Nadia Niaz
@nadianiaz.bsky.social
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Writing, multilingualism, academia, occasional gardening & powerlifting
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Writing, multilingualism, academia, occasional gardening & powerlifting
Book! https://rabbitpoetry.com/shop/the-djinn-hunters-nadia-niaz
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Nadia Niaz
@nadianiaz.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Finally found the Australians/Melburnians on here! Hello! I know some of you from Xitter, some from publications, some from your work and even some from real life. Really happy you're here and, if you've just joined, welcome!
Wow this year's perfumes are particularly irritating. Every time a new person stands near me on the tram, I have a coughing fit. (They smell fine I suppose, but I'm too busy choking on whatever I'm allergic to to care.)
December 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Wow this year's perfumes are particularly irritating. Every time a new person stands near me on the tram, I have a coughing fit. (They smell fine I suppose, but I'm too busy choking on whatever I'm allergic to to care.)
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i'm in this, i saw the rough cut (still need to find a moment for the final cut, lol) and it's fucking great and you need it
hammers home how "AI" as we know it is built on foundations of race science and colonialism, in multiple directions
anyway, see if if you possibly can
hammers home how "AI" as we know it is built on foundations of race science and colonialism, in multiple directions
anyway, see if if you possibly can
Hello, we’re Ghost in the Machine, a landmark documentary that’s mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
December 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
i'm in this, i saw the rough cut (still need to find a moment for the final cut, lol) and it's fucking great and you need it
hammers home how "AI" as we know it is built on foundations of race science and colonialism, in multiple directions
anyway, see if if you possibly can
hammers home how "AI" as we know it is built on foundations of race science and colonialism, in multiple directions
anyway, see if if you possibly can
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I agree that we're likely setting ourselves up for a very long process of asbestos-like remediation efforts around "incredibly stupidly and carelessly implemented LLM tools that were rolled out after 2022"
I've noticed that people who use the inevitability argument always make comparisons to email and social media, never to NFTs or DDT.
I think the so-called "AI" stuff is going to be the tech version of asbestos: shoved in everywhere, expensive and time-consuming to remove.
I think the so-called "AI" stuff is going to be the tech version of asbestos: shoved in everywhere, expensive and time-consuming to remove.
December 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I agree that we're likely setting ourselves up for a very long process of asbestos-like remediation efforts around "incredibly stupidly and carelessly implemented LLM tools that were rolled out after 2022"
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great PR work, big AI, it is truly a mystery why a bunch of people hate and fear you now
Don't forget the other great messaging from these asses:
"These technologies will probably literally destroy humanity and/or the biosphere and we must advance them as rapidly as possible."
"These technologies will probably literally destroy humanity and/or the biosphere and we must advance them as rapidly as possible."
December 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
great PR work, big AI, it is truly a mystery why a bunch of people hate and fear you now
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I guess this is the inevitable consequence of letting mediocre white men get away with this shit for so long. That's what gen"AI" feels like: mediocre tech for mediocre people who have all the confidence of a group of privileged people who have never been held accountable for anything they've done.
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I guess this is the inevitable consequence of letting mediocre white men get away with this shit for so long. That's what gen"AI" feels like: mediocre tech for mediocre people who have all the confidence of a group of privileged people who have never been held accountable for anything they've done.
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But it's a mass delusion, how is any of this sustainable? Sure the gen"AI" magic trick worked for a bit, but it's been years of this nonsense and every "promise" that's been made about gen"AI" has been shown to be a lie at best and fraud at worse. Yet there's no accountability. What could go wrong?
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
But it's a mass delusion, how is any of this sustainable? Sure the gen"AI" magic trick worked for a bit, but it's been years of this nonsense and every "promise" that's been made about gen"AI" has been shown to be a lie at best and fraud at worse. Yet there's no accountability. What could go wrong?
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Cancel your Spotify. I’m not telling you to stop streaming music but there are other services and at this point Spotify is reaching Tesla levels of villainy.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard took their massive catalog off of Spotify only to be replaced by an AI King Gizz impersonator.
"[I'm] trying to see the irony in this situation," frontman Stu Mackenzie responds. "But seriously wtf we are truly doomed.”
"[I'm] trying to see the irony in this situation," frontman Stu Mackenzie responds. "But seriously wtf we are truly doomed.”
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Respond To AI Spotify Impersonator
Not long after they released their latest album Phantom Island back in June, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announced they were taking their massive catalog off of Spotify — one of many such cases t...
stereogum.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Cancel your Spotify. I’m not telling you to stop streaming music but there are other services and at this point Spotify is reaching Tesla levels of villainy.
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The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
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I don't know why I haven't made this before now.
July 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I don't know why I haven't made this before now.
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No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
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December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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HOW DARE THEY! Please sign, and then rock up to the rally next Saturday at 12:30. See you there. #Melbourne3000
Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
www.megaphone.org.au
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
HOW DARE THEY! Please sign, and then rock up to the rally next Saturday at 12:30. See you there. #Melbourne3000
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I love a happy ending.
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I love a happy ending.
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Is your phone listening to you? Can the government read your text messages? Why is printer ink so expensive? Digital Rights Bytes answers common questions about technology that have been bugging you. www.digitalrightsbytes.org/
Welcome to Digital Rights Bytes
Digital Rights Bytes
www.digitalrightsbytes.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Is your phone listening to you? Can the government read your text messages? Why is printer ink so expensive? Digital Rights Bytes answers common questions about technology that have been bugging you. www.digitalrightsbytes.org/
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Kristie writes eloquently and convincingly about why the idea of a 'nature cure' in nature writing is so reductive...
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Kristie writes eloquently and convincingly about why the idea of a 'nature cure' in nature writing is so reductive...
"While the settlement appears to be a victory for Apple users after months of mediation, it potentially lets Apple off the hook pretty cheaply. If the court had certified the class action and Apple users had won, Apple could’ve been fined more than $1.5 billion under the Wiretap Act alone..."
“The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri’s alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden, Reuters noted”
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
arstechnica.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"While the settlement appears to be a victory for Apple users after months of mediation, it potentially lets Apple off the hook pretty cheaply. If the court had certified the class action and Apple users had won, Apple could’ve been fined more than $1.5 billion under the Wiretap Act alone..."
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In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
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New! free! essay by Donna Glee Williams, asking pointed questions about Joseph Campbell's conception of the Hero's Journey...
Read it now! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-journey
Read it now! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-journey
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New! free! essay by Donna Glee Williams, asking pointed questions about Joseph Campbell's conception of the Hero's Journey...
Read it now! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-journey
Read it now! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-journey
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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No right-wing tech dweebs get to complain about the land use impact of a wind farm ever again
December 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
No right-wing tech dweebs get to complain about the land use impact of a wind farm ever again
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An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...