Natalie Sontopski
@stromponsky.bsky.social
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Researcher 🔮 More-Than-Human Design //STS // Feminism // Critical AI
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Blitz Black History Mode
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Remi Kalir
3 days ago
Roses are red Violets are blue You can resist AI hype Luddites were sexy, too
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In a not so surprising turn of events, we are back to women being basically witches again.
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Jasmin Schreiber
5 days ago
der bekannteste deutsche forscher, der viel peer review publizierenden ki-forscher:innen hierzulande komplett unbekannt war
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Can't wait for the near future where I will be misinformed by a customer service chatbot, misdiagnosed by a medical chatbot, misidentified by a face-recognition system and misrepresented by a legal chatbot.
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*sighs deeply* She can't teach an AI model to have morals, only to imitate her understanding of what having morals means. Its a pattern imitation machine, not an intelligent machine, people!
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8 days ago
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This.
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12 days ago
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By no means do I have a musical ear but I can't believe how bad the sound quality at Spotify is. Its basically just very flat. I switched to Deezer two months ago and its a whole new (better) world of listening to music.
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There will be a backlash eventually but I fear for the students in school and university right now who are basically lab rats for AI curriculums created by tech companies and do not realize they get robbed of a proper education.
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13 days ago
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Well, sound like a marvelous idea where nothing can go wrong! The city and its inhabitants will definitly profit from this surely well-informed AI push with improved infrastructures for health, eduation and business because who better to trust with sensitive data than Big Tech?
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14 days ago
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I would describe my PhD writing process as learning while writing while also somehow managing to take one step forward and two steps back with each new written section.
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Berit Glanz
22 days ago
Hallelujah! Die EU-Kommission leitet endlich (!) ein Verfahren gegen X wegen Grok ein.
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Littel Tip: There is this little thing called a hard disk drive where you can save all your digital files. It also comes in a portable version. And there is an ancient practice know as "back-up", which is specifically designed to avoid mishaps like this.
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25 days ago
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Ruhezone im ICE der Deutschen Bahn funktioniert heute nach dem Motto "Nur wer möchte", wer stattdessen lieber das ganze Abteil an einem einen Facetime Anruf mit seinem Bro teilhaben lassen will, darf das natürlich gerne.
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Onikuno
27 days ago
Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now
cybernews.com/security/dev...
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One developer’s tool strips AI and other junk from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
A developer released a free tool called “Just the Browser” that disabless AI features, ads, and other unwanted junk in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
https://cybernews.com/security/developer-releases-tool-that-disables-ai-in-chrome-edge-and-firefox/
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No shit, ey - Smart Brillen sind dermassen surveillance coded, dass von Anfang an klar war, wofür Nutzer*innen diese Gadgets nutzen werden: Um anderen Personen ohne Consent zu filmen.
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Smart-Brillen werden genutzt, um Videos von Frauen gegen ihren Willen ins Netz zu stellen
Auf mehreren Social-Media-Accounts wurden über hundert Videos hochgeladen, in denen Frauen nach ihrer Nummer gefragt wurden
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000303757/smart-brillen-werden-genutzt-um-videos-von-frauen-gegen-ihren-willen-ins-netz-zu-stellen?utm_source=firefox-newtab-de-de
about 1 month ago
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Richard A Carter
about 1 month ago
Pure trolling at this point.
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Oh hell no.
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about 1 month ago
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I feel this. A lot. Like A LOT.
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about 2 months ago
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Michael Hobbes
2 months ago
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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Rebecca Williams
3 months ago
Home Depot is running a surveil Santa ad that also has Santa dropping off more surveillance gear for the family, in this world there is only surveillance
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If you are planning to attend the stsing conference in Bochum next March, may I point you to our case? We happily accept attendants and are looking for a fun, interdisciplinary crowd eager to discuss all things more-than-human, anthropocene and toolkits. Come and join us!
stsing.org/before-ruins...
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From industrial ruins to ecological renewal. Developing a toolkit for actionable interventions. | The 2026 conference of stsing e.V.
Julia Hoffmann, Natalie Sontopski
https://stsing.org/before-ruins/from-industrial-ruins-to-ecological-renewal-developing-a-to
3 months ago
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Peter Tarras
3 months ago
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
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The relationship of eugenics and AI goes waaaay back.
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
did an execellent talk about this!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT...
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3 months ago
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What hell feels like: Transcriping interviews and hearing your own, slowed down voice on repeat for hours. Have my spoken words any meaning? Can I not form at least one coherent sentence when talking to other people?
3 months ago
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Most important lesson in the age of AI: "how do you develop the skills of discernment? This one is very very important: do not let the AI do the work for you before you have learned how to do it yourself. "
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4 months ago
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Große Empfehlung an alle, die sich eine Übersicht über digitale Technologien und deren komplexe und teilweise desaströse geopolitische, ökologische und kapitalistische entanglements im Anthropozän verschaffen möchten.
