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Marielza
@marielza.bsky.social
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Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute.
UNESCO Women in STEM Committee

Some pottery and cyanotyping

Profile picture is of my face and torso

Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
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datasociety.bsky.social
In a new brief, Policy Director Brian J. Chen lays out empirical evidence to counter the myths that are fueling DOGE’s “AI-first” strategy. datasociety.net/library/disp...
Text on a blue background with the title of the policy brief Dispelling Myths of AI and Efficiency by Brian J. Chen. It shows a quote from the brief: "The unchecked use of AI will accelerate large-scale harms to the public, gutting critical services while offering no avenues for accountability and recourse."
March 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
In the future, AI chatbots may weave ads invisibly into “helpful” advice, steering conversations without you even knowing, argues Daniel Barcay, executive director of the Center for Humane Technology. When the AI we rely on starts steering us for revenue, not our goals, human autonomy is at risk.
Advertising is Coming to AI. It’s Going to Be a Disaster. | TechPolicy.Press
Daniel Barcay sounds the alarm on AI chatbots hiding advertising in conversations—and why this threatens autonomy and demands new rules.
www.techpolicy.press
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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404media.co
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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olliebown.bsky.social
I'd appreciate if any audio tech folks could help circulate this exciting call for a fully-funded PhD position working in multichannel audio design for galleries.

It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'

www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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bluetapes.bsky.social
Old cyanotypes revisited 19
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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jjasonlazarus.bsky.social
Ran a 2-day, 10-hour Cyanotype workshop this weekend as a #fundraiser for the #UAF #Art photo program…

#altpro #cyanotype #blueprints #alternativeprocessprinting #darkroom #constructionpaper #cardstock #plants #hoytarboretum #cyanotypetoning #alternativeprocess #alaska #fairbanks #artworkshops
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold

Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Interested in working for Bellingcat? Bellingcat US is hiring a Director of Development and Partnerships, details here:
www.on-ramps.com/jobs/3518
Bellingcat US | Director of Development and Partnerships
Bellingcat is an independent community of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists who pioneered open source investigations tools. With precision and perseverance, Bellingcat exposes everyt...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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erantal.bsky.social
🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity...
An international database of jobs for philosophers
philjobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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jjasonlazarus.bsky.social
Ran a 2-day, 10-hour Cyanotype workshop this weekend as a #fundraiser for the #UAF #Art photo program…

#altpro #cyanotype #blueprints #alternativeprocessprinting #darkroom #projectsafeguard #pyramids #northdakota #cyanotypetoning #alternativeprocess #handmade #alaska #fairbanks #artworkshops
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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uxiaaaaaa.bsky.social
Sketchbook page XV🎐 — watercolor + cyanotype

Watercolor piece based directly on a reference image (artist unknown)

#sketchbook #watercolor
#fineart #cyanotypeart #photoart #sketchbookart #figurativeart
#artbsky
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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edzitron.com
Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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slouching.bsky.social
Friends, there are several CS positions open at NYU; calling in my socio-technical researchers including HCI researchers
cs.nyu.edu/dynamic/jobs...
NYU Computer Science Department
cs.nyu.edu
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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heatherbarr.bsky.social
In Feb 26, it will be 80 years since the UN selected its first secretary-general, a man. Since then, eight others have had that job, all men. Surely it’s long past time a woman held the post. In these perilous times we cannot afford an all-men’s club at the top of the UN.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
Seventy-Nine Years Without a Woman Leader at the UN
In February 2026, it will be 80 years since the United Nations selected its first secretary-general, a man. Since then, eight other people have had that job, all men.
www.hrw.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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heatherbarr.bsky.social
Excited to share this new piece on why @hrw.org is calling for gender apartheid to be recognized as a crime under international law. This comes after long & careful discussion w/many colleagues about if there is need for such a law and any potential downsides. www.justsecurity.org/116780/gende...
Gender Apartheid Should Be an International Crime
All States should ensure the inclusion of gender apartheid in international law, including in the draft crimes against humanity treaty.
www.justsecurity.org
July 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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melissaterras.bsky.social
Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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sabinecarey.bsky.social
📣 Final Call for visiting fellowships for postdocs at the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social! Great opportunity to spend 2-4 weeks in a fantastic academic environment! See 👇 for details!
mzesunimannheim.bsky.social MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · Sep 22
📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers!

❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊

💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas
💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance
📆 Deadline: 28 November

Full information:
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...
Screenshot of the call for applications for MZES Visiting Fellowships, 22 September 2025. For the full text, please follow the link.
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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aureliabardon.bsky.social
📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de!

Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher

3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026

Please share widely 🙏
Postdoctoral Research Position
Deadline: 15.12.2025
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November 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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jagolinzer.bsky.social
This is one reason why I have been telling large investors that investments in tech (e.g., crypto, AI, platforms) likely have greater systemic risk than they think.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/rcna245...
Severe internet outages keep happening — and they might get worse
Growing reliance on a handful of major internet infrastructure companies has led to major disruptions, sparking everything from political pressure to computer science memes.
www.nbcnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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olivia.science
"It is noteworthy here that in all likelihood, the wealthy would still continue to receive high-quality personal instruction while the less wealthy would be taught by these potentially problematic LLMs due to resource constraints." — me and @samhforbes.bsky.social

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November 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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tiedeman.bsky.social
Come and join us at @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social to work on robust, efficient and trustworthy AI across languages and domains. You will be part of the @ellisinstitute.fi as one of the prestigious PIs in their top-level research unit.

Application deadline is January 12: tinyurl.com/ye6ceywv
PI positions | ELLIS Institute Finland
ELLIS Institute Finland PI positions (second call, winter 2025–26)
www.ellisinstitute.fi
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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chronotope.aramzs.xyz
This is an insane story because it's basically saying that the people we pay to predict the likelyhood of future events, for whom it is their main job, have looked at the present and decided that AI is only going to get worse, more often incorrect and create worse consequences for those errors.
mikeyearworth.bsky.social Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 3d
“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.”

www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
What I'd really like is new research on whether there've been any improvements in the racial & gender disparities in facial recognition systems in the past 5 yrs. Run the baselines again, see who & what it gets wrong, in what contexts. We know the effects (👇🏾; ≥10, now, btw), & need more process data
Artificial Intelligence is Putting Innocent People at Risk of Being Incarcerated
There are at least seven confirmed cases of misidentification due to facial recognition technology, six of which involve Black people .
innocenceproject.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?" Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ?? In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in Nigeria An account called MAGA scope writes: Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan? The account is based in Nigeria. An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." The account is based in Morocco. An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM