Lee Kravchenko
@ekmaus19.bsky.social
they/them | phd student @NEU CAMD | critical + caring futures
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This is just devastating news. www.chronicle.com/article/ut-a...
UT-Austin Is Closing Its Teaching Center. Faculty Members Ask: Why?
A series of shutdowns announced by the provost are short on detail. Professors say they make little sense.
www.chronicle.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:17 PM
This is just devastating news. www.chronicle.com/article/ut-a...
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Me and about a zillion drag performers are throwing down at Jacques Cabaret tmw to raise $$$ for the Greater Boston Food Bank. Doors at 7, show at 8, i'm playing a couple songs at some point, come thru!
January 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Me and about a zillion drag performers are throwing down at Jacques Cabaret tmw to raise $$$ for the Greater Boston Food Bank. Doors at 7, show at 8, i'm playing a couple songs at some point, come thru!
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Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
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Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.
NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.
Closing doors on opportunities to explore ethics outside the corporate context will result in imaginaries implicitly dependent on profit-driven materials.
Catching up late on this from @natematias.bsky.social and Avriel Epps. As federally funded grants to study these issues disappear, another case of a company offering "measly" grants that at best will offer limited insights while hurting researcher credibility.
www.techpolicy.press/beware-of-op...
www.techpolicy.press/beware-of-op...
Beware of OpenAI's 'Grantwashing' on AI Harms | TechPolicy.Press
J. Nathan Matias and Avriel Epps say OpenAI's announced research funding is the perfect corporate action to make sure we don't find answers for years.
www.techpolicy.press
December 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Closing doors on opportunities to explore ethics outside the corporate context will result in imaginaries implicitly dependent on profit-driven materials.
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This woman will never be able to properly consent here, because she'll always be lacking essential context. Mind you, she can't even truly say she liked this gift in the first place. You can't decide *for* her whether this manipulation is "sweet."
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This woman will never be able to properly consent here, because she'll always be lacking essential context. Mind you, she can't even truly say she liked this gift in the first place. You can't decide *for* her whether this manipulation is "sweet."
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Why can't you seize them, motherfucker
December 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Why can't you seize them, motherfucker
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Yup. ☹️
Sadly denying this will happen like some below are doing makes it likely. Cryptogyny happens as the default.
bsky.app/profile/oliv...
Sadly denying this will happen like some below are doing makes it likely. Cryptogyny happens as the default.
bsky.app/profile/oliv...
reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine:
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
December 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Yup. ☹️
Sadly denying this will happen like some below are doing makes it likely. Cryptogyny happens as the default.
bsky.app/profile/oliv...
Sadly denying this will happen like some below are doing makes it likely. Cryptogyny happens as the default.
bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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If America had a functional opposition party, they would just be repeating this message over and over. So many people already hate AI. Those of us who lived through the dot com and subprime mortgage bubbles should be terrified about this
“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”
Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster
The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.
futurism.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If America had a functional opposition party, they would just be repeating this message over and over. So many people already hate AI. Those of us who lived through the dot com and subprime mortgage bubbles should be terrified about this
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So that was a lie. Fenway health in Boston just eliminated access for trans youth.
Dallas is their Executive Vice President of Donor Engagement and External Relations.
Dallas is their Executive Vice President of Donor Engagement and External Relations.
Massachusetts is standing strong. While many states across the country have restricted or even banned access to healthcare, Massachusetts has not backed down.
October 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
So that was a lie. Fenway health in Boston just eliminated access for trans youth.
Dallas is their Executive Vice President of Donor Engagement and External Relations.
Dallas is their Executive Vice President of Donor Engagement and External Relations.
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seems about right
September 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
seems about right
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Google in 2015: Our goal is to power 100% of our operations with clean energy
Google's President in 2025: I agree that Silicon Valley has been overtaken by a 'climate extremist agenda' and that powering data centers with coal plants is a "fantastic" idea
Google's President in 2025: I agree that Silicon Valley has been overtaken by a 'climate extremist agenda' and that powering data centers with coal plants is a "fantastic" idea
August 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Google in 2015: Our goal is to power 100% of our operations with clean energy
Google's President in 2025: I agree that Silicon Valley has been overtaken by a 'climate extremist agenda' and that powering data centers with coal plants is a "fantastic" idea
Google's President in 2025: I agree that Silicon Valley has been overtaken by a 'climate extremist agenda' and that powering data centers with coal plants is a "fantastic" idea
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Just finished watching this and I think it's an excellent analysis of some of the ways LLMs companies are putting the cart before the horse and how everyone else is going to suffer because of their gambits.
There's a substack too.
cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/the-bullsh...
There's a substack too.
cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/the-bullsh...
August 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Just finished watching this and I think it's an excellent analysis of some of the ways LLMs companies are putting the cart before the horse and how everyone else is going to suffer because of their gambits.
There's a substack too.
cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/the-bullsh...
There's a substack too.
cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/the-bullsh...
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It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
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People are getting out in the streets, so I’m gonna repost a bunch of these digital security PSAs. Protecting yourself protects others too. Do the thing!
Here’s some alanis morisette but it’s about keeping the software on your phone phone up to date so you don’t get hacked
Here’s some alanis morisette but it’s about keeping the software on your phone phone up to date so you don’t get hacked
June 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
People are getting out in the streets, so I’m gonna repost a bunch of these digital security PSAs. Protecting yourself protects others too. Do the thing!
Here’s some alanis morisette but it’s about keeping the software on your phone phone up to date so you don’t get hacked
Here’s some alanis morisette but it’s about keeping the software on your phone phone up to date so you don’t get hacked
watching whether the call to "keep corporations out of pride" is suddenly heeded with anti dei initiatives and trans hate sweeping the states 👀
June 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
watching whether the call to "keep corporations out of pride" is suddenly heeded with anti dei initiatives and trans hate sweeping the states 👀
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It's wild how the existence of ICE, created by George W. Bush in the wild police state policy push after 9/11, is now just taken for granted as something that obviously has to exist. It doesn't! It's barely 20 years old! It was made by the guy who held the previous record for the dumbest president!
hoooly shit
This is a real question posed to The New York Times Ethicist
And their answer was not what some might call... ethical!!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...
This is a real question posed to The New York Times Ethicist
And their answer was not what some might call... ethical!!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...
June 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's wild how the existence of ICE, created by George W. Bush in the wild police state policy push after 9/11, is now just taken for granted as something that obviously has to exist. It doesn't! It's barely 20 years old! It was made by the guy who held the previous record for the dumbest president!
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This is gonna be my go to answer now when ppl ask me how my research is going
May 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This is gonna be my go to answer now when ppl ask me how my research is going
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope