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Katya Danziger

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Tech Design Governance Practitioner. Global Thought @Columbia University. Kadampa Buddhist. techdesigngovernance.webflow.io

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Katya Danziger @katyadanziger.bsky.social · Jan 11

At today’s hackathon, I was one of 5 female students in the room. Grateful to have been born into a generation where I can even attend these things, but looking at what a long ways we have to go… #WomenInSTEM

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 19d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19d

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

2025, So Far

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9d

Breaking News: Saul Zabar, who over seven decades made the Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s a New York institution, is dead at 97. nyti.ms/42qGl2n

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 13d

taylor swift wrote a bluesky thinkpiece

bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 13d

so you haven't gotten to the song about the internet yet

[Verse 1]
Everybody's so punk on the internet
Everyone's unbothered 'til they're not
Every joke's just trolling and memes
Sad as it seems, apathy is hot
Everybody's cutthroat in the comments
Every single hot take is cold as ice
When you found me, I said I was busy
That was a lie

[Pre-Chorus]
I have been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness
I've been dying just from trying to seem cool

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14d

Haruki Murakami was about to turn 30 when a thought occurred to him: “You know what? I could try writing a novel.” Then he realized, “If I wanted to have a long life as a novelist, I needed to find a way to stay in shape.”

The Running Novelist

If I wanted to have a long life as a writer, I needed to find a way to stay in shape.

www.newyorker.com

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 13d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 14d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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daniel daimler @ddmlxr.bsky.social · Nov 17

"In a consumer society like ours, it is through buying goods that reality takes shape.. Not just physical reality or cultural but psychological, ethical, and behavioral" -Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Speculative Everything

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Scratching the Surface @surfacepodcast.bsky.social · 15d

On this week's episode, we're joined by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby to talk about their new book, Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination!

🎧 Listen here: scratchingthesurface.fm/274-anthony-...

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Katya Danziger @katyadanziger.bsky.social · 13d

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

— Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15d

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

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Eliana @otrodia.bsky.social · 15d

May she be surrounded by love, including lots of love from the creatures she so zealously protected and advocated for!

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Katya Danziger @katyadanziger.bsky.social · 15d

RIP to my first childhood hero who taught me so much about living in harmony and with an open heart. Jane Goodall, you will be missed. May your legacy of hope for a better world live on forever.

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NPR @npr.org · 15d

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 28d

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Katya Danziger @katyadanziger.bsky.social · 16d

@cocteau.bsky.social speaking to Global Thought students today. Full circle moment :)

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 20d

The AI bubble can’t pop soon enough.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 20d

More people should be talking about this.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 17d

“the core emotional attachment for [the reactionary center] is of being above the political struggle and effortlessly able to synthesise the ideas of the left and right into something better, that always mysteriously appears to be the status quo"

Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 17d

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech

This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...

deadsimpletech.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24d

Last weekend, I was thrilled to spend an evening with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, Anya Schiffrin and a group of brilliant policy minds they gathered to discuss a range of issues facing our city.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 10

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Katya Danziger @katyadanziger.bsky.social · Sep 10

We are challenged to form a thought that goes beyond our need to act in our simple, naked interests.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Sep 3

A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. The chatbot gave him explicit instructions and encouragement. His parents are suing the company and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging “it was the predictable result of deliberate design choices."

Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide | TechPolicy.Press

A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. His parents are suing the company and its CEO.

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Katya Danziger @katyadanziger.bsky.social · Sep 3

Surreal being in a classroom-sized lecture with the @adamtooze.bsky.social after so many years of listening to his podcast (pic from today with the Committee on Global Thought’s MA program @ Columbia University)

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · Aug 8

One interpretation is that this is who they want to put out of work first. "We're as smart as them" isn't their aspiration, it's their pitch

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