Katya Danziger
@katyadanziger.bsky.social
Tech Design Governance Practitioner. Global Thought @Columbia University. Kadampa Buddhist. www.katyadanziger.com
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Katya Danziger
@katyadanziger.bsky.social
· Jan 11
At today’s hackathon, I was one of 5 female students in the room. Grateful to have been born into a generation where I can even attend these things, but looking at what a long ways we have to go… #WomenInSTEM
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I haven’t read this but holy shit what a succinct way to put it. Mistaking the finger for the Moon, as they say in Buddhist thought
Sorry for the Apple News link, but a good article if you can access it.
“We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought.”
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake - The Verge
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“We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought.”
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake - The Verge
stocks.apple.com/Ayz-oaNDNQky...
Large language mistake — The Verge
“Developing superintelligence is now in sight,” says Mark Zuckerberg, heralding the “creation and discovery of new things that aren’t imaginable today.
stocks.apple.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I haven’t read this but holy shit what a succinct way to put it. Mistaking the finger for the Moon, as they say in Buddhist thought
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It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
how to triumph like a girl by Ada Limón
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
how to triumph like a girl by Ada Limón
Unbelievable joy getting to see Augustus Hadelich perform Baber live with the New York Philharmonic last night ❤️
November 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Unbelievable joy getting to see Augustus Hadelich perform Baber live with the New York Philharmonic last night ❤️
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The extent to which the tech companies are becoming energy companies is one of the biggest stories of the year.
Meta Looks to Power Trading to Support Its AI Energy Needs
Meta Platforms Inc. is venturing into the complex world of electricity trading, betting it can accelerate the construction of new US power plants that are vital to its artificial intelligence ambition...
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The extent to which the tech companies are becoming energy companies is one of the biggest stories of the year.
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Is AI inherently bad? Of course not.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Is AI inherently bad? Of course not.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
Prof Nina Khrushcheva would talk about her love for Dick Cheney in the class I took with her at The New School. Never really understood the logic and perhaps even less now:
My Fascination with Dick Cheney
“Cheney saw me as a Cold War foe. And he, in his unapologetic authority, reminded me of my authoritarian homeland."
time.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Prof Nina Khrushcheva would talk about her love for Dick Cheney in the class I took with her at The New School. Never really understood the logic and perhaps even less now:
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Disheartened by the recent mayoral election in NYC, Bill Ackman is now giving advice on love affairs
November 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Disheartened by the recent mayoral election in NYC, Bill Ackman is now giving advice on love affairs
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The lunatics are running the asylum.
Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today.
Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today.
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The lunatics are running the asylum.
Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today.
Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today.
Perhaps the bravest words that have ever been spoken ♥️
#KadampaBuddhism
#KadampaBuddhism
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Perhaps the bravest words that have ever been spoken ♥️
#KadampaBuddhism
#KadampaBuddhism
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"The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant has been awarded a $1 billion federal loan guarantee that will enable it to shift onto taxpayers some of the risk of its plan to restart the Pennsylvania facility and sell the electricity to Microsoft for its data centers."
Trump officials give $1 billion loan to restart Three Mile Island
The plan to reopen Three Mile Island to supply Microsoft with power wins a federal loan guarantee, shifting some of the risk onto taxpayers.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant has been awarded a $1 billion federal loan guarantee that will enable it to shift onto taxpayers some of the risk of its plan to restart the Pennsylvania facility and sell the electricity to Microsoft for its data centers."
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Dasha Nekrasova has been fired by Gersh and from an upcoming film project for a recent episode with Christian nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Hollywood Finally Listened to Red Scare
Dasha Nekrasova has been fired by Gersh and from an upcoming film project for a recent episode with Christian nationalist Nick Fuentes.
www.vulture.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Dasha Nekrasova has been fired by Gersh and from an upcoming film project for a recent episode with Christian nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Brand new podcast from IBM Quantum just launched entitled "The Coherence Times"
#QuantumComputing #EmergingTech #IBM
#QuantumComputing #EmergingTech #IBM
The Coherence Times: an IBM Quantum podcast | IBM Quantum Computing Blog
New weekly podcast introduces you to the thought leaders, researchers, developers, and technologists building the future of quantum computing.
www.ibm.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Brand new podcast from IBM Quantum just launched entitled "The Coherence Times"
#QuantumComputing #EmergingTech #IBM
#QuantumComputing #EmergingTech #IBM
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Network of the day.
