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Christine Haskell, PhD
@dativeworks.bsky.social
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Digital Transformation | Strategy | Adaptive Skill Building @ Scale | Decaffeinated Irritated Optimist…social media is for giving opinions away like kittens.
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sfchronicle.com
In what could become one of the largest labor actions in the University of California’s history, more than 86,000 UC nurses, health care professionals and campus workers plan to walk off the job.
‘UC workers are going to end up homeless’: 86,000 University of California employees plan massive strike
In what could become one of the largest labor actions in the University of California’s history, more than 86,000 UC nurses, health care professionals and campus workers plan to walk off the job.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
dativeworks.bsky.social
lol! This meeting could have been a tablet. 🙌
lswisnom.bsky.social Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 14d
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
jonkeegan.com
Over the years I have read A LOT of damning stories about what Meta executives were saying internally about serious harms on their platforms (most of them written by Reuters’ @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social ). His new story is a blockbuster:
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

sherwood.news/tech/meta-pr...
Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams and banned goods, Reuters reports
The report shows that the company was hesitant to crack down harder on scams, due to the billions in revenue that they were generating for Meta....
sherwood.news
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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alexhanna.bsky.social
My first for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social -- A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough.

bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...
Fuck Waymo, Long Live KitKat
A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough.
bayareacurrent.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
freedom.press
When @wired.com made FOIA-based stories free, subscriptions went up.

When @404media.co published public records reporting without a paywall, new sources came forward.

We spoke to both about why dropping paywalls like this is good for journalism — and for business.
Wired and 404 Media make FOIA reporting free. Other news outlets should too
We spoke to Katie Drummond of Wired, Joseph Cox of 404 Media, and Lauren Harper of Freedom of the Press Foundation about the case for unpaywalling public records-based reporting
freedom.press
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: someone managed to get into a Microsoft Teams call with phone hackers Cellebrite, who then detailed some of the company's hacking capabilities against Google Pixel phones. Also its capabilities against GrapheneOS, security-focused devices www.404media.co/someone-snuc...
Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details
The leaked slide focuses on Google Pixel phones and mentions those running the security-focused GrapheneOS operating system.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
jessefelder.bsky.social
‘Practically the only people still pretending scaling LLMs is “all you need” are grifters.’ garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-... by @garymarcus.bsky.social
Game over for pure LLMs. Even Turing Award Winner Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus.
One by one, all the big names have turned around. What should we do next?
garymarcus.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
mitpress.bsky.social
"Right now, it feels as if Big Tech is throwing general-purpose A.I. spaghetti at the wall and hoping that nothing truly terrible sticks."

@garymarcus.bsky.social, the author of "Taming Silicon Valley," writes on the race toward A.G.I. for @nytimes.com:
Opinion | Chatbots Are a Waste of A.I.’s Real Potential
Generative A.I. can do many things human beings can do. But that misses the point about how A.I. can truly benefit us.
nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
drobertsimg.bsky.social
Whether you’re an AI skeptic, an AI evangelist, or just someone who wants to know what’s happening on the cutting edge of tech, you should be reading @garymarcus.bsky.social.

Vibe coding? It’s dying. I am shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.

garymarcus.substack.com/p/is-vibe-co...
Is vibe coding dying?
Amateurs might not be replacing teams of coders, after all
garymarcus.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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theul.bsky.social
For #DigitalPreservationDay we spoke to Caylin Smith, Head of Digital Preservation, about her team's efforts to foster a culture of digital stewardship that protects our digital heritage for future generations.
#WDPD2025

Read more: https://loom.ly/UFJLE40

💾🖥️
A photo of Caylin Smith in the Catalogue Hall at Cambridge University Library
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
multiplicityct.bsky.social
Renata Salecl on why we remain ignorant in certain circumstances:
A Passion for Ignorance
An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumatic
press.princeton.edu
October 5, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
hypervisible.blacksky.app
You don’t say.
The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It
AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.
www.wsj.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc.

www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby
"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."
www.404media.co
September 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security" To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility. Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app. Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.
September 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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404media.co
The AI Darwin Awards are here to catalog the damage that happens when humanity’s hubris meets AI’s incompetence. The simple website contains a list of the dumbest AI disasters from the past year and calls for readers to nominate more.

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-darwin-aw...
AI Darwin Awards Show AI’s Biggest Problem Is Human
The AI Darwin Awards is a list of some of the worst tech failures of the year and it’s only going to get bigger.
www.404media.co
September 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
davidgerard.co.uk
so the trouble with humanoid robots as the next great tech hype is just that they're shit, they don't work and they have no applications

spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob...
Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype
​It takes more than building a humanoid robot to build a humanoid robot product.
spectrum.ieee.org
September 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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petertarras.bsky.social
"Consider the implications if ChatGPT started saying “I don’t know” to even 30% of queries ... Users accustomed to receiving confident answers to virtually any question would likely abandon such systems rapidly."
September 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
dativeworks.bsky.social
We’re not just losing the plot.
We’re living inside systems that rewrite it in real time.
When language is optimized, meaning becomes fragile.
Narrative isn’t just a story; it’s control.

#NarrativePower #Disinformation #SemanticCollapse #DataGovernance
christinehaskell.substack.com/p/narrative-...
Narrative Control in a Disoriented Age 1/3
The Author is the Architect
christinehaskell.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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aselbst.bsky.social
This is messed up.

It is also often the story of automation—labor costs don’t go away, they’re shifted to someone whose labor isn’t compensated. See, e.g. Elish & @cariatida.bsky.social on grocery scanners.
May 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
datasociety.bsky.social
Noting that our AI footprint today is likely the smallest it will ever be, ‪@technologyreview.com‬ offers a comprehensive — and sobering — analysis of how much energy the AI industry uses and where it's headed. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social
This is a pretty big change to how the entire nonconsensual AI-generated content ecosystem works. I don't think this would have happened without our reporting or support from our subscribers www.404media.co/civitai-ban-...
Civitai Ban of Real People Content Deals Major Blow to the Nonconsensual AI Porn Ecosystem
Citing pressure from payment processors and new legislation, a critical resource for producing nonconsensual content bans AI models depicting the likeness of real people.
www.404media.co
May 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Christine Haskell, PhD
jasonkoebler.bsky.social
SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the nationwide system of Flock license plate cameras by asking local police to perform lookups for them, new public records show.

ICE does *not* have a contract to use this surveillance tool itself.

www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...
ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.
www.404media.co
May 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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theverge.com
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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debbieohi.com
If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social

#WriterSky #BookSky #KidLit
Handwritten quote on a white sheet with an illustrated face at the bottom and pink hearts around the text. The quote reads: "If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting." — Liana Brooks Illustration and lettering by Debbie Ridpath Ohi. A paintbrush lies across the page on a wooden surface.
May 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
dativeworks.bsky.social
We made the system.
Then gave it the wheel.

The worst part?
Nobody feels responsible anymore.

(New essay out. It’s about what Steinbeck saw before we did.) christinehaskell.substack.com/p/the-sustai... #SystemDesign
#AIGovernance #LeadershipReflection #EthicalAI #DesignedAccountability
The Sustainability Liability No One's Pricing Into AI 1/3
Where Risk Gets Mispriced
christinehaskell.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM