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Tyler Blackman

@tylerb.bsky.social

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PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo. Interested in the future of work and the changing meaning of work. He/him. I am also active on: @dialogueshg.bsky.social More here: https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/tblackma

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Tyler Blackman @tylerb.bsky.social · Aug 6

New commentary with @dcockayne.bsky.social now out! As part of a special issue on AI refusal, we offer brief speculative narrative imagining working life in an AI-dominated future, navigating between dystopian and utopian visions of AI and its refusal.

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Michael Iantorno 🍂🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · Jan 8

"So Mike, what's motivating you to finish your PhD?"

In a scene from the simpsons, a woman holds a clipboard with a list of reasons. The reasons are "spite", "malice", "revenge", "boredom", and "profit."

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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · Nov 17

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details:
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Ideational geographies workshop

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CAVRN @handle.invalid · Nov 18

This week on CAVRN, @tylerb.bsky.social and Daniel Harley reflect on the promotion of the Apple Vision Pro, its branding as a ‘spatial computer’, and conceptions of spatiality and spatial media within and across XR disciplines. Check it out here: cavrn.org/xr-as-spatia...

XR as Spatial Media Across Disciplines

By Tyler Blackman and Daniel Harley

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Tyler Blackman @tylerb.bsky.social · Oct 4

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