From: Kuligowski, E.D. (2016). Human Behavior in Fire. In: Hurley, M.J., et al. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. Springer, New York, NY.
From: Kuligowski, E.D. (2016). Human Behavior in Fire. In: Hurley, M.J., et al. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. Springer, New York, NY.
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Network of the day.
From: Kuligowski, E.D. (2016). Human Behavior in Fire. In: Hurley, M.J., et al. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. Springer, New York, NY.
From: Kuligowski, E.D. (2016). Human Behavior in Fire. In: Hurley, M.J., et al. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. Springer, New York, NY.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
― E.F. Schumacher, German-born British statistician and economist
― E.F. Schumacher, German-born British statistician and economist
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
― E.F. Schumacher, German-born British statistician and economist
― E.F. Schumacher, German-born British statistician and economist
"If you pay attention to AI company branding, you'll notice a pattern:
-Circular shape (often with a gradient)
-Central opening or focal point
-Radiating elements from the center
-Soft, organic curves
Sound familiar? It should, because it's also an apt description of... well, you know.
A butthole."
-Circular shape (often with a gradient)
-Central opening or focal point
-Radiating elements from the center
-Soft, organic curves
Sound familiar? It should, because it's also an apt description of... well, you know.
A butthole."
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...
velvetshark.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"If you pay attention to AI company branding, you'll notice a pattern:
-Circular shape (often with a gradient)
-Central opening or focal point
-Radiating elements from the center
-Soft, organic curves
Sound familiar? It should, because it's also an apt description of... well, you know.
A butthole."
-Circular shape (often with a gradient)
-Central opening or focal point
-Radiating elements from the center
-Soft, organic curves
Sound familiar? It should, because it's also an apt description of... well, you know.
A butthole."
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Trump has been obsessed with nuclear weapons for decades. As Tom says, none of what Trump claims below is accurate. No nation except North Korea has tested nuclear weapons since the 1990s (the last US test was 1992). Russia and China will likely see renewed US nuclear weapons testing as escalatory.
None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Trump has been obsessed with nuclear weapons for decades. As Tom says, none of what Trump claims below is accurate. No nation except North Korea has tested nuclear weapons since the 1990s (the last US test was 1992). Russia and China will likely see renewed US nuclear weapons testing as escalatory.
“We love an avatar more than a specific being,” Pettman writes // “In a world of atomized, liquified, symptomatic and transactional relations,” maybe the act of ghosting can also “be a merciful one.”
Latest review of my latest book . . .
(sadly behind a paywall . . . )
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
(sadly behind a paywall . . . )
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Great Ghosting Paradox
Is there a social phenomenon that’s as infuriating—and as commonplace?
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
“We love an avatar more than a specific being,” Pettman writes // “In a world of atomized, liquified, symptomatic and transactional relations,” maybe the act of ghosting can also “be a merciful one.”
What an honor to be able to participate in weekly lectures with my hero @mariaressa.bsky.social at @columbiasipa.bsky.social! Talking about deliberative democracy and a federated open source future :)
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
What an honor to be able to participate in weekly lectures with my hero @mariaressa.bsky.social at @columbiasipa.bsky.social! Talking about deliberative democracy and a federated open source future :)
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“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
October 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
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RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
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This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.
2025, So Far
I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...
kalebhorton.ghost.io
September 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.
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Breaking News: Saul Zabar, who over seven decades made the Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s a New York institution, is dead at 97. nyti.ms/42qGl2n
October 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Breaking News: Saul Zabar, who over seven decades made the Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s a New York institution, is dead at 97. nyti.ms/42qGl2n
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taylor swift wrote a bluesky thinkpiece
![[Verse 1]
Everybody's so punk on the internet
Everyone's unbothered 'til they're not
Every joke's just trolling and memes
Sad as it seems, apathy is hot
Everybody's cutthroat in the comments
Every single hot take is cold as ice
When you found me, I said I was busy
That was a lie
[Pre-Chorus]
I have been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness
I've been dying just from trying to seem cool](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i4yqih65sftboupjwcnegqea/bafkreidfmgqwg3zixk5utvyq3acqtgcqu6zjo6atdscrw5mwzhuwettwxe@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
taylor swift wrote a bluesky thinkpiece