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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان)

@h0d3r.bsky.social

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PhDing on listening and mass personalization @MediaLSE @MediaLab @Shorensteinctr+ Iran Evin prison (6yrs). co-wrote ‘Information Disorder’, wrote 'Web We Have to Save'.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 19d

It took me four months — and required some (paid) help from a former student — but I finally migrated about 1000 gallery + museum newsletters, a couple hundred newsy newsletters, and a bunch of other stuff over to RSS. I'm really hoping this'll help manage the paralyzing deluge

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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Aug 13

AI is the revenge of capitalism from capitalism.

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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Aug 13

AI is the revenge of capitalism from capitalism.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Jun 22

The normalized and mainstreamed racism and Islamophobia after 9-11, accepted by both conservatives and many liberals, is rearing its head and leading US into war with Iran, a genocide in Gaza, and Cuomo returning to power.

Do we learn? Nope. Rinse and repeat.

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Mar 20

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#digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net

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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Mar 16

With quality synthetic data, most concerns about surveillance and exploitation will evaporate.

Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Mar 14

RSS readers have to be revived!

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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Mar 12

It's beyond stupid that Google maps etc. can still not suggest routes that combine public transport with bicycle, especially shared ones!

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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Mar 12

It's beyond stupid that Google maps etc. can still not suggest routes that combine public transport with bicycle, especially shared ones!

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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Mar 9

Trump's negotiation style follows three phases: flirt, punch, talk. Only Un and Starmer have figured this out yet and avoided the punch.

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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Feb 27

When would be relieved of this ontological anxiety linked to device batteries and recharging?

Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Feb 26

X (Twitter) and all other social media are essentially personalised television, as I laid out below ten years ago. So why such a shock when Musk bought a television network and rebranded it? medium.com/matter/the-w...

The Web We Have to Save

The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it?

medium.com

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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Feb 24

What's your email?

Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Feb 21

I always imagined @mactra.bsky.social with Barry Gibb's style long hair and beard. Video podcasts ruin everything!

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Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Feb 21

Is there still a tool to import all your follows from Twitter to here?

Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Feb 21

AI is not a technology, it's an extract of humanity.

Hossein Derakhshan (حسین درخشان) @h0d3r.bsky.social · Dec 16

United Kingdom of America.

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · Nov 21

Check out the latest episode of MEnbar, where I talk to the awesome June Park about the politics of AI Chips in the Gulf states.

YouTube: lnkd.in/dp33W6Zn
Spotify: lnkd.in/dr9PV3hQ
Apple Podcast: lnkd.in/d3qJahNR
SoundCloud: lnkd.in/dJaJiw5Q

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