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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Jan 20

Arquitecta urbanista, me flipan los mapas, adoro la ficción especulativa y hago investigación sobre comunes urbanos, escenarios de futuro y planificación disruptiva.

Me mudo a Bluesky porque si podemos ir de las plazas a la nube (como decía Bookcamping), también del cielo azul a las calles.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: Reports of spontaneous protests erupting in European cities tonight in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was illegally attacked by Israel an hour ago.

Demonstrations have been seen in Berlin🇩🇪 & Rome🇮🇹 - and these are the current scenes in Brussels🇧🇪 👇

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · 12d

@hopeenpie.bsky.social "We are plagued with hope"

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Sep 1

@tscriado.bsky.social you might like this

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C.J. @cjane.bsky.social · Aug 12

Países como Alemania ni siquiera han firmado esta declaración inconsecuente que se limita a mendigar unos mínimos insultantes frente a un genocidio. Europa es un pozo oscuro.

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · Aug 12

This joint statement, which just asks Israel to ensure access of humanitarian aid and let NGOs work, has not been signed by Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania. Their governments are not even willing to request this. Appalling.

www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/joint-s...

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Olga Rodríguez Francisco @olgarodriguezfr.bsky.social · Aug 12

La UE es el MAYOR socio comercial de Israel.

Decir “no al genocidio” pero no sancionar ni suspender relaciones y acuerdos preferenciales es cosmética.

Es urgente poner fin a la complicidad europea⬇️

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Jul 30

Nos ha dejado Osfa Veladoz, aka José Pérez de Lama, y el mundo es un poco menos luminoso.

Rest in power, Osfa, las máquinas rebeldes te echarán de menos.

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Jul 12

@gzapata.bsky.social Igual esto te interesa

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Jul 10

I love this screenshot! Thanks for sharing it :)

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Tor Project @torproject.org · Jul 7

👩🏾‍💻🌱 Join us for #TheTechPeopleWant Summit! @okfn.bsky.social + The Tor Project are teaming up to rethink who current tech is really for and against. Will you be there?
🗓️ 8–9 July
🔗 forms.gle/uJEu5CYGCuVj...

Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · Jul 2

💻🌱 #TheTechPeopleWant Summit is just around the corner (July 8–9).

Today we are announcing the full programme, featuring 31 speakers from all around the world across 4 panels, 2 keynotes and 3 Spotlight Sessions.

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Sara Petti @sarapetti.bsky.social · Jul 8

🔴 #TheTechPeopleWant is on!

We are discussing why people want #OpenData with the authors of Towards a Sustainable Data Commons Ecosystem.

It's key to keep in mind that "Without sustainability there is no sovereignty" says @anamandes.bsky.social

Join the discussion today and tomorrow.

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Jul 7

A conversation with:
Solana Larsen
Merrin Muhammed Ashraf - @itforchange.bsky.social
Jugal Mahabir [email protected]
Arturo Sánchez Pineda - Cevale2VE & LA-CoNGA physics
and Constanza Figueroa - amigashacker.club

Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Jul 7

Tomorrow, we are presenting some insights from the study on Sustainable Data Commons Ecosystems Semra Sonmez and I have done for @okfn.bsky.social

The commons are the perfect framework to rethink openness: communities, co-governance and care will make sharing data and content sustainable again :)

The Tech People Want Online Summit – Open Knowledge Foudation

We’re bringing together advocates, civil society organisations, government officials and forward-thinking creators to reimagine technology from the ground up.

okfn.org

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · May 27

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@itsbethperry.bsky.social @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social @ethelbaraona.bsky.social

Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · May 27

Our last collective endeavour was the Urban Comons Handbook.

Now, we seek to expand contemporary debates around urban commons with a pluriversal perspective, engaging the diversity of people, places, cultures, and knowledge involved in sharing practices.

dpr-barcelona.com/urban-common...

Urban Commons Handbook

A compilation of definitions, experiences and references around some of the questions that arise when thinking about commoning the city

dpr-barcelona.com

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · May 27

Through this call, we seek to engage with this diversity and expand contemporary debates around urban commons from a pluriversal perspective, acknowledging the rich tapestry of people, places, cultures, and knowledge involved in sharing practices.

More details:

sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Urban Commons - Call

Fields of Equivocation for Plural Commons (Lara Scharf x Urban Commons Research Collective, 2024)

sites.google.com

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · May 27

Open Call from the Urban Commons Research Collective.

An initiative to broaden our understanding of communal living and stewardship by challenging the Western-centric notion of “the commons.”

Join us in this initiative by submitting an Expression of Interest until 20 June 2025.

An image of different terms related to commons in Turkish, Arabic, german, Aymara, Chinese or Greek, with their English translation and a background of colors with a thick white text saying: Urban Commons Reserach Collective OPEN CALL An archive and Glossary of Pluriversal Commons in Translation, and the website address: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/urban-commons/call

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Guillermo Zapata @gzapata.bsky.social · Mar 29

A las 19h estaremos @xanlopez.xyz @anamandes.bsky.social y yo hablando de redes sociales, comunicación y tecnológica en una mesa redonda que monta @movimientosumar.es

Con una idea fuerte en la cabeza: "Mundus sine cesaribus".

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · Mar 19

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

EFF Border Search Pocket Guide

border-pocket-guide-2.pdf

www.eff.org

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Feb 23

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Jan 24

¡Felicidades! Lo leeremos cuidadosamente ❤️

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Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Jan 20

Un abrazo fuerte. Y mucho ánimo a todxs.

Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Jan 20

Me sonrojais!

Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Jan 20

Me flipa la desincronía de Nación Rotonda! Sus posts son verdaderamente intemporales :)

Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social · Jan 20

Cambiar de comunidades digitales es como cambiar de piel. Ser parte de una historia colectiva que a partir de hoy no existirá más. Ayer discutíamos con @aleacion.bsky.social si preservar la memoria digital de las redes tiene sentido o lo suyo es que se pierda en el tiempo como lágrimas en la lluvia.