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technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating" paranom.asia

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not like a radical one, but a subtle tactic that cuts through several systems at once, both on the field and back home

07.03.2026 10:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm having daily thoughts on fieldwork and the one from today is that "going on fieldwork" is in fact a political act

07.03.2026 10:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I would not cheer Chinese grandmas getting coaxed into doing financial investment with OpenClaw just saying

07.03.2026 08:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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love in Hong Kong

06.03.2026 19:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kwun Tong bliss

05.03.2026 18:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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who needs some

04.03.2026 05:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Panel with Felicia Jing, Gabriele de Seta and Alexandra Deem
Panel with Felicia Jing, Gabriele de Seta and Alexandra Deem YouTube video by ERC project AIMODELS

documentation: youtu.be/yA4zKtvedcg?...

04.03.2026 04:25 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

if future historians give a name to our age I do hope it is The Griftimes

03.03.2026 19:56 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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@anthropic.com cite me pls 😤

02.03.2026 03:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't think I understand the outrage around Polymarket when the stock market exists. maybe im missing something

01.03.2026 12:31 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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News of Sitars

27.02.2026 20:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI and Digital Ethnography This interactive session features guest speakers who will discuss a series of pre-established questions about emerging AI technologies.

also today, with some hot/cold takes on ethnography and generative AI www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-and-dig...

27.02.2026 06:40 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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2025/26 APSS International Scholar Talk Series #5 | Event | News and Events | Department of Applied Social Sciences

giving a talk at my alma mater 10 years after getting a PhD www.polyu.edu.hk/apss/news-an...

26.02.2026 17:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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found a near perfect one

26.02.2026 16:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

̶b̶e̶c̶o̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶C̶h̶i̶n̶e̶s̶e̶ co-creating a Chinese

24.02.2026 13:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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24.02.2026 13:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

yeah its been a while. Not the first book even

24.02.2026 13:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

yeah I mean he just ripped off Yuk Hui's bio or something tbh

24.02.2026 06:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

using a pen name ≠ making up a whole persona for no apparent reason except exoticizing

24.02.2026 06:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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the Chinese author does not, indeed, exist

24.02.2026 06:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*name

24.02.2026 06:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Prompt Thinking Prompt Thinking, Prompt Thinking explores how artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the nature of thought

are we gonna have a discussion about writing a book under the name of a non-existing Chinese philosopher like how is this not theoretical yellowface sorry www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

24.02.2026 06:03 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 2
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ALGOpod #5: Anya Shchetvina

new ALGOpod episode with Anya Shchetvina (@anya-shchetvina.bsky.social) going deep into the history of internet manifestos open.spotify.com/episode/5N0r...

24.02.2026 04:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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holy shit is that

22.02.2026 15:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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beautiful slop cabinet

22.02.2026 10:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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same dude, same

22.02.2026 10:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I like to think that I'm finely chopped

20.02.2026 05:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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18.02.2026 18:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@mareinna.bsky.social here, alas

18.02.2026 18:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Atalaia & Gunderson, "Alexa’s Monstrous Agency: The Horror of the Digital Voice Assistant" - Lateral First released by Amazon in 2014, the digital voice assistant Alexa allows users to connect and automate their smart home devices through the sound of their voice. Alexa’s automation of domestic space...

new coauthored article from ALGOFOLK postdoc @mareinna on the mostrous agency of smart assistants csalateral.org/section/digi...

18.02.2026 18:17 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1