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4 months ago
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When STEM discovers sociology but instead of giving credit, sells this as new research. I see this happening a lot in STEM and it makes me furious.
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4 months ago
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Ever wondered what " your data is stored in the cloud" means? Contrary to real clouds, the digital cloud is based in massive noisy loud data centers and far less celestial - some would even describe living next to them as hell.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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A humming annoyance or jobs boom? Life next to 199 data centres in Virginia
Data centres were billed as a boon to Virginia’s economy. Now, residents are concerned about their impact on real estate and electricity costs.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dnnxewdvo
4 months ago
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Content creation has become so cynical that homeless people are now pawns for allegedly "random acts of kindness". These content creators are very aware of their privacy but do not care for the privacy of a vulnerable and marginalized community.
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4 months ago
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I love stumbling on resources like that, because teaching is hard and inspiration is always welcome. I am especially drawn to the unit about the iconic "More Work for Mother" from Ruth Schwartz Cowan.
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4 months ago
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Like all AI companions before, this too an overhyped (and overprices) gadget which will probably land forgotten in a cupboard somewhere, not a companion with whom you'll form a longlasting relationship for years to come.
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4 months ago
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Ich freue mich: Am 4. November um 13.30 Uhr spreche ich an der HS Merseburg online über "Einmal Assistentin, immer Assistentin? Wie binäre Geschlechterperspetiven die Repräsentation von KI beeinflussen". Pssst: Es gibt lustige Gifs! Infos & Anmeldung hier:
www.hs-merseburg.de/hochschule/p...
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Veranstaltungen
https://www.hs-merseburg.de/hochschule/projekte/fem-power/veranstaltungen/
4 months ago
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Starlink seems just another in a long line of Elon Musk projects which seemed to good to be true: 1-2 satellites are falling back to Earth each day which raises questions how this affects the delicate future of near Earth space.
earthsky.org/human-world/...
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1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day
https://earthsky.org/human-world/1-to-2-starlink-satellites-falling-back-to-earth-each-day/
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
5 months ago
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. 1/n
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doctor eep (alt decorative gourd season)
5 months ago
i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked
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My paper on pioneering communitites, feminist speculation & Creative AI is available in the ACM library. This paper is part of my PhD and I am so happy that it got accepted & published (doing a PhD is hard as many of you probably know) and I hope it finds its audience 🤗
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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“I want to build something”. A field study of pioneering communities, feminist speculation and Creative AI. | Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Communities & Technologies
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3742800.3742828
5 months ago
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Damit Inklusion kein Fremdwort bleibt, müssen wir uns für den Erhalt einer emanzipatorischen, kritischen und diversen Forschungslandschaft einsetzen:
weact.campact.de/petitions/di...
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Disability Studies bedroht: Kritisch-emanzipatorische Wissenschaft schützen und stärken!
• Hochschulen und Universitäten sind zentrale Akteurinnen bei der Umsetzung der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention und der Förderung einer inklusiven, barrierefreien Gesellschaft. Der Abbau von Disability...
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/disability-studies-bedroht-kritisch-emanzipatorische-wissenschaft-schutzen-und-starken-1?source=bluesky-share-button&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=bluesky&share=c87d61fb-25b2-4ba9-8660-0830eacd24f7
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Shannon Vallor
7 months ago
Consider also how few professional women feel they have any safe margin to allow for mistakes or mediocrity in their work (both risks of AI-generated output). Especially in male-dominated fields, women can’t afford to use a machine that shits the bed even 5% of the time
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I did a thing and talked about my PhD research on pioneering communities and feminist speculations.
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I'll be in Siegen next week for the Communities &Technologies conference to present my paper on Pioneering communities, feminist speculation and Creative AI. So, if you wanna discuss "doing speculation", Donna Haraway or just talk about making stuff, let me know!
7 months ago
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Dr. Casey Fiesler
7 months ago
This is fascinating:
www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
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From the OpenAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I7Qbvo3I95
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A user experience from hell is when your SIM card is deactivated because your phone is missing but your provider asks you to verify your identity by sending a text to your phone. Which you dont have. And therefore cant verify your identity this way.
7 months ago
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I wonder if people who have used AI will be reflected enough to include similar disclaimers about their research methods for transparency.
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8 months ago
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✪ Happy Black Fistory Month! ✪
8 months ago
Firefox extension for those who are interested.
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Germany is so not ready for the increasing heat of German summers: The public transport in my city often has not functioning AC, making every trip an unbearable sweat fest. Same goes for local trains. This wont convince people to switch to public transport instead of cars.
8 months ago
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In my talks, I am beginning to sound like a broken record: ChatGPT is no search engine! Be mindful where you share your data! Current AI is not equal to intelligence! AI is a pattern recognition machine! And in the end, people go home and ask ChatGPT if this is true. Sigh.
8 months ago
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Dr Abeba Birhane
8 months ago
New paper hot off the press
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08972-6#MOESM1
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