Marielza
@marielza.bsky.social
Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute.
UNESCO Women in STEM Committee
Some pottery and cyanotyping
Profile picture is of my face and torso
Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
UNESCO Women in STEM Committee
Some pottery and cyanotyping
Profile picture is of my face and torso
Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
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“This ruling is a clear affirmation that AI cannot be deployed as a shortcut around union rights, ethical journalism, or human judgment.”
@pen-guild.bsky.social
@pen-guild.bsky.social
Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!
PEN Guild wins landmark arbitration on AI protections - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
This marks one of the first major labor-arbitration rulings on the impact of AI on journalism, setting an important precedent for the U.S. news industry.
wbng.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“This ruling is a clear affirmation that AI cannot be deployed as a shortcut around union rights, ethical journalism, or human judgment.”
@pen-guild.bsky.social
@pen-guild.bsky.social
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"AI will survive, but the speculative bubble surrounding it is a sign of a deeper structural problem — the cost of which, when finally realized, will fall most heavily on the working class." interesting analysis theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...
The AI bubble isn’t new — Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly 150 years ago
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s warning of an AI bubble highlights a deeper economic problem: capitalism is producing more capital than it can profitably invest.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"AI will survive, but the speculative bubble surrounding it is a sign of a deeper structural problem — the cost of which, when finally realized, will fall most heavily on the working class." interesting analysis theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Countries are racing to build “sovereign AI” – domestic models, chips and data centers to reduce dependence on US and Chinese platforms.
For lower-income economies, the risk is being left out of this AI infrastructure altogether.
https://ow.ly/5xVv50XAftL
For lower-income economies, the risk is being left out of this AI infrastructure altogether.
https://ow.ly/5xVv50XAftL
‘Sovereign AI’ Takes Off as Countries Seek to Avoid Overreliance on Superpowers
South Korea and others believe their homegrown tech sectors are strong enough to build up their own AI capabilities.
ow.ly
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Countries are racing to build “sovereign AI” – domestic models, chips and data centers to reduce dependence on US and Chinese platforms.
For lower-income economies, the risk is being left out of this AI infrastructure altogether.
https://ow.ly/5xVv50XAftL
For lower-income economies, the risk is being left out of this AI infrastructure altogether.
https://ow.ly/5xVv50XAftL
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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No próximo final de semana, tenho duas apresentações públicas, abertas, pra provar que eu existo.
No sábado às 10h, vou dar uma palestra na livraria Tapera Taperá, no centro. (Fica a dica, @eduardosterzi.bsky.social ).
No domingo às 11h, canto com o coral no Centro Cultural São Paulo.
No sábado às 10h, vou dar uma palestra na livraria Tapera Taperá, no centro. (Fica a dica, @eduardosterzi.bsky.social ).
No domingo às 11h, canto com o coral no Centro Cultural São Paulo.
November 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
No próximo final de semana, tenho duas apresentações públicas, abertas, pra provar que eu existo.
No sábado às 10h, vou dar uma palestra na livraria Tapera Taperá, no centro. (Fica a dica, @eduardosterzi.bsky.social ).
No domingo às 11h, canto com o coral no Centro Cultural São Paulo.
No sábado às 10h, vou dar uma palestra na livraria Tapera Taperá, no centro. (Fica a dica, @eduardosterzi.bsky.social ).
No domingo às 11h, canto com o coral no Centro Cultural São Paulo.
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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Cyanotype lesson 7: How to use #cyanotype alternative photography process on ceramic
youtu.be/1ZslClnMUvQ
youtu.be/1ZslClnMUvQ
Cyanotype lesson 7: How to use #cyanotype alternative photography process on ceramic
YouTube video by Jo Howell
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Cyanotype lesson 7: How to use #cyanotype alternative photography process on ceramic
youtu.be/1ZslClnMUvQ
youtu.be/1ZslClnMUvQ
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Work No. 135
Adam Jeppesen, cyanotype on silk, stretched with flax string, suspended in white oil, 2019
www.adamjeppesen.com#/tanks/
#art #sculpture
Adam Jeppesen, cyanotype on silk, stretched with flax string, suspended in white oil, 2019
www.adamjeppesen.com#/tanks/
#art #sculpture
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Work No. 135
Adam Jeppesen, cyanotype on silk, stretched with flax string, suspended in white oil, 2019
www.adamjeppesen.com#/tanks/
#art #sculpture
Adam Jeppesen, cyanotype on silk, stretched with flax string, suspended in white oil, 2019
www.adamjeppesen.com#/tanks/
#art #sculpture
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Exhibition time
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Exhibition time
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I love seeing Cyanotypes in the wash - I love how shiny and fresh they look 💙
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I love seeing Cyanotypes in the wash - I love how shiny and fresh they look 💙
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The University of Toronto CS Department is recruiting applications for a Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, in Human-Computer Interaction
The job is open only to individuals who self-identify as women and/or members of gender equity seeking groups
research.utoronto.ca/crc-opps/db/...
