Ingrid Kopp
@ingridkopp.bsky.social
Big fan of goats and decent WiFi. Co-founder, Electric South.
Currently: Africa, immersive media, nonfiction everything, internet access, AI ethics, audiences, creative ecosytems, joy.
https://www.electricsouth.org
Currently: Africa, immersive media, nonfiction everything, internet access, AI ethics, audiences, creative ecosytems, joy.
https://www.electricsouth.org
I think lethal force against a target who didn't pose a threat is a long way of saying "murder".
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti
A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:32 AM
I think lethal force against a target who didn't pose a threat is a long way of saying "murder".
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Yes! "Joy in the present makes joy in the future seem plausible." jenka.substack.com/p/heated-riv...
Heated Rivalry and the Art of Anti-Dystopia
Joy in the present makes joy in the future seem plausible.
jenka.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Yes! "Joy in the present makes joy in the future seem plausible." jenka.substack.com/p/heated-riv...
"Joy doesn’t seem to the on the corporate agenda these days. Nor does anything that makes people aware that they do have agency."
www.noproscenium.com/vr-winter-is...
www.noproscenium.com/vr-winter-is...
VR Winter Is Here (Op-Ed)
Meta is laying off 10% of its Reality Labs division, and VR is being hit hard. Our publisher tackles what it all means.
www.noproscenium.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:38 PM
"Joy doesn’t seem to the on the corporate agenda these days. Nor does anything that makes people aware that they do have agency."
www.noproscenium.com/vr-winter-is...
www.noproscenium.com/vr-winter-is...
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Remember this feel good hit from 1968? Something about it just hits different today...
January 23, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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October 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
🎨 Mapping immersive arts in SA, Lesotho & Malawi!
📊 Take our survey for a chance to win 2,000 ZAR
🗣️ Or join focus groups/interviews
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Focus groups: forms.gle/d87erWGcBTSY...
#ImmersiveArts #Survey #CreativeTech #Lesotho #Malawi #SouthAfrica
📊 Take our survey for a chance to win 2,000 ZAR
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Well this is lovely. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘A monument to kindness’: the rise of Britain’s community cinemas
With more than 1,600 screens, people share how local-run venues are taking them on a film-worthy adventure
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Well this is lovely. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
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In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
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In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
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This is so depressing on so many levels. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies
Exclusive: Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
This is so depressing on so many levels. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Next, this. Once I get my head around emergent cohesion. 😜
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Outcomes & Systems: From Predicted Goods to Emergent Cohesion
Critical summary – the single through‑line of the essay
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October 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Next, this. Once I get my head around emergent cohesion. 😜
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Next, not reducing everything to narrative. judith-mll.medium.com/against-the-...
Against the obsession with narratives: A materialist critique
In recent years, political and cultural debate has increasingly turned into a battle of stories. Everything seems to revolve around…
judith-mll.medium.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Next, not reducing everything to narrative. judith-mll.medium.com/against-the-...
As part of this process I'm going to share a bunch of stuff I am reading as I think about how to do things better. First, slowing down. www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/the-tim...
The Times are Urgent: Let’s Slow Down • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe
An Open Letter to CONCORD-DEEEP, CIVICUS, GCAP, Civic Society Organizations and Activists Working for a ‘Better’ World. This article is co-authored by Bayo Akomolafe and Marta Benavides. With deep gra...
www.bayoakomolafe.net
October 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
As part of this process I'm going to share a bunch of stuff I am reading as I think about how to do things better. First, slowing down. www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/the-tim...
Deep dives into both Three Horizons and Doughnut Economics today. Feeling the itch to rethink the way I am doing things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Kf...
Three Horizons Framework - a quick introduction
YouTube video by Doughnut Economics Action Lab
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October 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Deep dives into both Three Horizons and Doughnut Economics today. Feeling the itch to rethink the way I am doing things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Kf...
Love this so much! hyperallergic.com/1049466/indi...
Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing
An unsanctioned exhibition uses AR to insert works by Native artists, like Cannupa Hanska Luger and Jeremy Dennis, into the museum’s 19th-century landscapes.
hyperallergic.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Love this so much! hyperallergic.com/1049466/indi...
