Natalie Sontopski
@stromponsky.bsky.social
Researcher 🔮 More-Than-Human Design //STS // Feminism // Critical AI
In a not so surprising turn of events, we are back to women being basically witches again.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:46 PM
In a not so surprising turn of events, we are back to women being basically witches again.
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der bekannteste deutsche forscher, der viel peer review publizierenden ki-forscher:innen hierzulande komplett unbekannt war
February 12, 2026 at 9:32 AM
der bekannteste deutsche forscher, der viel peer review publizierenden ki-forscher:innen hierzulande komplett unbekannt war
Can't wait for the near future where I will be misinformed by a customer service chatbot, misdiagnosed by a medical chatbot, misidentified by a face-recognition system and misrepresented by a legal chatbot.
February 11, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Can't wait for the near future where I will be misinformed by a customer service chatbot, misdiagnosed by a medical chatbot, misidentified by a face-recognition system and misrepresented by a legal chatbot.
*sighs deeply* She can't teach an AI model to have morals, only to imitate her understanding of what having morals means. Its a pattern imitation machine, not an intelligent machine, people!
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:46 PM
*sighs deeply* She can't teach an AI model to have morals, only to imitate her understanding of what having morals means. Its a pattern imitation machine, not an intelligent machine, people!
This.
February 5, 2026 at 7:07 AM
This.
By no means do I have a musical ear but I can't believe how bad the sound quality at Spotify is. Its basically just very flat.
I switched to Deezer two months ago and its a whole new (better) world of listening to music.
I switched to Deezer two months ago and its a whole new (better) world of listening to music.
February 4, 2026 at 3:42 PM
By no means do I have a musical ear but I can't believe how bad the sound quality at Spotify is. Its basically just very flat.
I switched to Deezer two months ago and its a whole new (better) world of listening to music.
I switched to Deezer two months ago and its a whole new (better) world of listening to music.
There will be a backlash eventually but I fear for the students in school and university right now who are basically lab rats for AI curriculums created by tech companies and do not realize they get robbed of a proper education.
Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
February 4, 2026 at 9:45 AM
There will be a backlash eventually but I fear for the students in school and university right now who are basically lab rats for AI curriculums created by tech companies and do not realize they get robbed of a proper education.
Well, sound like a marvelous idea where nothing can go wrong! The city and its inhabitants will definitly profit from this surely well-informed AI push with improved infrastructures for health, eduation and business because who better to trust with sensitive data than Big Tech?
"In the latest move in Labour’s drive to inject AI into Britain’s bloodstream, the government has announced three US tech companies ... have agreed to help as the council pushes to apply AI to local schools, hospitals, GPs and businesses in Barnsley" www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Barnsley rebranded UK’s first ‘tech town’ as US giants join AI push
Minister announces Microsoft, Cisco and Adobe to help apply AI to local schools, hospitals, GPs and businesses
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Well, sound like a marvelous idea where nothing can go wrong! The city and its inhabitants will definitly profit from this surely well-informed AI push with improved infrastructures for health, eduation and business because who better to trust with sensitive data than Big Tech?
I would describe my PhD writing process as learning while writing while also somehow managing to take one step forward and two steps back with each new written section.
January 26, 2026 at 2:24 PM
I would describe my PhD writing process as learning while writing while also somehow managing to take one step forward and two steps back with each new written section.
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Hallelujah!
Die EU-Kommission leitet endlich (!) ein Verfahren gegen X wegen Grok ein.
Die EU-Kommission leitet endlich (!) ein Verfahren gegen X wegen Grok ein.
January 26, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Hallelujah!
Die EU-Kommission leitet endlich (!) ein Verfahren gegen X wegen Grok ein.
Die EU-Kommission leitet endlich (!) ein Verfahren gegen X wegen Grok ein.
Littel Tip: There is this little thing called a hard disk drive where you can save all your digital files. It also comes in a portable version. And there is an ancient practice know as "back-up", which is specifically designed to avoid mishaps like this.
