Oskar S.
@qualitativresidual.bsky.social
PhD student @ Sciences Po CEE. Institutions, infrastructures, instruments, and imaginaries of environmental politics. Currently researching AI in urban environmental governance. Canadian in Paris. Graphic designer. 🌲🦦
Personal site: qualitativeresidual.ca
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Oskar S.
@qualitativresidual.bsky.social
· Jul 18
City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’
City Digital Twins (CDTs) are digital platforms that combine urban data to support city monitoring through predictive simulations and the visualizatio…
www.sciencedirect.com
Extremely stoked to share a recent publication of mine in the journal Cities! Based on research I conducted last year, I look at what happens when 'innovation' takes root as a policy priority for city governments, through the prism of 'digital twin' projects.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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Our special issue is finally out! 🎉
With Antoine Courmont, I had the privilege of working with a stellar group of scholars to examine Google as an urban actor and highlight its uneven, shape-shifting power across cities.
Please read, share, and let us know what you think!
With Antoine Courmont, I had the privilege of working with a stellar group of scholars to examine Google as an urban actor and highlight its uneven, shape-shifting power across cities.
Please read, share, and let us know what you think!
🚨 #UrbanStudies Vol. 62, Issue 13 (October 2025) out now!
✍️ Special Issue "Google, a stakeholder in local governance?"
Guest editors: Antoine Courmont & Burcu Baykurt
This collection explores how #Google has become a key actor in local #politics and urban environments.
📖 buff.ly/veREgdw
✍️ Special Issue "Google, a stakeholder in local governance?"
Guest editors: Antoine Courmont & Burcu Baykurt
This collection explores how #Google has become a key actor in local #politics and urban environments.
📖 buff.ly/veREgdw
September 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Our special issue is finally out! 🎉
With Antoine Courmont, I had the privilege of working with a stellar group of scholars to examine Google as an urban actor and highlight its uneven, shape-shifting power across cities.
Please read, share, and let us know what you think!
With Antoine Courmont, I had the privilege of working with a stellar group of scholars to examine Google as an urban actor and highlight its uneven, shape-shifting power across cities.
Please read, share, and let us know what you think!
Very excited to be hosting this upcoming talk for @citiesabit.bsky.social. Registration is open to all :)
🔔 Upcoming online talk (Cities Agenda – Sciences Po)
📅 2 Oct 2025 | 17:00–18:30 (GMT+2)
🎙️ Join #USFInternationalFellow Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence & Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins
💬 Discussant: Patrick Le Galès
👉 Register: ow.ly/F5vo50X10H9
📅 2 Oct 2025 | 17:00–18:30 (GMT+2)
🎙️ Join #USFInternationalFellow Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence & Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins
💬 Discussant: Patrick Le Galès
👉 Register: ow.ly/F5vo50X10H9
September 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Very excited to be hosting this upcoming talk for @citiesabit.bsky.social. Registration is open to all :)
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🔔 Upcoming online talk (Cities Agenda – Sciences Po)
📅 2 Oct 2025 | 17:00–18:30 (GMT+2)
🎙️ Join #USFInternationalFellow Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence & Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins
💬 Discussant: Patrick Le Galès
👉 Register: ow.ly/F5vo50X10H9
📅 2 Oct 2025 | 17:00–18:30 (GMT+2)
🎙️ Join #USFInternationalFellow Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence & Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins
💬 Discussant: Patrick Le Galès
👉 Register: ow.ly/F5vo50X10H9
September 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🔔 Upcoming online talk (Cities Agenda – Sciences Po)
📅 2 Oct 2025 | 17:00–18:30 (GMT+2)
🎙️ Join #USFInternationalFellow Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence & Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins
💬 Discussant: Patrick Le Galès
👉 Register: ow.ly/F5vo50X10H9
📅 2 Oct 2025 | 17:00–18:30 (GMT+2)
🎙️ Join #USFInternationalFellow Ana Beraldo – Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence & Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins
💬 Discussant: Patrick Le Galès
👉 Register: ow.ly/F5vo50X10H9
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Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
Out with ‘abundance’, time for:
September 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Out with ‘abundance’, time for:
Horrible news. I owe an enormous debt to Michel’s work. A truly transformative thinker and an unbelievable loss. My thoughts are with his loved ones.
