Kat Cizek
@katcizek.bsky.social
Tkaronto-based documentarian, researcher, author. Artistic Director and Research Scientist at Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab.
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Join me and many others for important conversations on Gender and AI next week - more necessary and urgent now than ever!
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-g...
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-g...
Gender and AI: Promise and Perils | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
In this conference, leading computer scientists, engineers, policy makers, ethicists, artists, and representatives from the private sector will explore present and future challenges and opportunities ...
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu
April 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Join me and many others for important conversations on Gender and AI next week - more necessary and urgent now than ever!
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-g...
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-g...
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Countries around the world are rapidly adding solar and wind capacity, now cheaper and more reliable than ever, a new analysis shared with The New York Times shows. Here's a country-by-country snapshot of existing clean-energy capacity on land, and where there’s room to grow.
Here’s What the Rise of Clean Energy Looks Like From Space
New data from a constellation of satellites 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent years.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Countries around the world are rapidly adding solar and wind capacity, now cheaper and more reliable than ever, a new analysis shared with The New York Times shows. Here's a country-by-country snapshot of existing clean-energy capacity on land, and where there’s room to grow.
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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
February 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
February 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
My dad, aka Old Pirate, loved The Globe & Mail. He loved it best back in the day when it came heavy with stacks of many sections, bursting with news from around the world. He read it every day he lived in Canada. Today’s edition features my tribute to him. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...
Quantum physicist Jiri Cizek’s math calculations used to crash computers
Grandfather. Quantum physicist. Book lover. Ice-cream connoisseur. Born Aug. 24, 1938 in Prague; died Dec. 24, 2024, in Toronto, from COVID-19, aged 86
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February 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
My dad, aka Old Pirate, loved The Globe & Mail. He loved it best back in the day when it came heavy with stacks of many sections, bursting with news from around the world. He read it every day he lived in Canada. Today’s edition features my tribute to him. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
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DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
techpolicy.press
February 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
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advance copies have arrived and if it looks like i’m trying to hug it, that’s because i am 🥹
February 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
advance copies have arrived and if it looks like i’m trying to hug it, that’s because i am 🥹
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I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...
Welcome to Meditations in an Emergency
We are very clearly in a lot of emergencies right now. They demand action. But action demands thought and thoughtfulness: who are we, what are our values, our goals, our allies, our possibilities, and...
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io
February 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...
We are so moved to be organizing this at this moment.
January 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
We are so moved to be organizing this at this moment.
Indigenous Screen Office Delegates announced for WORLDING at MIT Co-Creation Studio’s WORLDING
See more at link:
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January 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Indigenous Screen Office Delegates announced for WORLDING at MIT Co-Creation Studio’s WORLDING
See more at link:
iso-bea.ca/news-events/...
See more at link:
iso-bea.ca/news-events/...
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I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
January 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
This is super interesting, and shows us how justice can/will prevail. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Meet the Canadian-led team building a case against al-Assad over his regime’s war crimes
William Wiley and his staff at the Commission for International Justice and Accountability have collected 1.3 million pages of evidence since 2012 in hopes of bringing the deposed president to justice
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This is super interesting, and shows us how justice can/will prevail. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
If you can, consider a donation to World Central Kitchen to help feed folks in LA who need a meal.
donate.wck.org/give/654000?...
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January 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If you can, consider a donation to World Central Kitchen to help feed folks in LA who need a meal.
donate.wck.org/give/654000?...
donate.wck.org/give/654000?...
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@governor.ca.gov just launched a new site to ensure the public has access to fact-based data around the Southern California wildfires.
Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com
Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com
California Fire Facts | Governor Gavin Newsom
Get the facts about the Los Angeles fires.
californiafirefacts.com
January 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
@governor.ca.gov just launched a new site to ensure the public has access to fact-based data around the Southern California wildfires.
Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com
Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com
As the effects of climate change unfold worldwide, co-creative initiatives have never been more critical.
WORLDING 2025 is an incubator where Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and emerging XR technologies converge to imagine and inspire a just, thriving climate future. 🌱
WORLDING 2025 is an incubator where Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and emerging XR technologies converge to imagine and inspire a just, thriving climate future. 🌱
📣 WORLDING is back!
