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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences

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Let's make technology work for 8 billion people not 8 billionaires

November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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Clara Timonel

@claratimonel.bsky.social

Ya existimos, somos los farmacéuticos. "Consulte a su farmacéutico" y todo eso.

May 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM

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Undi

@idnu.bsky.social

Mónica NOOOOOOOOOO

May 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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Existential Comics

@existentialcomics.com

When you think of money as "other people's labor", which it basically is, a lot of social institutions become very strange.

For example, did you know that you can inherit millions of hours of other people's labor? Why.

May 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM

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Maria Antoniak

@mariaa.bsky.social

“We must understand that we build our own narratives. If we don’t, the far right will monopolize the narratives, create myths, and we will spend our lives fact-checking while they write history.”

“Therein lies the great opportunity of AI: It’s not an oracle, but a bridge to the unknown.”

Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · May 1

"If AI can create a convincing philosophical treatise, what is left for human authors? ... what is the way forward for today’s intellectual?"

This is phenomenal. It's so much better than the recent AI and humanities essay in the New Yorker imo. Well worth the read.

www.wired.com/story/an-acc...

A Philosopher Released an Acclaimed Book About Digital Manipulation. The Author Ended Up Being AI

Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED "Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality" was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exi...

www.wired.com

May 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM

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Clive Thompson

@clivethompson.bsky.social

Remember back during COVID, when there was a sudden influx of people applying for unemployment benefits?

The New Jersey system crashed ...

... and governor blamed it on old COBOL systems

Nope

He was wrong

the COBOL ran *fine*

It was the newer web-site code that croaked

5/9

Screenshot reading:

"A good example of this could be witnessed during the pandemic. In the early days of Covid-19, businesses shut down en masse. Laid-off employees swarmed online to apply for unemployment benefits, and the websites for many state governments crashed under the load. In New Jersey, the governor told the press that their COBOL systems desperately needed help to deal with the new demands. “Literally, we have systems that are 40-plus-years-old,” he noted.

But technologists who were working behind the scenes to fix the problems knew that the number-crunching COBOL wasn’t the problem. That old stuff was working fine. No, it was the newer stuff that had crashed — the programs powering the website itself.

“The thing that went bananas was this web application in between the mainframe and the outside world. That was the thing that sort of fell apart,” says Marianne Bellotti, a programmer and writer who worked for years on government systems, and who observed New Jersey’s system. But it’s too embarrassing, as the historian Hicks points out, to admit that “oh, our web systems broke down.”

Bellotti’s seen the same thing happen with other government agencies, like the IRS. She was called in once to help with an IRS web app that wasn’t working. When they investigated, they found that, indeed, the problem was in newer programs, “this chunk of poorly written Java code”. The mainframe running COBOL, in contrast, was racing along like a Ferrari."

March 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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Shannon Mattern

@shannonmattern.bsky.social

This piece reminds us of the real, practical value of media archaeology, which some have dismissed as a nostalgia-driven enterprise. It shows us the systems that could have been, that should’ve been, that embody different values, but which were sometimes out-marketed + monetized. More examples: …

March 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM

morlaicassiopea.bsky.social

@morlaicassiopea.bsky.social

Nuestros estudiantes no sólo aprenden sobre modelos de lenguaje, sino también sobre cómo usarlos de forma independiente y avanzando hacia mayor soberanía. Gracias siempre @nwolovick.bsky.social y CCAD UNC!

supercomputo.unc.edu.ar/2025/01/03/c...

Curso de Text Mining usando la MI210 – UNC Supercómputo

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January 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM

morlaicassiopea.bsky.social

@morlaicassiopea.bsky.social

qué bueno conversar, repensar, sentir que entendemos un poco más, un poco mejor. Gracias por la invitación, y espero que está conversación de pie a muchas otras, no sólo nuestras :-D

Javier Pallero @javierpallero.bsky.social · Nov 26

Tuvimos el gusto de entrevistar a Laura Alonso Alemany en HACK, donde hablamos de inteligencia artificial, sesgos, cultura y nuestra humanidad frente a la tecnologia.
HACK es un espacio para mentes curiosas de la tecnologia y la cultura. Aqui el episodio completo.

youtu.be/qdAqg9PGZ9U?...