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...
Michel Callon (1945-2025)
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu
August 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Horrible news. I owe an enormous debt to Michel’s work. A truly transformative thinker and an unbelievable loss. My thoughts are with his loved ones.
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...
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There is a new Chotiner interview that really underscores what is unique about Israel's genocide in Gaza: it would be very easy for the world to stop it if only a few countries wanted to.
August 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
There is a new Chotiner interview that really underscores what is unique about Israel's genocide in Gaza: it would be very easy for the world to stop it if only a few countries wanted to.
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On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima…
August 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima…
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The British media outlet ITV also went on a Jordanian airdrop and simply ignored the Israeli government’s illiberal demands:
www.itv.com/news/2025-08...
www.itv.com/news/2025-08...
August 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The British media outlet ITV also went on a Jordanian airdrop and simply ignored the Israeli government’s illiberal demands:
www.itv.com/news/2025-08...
www.itv.com/news/2025-08...
Calibri Bold looking ass logo
Andrew Cuomo's debuting a new campaign logo and slogan ("to build a new NYC") at his presser in Midtown, where he's expected to make a law enforcement-related announcement.
His campaign says the logo's supposed to evoke both a rising sun and the crown of the Statue of Liberty.
His campaign says the logo's supposed to evoke both a rising sun and the crown of the Statue of Liberty.
August 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Calibri Bold looking ass logo
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Extremely stoked to share a recent publication of mine in the journal Cities! Based on research I conducted last year, I look at what happens when 'innovation' takes root as a policy priority for city governments, through the prism of 'digital twin' projects.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’
City Digital Twins (CDTs) are digital platforms that combine urban data to support city monitoring through predictive simulations and the visualizatio…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Extremely stoked to share a recent publication of mine in the journal Cities! Based on research I conducted last year, I look at what happens when 'innovation' takes root as a policy priority for city governments, through the prism of 'digital twin' projects.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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on reddit, the website at the end of the internet nymag.com/intelligence...
July 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
on reddit, the website at the end of the internet nymag.com/intelligence...
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I’m going to say it… that’s what a machine learning political order does. It intensifies a politics by trialling and experimentation. The hackathon has been policy space for a long time. www.cambridge.org/core/service...
www.cambridge.org
July 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I’m going to say it… that’s what a machine learning political order does. It intensifies a politics by trialling and experimentation. The hackathon has been policy space for a long time. www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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Here is the longest blog post I've ever written (4k words).
"The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines"
I end with a teaching approach for writing, AI-related & non-AI related. I hope you'll read the whole thing! Thank you.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
"The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines"
I end with a teaching approach for writing, AI-related & non-AI related. I hope you'll read the whole thing! Thank you.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines
Ending with a solution for teaching writing
meresophistry.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Here is the longest blog post I've ever written (4k words).
"The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines"
I end with a teaching approach for writing, AI-related & non-AI related. I hope you'll read the whole thing! Thank you.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
"The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines"
I end with a teaching approach for writing, AI-related & non-AI related. I hope you'll read the whole thing! Thank you.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
Extremely stoked to share a recent publication of mine in the journal Cities! Based on research I conducted last year, I look at what happens when 'innovation' takes root as a policy priority for city governments, through the prism of 'digital twin' projects.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’
City Digital Twins (CDTs) are digital platforms that combine urban data to support city monitoring through predictive simulations and the visualizatio…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Extremely stoked to share a recent publication of mine in the journal Cities! Based on research I conducted last year, I look at what happens when 'innovation' takes root as a policy priority for city governments, through the prism of 'digital twin' projects.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In a parallel life, I designed political posters. Some of them were pretty damn good. Here’s one of my favourites, for @suebigoil.bsky.social and @avilewis.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In a parallel life, I designed political posters. Some of them were pretty damn good. Here’s one of my favourites, for @suebigoil.bsky.social and @avilewis.bsky.social
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#VendrediLecture 📚
A quoi servent les "jumeaux numériques" de villes ?
