Kristen Koopman
@kkoopman.bsky.social
Ph.D. from VT STS. Studying and writing speculative fiction.
Definitely not two smaller Kristen Koopmans in a trenchcoat.
Definitely not two smaller Kristen Koopmans in a trenchcoat.
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Kristen Koopman
@kkoopman.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Kristen Koopman
Scholarship Kristen Koopman joined the Virginia Tech Department of Science, Technology, and Society in 2013 and received her M.S. in 2015. Her work lies at the intersection of STS, media studies, and ...
kristenkoopman.com
Since I've gotten some new followers: hello! My name is Kristen Koopman and sometimes I do things! Most of the things I do can be found at my website here: kristenkoopman.com
I write and study speculative fiction, particularly around the intersections of science and values.
I write and study speculative fiction, particularly around the intersections of science and values.
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…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls
How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 4:01 AM
…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls
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How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 3:57 AM
How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
One week from today! VOD will be available after.
I'm going to be doing some short classes for the Ad Astra Institute! First up, How to Not Do Eugenics with Speculative Biology! It's a brief primer on the history of race science and eugenics with suggestions on how to avoid fantasy or science fiction racism. adastra-sf.com/courses.htm#...
February 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
One week from today! VOD will be available after.
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OK all I’ve seen on the Internet today makes me want to throw my phone into the sea so, here is a puppy on her first walk in the snow, gobbling up the snowballs being fed to her by a sweet neighborhood kid
February 13, 2026 at 4:15 PM
OK all I’ve seen on the Internet today makes me want to throw my phone into the sea so, here is a puppy on her first walk in the snow, gobbling up the snowballs being fed to her by a sweet neighborhood kid
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I'm willing to give all the credit for this to the Dog Rates guy.
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February 12, 2026 at 11:33 PM
I'm willing to give all the credit for this to the Dog Rates guy.
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my Neocities website has been upgraded from 'world's laziest Linktree knockoff' to 'decent babby's first css/html effort with some stuff that needs filling in', please clap, I'm not good at this
unknown.garden
unknown.garden
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 PM
my Neocities website has been upgraded from 'world's laziest Linktree knockoff' to 'decent babby's first css/html effort with some stuff that needs filling in', please clap, I'm not good at this
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I watched the whole thing because it's astonishing
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I watched the whole thing because it's astonishing
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Boosting - this feels like the kind of fun, weird thing that STS would do, right?
Do folks have favorite examples storytelling in academic writing? I'm considering asking students to use their research to tell a story as an exercise and would love some models.
February 11, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Boosting - this feels like the kind of fun, weird thing that STS would do, right?
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Book Review: These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
Breaking binaries in a future that feels terrifyingly near
Alex Wallace has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
Breaking binaries in a future that feels terrifyingly near
Alex Wallace has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
Book Review: These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
Breaking binaries in a future that feels terrifyingly near We often talk of the collapse of governments as the collapse of order. We fear a...
www.nerds-feather.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Book Review: These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
Breaking binaries in a future that feels terrifyingly near
Alex Wallace has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
Breaking binaries in a future that feels terrifyingly near
Alex Wallace has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
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they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole
February 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole
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Simply, just don’t use it.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Simply, just don’t use it.
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Interesting rhetoric from AOC here
February 10, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Interesting rhetoric from AOC here
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This is one of things. Bigtime.
February 9, 2026 at 9:23 PM
This is one of things. Bigtime.
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For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism
bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
bookshop.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 PM
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism
bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
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Ted is a CS professor (and Oscar winner) who has also become an STS scholar. He is teaching his computer graphics class this semester by pairing STS and technical readings. What a model. See the thread for some great parings.
STS Reading, Week 5: "Being and the Other: Dismantling the Façade of the Empathy Machine" Chapter 4 of "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" by @lmesseri.bsky.social
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believin
read.dukeupress.edu
February 9, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Ted is a CS professor (and Oscar winner) who has also become an STS scholar. He is teaching his computer graphics class this semester by pairing STS and technical readings. What a model. See the thread for some great parings.
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THIS IS STILL FREE TO READ IF YOU WANT TO LEAR ABOUT BAD BUNNY'S WORK!! (sorry we are excited about Benito Bowl)
“DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” is Bad Bunny’s Latest Decolonial Text
Bad Bunny’s new album places loss at the center of tropical paradise, elucidating vacation spots as colonial constructs.
www.theflytrapmedia.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
THIS IS STILL FREE TO READ IF YOU WANT TO LEAR ABOUT BAD BUNNY'S WORK!! (sorry we are excited about Benito Bowl)
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First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 AM
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
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Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
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thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...
It’s the weekend everyone, so you know what that means. Time to drink two polar seltzers and do a thread on the power transformer shortage. Without transformers, we don’t get a clean energy transition. And as energysky knows, there’s been a shortage due to covid, supply chain, & labor constraints 🔌🔋
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...
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Need a mood boost?
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
February 6, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Need a mood boost?
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
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As an officer of the Philosophy of Science association, I would like to officially invite the Muppets to the next PSA conference in San Diego
@philsci.bsky.social
@philsci.bsky.social
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
As an officer of the Philosophy of Science association, I would like to officially invite the Muppets to the next PSA conference in San Diego
@philsci.bsky.social
@philsci.bsky.social
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I've been singing this to myself all day
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I've been singing this to myself all day
Reposting for the Saturday crowd!
I'm going to be doing some short classes for the Ad Astra Institute! First up, How to Not Do Eugenics with Speculative Biology! It's a brief primer on the history of race science and eugenics with suggestions on how to avoid fantasy or science fiction racism. adastra-sf.com/courses.htm#...
February 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Reposting for the Saturday crowd!
I'm going to be doing some short classes for the Ad Astra Institute! First up, How to Not Do Eugenics with Speculative Biology! It's a brief primer on the history of race science and eugenics with suggestions on how to avoid fantasy or science fiction racism. adastra-sf.com/courses.htm#...
February 7, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I'm going to be doing some short classes for the Ad Astra Institute! First up, How to Not Do Eugenics with Speculative Biology! It's a brief primer on the history of race science and eugenics with suggestions on how to avoid fantasy or science fiction racism. adastra-sf.com/courses.htm#...