YouTube video by MIT Open Documentary Lab
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January 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
As the effects of climate change unfold worldwide, co-creative initiatives have never been more critical.
WORLDING 2025 is an incubator where Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and emerging XR technologies converge to imagine and inspire a just, thriving climate future. 🌱
WORLDING 2025 is an incubator where Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and emerging XR technologies converge to imagine and inspire a just, thriving climate future. 🌱
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"Facebook, Google and Amazon have destroyed the actual bulwark against autocratic leaders – local journalism – while cozying up to actual autocracy. They now control the digital ad industry." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Will the Democrats finally realize that Big Tech is not an ally? | Zephyr Teachout
Tech titans, and big business in general, are not reliable partners against Trumpism. Progressives need to accept this
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 5:15 PM
"Facebook, Google and Amazon have destroyed the actual bulwark against autocratic leaders – local journalism – while cozying up to actual autocracy. They now control the digital ad industry." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I am thrilled to be part of this community.
APA Advisory Board:
🤖 Al is a rapidly growing technology and the legal landscape around it is changing every day. We're lucky to have extraordinary people advising us who work in documentaries, tech, ethics, standards & practices, and law.
APA Advisory Board:
🤖 Al is a rapidly growing technology and the legal landscape around it is changing every day. We're lucky to have extraordinary people advising us who work in documentaries, tech, ethics, standards & practices, and law.
November 26, 2024 at 12:20 AM
I am thrilled to be part of this community.
APA Advisory Board:
🤖 Al is a rapidly growing technology and the legal landscape around it is changing every day. We're lucky to have extraordinary people advising us who work in documentaries, tech, ethics, standards & practices, and law.
APA Advisory Board:
🤖 Al is a rapidly growing technology and the legal landscape around it is changing every day. We're lucky to have extraordinary people advising us who work in documentaries, tech, ethics, standards & practices, and law.
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You'll be shocked to hear I wrote a thing, and doubly shocked that it is not nice about Silicon Valley. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world
A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started a...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:21 AM
You'll be shocked to hear I wrote a thing, and doubly shocked that it is not nice about Silicon Valley. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Congratulations to the 2024 Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award winners. digitaldozen.io
A wonderful collection of projects from around the world
A wonderful collection of projects from around the world
November 16, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Congratulations to the 2024 Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award winners. digitaldozen.io
A wonderful collection of projects from around the world
A wonderful collection of projects from around the world
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Here’s a hopeful story. Wind and solar are now the cheapest energy sources on the planet, which guarantees they will eventually take over. They already make up 15% of energy production, up from just 1% ten years ago. slate.com/technology/2...
I Spent Six Months Selling Solar Panels Door to Door. Here’s the Thing About Renewable Energy.
Here's why renewable energy will survive under Trump.
slate.com
November 13, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Here’s a hopeful story. Wind and solar are now the cheapest energy sources on the planet, which guarantees they will eventually take over. They already make up 15% of energy production, up from just 1% ten years ago. slate.com/technology/2...
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Talked with my friend Jon Wiener at the Nation/Start Making Sense podcast about the election, hope, anger, and more. www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
Rebecca Solnit on Hope in the Dark—Plus the Musk Bromance
On this episode of Start Making Sense, what it means to have hope, and why the bromance between Trump and the world’s richest man cannot last.
www.thenation.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Talked with my friend Jon Wiener at the Nation/Start Making Sense podcast about the election, hope, anger, and more. www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
An AI generated documentary based on Werner Herzog. What could go wrong? Our interview with IDFA’s opening film director for our AI+Documentary monthly column, The Synthesis.
www.documentary.org/column/synth...
www.documentary.org/column/synth...
The Synthesis: Piotr Winiewicz on the “Surprisingly Ordinary Dreams” Generated by AI in His IDFA Opening Film
About a Hero is set to have its world premiere as the opening film at IDFA tomorrow. It’s based on a script generated by an AI trained on Werner Herzog’s interviews, voiceovers, and writing. The resul...
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November 14, 2024 at 1:27 AM
An AI generated documentary based on Werner Herzog. What could go wrong? Our interview with IDFA’s opening film director for our AI+Documentary monthly column, The Synthesis.
www.documentary.org/column/synth...
www.documentary.org/column/synth...