Monika Viktorova
@mviktoro.bsky.social
we fight dystopia by resisting cynicism and apathy #tech #aiethics #humanrights #UBI #booksky #crafts
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Monika Viktorova
@mviktoro.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Are you curious about what #ai policy will look like in 2025? Join me and this awesome panel of speakers tomorrow to chat about the state of #AI & #genAI and what policies like the #AIAct and Executive Order will look like next year for organizations big and small
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When my brain is clocking the safety level of new-to-me dudes, there are three groups:
- would be violent towards me
- wouldn't be violent towards me himself but would watch another man be violent towards me and not do anything about it
- would actually help me fight back if anyone tries creep shit
- would be violent towards me
- wouldn't be violent towards me himself but would watch another man be violent towards me and not do anything about it
- would actually help me fight back if anyone tries creep shit
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
When my brain is clocking the safety level of new-to-me dudes, there are three groups:
- would be violent towards me
- wouldn't be violent towards me himself but would watch another man be violent towards me and not do anything about it
- would actually help me fight back if anyone tries creep shit
- would be violent towards me
- wouldn't be violent towards me himself but would watch another man be violent towards me and not do anything about it
- would actually help me fight back if anyone tries creep shit
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This is how rape culture and a patriarchy works. The loudest, most extroverted men get deference from the ones who prefer to avoid conflict and want to stay in the good graces of the bully. And the consequence is whatever the bullies want to do to women, it’s allowed through complicit silence.
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
This is how rape culture and a patriarchy works. The loudest, most extroverted men get deference from the ones who prefer to avoid conflict and want to stay in the good graces of the bully. And the consequence is whatever the bullies want to do to women, it’s allowed through complicit silence.
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I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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Kubernetes Cluster Goes Mobile in Pet Carrier
Kubernetes Cluster Goes Mobile in Pet Carrier
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Kubernetes Cluster Goes Mobile in Pet Carrier
The next decade is going to be figuring out how to sift out slop from useable / reliable info in absolutely every information channel
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The next decade is going to be figuring out how to sift out slop from useable / reliable info in absolutely every information channel
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Editorial about the ultraprocessed food oligopoly putting profit before health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Editorial about the ultraprocessed food oligopoly putting profit before health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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“Nearly 1 in 3 women – estimated 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence during their lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000”
www.who.int/news/item/19...
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Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence
Violence against women remains one of the world’s most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark report released today by th...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“Nearly 1 in 3 women – estimated 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence during their lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000”
www.who.int/news/item/19...
www.who.int/news/item/19...
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My hot take about insecure and unreliable software coding practices or language foot-guns is, as a society, we have decided that there simply aren’t going to be any real consequences for releasing unsafe software, and so it doesn’t really matter how or if people try to fix it at the technical level
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My hot take about insecure and unreliable software coding practices or language foot-guns is, as a society, we have decided that there simply aren’t going to be any real consequences for releasing unsafe software, and so it doesn’t really matter how or if people try to fix it at the technical level
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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@jnvictor.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in ProMarket on the curious phenomenon of AI companies signing copyright licensing agreements that undermine their fair use defenses, and the potential anticompetitive effects of the practice
www.promarket.org/2025/11/18/a...
www.promarket.org/2025/11/18/a...
Anticompetitive Acquiescence in AI Content Licensing - ProMarket
Large AI firms like OpenAI and Amazon are licensing content to train their models that they might otherwise have been able to access for free under the fair use doctrine. Mark A. Lemley and Jacob Noti...
www.promarket.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
@jnvictor.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in ProMarket on the curious phenomenon of AI companies signing copyright licensing agreements that undermine their fair use defenses, and the potential anticompetitive effects of the practice
www.promarket.org/2025/11/18/a...
www.promarket.org/2025/11/18/a...
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Picture someone being sucked into a delusion spiral by chatgpt, and then ordering suicide equipment with it *mid-conversation* while it cheers them on
"I just bought you $400 worth of garden rope, king"
"I just bought you $400 worth of garden rope, king"
Target: how do we turn around public perception of our brand? We need to do something that everyone will love...
