on your 2025 bingo card, then I’m talking to someone who actually could have predicted it.
Listen to Dr Jenny Carla Moran’s (incredibly timely) research about robots and love on latest Anti-Dystopians!
open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...
Listen to Dr Jenny Carla Moran’s (incredibly timely) research about robots and love on latest Anti-Dystopians!
open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...
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@pkrugman.bsky.social article here is right on the mark. Getting LIBRE out in Honduras and Asfura in assures Prospera and other tech-bro libertarian projects full steam ahead. A big grift.
@shanley.com
@europeanpowell.bsky.social
@astra.bsky.social
@alinau27.bsky.social
@shanley.com
@europeanpowell.bsky.social
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An addendum to today's post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-...
December 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
@pkrugman.bsky.social article here is right on the mark. Getting LIBRE out in Honduras and Asfura in assures Prospera and other tech-bro libertarian projects full steam ahead. A big grift.
@shanley.com
@europeanpowell.bsky.social
@astra.bsky.social
@alinau27.bsky.social
@shanley.com
@europeanpowell.bsky.social
@astra.bsky.social
@alinau27.bsky.social
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Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
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NEW: America’s largest gas utility is using ratepayer funds to incentivize rebuilding with fossil gas appliances after LA wildfires
SoCalGas is taking advantage of “broken rules”
Thank you @missionvespa.bsky.social for going down the rabbit hole with me:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
SoCalGas is taking advantage of “broken rules”
Thank you @missionvespa.bsky.social for going down the rabbit hole with me:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
LA Wildfire Survivors Want to Rebuild All-Electric, but a Utility Is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Gas Appliances - Inside Climate News
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
insideclimatenews.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
NEW: America’s largest gas utility is using ratepayer funds to incentivize rebuilding with fossil gas appliances after LA wildfires
SoCalGas is taking advantage of “broken rules”
Thank you @missionvespa.bsky.social for going down the rabbit hole with me:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
SoCalGas is taking advantage of “broken rules”
Thank you @missionvespa.bsky.social for going down the rabbit hole with me:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...
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If people falling in love with their LLM boyfriends was not on your 2025 bingo card, then I’m talking to someone who actually could have predicted it.
Listen to Dr Jenny Carla Moran’s (incredibly timely) research about robots and love on latest Anti-Dystopians!
open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...
Listen to Dr Jenny Carla Moran’s (incredibly timely) research about robots and love on latest Anti-Dystopians!
open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...
December 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
If people falling in love with their LLM boyfriends was not on your 2025 bingo card, then I’m talking to someone who actually could have predicted it.
Listen to Dr Jenny Carla Moran’s (incredibly timely) research about robots and love on latest Anti-Dystopians!
open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...
Listen to Dr Jenny Carla Moran’s (incredibly timely) research about robots and love on latest Anti-Dystopians!
open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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Lots of challenges for sustained human presence on the Moon. One of them is dealing with regolith:
"We don’t know if it’s deadly, ... I’m really worried we’re going to plump a billion dollars’ worth of hardware on the Moon, and within three months it will be unusable.”
"We don’t know if it’s deadly, ... I’m really worried we’re going to plump a billion dollars’ worth of hardware on the Moon, and within three months it will be unusable.”
Sustaining Life on the Moon is Harder Than it Looks
Artemis requires scientists and researchers to find long-term solutions to the problems space creates for human health.
payloadspace.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Lots of challenges for sustained human presence on the Moon. One of them is dealing with regolith:
"We don’t know if it’s deadly, ... I’m really worried we’re going to plump a billion dollars’ worth of hardware on the Moon, and within three months it will be unusable.”
"We don’t know if it’s deadly, ... I’m really worried we’re going to plump a billion dollars’ worth of hardware on the Moon, and within three months it will be unusable.”
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"The real poverty line—the threshold where a family can afford housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without relying on means-tested benefits—isn’t $31,200.
It’s ~$140,000."
It’s ~$140,000."
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
"The real poverty line—the threshold where a family can afford housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without relying on means-tested benefits—isn’t $31,200.
It’s ~$140,000."
It’s ~$140,000."
Is it worth the constant glitching in Pages for the Liquid Glass? I just don't know.
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Is it worth the constant glitching in Pages for the Liquid Glass? I just don't know.
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
I have watched all thirty minutes of that press conference and it was extraordinary.
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I have watched all thirty minutes of that press conference and it was extraordinary.
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The phrases “have you been feeling too sane recently?” and “a sophisticated game of AI chicken” really struck a chord
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb
The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The phrases “have you been feeling too sane recently?” and “a sophisticated game of AI chicken” really struck a chord
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
interesting piece
www.ft.com/content/ae2c...
www.ft.com/content/ae2c...
Larry Ellison scales back £10bn Oxford science institute in leadership rift
Trump-supporting billionaire narrows EIT’s ambitions by cutting initiatives and tightening control
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
interesting piece
www.ft.com/content/ae2c...
www.ft.com/content/ae2c...