Katya Danziger
@katyadanziger.bsky.social
Tech Design Governance Practitioner. Global Thought @Columbia University. Kadampa Buddhist. katyadanziger.cargo.site
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Katya Danziger
@katyadanziger.bsky.social
· Jan 11
At today’s hackathon, I was one of 5 female students in the room. Grateful to have been born into a generation where I can even attend these things, but looking at what a long ways we have to go… #WomenInSTEM
Brand new podcast from IBM Quantum just launched entitled "The Coherence Times"
#QuantumComputing #EmergingTech #IBM
#QuantumComputing #EmergingTech #IBM
The Coherence Times: an IBM Quantum podcast | IBM Quantum Computing Blog
New weekly podcast introduces you to the thought leaders, researchers, developers, and technologists building the future of quantum computing.
www.ibm.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Brand new podcast from IBM Quantum just launched entitled "The Coherence Times"
#QuantumComputing #EmergingTech #IBM
#QuantumComputing #EmergingTech #IBM
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Network of the day.
From: Kuligowski, E.D. (2016). Human Behavior in Fire. In: Hurley, M.J., et al. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. Springer, New York, NY.
From: Kuligowski, E.D. (2016). Human Behavior in Fire. In: Hurley, M.J., et al. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. Springer, New York, NY.
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Network of the day.
From: Kuligowski, E.D. (2016). Human Behavior in Fire. In: Hurley, M.J., et al. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. Springer, New York, NY.
From: Kuligowski, E.D. (2016). Human Behavior in Fire. In: Hurley, M.J., et al. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. Springer, New York, NY.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
― E.F. Schumacher, German-born British statistician and economist
― E.F. Schumacher, German-born British statistician and economist
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
― E.F. Schumacher, German-born British statistician and economist
― E.F. Schumacher, German-born British statistician and economist
"If you pay attention to AI company branding, you'll notice a pattern:
-Circular shape (often with a gradient)
-Central opening or focal point
-Radiating elements from the center
-Soft, organic curves
Sound familiar? It should, because it's also an apt description of... well, you know.
A butthole."
-Circular shape (often with a gradient)
-Central opening or focal point
-Radiating elements from the center
-Soft, organic curves
Sound familiar? It should, because it's also an apt description of... well, you know.
A butthole."
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...
velvetshark.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"If you pay attention to AI company branding, you'll notice a pattern:
-Circular shape (often with a gradient)
-Central opening or focal point
-Radiating elements from the center
-Soft, organic curves
Sound familiar? It should, because it's also an apt description of... well, you know.
A butthole."
-Circular shape (often with a gradient)
-Central opening or focal point
-Radiating elements from the center
-Soft, organic curves
Sound familiar? It should, because it's also an apt description of... well, you know.
A butthole."
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Trump has been obsessed with nuclear weapons for decades. As Tom says, none of what Trump claims below is accurate. No nation except North Korea has tested nuclear weapons since the 1990s (the last US test was 1992). Russia and China will likely see renewed US nuclear weapons testing as escalatory.
None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Trump has been obsessed with nuclear weapons for decades. As Tom says, none of what Trump claims below is accurate. No nation except North Korea has tested nuclear weapons since the 1990s (the last US test was 1992). Russia and China will likely see renewed US nuclear weapons testing as escalatory.
“We love an avatar more than a specific being,” Pettman writes // “In a world of atomized, liquified, symptomatic and transactional relations,” maybe the act of ghosting can also “be a merciful one.”
Latest review of my latest book . . .
(sadly behind a paywall . . . )
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
(sadly behind a paywall . . . )
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Great Ghosting Paradox
Is there a social phenomenon that’s as infuriating—and as commonplace?
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
“We love an avatar more than a specific being,” Pettman writes // “In a world of atomized, liquified, symptomatic and transactional relations,” maybe the act of ghosting can also “be a merciful one.”
What an honor to be able to participate in weekly lectures with my hero @mariaressa.bsky.social at @columbiasipa.bsky.social! Talking about deliberative democracy and a federated open source future :)
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
What an honor to be able to participate in weekly lectures with my hero @mariaressa.bsky.social at @columbiasipa.bsky.social! Talking about deliberative democracy and a federated open source future :)
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“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
October 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
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RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
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This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.
2025, So Far
I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...
kalebhorton.ghost.io
September 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.
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Breaking News: Saul Zabar, who over seven decades made the Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s a New York institution, is dead at 97. nyti.ms/42qGl2n
October 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Breaking News: Saul Zabar, who over seven decades made the Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s a New York institution, is dead at 97. nyti.ms/42qGl2n
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taylor swift wrote a bluesky thinkpiece
![[Verse 1]
Everybody's so punk on the internet
Everyone's unbothered 'til they're not
Every joke's just trolling and memes
Sad as it seems, apathy is hot
Everybody's cutthroat in the comments
Every single hot take is cold as ice
When you found me, I said I was busy
That was a lie
[Pre-Chorus]
I have been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness
I've been dying just from trying to seem cool](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i4yqih65sftboupjwcnegqea/bafkreidfmgqwg3zixk5utvyq3acqtgcqu6zjo6atdscrw5mwzhuwettwxe@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
taylor swift wrote a bluesky thinkpiece
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Haruki Murakami was about to turn 30 when a thought occurred to him: “You know what? I could try writing a novel.” Then he realized, “If I wanted to have a long life as a novelist, I needed to find a way to stay in shape.”
The Running Novelist
If I wanted to have a long life as a writer, I needed to find a way to stay in shape.
www.newyorker.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Haruki Murakami was about to turn 30 when a thought occurred to him: “You know what? I could try writing a novel.” Then he realized, “If I wanted to have a long life as a novelist, I needed to find a way to stay in shape.”
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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
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
Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
www.independent.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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
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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"In a consumer society like ours, it is through buying goods that reality takes shape.. Not just physical reality or cultural but psychological, ethical, and behavioral" -Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Speculative Everything
November 17, 2024 at 11:09 AM
"In a consumer society like ours, it is through buying goods that reality takes shape.. Not just physical reality or cultural but psychological, ethical, and behavioral" -Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Speculative Everything
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On this week's episode, we're joined by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby to talk about their new book, Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination!
🎧 Listen here: scratchingthesurface.fm/274-anthony-...
🎧 Listen here: scratchingthesurface.fm/274-anthony-...
October 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
On this week's episode, we're joined by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby to talk about their new book, Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination!
🎧 Listen here: scratchingthesurface.fm/274-anthony-...
🎧 Listen here: scratchingthesurface.fm/274-anthony-...
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
— Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman
— Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman
October 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
— Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman
— Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS
October 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS
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May she be surrounded by love, including lots of love from the creatures she so zealously protected and advocated for!
October 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
May she be surrounded by love, including lots of love from the creatures she so zealously protected and advocated for!
RIP to my first childhood hero who taught me so much about living in harmony and with an open heart. Jane Goodall, you will be missed. May your legacy of hope for a better world live on forever.
October 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
RIP to my first childhood hero who taught me so much about living in harmony and with an open heart. Jane Goodall, you will be missed. May your legacy of hope for a better world live on forever.
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JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
n.pr
October 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
@cocteau.bsky.social speaking to Global Thought students today. Full circle moment :)
September 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@cocteau.bsky.social speaking to Global Thought students today. Full circle moment :)
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The AI bubble can’t pop soon enough.
September 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The AI bubble can’t pop soon enough.