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Picture someone being sucked into a delusion spiral by chatgpt, and then ordering suicide equipment with it *mid-conversation* while it cheers them on
"I just bought you $400 worth of garden rope, king"
"I just bought you $400 worth of garden rope, king"
premier league FTFY on the TTC this morning
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
premier league FTFY on the TTC this morning
“Tested extensively” and “55 responses” are pretty much diametrically opposed. We ran 55 tests and unleashed it on a vulnerable population doesn’t sound as good though
"The Minister states that “the chatbot was tested extensively...checking responses to “55 questions out of which 53 were deemed successful"
Wendy Lyon, an immigration & human rights solicitor at Abbey law, found that many of these 53 “successful” responses were wrong, unhelpful & misleading."
Wendy Lyon, an immigration & human rights solicitor at Abbey law, found that many of these 53 “successful” responses were wrong, unhelpful & misleading."
Our investigation into Irish Department of Justice use of chatbots. The department hides behind disclaimers while deploying misleading chatbots.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“Tested extensively” and “55 responses” are pretty much diametrically opposed. We ran 55 tests and unleashed it on a vulnerable population doesn’t sound as good though
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guess I know a thing or two about restaurants.
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
guess I know a thing or two about restaurants.
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"we just fell in love with convoluted regulations for no reason and need to fall back in love with building things" is a lazy misdirection away from the fact that corporate power and extreme wealth have so grotesquely corrupted the American experiment it no longer serves the public interest
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"we just fell in love with convoluted regulations for no reason and need to fall back in love with building things" is a lazy misdirection away from the fact that corporate power and extreme wealth have so grotesquely corrupted the American experiment it no longer serves the public interest
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Ако (с основание) сте напуснали Фейсбук, ето какво сте изпуснали тези дни. Изумително е какви индивиди практикуват медицина в България...
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ако (с основание) сте напуснали Фейсбук, ето какво сте изпуснали тези дни. Изумително е какви индивиди практикуват медицина в България...
Every few weeks there’s another comically villainous story out from the UK that is a direct result of the self own of Brexit. 10 years on the deluge of these stories hasn’t stopped
It turns out voting for xenophobia is really really bad for people but they only learn the hard way
It turns out voting for xenophobia is really really bad for people but they only learn the hard way
The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain through the looking glass: my dead goldfish is now a registered waste disposer | George Monbiot
Algernon Goldfish is long gone, but I was able to sign him up. No wonder so many crooks are illegally dumping and ruining our environment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Every few weeks there’s another comically villainous story out from the UK that is a direct result of the self own of Brexit. 10 years on the deluge of these stories hasn’t stopped
It turns out voting for xenophobia is really really bad for people but they only learn the hard way
It turns out voting for xenophobia is really really bad for people but they only learn the hard way
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the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.
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I wrote about the stomach clenching reality of work now -- where rolling layoffs are the norm and no one feels secure in their job. Happy Monday! www.axios.com/2025/11/16/r...
It's a rolling layoff world
These silent layoffs are now just a part of doing business.
www.axios.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I wrote about the stomach clenching reality of work now -- where rolling layoffs are the norm and no one feels secure in their job. Happy Monday! www.axios.com/2025/11/16/r...
We also just ignored the security vulnerabilities intro’d by AI generated code, so the security issues in robotics is a knock on
Contemporary robotics has managed to be even less secure than the IoT device security nightmare. We've not only learned nothing, but have actually regressed
It really, really does not feel like many of the people pushing AI and robotics to go as fast as possible have a good model of how it's going to go well
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We also just ignored the security vulnerabilities intro’d by AI generated code, so the security issues in robotics is a knock on
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It really, really does not feel like many of the people pushing AI and robotics to go as fast as possible have a good model of how it's going to go well
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It really, really does not feel like many of the people pushing AI and robotics to go as fast as possible have a good model of how it's going to go well