January 23, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Littel Tip: There is this little thing called a hard disk drive where you can save all your digital files. It also comes in a portable version. And there is an ancient practice know as "back-up", which is specifically designed to avoid mishaps like this.
Ruhezone im ICE der Deutschen Bahn funktioniert heute nach dem Motto "Nur wer möchte", wer stattdessen lieber das ganze Abteil an einem einen Facetime Anruf mit seinem Bro teilhaben lassen will, darf das natürlich gerne.
January 23, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Ruhezone im ICE der Deutschen Bahn funktioniert heute nach dem Motto "Nur wer möchte", wer stattdessen lieber das ganze Abteil an einem einen Facetime Anruf mit seinem Bro teilhaben lassen will, darf das natürlich gerne.
No shit, ey - Smart Brillen sind dermassen surveillance coded, dass von Anfang an klar war, wofür Nutzer*innen diese Gadgets nutzen werden: Um anderen Personen ohne Consent zu filmen.
Smart-Brillen werden genutzt, um Videos von Frauen gegen ihren Willen ins Netz zu stellen
Auf mehreren Social-Media-Accounts wurden über hundert Videos hochgeladen, in denen Frauen nach ihrer Nummer gefragt wurden
www.derstandard.at
January 13, 2026 at 9:41 AM
No shit, ey - Smart Brillen sind dermassen surveillance coded, dass von Anfang an klar war, wofür Nutzer*innen diese Gadgets nutzen werden: Um anderen Personen ohne Consent zu filmen.
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Pure trolling at this point.
Artificial intelligence will help millions of people in ways that do not appear in traditional economic statistics, says OpenAI’s chief economist ft.trib.al/toxh1Gq
January 8, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Pure trolling at this point.
Oh hell no.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s “not intended for diagnosis or treatment.”
buff.ly
January 8, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Oh hell no.
I feel this. A lot. Like A LOT.
The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.
December 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I feel this. A lot. Like A LOT.
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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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Home Depot is running a surveil Santa ad that also has Santa dropping off more surveillance gear for the family, in this world there is only surveillance
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Home Depot is running a surveil Santa ad that also has Santa dropping off more surveillance gear for the family, in this world there is only surveillance
If you are planning to attend the stsing conference in Bochum next March, may I point you to our case? We happily accept attendants and are looking for a fun, interdisciplinary crowd eager to discuss all things more-than-human, anthropocene and toolkits. Come and join us! stsing.org/before-ruins...
From industrial ruins to ecological renewal. Developing a toolkit for actionable interventions. | The 2026 conference of stsing e.V.
Julia Hoffmann, Natalie Sontopski
stsing.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you are planning to attend the stsing conference in Bochum next March, may I point you to our case? We happily accept attendants and are looking for a fun, interdisciplinary crowd eager to discuss all things more-than-human, anthropocene and toolkits. Come and join us! stsing.org/before-ruins...
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If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
The relationship of eugenics and AI goes waaaay back. @timnitgebru.bsky.social did an execellent talk about this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT...
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The relationship of eugenics and AI goes waaaay back. @timnitgebru.bsky.social did an execellent talk about this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT...
What hell feels like: Transcriping interviews and hearing your own, slowed down voice on repeat for hours. Have my spoken words any meaning? Can I not form at least one coherent sentence when talking to other people?
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
What hell feels like: Transcriping interviews and hearing your own, slowed down voice on repeat for hours. Have my spoken words any meaning? Can I not form at least one coherent sentence when talking to other people?
Most important lesson in the age of AI: "how do you develop the skills of discernment? This one is very very important: do not let the AI do the work for you before you have learned how to do it yourself. "
I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
preparing for the working world in the age of AI
or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is
naomialderman.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Most important lesson in the age of AI: "how do you develop the skills of discernment? This one is very very important: do not let the AI do the work for you before you have learned how to do it yourself. "