If you are in NYC. Ari Kuschnir is doing fascinating work with AI. luma.com/42fk6gdb?tk=...
Propaganda in the Age of AI: Discussion, Demos, and Reception · Luma
MoMI invites you to an intimate convening featuring a conversation with special guests, including viral AI storyteller Ari Kuschnir, Founder of m ss ng p eces…
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October 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
If you are in NYC. Ari Kuschnir is doing fascinating work with AI. luma.com/42fk6gdb?tk=...
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Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.
![A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”
A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kfrqgupz2gfe4fnqs7tunewt/bafkreih7pn6bwnhxtkd6xpfcck6gnwiqsuuixc4suhzfo4qi7djweo3ggm@jpeg)
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.
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I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down
NVIDIA and OpenAi:
Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“
@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“
@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down
ARTISTS OPEN CALL ALERT: Are you an immersive artist based in South Africa, Lesotho or Malawi? Futures_Past is inviting teams to reimagine heritage through immersive storytelling. electricsouth.org/open-call-fo...
@electricsouth.bsky.social
@electricsouth.bsky.social
Open Call For The Futures Past 2.0 | Electric South
Futures Past is a dedicated project that supports archival and cultural institutions in South Africa, Lesotho and Malawi through immersive storytelling.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
ARTISTS OPEN CALL ALERT: Are you an immersive artist based in South Africa, Lesotho or Malawi? Futures_Past is inviting teams to reimagine heritage through immersive storytelling. electricsouth.org/open-call-fo...
@electricsouth.bsky.social
@electricsouth.bsky.social
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The winter round of the @jerwoodfoundation.bsky.social Fund is open!
For organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and working with the Jerwood Collection.
jerwood.org/fundi…
For organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and working with the Jerwood Collection.
jerwood.org/fundi…
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The winter round of the @jerwoodfoundation.bsky.social Fund is open!
For organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and working with the Jerwood Collection.
jerwood.org/fundi…
For organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and working with the Jerwood Collection.
jerwood.org/fundi…
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Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
September 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
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1/2: Good to see a strong economic argument for #publicinterestmedia being made by leading economists including @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @francescabria.bsky.social @dacemoglumit.bsky.social in this statement:
informationdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
informationdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
informationdemocracy.org
September 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
1/2: Good to see a strong economic argument for #publicinterestmedia being made by leading economists including @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @francescabria.bsky.social @dacemoglumit.bsky.social in this statement:
informationdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
informationdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
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Why was there a Kindertransport?
Because we wouldn't let their parents come with them.
Five years into the Nazi persecution, we wouldn't let their parents come with them. And we insisted every child had someone to meet their "costs". And we only agreed on condition most would "re-emigrate".
Because we wouldn't let their parents come with them.
Five years into the Nazi persecution, we wouldn't let their parents come with them. And we insisted every child had someone to meet their "costs". And we only agreed on condition most would "re-emigrate".
Unfortunately, and as I write about in my current book... British society in the 1930s... and even after the start of the war... influenced by newspapers like the Daily Mail was just as hostile to Jewish German and other refugees of Naziism as their modern descendants are to 'asylum seekers' today.
I want to say to the “nice people” who succumb to the boats and women’s toilets propaganda, to pretend it’s the 30s and it’s escaping Jewish people from Europe or Black people in the Deep South they are being asked to despise.
August 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Why was there a Kindertransport?
Because we wouldn't let their parents come with them.
Five years into the Nazi persecution, we wouldn't let their parents come with them. And we insisted every child had someone to meet their "costs". And we only agreed on condition most would "re-emigrate".
Because we wouldn't let their parents come with them.
Five years into the Nazi persecution, we wouldn't let their parents come with them. And we insisted every child had someone to meet their "costs". And we only agreed on condition most would "re-emigrate".
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Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
August 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
I hate the word "agentic" - it's almost as bad as "growth hacker."
August 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I hate the word "agentic" - it's almost as bad as "growth hacker."