Pooja Sastry 🍉
@theunkindcity.bsky.social
ಲಾಲ್ ಸಲಾಮ್! PhD student @ucddublin.bsky.social hegemonic spatial imaginaries, critical AI. Oppressor caste; learning to be a better ally. any pronouns 🏳️🌈
we’re at the stage where they just describe the dystopian prison they are building with AI without the pretense. Almost refreshing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoLinda McMahon on successful uses of AI in classrooms: "The first couple hours every day students really have on headphones, they're in front of their computers, they're getting their subjects fed to them...the beauty of that is the student almost has a one-on-one tutor...I have seen it work so well"
Book 24 was Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker (narrated by Janet Metzger). Favourite quote: “Neuroqueer is active subversion of both neuronormativity and heteronormativity. Neuroqueer is intentional noncompliance with the demands of normative performance.”
Please share and amplify! We must not forget our comrades in Gaza!
Jamal and Leila are an elderly couple from Gaza looking after their family. Don’t forget our siblings in Gaza! Please share and donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/1844...
💔 Leila & Jamal’s Family Struggling to Survive in Gaza 🙏
Hello, my name is Leila Mohammed, 63 years old, and together with my husband Jamal, also 63, we are trying to keep our family alive in Gaza.
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Urgent Request to Halt Deportation of Sami Kupiszeski - Sign the Petition! c.org/tBQkcwZN6n via @change.org
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Urgent Request to Halt Deportation of Sami Kupiszeski
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Meta is so unbelievably evil. They make a technology primarily designed to enable abuse, harassment and privacy violations, but also embed real disability aids. The tactic now is to use an entire community as human shields to defend against criticisms www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...
Meet Mohammad and Mirna, they are trying to hold on to hope amidst the genocide. Please don’t forget our comrades in Gaza! We must continue to stand with them and share their stories! tinyurl.com/4rycmjm5
When Food and Medicine Become Dreams: Support Ziad & Mirna’s Family of 4 🫂🍉
From the heart of Gaza and the ruins of houses, we write to you with hope amidst the pain. As the parents of Ziad and Mirna, we have lost our livelihoods, facing a harsh reality that threatens our chi...
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As always, Bluesky is muting and deleting accounts from Gáza. Please help Sama’a and her family! Share and donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/1575...
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Big Tech and AI companies have refined these prior industrial tactics into what I call 'algorithmic agnotology': the exploitation of technical complexity to obscure accountability and naturalize inscrutability as inherent to digital systems.
The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ
Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.
Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere's a reason why "these are just statistical predictions" hasn't caught on in the discourse, and it's not the tech press. It's that people see them reading and writing and reasoning and scheming and they realize that the stochastic-parrots framing is outdated and inadequate to the moment
Sama'a and her family need our help to survive. Food and clean water are scarce in Gaza, and both cost dearly. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋@carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 2mo agoGaza is not just a passing news item; it is the life of millions of people who face fear, hunger displacement, and the loss of loved ones every day. Behind every number is a story, and behind every child is a dream waiting for a chance to live in peace. Do not forget Gaza chuffed.org/project/1575...
"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 9mo agoAcademics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI “training” is offering the illusion of control and mastery by displacing awareness of how it is being integrated into civic institutions to the disadvantage of people with an illusory self-awareness of “appropriate” use. It’s just a form of on-boarding. 3/n
This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.
Hannah Daly@hannahdaly.ie · 2mo agoWhat is even more striking is that data centre demand has matched 93% of the growth in renewable electricity generation (wind + solar + hydro) over the past decade. If we measure since 2020, data centre demand has grown nearly 3-times faster than renewable electricity growth.
Reminder: the Masterclass on Migration, Gender and Empire by Dr @mariejruiz.bsky.social is on this Thursday 12-4pm at the @ucdhumanities.bsky.social H204! Join @hammurab1.bsky.social + @melacholictrees.bsky.social if you work on migration, gender, empire, and everything in-between!
TNH-PhD network@tnhphdnetwork.bsky.social · 5mo agoCome to the Masterclass on Migration, Gender and Empire on Thursday 7th May 12-4pm at the UCD HI H204. Dr @mariejruiz.bsky.social of the University of Picardy Jules Verne is the keynote speaker + workshop facilitator! Sign up now at tinyurl.com/3c7yy9cs
Organised by @hammurab1.bsky.social and @melacholictrees.bsky.social! Stop by if your work intersects with migration, gender, empire, and everything in-between (or come for a fix of interdisciplinary goodness)
Come to the Masterclass on Migration, Gender and Empire on Thursday 7th May 12-4pm at the UCD HI H204. Dr @mariejruiz.bsky.social of the University of Picardy Jules Verne is the keynote speaker + workshop facilitator! Sign up now at tinyurl.com/3c7yy9cs
#PlasticsTreaty Plastics "recycling" is largely bullshit & has been for >50 years NO "last chance" for human, climate, biodiversity & ocean-harming plastics—REGULATE plastic production
Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · last yr.NEW: The president of one of the world's largest plastics producers acknowledged in 1974 that recycling plastic was "not feasible." It's “further proof that the plastics industry has been actively deceiving the public for decades about the recyclability of plastics” says @davisallen.bsky.social.
This goes well with what Quinn Slobodian has been saying lately which is that the Boas-influenced idea of race as a “social construct” in US was finally overturned starting in the 90s with the bell curve and human genome project, and 23andMe. Everyone is a folk “race realist” now
