Dr Stephanie Hare
@dr-harebrain.bsky.social
Book: Technology Is Not Neutral: A short guide to technology ethics
TV: BBC News "Artificial Intelligence: Decoded"
website: www.harebrain.co
TV: BBC News "Artificial Intelligence: Decoded"
website: www.harebrain.co
"Librarians have found themselves on the front line of America’s culture wars. This film follows the dispute between librarians with a deep academic tradition of access to knowledge and campaigning groups who seek to ban books that they find objectionable. "
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
October 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Librarians have found themselves on the front line of America’s culture wars. This film follows the dispute between librarians with a deep academic tradition of access to knowledge and campaigning groups who seek to ban books that they find objectionable. "
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
New Race-Day Worry for the Chicago Marathon: Immigration Enforcement
Tensions over the federal intervention in the city have many runners worried about what to expect during the race
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...
Tensions over the federal intervention in the city have many runners worried about what to expect during the race
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
New Race-Day Worry for the Chicago Marathon: Immigration Enforcement
Tensions over the federal intervention in the city have many runners worried about what to expect during the race
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...
Tensions over the federal intervention in the city have many runners worried about what to expect during the race
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...
When does this end, and what happens when it does?
October 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
When does this end, and what happens when it does?
"Never before has so much money been spent so rapidly on a technology that, for all its potential, remains somewhat unproven as a profit-making business model."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"Never before has so much money been spent so rapidly on a technology that, for all its potential, remains somewhat unproven as a profit-making business model."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“Now we must redefine ‘tool’, redefine ‘man’, or accept chimpanzees as humans.”
- Louis B. Leakey, in response to Jane Goodall's observations of chimpanzees making and using tools.
Interview: lnkd.in/eMADdpJ9
Key discoveries: lnkd.in/eRYtrBnH
Obituary: lnkd.in/eAgEkdAX
- Louis B. Leakey, in response to Jane Goodall's observations of chimpanzees making and using tools.
Interview: lnkd.in/eMADdpJ9
Key discoveries: lnkd.in/eRYtrBnH
Obituary: lnkd.in/eAgEkdAX
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Now we must redefine ‘tool’, redefine ‘man’, or accept chimpanzees as humans.”
- Louis B. Leakey, in response to Jane Goodall's observations of chimpanzees making and using tools.
Interview: lnkd.in/eMADdpJ9
Key discoveries: lnkd.in/eRYtrBnH
Obituary: lnkd.in/eAgEkdAX
- Louis B. Leakey, in response to Jane Goodall's observations of chimpanzees making and using tools.
Interview: lnkd.in/eMADdpJ9
Key discoveries: lnkd.in/eRYtrBnH
Obituary: lnkd.in/eAgEkdAX
Multiple studies in recent weeks have suggested AI is not providing significant benefit to the companies racing to adopt it....Before companies realize the full value of AI, “there are a few things that need to happen."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
September 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Multiple studies in recent weeks have suggested AI is not providing significant benefit to the companies racing to adopt it....Before companies realize the full value of AI, “there are a few things that need to happen."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Seeing articles suggesting that getting another citizenship is a way to escape Trump/populism/violence:
WIRED: “Everybody I’ve talked to has a potential exit strategy. Could I get citizenship here or there?”
FT: "Have a plan."
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.ft.com/content/7d48...
WIRED: “Everybody I’ve talked to has a potential exit strategy. Could I get citizenship here or there?”
FT: "Have a plan."
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.ft.com/content/7d48...
September 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Seeing articles suggesting that getting another citizenship is a way to escape Trump/populism/violence:
WIRED: “Everybody I’ve talked to has a potential exit strategy. Could I get citizenship here or there?”
FT: "Have a plan."
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.ft.com/content/7d48...
WIRED: “Everybody I’ve talked to has a potential exit strategy. Could I get citizenship here or there?”
FT: "Have a plan."
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.ft.com/content/7d48...
Elon Musk to the British people: ... if this continues, that violence is going to come to you, you will have no choice. You’re in a fundamental situation here. Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die, that’s the truth, I think.”
September 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Elon Musk to the British people: ... if this continues, that violence is going to come to you, you will have no choice. You’re in a fundamental situation here. Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die, that’s the truth, I think.”
"This is a Chicago story, but it is also a national story...Other blue cities and states may reasonably fear that they will be next. Mr. Trump is threatening to radicalize our nation’s politics in a way not seen in our lifetimes."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...
September 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"This is a Chicago story, but it is also a national story...Other blue cities and states may reasonably fear that they will be next. Mr. Trump is threatening to radicalize our nation’s politics in a way not seen in our lifetimes."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says ‘We’re Going In’ to Chicago, but Offers No Details
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
September 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says ‘We’re Going In’ to Chicago, but Offers No Details
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Fewer Americans are reading for pleasure:
- Leisure reading among adults 15 and older has dropped 40% in the past 20 years
- Only 16% of Americans age 15 and over read for leisure every day in 2023
- 46% of Americans read no books in 2023.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- Leisure reading among adults 15 and older has dropped 40% in the past 20 years
- Only 16% of Americans age 15 and over read for leisure every day in 2023
- 46% of Americans read no books in 2023.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
August 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Fewer Americans are reading for pleasure:
- Leisure reading among adults 15 and older has dropped 40% in the past 20 years
- Only 16% of Americans age 15 and over read for leisure every day in 2023
- 46% of Americans read no books in 2023.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- Leisure reading among adults 15 and older has dropped 40% in the past 20 years
- Only 16% of Americans age 15 and over read for leisure every day in 2023
- 46% of Americans read no books in 2023.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
By Ted Chiang (February 9, 2023)
www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-...
OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
By Ted Chiang (February 9, 2023)
www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-...
June 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
By Ted Chiang (February 9, 2023)
www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-...
OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
By Ted Chiang (February 9, 2023)
www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-...
United States, 12 June 2025:
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to say whether he would follow the courts if they ruled against Donald Trump’s sending active-duty marines to Los Angeles despite California governor Gavin Newsom’s objections."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to say whether he would follow the courts if they ruled against Donald Trump’s sending active-duty marines to Los Angeles despite California governor Gavin Newsom’s objections."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
June 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
United States, 12 June 2025:
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to say whether he would follow the courts if they ruled against Donald Trump’s sending active-duty marines to Los Angeles despite California governor Gavin Newsom’s objections."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to say whether he would follow the courts if they ruled against Donald Trump’s sending active-duty marines to Los Angeles despite California governor Gavin Newsom’s objections."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
March 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
What’s a spy novelist to do in the age of Trump?
John le Carré had it easy during the Cold War. But how do we write espionage thrillers now?
@harkaway.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
John le Carré had it easy during the Cold War. But how do we write espionage thrillers now?
@harkaway.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
February 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
What’s a spy novelist to do in the age of Trump?
John le Carré had it easy during the Cold War. But how do we write espionage thrillers now?
@harkaway.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
John le Carré had it easy during the Cold War. But how do we write espionage thrillers now?
@harkaway.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
January 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
January 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM