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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 6d

Bonus joke: it was a stud finder!

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 6d

Peak butch moment: friend asks to borrow my tools

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 6d

I love his writing and all, but sometimes I wonder if David Graeber would have offered a slightly different account of bureaucracy and organizational relations if he hadn't noped out of all his service work at his university...

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 8d

I am going to talk to a bunch of lawyers at Yale about AI Trash. Yes, I will be showing them the bad AI slop picture of a scientific illustration of rat testicles (?).

AI slop of a scientific diagram. It features a cute white rat, with a cross-section of its abdomin, in which a huge phallic (or is it umbilical?) structure protrudes up and extends far past the height of the rat itself. Helpful labels on the image read "rat" "dissiced" "retat" "testtomcels" "dck" and "spermatocial stem cells"

Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 8d

The class held the wisdom of the wider crowd. Let's give it up for a bear with a broken jaw and some moral transgressions, but who is undeniably a fat king.

Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 8d

Current plans: jazz night at a dyke bar, weird noise music by someone named Governor Vomit, reading a little magazine at McNally Jackson, + the Superfine show at the Met. I <3 NYC.

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 9d

U.S. regions more exposed to AI saw faster emissions growth, more reliance on fossil fuels, and dirtier electricity generation.
cepr.org/publications...

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 12d

I'd love that!

Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 12d

I'm going to be in NYC in a week for a hot second! What should I do (besides catch the Tega Brain & Sam Levine show at Pioneer Works obvs)?

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 15d

The class vastly preferred 32 Chonk :(

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 15d

I'm making my environmental media class vote in Fat Bear week today with me.

Also: Look at this unit. Justice for 901! explore.org/fat-bear-week

A before and after photo of a bear called 901. She's bulked out! Elsewhere on the site "Her early adult life is marked by growth and loss. She readily achieves a level of fatness above that of many other bears... It is not uncommon for mother bears in Katmai to lose their entire litter given the risks faced by cubs. Yet past maternal experience is immensely valuable, which is why 901’s growing maturity and body size have her poised for success."

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 15d

New to me! Thanks for the tip!

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 15d

I'm excited for this one!

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 19d

Wrestling is good

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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 21d

i hope hangman is down at the bata shoe museum looking at the rough & ready exhibit

ad for the rough & ready cowboy boot exhibit at the bata shoe museum

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 23d

This is good satire: alignmentalignment.ai

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23d

Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation

Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...

semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...

Colossus 2: in Tennessee, Mississippi… or both?
Things get more confusing once factoring-in a Greater Memphis Chamber statement in May that no turbines would be sited in Memphis. They’re not lying.

Memphis and Tennessee have been getting a lot of pushback, so xAI’s genius move was to develop a Gigawatt-scale energy hub right across the border in Southaven, Mississippi. In mid-2025, the company acquired a former Duke Energy power plant in Southaven. Shortly after, Mississippi regulators granted xAI temporary approval to run gas turbines there for up to 12 months without a permit!

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 23d

Happening in about 30 min!

Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · Aug 19

Looking forward to thinking about the geographical imaginaries of tech billionaires (+ their networks) with some very good company in September! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A poster for A Roundtable on Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the Tech Right, featuring Josh Lepawsky, Angela Carter, Keif Godbout-Kinney, Mel Hogan, and Anne Pasek. There's a pointillist, pastel background and a goofy 70s looking flower graphic.

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 27d

Like, the semiconductor? A chunk of galena worked ok--better than a blued razor blade or a carbon paper/aluminum sandwich

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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 27d

Finally got my shortwave collective radio receiver to work!!!

A photo of a zoom recorder hooked into a really crude circuit built on a piece of cardboard. On/next to it as a lot of wires, alligator clips, a cookie sheet and piece of aluminum foil, a chunk of Galena, some blue razor blades, a safety pin, and a pencil stub. Copper wire is coiled around a toilet paper tubes in the corner

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Sep 10

an article asking whether it's feminist to use AI? i will get right around to reading that, but first, would you join me in the cellar for a moment? i have a lovely new cask of sherry of dubious origin i'd like your opinion on

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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · Sep 10

Interested in environmental justice & how gender inequalities are embedded in technology infrastructure? Join us for the 4th Gender & Tech webinar, Sept. 29 11am EDT, with Paz Peña Ochoa & @tamigraph.bsky.social.
Free & open. Registration: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Co-org w/ @yasmincurzi.com

Poster of the 4th talk in the Gender and Tech Online Talk Series: Technocapitalism and Environmental Justice. IT features a dark green and orange abstract pattern, with the information about the event in white:
Speakers:
Paz Peña, Mozilla Foundation
Tamara Kneese, Data & Society
Moderated by Jess Reia
September 29th, 11am EDT.

This series is co-organized by Yasmin Curzi and Jess Reia.

In the bottom of the poster we have two sponsor logos: UVA Digital Technology for Democracy Lab and UVA School of Data Science

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · Sep 10

I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States*

I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been.

Boosterism == fascism, literally

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