Efpraxia_Z
@efpraxiaz.bsky.social
Professor at Durham University Business School #DUBS | Research on #InformationSystems, interested in #metaverse
She/her | Mother of dogs | Views my own
She/her | Mother of dogs | Views my own
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“We talk about “funding” as if it’s a favour. It’s not. It’s investment in imagination, in shared experience and in our national story.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“We talk about “funding” as if it’s a favour. It’s not. It’s investment in imagination, in shared experience and in our national story.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Just went on Radio 4 to talk about Hitler’s genitals. So glad I trained as a historian for this
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Just went on Radio 4 to talk about Hitler’s genitals. So glad I trained as a historian for this
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I feel like I’m losing my mind, the BBC story is about political interference. Everything else is secondary.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I feel like I’m losing my mind, the BBC story is about political interference. Everything else is secondary.
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Adorable …Giving Treats to the elephant ✨🐘✨💙✨🐘✨
November 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Adorable …Giving Treats to the elephant ✨🐘✨💙✨🐘✨
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work:
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
www.404media.co
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work:
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
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Once again, absolutely fine that everyone on social media is seeing MPs tell easily disprovable lies at a time when trust in politics and the media is already incredibly low, this definitely won't have any negative consequences
Lisa Nandy: "He's right to say that it is unprecedented in recent times that an entire group of away supporters have been entirely banned from a game"
Unprecedented in recent times? In 2023 Legia Warsaw fans were banned from a game at Villa Park.
Unprecedented in recent times? In 2023 Legia Warsaw fans were banned from a game at Villa Park.
October 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Once again, absolutely fine that everyone on social media is seeing MPs tell easily disprovable lies at a time when trust in politics and the media is already incredibly low, this definitely won't have any negative consequences
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I was having an emotion, and I hate that.
October 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I was having an emotion, and I hate that.
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my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
August 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
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Great news on a Sunday(+a journal with a 5% acceptance rate! @efpraxiaz.bsky.social and I analysed the EU AI Act via Critical Discourse Analysis. While it initially emphasises human rights, it then constructs migrants+refugees as threats, justifying surveillance tech (and even polygraphs?)
October 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Great news on a Sunday(+a journal with a 5% acceptance rate! @efpraxiaz.bsky.social and I analysed the EU AI Act via Critical Discourse Analysis. While it initially emphasises human rights, it then constructs migrants+refugees as threats, justifying surveillance tech (and even polygraphs?)
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October 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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A primer on Digital Authoritarianism.
Roberts and Oosterom (2024)
"This paper presents the first systematic literature review of digital authoritarianism and related terms."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Roberts and Oosterom (2024)
"This paper presents the first systematic literature review of digital authoritarianism and related terms."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Digital authoritarianism: a systematic literature review
Authoritarianism is in the ascendancy across the globe, with digital technologies being used by both governments and non-state actors to repress rights and freedoms. Competing terms have emerged to...
www.tandfonline.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A primer on Digital Authoritarianism.
Roberts and Oosterom (2024)
"This paper presents the first systematic literature review of digital authoritarianism and related terms."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Roberts and Oosterom (2024)
"This paper presents the first systematic literature review of digital authoritarianism and related terms."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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It’s the September round of @alcs.co.uk payments - always a welcome email to get, and enough for a little autumn treat. Authors, I cannot stress how it’s something you should definitely sign up to!
a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you .
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you .
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September 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It’s the September round of @alcs.co.uk payments - always a welcome email to get, and enough for a little autumn treat. Authors, I cannot stress how it’s something you should definitely sign up to!
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And all at once,
summer
collapsed into
fall.
—Oscar Wilde
summer
collapsed into
fall.
—Oscar Wilde
September 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
And all at once,
summer
collapsed into
fall.
—Oscar Wilde
summer
collapsed into
fall.
—Oscar Wilde
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities on.ft.com/4n8Y3Q2
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients
on.ft.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities on.ft.com/4n8Y3Q2
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Trail cam spots chihuahua with pack of coyotes…
Little did anyone realize, he was their leader
Little did anyone realize, he was their leader
September 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Trail cam spots chihuahua with pack of coyotes…
Little did anyone realize, he was their leader
Little did anyone realize, he was their leader
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Idiocracy is fundamentally a movie in soft praise of eugenics but holy fuck if it didn't predict some of these really shitty values, behaviors, and aesthetics.
September 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Idiocracy is fundamentally a movie in soft praise of eugenics but holy fuck if it didn't predict some of these really shitty values, behaviors, and aesthetics.
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in this week's newsletter! if you would like to know how my trip to Oslo went, please know I've titled the piece "notes on a Scandisaster": youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/continenta... [free to read!]
September 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
in this week's newsletter! if you would like to know how my trip to Oslo went, please know I've titled the piece "notes on a Scandisaster": youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/continenta... [free to read!]
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AI is interesting to me because it has mainstreamed “what does it mean to be human” and “what is the value of creativity and labor?” Unfortunately it’s also mainstreamed a lot of really dumb responses to those questions
August 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
AI is interesting to me because it has mainstreamed “what does it mean to be human” and “what is the value of creativity and labor?” Unfortunately it’s also mainstreamed a lot of really dumb responses to those questions
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UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades due to data collection anomalies.
Gender discrimination is institutionalized.
Women lose most when govts impose real cuts in public sector pay, benefits; two-child benefit cap; don't value carers.
Despite laws equality is a long way off.
Gender discrimination is institutionalized.
Women lose most when govts impose real cuts in public sector pay, benefits; two-child benefit cap; don't value carers.
Despite laws equality is a long way off.
UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades, report says
Findings suggest since 2004 ONS failed to properly account for fact it received more data from larger employers
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades due to data collection anomalies.
Gender discrimination is institutionalized.
Women lose most when govts impose real cuts in public sector pay, benefits; two-child benefit cap; don't value carers.
Despite laws equality is a long way off.
Gender discrimination is institutionalized.
Women lose most when govts impose real cuts in public sector pay, benefits; two-child benefit cap; don't value carers.
Despite laws equality is a long way off.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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“If you want to actually do something... leave the Refugee Convention… leave the ECHR… abolish the Human Rights Act”
"That's not a country that I'd feel very comfortable about"
Poppy Coburn and Shami Chakrabarti clash over human rights and the UK asylum system.
#Newsnight
"That's not a country that I'd feel very comfortable about"
Poppy Coburn and Shami Chakrabarti clash over human rights and the UK asylum system.
#Newsnight
August 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“If you want to actually do something... leave the Refugee Convention… leave the ECHR… abolish the Human Rights Act”
"That's not a country that I'd feel very comfortable about"
Poppy Coburn and Shami Chakrabarti clash over human rights and the UK asylum system.
#Newsnight
"That's not a country that I'd feel very comfortable about"
Poppy Coburn and Shami Chakrabarti clash over human rights and the UK asylum system.
#Newsnight
Palestine Action co-founder accuses ministers of making defamatory claims www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Palestine Action co-founder accuses ministers of making defamatory claims
Huda Ammori says No 10’s allegations go against its own intelligence assessments as pressure grows over mass arrest
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Palestine Action co-founder accuses ministers of making defamatory claims www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...