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Jedidiah Carlson @jedidiahcarlson.com · 11h

bro are you fucking kidding me

quote from the Economist article which says "[study authors] are now looking at whether AI facial analysis can give lenders useful clues about a person’s propensity to repay loans. For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing."

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Andra Sonea @andrasonea.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! Will read. I read his book “The information” some years ago and it influenced me greatly.

Andra Sonea @andrasonea.bsky.social · 3d

For years I did not know what discipline my thesis belongs to. I figured out late that my methods are used mainly from transportation scholars but in my view they can be used for many other problems.

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Andra Sonea @andrasonea.bsky.social · 3d

In academia it is. It took me around two years to figure out that this was uncommon.
I guess it happened bc I had years of work behind me where I just tried to do that. I thought that we all try to solve things and we throw at them all our ideas, tools, etc

Andra Sonea @andrasonea.bsky.social · 3d

For me the boundaries between disciplines are permeable and even more I find it fascinating to figure out how others frame problems or go around solving them.

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Andra Sonea @andrasonea.bsky.social · 3d

In this case it tells a lot about how academia works but I was clueless. I started my inquiry with the probl I wanted to solve. This is v uncommon. People often start w the literature & methods of a discipline. You are examined for contribution to a discipline => can’t escape the classification

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Andra Sonea @andrasonea.bsky.social · 4d

Da! În clasica uniformă de liceu

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Andra Sonea @andrasonea.bsky.social · 4d

Sunday morning thoughs

andrasonea.medium.com/i-am-a-geogr...

I am a geographer after all

I found a date and a place on the back of this photo: April 1989, Onesti Romania. I was in my last year of high school and was here at the…

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need

Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Sep 25

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues.
For example:

Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $

Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $

Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

Top is an empty rectangle with a jagged line in the middle.
The left side is labeled "Frame" "F is happening!"
The right side is labeled "Negation" "F is not true!"
Below is a large image of Kirby, a round pink blob with eyes with a small version of the Frame F shape flying into his mouth. To the right is a large pink rectangle labeled "Kirby" "K is happening, that's why they're saying F"

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 24

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 19d

Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.

Meme featuring two well coifed, intellectual looking Wojacks reading: PEOPLE WHO READ

Beneath them are two disheveled, sick looking people with black circles under their eyes reading: PEOPLE WHO WRITE

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 19d

Infections don’t respect borders - as Kennedy pushes disinformation about measles, its treatment and the vaccine the cases of measles increase in US also driving surges in S America and Canada necessitating big vaccine drives to protect citizens

US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts

The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north

www.theguardian.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 27d

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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Dr Emma L Briant @emma-briant.co.uk · Sep 27

"While British culture is largely resilient to pro-Russian propaganda coming direct from Russia, we are far less prepared against influence from the US ... A relationship that once represented a cultural strength for Britain now offers a major indirect vector for Russian reflexive control."

Dr Emma L Briant @emma-briant.co.uk · Sep 26

NEW: Written evidence submitted by Dr. Emma L. Briant (DIS0044) to UK Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry on Disinformation Diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

committees.parliament.uk

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Oct 6

Three Fronts of Hybrid War: Russia’s Election Interference in Romania, Moldova and Czechia
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

Three Fronts of Hybrid War: Russia’s Election Interference in Romania, Moldova and Czechia

From Romania’s annulled presidential election to Moldova’s resilient victory and Czechia’s live TikTok manipulation, Europe’s frontline states reveal a common Kremlin playbook — and the different ways

open.substack.com

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · Oct 5

Probably the loveliest thread you will read today, full of beauty and kindness and improvised owl physio

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · Oct 5

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · Sep 27

Me at my tenth rodeo: Okay, I think I've probably been to enough of these. Thanks

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · Sep 22

🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise": #Moscow has devised a plan to interfere in the #Moldovan parliamentary elections and disrupt the country's path toward EU membership, @bloomberg.com reported on Sept. 22, citing documents it had seen. 🧵
kyivindependent.com/media-reveal...

Media reveal alleged Russian plot to influence Moldovan parliamentary elections

The documents seen by Bloomberg outline a multi-layered strategy reportedly coordinated directly by the Kremlin.

kyivindependent.com

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · Aug 25

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Sep 19

Persistent stressors that are difficult to manage, such as concerns about affording rent or relying on Medicaid when it’s under threat, leave people in a heightened state, the researcher Courtney Boen tells @rossandersen.bsky.social—“and that erodes the body’s systems.” bit.ly/46nmbaF #TAF25

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · Sep 18

Even individually, this is so important. I don’t want to debate if “posting is praxis”—but speaking out, even posting, matters more than we think. It reminds each other we’re not alone and helps keep us from the black hole of self-censorship that’s so much harder to escape.

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · Sep 17

One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is to terrify people into self-censorship. ABC ending Kimmel’s show is the perfect example of this.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · Sep 17

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Sep 13

I find the lack of transparency about the UK's involvement with OpenAI's Stargate project to be really very worrying and also cannot see how it provides us with "sovereignty". We appear to just be providing the energy? on.ft.com/4n3W6Vf

Energy co-operation, security and steel tariffs will also be on the agenda, but the economic centrepiece will be technology. OpenAI's Sam Altman and chipmaker Nvidia's Jensen Huang will join Trump in the US delegation.
They will launch the Stargate UK investment in the town of Blyth, Northumberland, according to people briefed on the plans. UK AI data centre company Nscale will also be involved in the project.

"The UK provides the energy, Nvidia the chips and OpenAI the intellectual property. The UK gets sovereign AI," said one person involved in the project.
Altman stood alongside Trump in the White House in January to announce Stargate, which he said would include electricity infrastructure as well as data centres and pave the way to the next phase of Al.

The project, whose other founding partners are SoftBank, Oracle and Abu Dhabi state fund MGX, has since become broader and more nebulous.
OpenAI has already struck deals to develop data centres in the UAE and Norway with local partners.
Rene Haas, chief executive of SoftBank-owned Arm, would join the delegation of tech executives in the UK for the state visit next week, according to people familiar with the matter. The UK tech champion's chip designs are used in Nvidia's AI products.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · Sep 10

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