Silvia Montaña
@silmonn.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Journalism at UniMelbourne @AdmsCentre. Researching #AI, #automation #platformisation of news, media and fact checkers. Se habla español. Views my own.
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silmonn.bsky.social
There is no need to watch horror movies this October. With the daily news is enough.
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt
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ulrikeklinger.bsky.social
“Article 40 won’t save us”: A full house for brilliant @rebekahtromble.bsky.social giving keynote at the Data Access Days in Berlin @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 🚀💪🔥
#data #dataaccess #commsky #polisky
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bostonjoan.bsky.social
The best article I’ve read on the medical misinformation about Tylenol and autism.

Fevers and sickness can be a risk factor, and left untreated, it could make matters worse. Tylenol is a red herring that could be reducing the damage caused by the fevers.

RFK is wrong. Congress should remove him.
silmonn.bsky.social
Yeah, the speech was memorable
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essideh.com
I had a lot of fun chatting with Klaus (@klaus.bsky.social) about The Discursive-Digital Link. You can listen to the episode on the Read Them Sideways podcast.
qutdmrc.bsky.social
After a brief hiatus, the Read Them Sideways podcast is back! In this week's episode, Klaus Groebner (@gklaus.bsky.social) interviews Dr Ehsan Dehghan (@essideh.com) about his new book: The Discursive-Digital Link.

Listen to Klaus and Ehsan chat about the new book below!
Episode 32: The Discursive-Digital Link with Ehsan Dehghan
Read Them Sideways · Episode
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silmonn.bsky.social
Yes, let's remember film reel propaganda from a hundred years ago. AI is the new media (oops...that sounded very 90s).
silmonn.bsky.social
Worse*, but the site yes: the worst🫠
silmonn.bsky.social
Every day is worst than the other. It’s a conspiracies machine 😬
silmonn.bsky.social
Yep, today Twitter or X or whatever is not an "echo chamber" but an echo platform. Quite the reason a few of us stopped posting, removed our accounts, or only became observers. Simply unbelievable.
silmonn.bsky.social
“The first programmers were women. Men considered programming a secondary task”, mathematician Martha Macho.
elpais.com
“Las primeras programadoras fueron mujeres”. Marta Macho reivindica la figura de mujeres matemáticas que, a menudo, a la sombra de sus maridos y, en otros casos, de sus jefes, han jugado un relevante papel en el avance de numerosos campos científicos social.elpais.com/9dja24
Marta Macho-Stadler, matemática: “Las primeras programadoras fueron mujeres, los hombres lo consideraban un trabajo menor”
La investigadora publica ‘Matemáticas x matemáticas’, para resaltar el papel que han jugado las mujeres matemáticas en el arranque de la programación o en la carrera espacial
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wired.com
WIRED @wired.com · Sep 6
Surrogate pregnancies are increasingly popular in tech circles, and the practice is expected to explode globally in the coming decade. It’s also shockingly unregulated. This is a story about what happens when it goes horribly wrong.
The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
wrd.cm
silmonn.bsky.social
The absolute bottom…
atrupar.com
This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something
Trump: "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR"