Emma
emmahn.bsky.social
Emma
@emmahn.bsky.social
Just one of my reading repositories

design researcher //philosophy of technology // cultural studies // future studies
“If you want us to adopt your technology into our pipelines, you’re going to have to meet us on our terms.”
Vaster than Empires III: Daniel Kwan and Jaron Lanier Discussion on AI & Storytelling
YouTube video by Berggruen Institute
www.youtube.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Sociotechnical fictions are thus defined as mediated forms of imagination (...) Often unrecognised as fiction, they are deeply entangled with rational and instrumental practices, connecting the anticipatory dimension of technology with its legitimacy.
Sociotechnical Fictions: The Performative Agencies of Fiction in Technological Development
This paper coins and develops the notion of sociotechnical fiction: a type of fiction distinct from literary or cinematic forms, which operates within the technosciences to materialise non-existent, i...
sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi
August 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"It is, in a way, the aesthetic equivalent to an MCP server. It’s not a coincidence that there are no consumer tech companies that have adopted paperclip-punk visuals. It’s a style that prioritizes human-to-machine over human-to-human interaction."
Toward a working definition of paperclip-punk
That style you see everywhere but can't fully articulate finally has a name
www.virtualelena.co
July 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A compelling collection of examples showing how technology is reshaping ancient faiths
Digital Divinity
Ancient traditions meet modern technology.
restofworld.org
July 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Conocemos esta cita histórica de Audre Lorde, que es importante en estas discusiones: las herramientas del amo nunca van a desmantelar la casa del amo. Me parece que podríamos poner esto a discusión."

www.centroculturadigital.mx/revista/tequ...
Tequiologías
Este artículo es la forma textual de la charla impartida por Yásnaya Aguilar sobre las pobilidades tecnológicas contra-capitalistas.
www.centroculturadigital.mx
July 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Unlike main characters who respond to command, NPCs respond to stimuli, reclaiming agency from within its glaring limitations. However deluded by free will, playable characters cannot divorce from their preordained missions and milestones; their story is all but written..."
The NPC: An unplayable character for unnarratable times
www.newest.co
July 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
As Ballard said, fiction does not exactly predict or influence reality, but invents it by participating in it
Roadside Picnic
Four sci-fi writers on speculative fiction, writing the future, and imagining alternative realities.
www.ssense.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Thousands of people are claiming that ChatGPT is sentient and that the AI is a type of all knowing God 🫠

youtu.be/zKCynxiV_8I?...
ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
youtu.be
June 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Reposted by Emma
This has always been my real concern about AI—not that it is actually capable of replacing humans in most cases, but rather that the popular perception that it is will cause a huge amount of short term harm.
AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.

AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.

This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
McLuhan said: “We shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us.” This can be understood as an equally reciprocal relationship, but I don’t think that’s the case. What happens when technology shapes us more than we shape it? What happens when we have more influence in shaping technology?
June 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM