Padmini RM
@padmini.bsky.social
founder @ designbeku.in. ♥️: design and data justice, embroidery, tango and cats. 🤬: "design thinking", "innovation," #AIhype & patriarchy.
➕ Research Partner, Flickr Foundation; ESRC Digital Good Fellow.
➕ Research Partner, Flickr Foundation; ESRC Digital Good Fellow.
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Padmini RM
@padmini.bsky.social
· Jul 16
The Machines Are Not All Right: Rethinking (Artificial) Intelligence • In Plainspeak
Can AI truly understand human experience without our language, identity, and history? This piece explores how current models fall short and where hope lies in community-driven, inclusive approaches.
www.tarshi.net
Very glad to share this piece where I explain why LLMs & AI in their current formations are unlikely to be fair & ethical in their representations of the Majority World. I make recommendations on how we might shift these imbalances, and what needs to be done in order to do so. bit.ly/3IMlgbr
#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?
Reposted by Padmini RM
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
@apache.be you rule 🖤
enshittification intensifies. google now throwing up wrong timezone difference information. what is additionally bizarre is that it links to the correct result in from the linked snippet (worldtimebuddy.com)
October 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
enshittification intensifies. google now throwing up wrong timezone difference information. what is additionally bizarre is that it links to the correct result in from the linked snippet (worldtimebuddy.com)
Realising the academy only has itself to blame for the AI driven student plagiarism problem (at least in the humanities and social sciences) still largely entrenched in ossified modes of making knowledge available rewarded by systems like tenure made it easy for formulaic templates easy to emulate.
October 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Realising the academy only has itself to blame for the AI driven student plagiarism problem (at least in the humanities and social sciences) still largely entrenched in ossified modes of making knowledge available rewarded by systems like tenure made it easy for formulaic templates easy to emulate.
What are we doing about the semantic drift of the word data? In my explorations of indigeneity and data sovereignty, the word data feels less and less adequate for what it represents in this context. Ironically, data anchored in its original etymological context: what is given - is most appropriate.
October 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
What are we doing about the semantic drift of the word data? In my explorations of indigeneity and data sovereignty, the word data feels less and less adequate for what it represents in this context. Ironically, data anchored in its original etymological context: what is given - is most appropriate.
*sighs in anne carson*
Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
September 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
*sighs in anne carson*
At a cultural sector conference + got into an argument w/ a self proclaimed technoutopian: after I declared capitalism is always inevitably corrupt: I was asked what the alternative is, accused of being socialist - I realised the model I want to see is not communist or socialist but *feminist*
August 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
At a cultural sector conference + got into an argument w/ a self proclaimed technoutopian: after I declared capitalism is always inevitably corrupt: I was asked what the alternative is, accused of being socialist - I realised the model I want to see is not communist or socialist but *feminist*
Srsly why won't people realise that gen ai is just the most obsequious customer service dressed up as information making you believe it's knowledge
Going to start calling chatbots sycophancy as a service.
August 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Srsly why won't people realise that gen ai is just the most obsequious customer service dressed up as information making you believe it's knowledge
Reposted by Padmini RM
Yes hello I need to speak to the manager of native Minnesota raspberries
July 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Yes hello I need to speak to the manager of native Minnesota raspberries
Very glad to share this piece where I explain why LLMs & AI in their current formations are unlikely to be fair & ethical in their representations of the Majority World. I make recommendations on how we might shift these imbalances, and what needs to be done in order to do so. bit.ly/3IMlgbr
The Machines Are Not All Right: Rethinking (Artificial) Intelligence • In Plainspeak
Can AI truly understand human experience without our language, identity, and history? This piece explores how current models fall short and where hope lies in community-driven, inclusive approaches.
www.tarshi.net
July 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Very glad to share this piece where I explain why LLMs & AI in their current formations are unlikely to be fair & ethical in their representations of the Majority World. I make recommendations on how we might shift these imbalances, and what needs to be done in order to do so. bit.ly/3IMlgbr
Reposted by Padmini RM
is it my ignorance that leads me to believe that the early groundbreaking work of Alison Adam in feminist rethinking of the epistemological basis of AI is really not as central to teaching and research in the field as it should be?
July 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
is it my ignorance that leads me to believe that the early groundbreaking work of Alison Adam in feminist rethinking of the epistemological basis of AI is really not as central to teaching and research in the field as it should be?
Reposted by Padmini RM
It’s no longer possible to argue that social media giants aren’t publishers. Algorithms are being juiced to favour particular voices and worldviews. They are not even playing fields.
May 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It’s no longer possible to argue that social media giants aren’t publishers. Algorithms are being juiced to favour particular voices and worldviews. They are not even playing fields.
question for the hivemind: are there any countries where there is implemented regulation that compulsorily requires digital products to declare that a customer/user is interacting with an AI agent and not a human?
May 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
question for the hivemind: are there any countries where there is implemented regulation that compulsorily requires digital products to declare that a customer/user is interacting with an AI agent and not a human?
Reposted by Padmini RM
I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.
April 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.
Hello! I’m in Nova Scotia between the 25th of April & the 8th of May - I’m interested in meeting people who work in the fields of design justice, feminist ethics and technology as well as disability justice. Do put me in touch with anyone who might fit the bill - and if this is you, pls do say hi!
April 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Hello! I’m in Nova Scotia between the 25th of April & the 8th of May - I’m interested in meeting people who work in the fields of design justice, feminist ethics and technology as well as disability justice. Do put me in touch with anyone who might fit the bill - and if this is you, pls do say hi!
Reposted by Padmini RM
#OSINT tool share as first bsky post :) Do you need to analyse gory videos for visual clues? Run them through this tool to blur human forms so you're slightly less exposed to distressing material: colab.research.google.com/drive/1l6W52...
November 19, 2024 at 7:52 AM
#OSINT tool share as first bsky post :) Do you need to analyse gory videos for visual clues? Run them through this tool to blur human forms so you're slightly less exposed to distressing material: colab.research.google.com/drive/1l6W52...
Reposted by Padmini RM
In the new year I’m going to publish a history of the last 5 years of building @transkribus.bsky.social as an AI cooperative: shared ownership, shared resources, all profit reinvested into infrastructure. It turns out we can build a better tech world together, but that takes work & community.
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 18, 2024 at 7:43 PM
In the new year I’m going to publish a history of the last 5 years of building @transkribus.bsky.social as an AI cooperative: shared ownership, shared resources, all profit reinvested into infrastructure. It turns out we can build a better tech world together, but that takes work & community.
The memory hole is something I've been talking about for a while and a reason why I urge everyone to archive their social media as well as published work and not depend on the cloud or websites that are doomed to disappear.
I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.
What happens when the internet disappears?
Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?
www.theverge.com
December 19, 2024 at 8:19 PM
The memory hole is something I've been talking about for a while and a reason why I urge everyone to archive their social media as well as published work and not depend on the cloud or websites that are doomed to disappear.
Reposted by Padmini RM
If you guys miss the old internet, you can join in and contribute at any time. Sign up at a static host like neocities or nekoweb. Make a shrine to some random shit you love, and other people will love it.
It doesn't have to look good, use barebones html, plenty find it endearing. It screams Human
It doesn't have to look good, use barebones html, plenty find it endearing. It screams Human
December 19, 2024 at 2:43 AM
If you guys miss the old internet, you can join in and contribute at any time. Sign up at a static host like neocities or nekoweb. Make a shrine to some random shit you love, and other people will love it.
It doesn't have to look good, use barebones html, plenty find it endearing. It screams Human
It doesn't have to look good, use barebones html, plenty find it endearing. It screams Human
Great to be back here - with some exciting news! So grateful to be nominated as one the ESRC's Digital Good fellows this year: digitalgood.net/dg-research/...
What do we talk about when we talk about AI: can non-Western imaginations forge a model for AI paradigms that create digital good? - ESRC Digital Good Network
Marginalised populations in India are profoundly aware that digital paradigms shape and impact their lives in significant ways, but are completely disenfranchised to resist these […]
digitalgood.net
October 29, 2024 at 5:17 AM
Great to be back here - with some exciting news! So grateful to be nominated as one the ESRC's Digital Good fellows this year: digitalgood.net/dg-research/...
I'm glad to see more conversations about what participatory design for AI might look like, especially in the context of the Global South, and I wanted to share this paper that I wrote in collaboration with Shohini B. at Point of View and Sasha John from Digital Futures Lab. #aiethics
May 20, 2024 at 7:40 AM
I'm glad to see more conversations about what participatory design for AI might look like, especially in the context of the Global South, and I wanted to share this paper that I wrote in collaboration with Shohini B. at Point of View and Sasha John from Digital Futures Lab. #aiethics
New series of Succession just dropped.
May 20, 2024 at 5:48 AM
New series of Succession just dropped.
DH folks: is anyone doing close readings and/or stylometric analysis of ChatGPT generated poetry yet?
January 24, 2024 at 5:02 AM
DH folks: is anyone doing close readings and/or stylometric analysis of ChatGPT generated poetry yet?