The job is open only to individuals who self-identify as women and/or members of gender equity seeking groups
research.utoronto.ca/crc-opps/db/...
Faculty of Arts & Science (Dept of Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)) - NSERC - Targeted Call | Research & Innovation
November 18, 2025
research.utoronto.ca
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The University of Toronto CS Department is recruiting applications for a Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, in Human-Computer Interaction
The job is open only to individuals who self-identify as women and/or members of gender equity seeking groups
research.utoronto.ca/crc-opps/db/...
The job is open only to individuals who self-identify as women and/or members of gender equity seeking groups
research.utoronto.ca/crc-opps/db/...
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Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
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What makes something data? Some thoughts on that question, and how answers to it help us understand AI hype:
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
What makes something data?
This is a question I posted on BlueSky on Friday 11/21/25, inspired by a talk I recently attended about evaluation of “AI” systems. I think…
medium.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What makes something data? Some thoughts on that question, and how answers to it help us understand AI hype:
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
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“Volume became visibility. Visibility became perceived certainty. Certainty hardened into belief. This is how repetition builds the illusion of truth.”
1/8
The Right Wing fascists did not just react to the DC shooting. They built a manufactured consensus around it. Identical posts. Identical blame lines. Identical emotional cues. Repetition was the strategy, not the byproduct.#Voices4Victory #DV1 #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy #ProudBlue 11/27/25 PM
The Right Wing fascists did not just react to the DC shooting. They built a manufactured consensus around it. Identical posts. Identical blame lines. Identical emotional cues. Repetition was the strategy, not the byproduct.#Voices4Victory #DV1 #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy #ProudBlue 11/27/25 PM
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“Volume became visibility. Visibility became perceived certainty. Certainty hardened into belief. This is how repetition builds the illusion of truth.”
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I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
"All our humble bodily cells participate in the making of our experiences and cognitive processes, and not just the ‘noble’ neurons in the brain."
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"All our humble bodily cells participate in the making of our experiences and cognitive processes, and not just the ‘noble’ neurons in the brain."
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Wow. After just 2 years of ChatGPT, there is more AI-generated than human-generated content on the internet.
Reported in the FT www.ft.com/content/ae15...
Reported in the FT www.ft.com/content/ae15...
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Wow. After just 2 years of ChatGPT, there is more AI-generated than human-generated content on the internet.
Reported in the FT www.ft.com/content/ae15...
Reported in the FT www.ft.com/content/ae15...
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Call for PhD Student!
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Call for PhD Student!
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
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sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
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I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other
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❔Does anyone know of groups where disabled people/people w chronic conditions and working in Critical Data Studies/AI can meet up? Like a Queer in AI but for disabled folks? I constantly think about how helpful it might be to talk to other people navigating disability, who are doing similar work
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
❔Does anyone know of groups where disabled people/people w chronic conditions and working in Critical Data Studies/AI can meet up? Like a Queer in AI but for disabled folks? I constantly think about how helpful it might be to talk to other people navigating disability, who are doing similar work
Dear American friends,
Happy Thanksgiving!
Some of you told me privately that 2025 has been a devastating year, with little to be thankful for...
Just remember that your resilience and ❤️ of community are amazing and worth celebrating fiercely. They make everything else possible.
Thinking of you.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Some of you told me privately that 2025 has been a devastating year, with little to be thankful for...
Just remember that your resilience and ❤️ of community are amazing and worth celebrating fiercely. They make everything else possible.
Thinking of you.
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Dear American friends,
Happy Thanksgiving!
Some of you told me privately that 2025 has been a devastating year, with little to be thankful for...
Just remember that your resilience and ❤️ of community are amazing and worth celebrating fiercely. They make everything else possible.
Thinking of you.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Some of you told me privately that 2025 has been a devastating year, with little to be thankful for...
Just remember that your resilience and ❤️ of community are amazing and worth celebrating fiercely. They make everything else possible.
Thinking of you.