Oskar Steiner, doctorant, a étudié l'exemple de ceux fournis par Dassault Systèmes.
A lire dans @metropolitiques.bsky.social ⤵️
#SmartCity
cc @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social @scpo-research.bsky.social
A quoi servent les "jumeaux numériques" de villes ?
Oskar Steiner, doctorant, a étudié l'exemple de ceux fournis par Dassault Systèmes.
A lire dans @metropolitiques.bsky.social ⤵️
#SmartCity
cc @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social @scpo-research.bsky.social
La fabrique des jumeaux numériques urbains : le cas de Dassault Systèmes
Provenant du monde de l'industrie, les jumeaux numériques sont de plus en plus mobilisés dans la gestion urbaine. Or, ces outils, présentés par les acteurs privés qui les conçoivent comme un moyen de ...
metropolitiques.eu
June 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
#VendrediLecture 📚
A quoi servent les "jumeaux numériques" de villes ?
Oskar Steiner, doctorant, a étudié l'exemple de ceux fournis par Dassault Systèmes.
A lire dans @metropolitiques.bsky.social ⤵️
#SmartCity
cc @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social @scpo-research.bsky.social
A quoi servent les "jumeaux numériques" de villes ?
Oskar Steiner, doctorant, a étudié l'exemple de ceux fournis par Dassault Systèmes.
A lire dans @metropolitiques.bsky.social ⤵️
#SmartCity
cc @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social @scpo-research.bsky.social
Extremely excited to share my first academic publication in @metropolitiques.bsky.social! In it, I trace the way firms' offers are reshaped by local politics, raising questions about how we characterize the role of digital platforms in the city today.
metropolitiques.eu/La-fabrique-...
metropolitiques.eu/La-fabrique-...
La fabrique des jumeaux numériques urbains : le cas de Dassault Systèmes
Provenant du monde de l'industrie, les jumeaux numériques sont de plus en plus mobilisés dans la gestion urbaine. Or, ces outils, présentés par les acteurs privés qui les conçoivent comme un moyen de ...
metropolitiques.eu
June 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Extremely excited to share my first academic publication in @metropolitiques.bsky.social! In it, I trace the way firms' offers are reshaped by local politics, raising questions about how we characterize the role of digital platforms in the city today.
metropolitiques.eu/La-fabrique-...
metropolitiques.eu/La-fabrique-...
Excited to present with my colleague Luca at this workshop tomorrow with the @ccds-aup.bsky.social!
Looking at medieval city-states, company towns and contemporary smart cities, we argue that city "autonomy" is incapable without symmetrical processes of automation and othering.
Abstract below :)
Looking at medieval city-states, company towns and contemporary smart cities, we argue that city "autonomy" is incapable without symmetrical processes of automation and othering.
Abstract below :)
June 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Excited to present with my colleague Luca at this workshop tomorrow with the @ccds-aup.bsky.social!
Looking at medieval city-states, company towns and contemporary smart cities, we argue that city "autonomy" is incapable without symmetrical processes of automation and othering.
Abstract below :)
Looking at medieval city-states, company towns and contemporary smart cities, we argue that city "autonomy" is incapable without symmetrical processes of automation and othering.
Abstract below :)
Boston is an amazing place.
April 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Boston is an amazing place.
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
Reposted by Oskar S.
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Reposted by Oskar S.
I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
The mental tyranny of AI writing
An arduously long blog post
meresophistry.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
Reposted by Oskar S.
By far the best vision I’ve seen for rescuing Canadian politics, life, and economic self-determination comes from @avilewis.bsky.social
breachmedia.ca/trumps-econo...
breachmedia.ca/trumps-econo...
Trump’s economic war is ours to win—if we ditch the corporate playbook and think big ⋆ The Breach
The tariff attack calls for bold, people-first solutions, not doubling down on the broken status quo
breachmedia.ca
March 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
By far the best vision I’ve seen for rescuing Canadian politics, life, and economic self-determination comes from @avilewis.bsky.social
breachmedia.ca/trumps-econo...
breachmedia.ca/trumps-econo...