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Trans Tech Tent
@transtechtent.bsky.social
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A Trans-led org helping people get into tech and security, helping fight digital poverty.

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greenparty.org.uk
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.

The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence. The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.

Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
goodlaw.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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genderedintelligence.co.uk
Today, we honour the lives of every trans and non-binary person whose lives have been cut short by prejudice and violence.

We look to a better future, where every trans and non-binary person is safe and cherished.
Trans Day of Remembrance Today, we honour the lives of every trans and non-binary person whose lives have been cut short by prejudice and violence.
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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vaginamuseum.bsky.social
Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance. Trans people and their human rights are under attack around the globe. The Vagina Museum stands defiant against these attacks. We are a proudly trans inclusive space, even as discourse grows ever more toxic.
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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olivia.science
CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai

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October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
transtechtent.bsky.social
I'm not an academic but £20 is £20
mun-tonsi.net genevieve clifford @mun-tonsi.net · 20d
Hey all! I'm recruiting participants for my PhD project looking at trans folks' experiences of digital technologies in Wales. This would be a chat (~1h) online, in-person, or over the phone. There's a £20 gift card for participation :)

More details: mun-tonsi.net/phd

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Invitation graphic for taking part in a research project. There is a top bar which contains text that reads: "Study Participants Wanted!" The bar at the bottom reads "Genevieve Clifford https://mun-tonsi.net/phd" and has Swansea University's logo. In the centre the majority of the text is written, alongside it there is a graphic of a laptop with arms and legs holding a trans flag. It is smiling while looking ahead. To the left of this is the following text: Transgender People's Experiences of Digital Technology in Wales I'm looking for transgender adults living in Wales - Interview session - Approx. 1 hour - In-person, online, or on the phone - £20 gift card
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
transtechtent.bsky.social
Most people know not to ask chatGPT for medical advice.

Make sure "most" is "all" in your circles, reach out to your friends and talk to them if they're being sucked in, community answers questions better than any chatbot.

futurism.com/future-socie...
poster has a cube with crossed out eyes and a sad face, reading: "Stop asking ChatGPT about DIY HRT, ask real people with real experience"
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
transtechtent.bsky.social
In case it wasn't clear for the folks who know us in person, we will forever be this AI bubble's biggest haters.

And unless we've messed up the paperwork, see you all at @gwylygwrthsafiad.bsky.social!
a shoddily drawn person with a Trans Tech Tent banner behind them, and a laptop with trans flag and watermelon stickers. The text reads: 'Terrible sketch art is still better than AI "art"' and 'at Swansea Radical Fest, Sat. 22nd Nov, 11 to 5pm, Elysium Gallery'
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
transtechtent.bsky.social
lets go
text that reads "500 Discord Users! not quite as many as the Green Party but that's okay" with trans-coloured hearts scattered around
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
transtechtent.bsky.social
making a bsky account finally because it seems like every org under the sun ignored, or the rules changed, the no-corp accs thing from the beta.

Anyway hi we fix technology, one time we fixed a car. We're based in South Wales but we've done stuff all over the world at this point.
April 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM