Monique Tschofen

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Coming out soon: www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/

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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Happy to announce my paper about the Decameron Collective is in the Imaginations Special Issue on research creation, edited by Josh Synenko and Agata Mer:

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I continue to be blown away by the sub-cellular resolution that our new #Nanolive 3D explorer allows. Look at these #microglia go!

Amazing! I would LOVE to be able to use some of your footage in an art project -- dm me if this is possible!

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com
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My latest work of interactive fiction, Happenings, is on a long list for a New Media Writing Prize. You can vote and see the absolutely marvellous works that are also on the list here: newmediawritingprize.co.uk/opening-up-2...

Delighted to share that my short film Aquaphoria (before the waters rise) is screening this week.
Produced by @imprint.documentaries, with sound by Hendrick de Haan.
When: THIS Thursday March 13th at 10pm.
Where: Toronto, 1006 Bloor West.
Tickets online paradiseonbloor.com/film-series/...

Our VR world Memory Eternal is on exhibition February 13, 2025 at the RUBIX Catalyst 10th anniversary show (Toronto Metropolitan University, Creative School).
Please join us!!
For details: www.torontomu.ca/the-catalyst...

Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree

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Can we all PLEASE take a moment to acknowledge that the new forbidden words include female, females, woman, and women which describe about half the population. But of course the words male or men are still allowed.

Am I to understand that this is a direct attempt to defeud women's health research?

Dr. Raj Pannu was one of the best. 🧡

From the first time I met him, I was struck by his kindness, his warmth, and his quiet leadership.

Rest in Power, Raj.

And Raj Against the Machine, forever ✊

Raj Pannu is known to all who met him as a tireless advocate for a better Alberta. As Leader, his "Raj Against the Machine" campaign didn’t just give us a great slogan—it created a legacy and inspired a movement that lives on.

My thoughts are with his loved ones today.

Today is the deadline to submit to #ELO25! Don't miss out!

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Really helpful work by the always generous Eryk Salvaggio.

The wind gusts are devastating. Truly a hurricane of fire.

Video: @stuartpalley.bsky.social

Tech companies want to make authoritative sounding knowledge replacers, but they could just as easily make models that point out their own epistemological standing and encourage users to think critically about the content they’re generating.

Using vintage Shell maps, Jeffrey Linn from #ConspiracyOfCartographers imagines the IPCC worst-case scenario, in which sea levels will rise by 66 metres as a result of ice melting conspiracyofcartographers.com/petrofuture-... (Via Krisis Publishing newsletter)

Seems renewed. Panic averted for now.

The Living History and Surprising Diversity of Computer-Generated Text Selections from "Output," an anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT.

New on the MIT Press Reader: selections from "Output," a new anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT, with additional commentary from @docmofo.bsky.social

Lovely. Implementable.

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Works I love: www.alintakrauth.com/otherhood/

Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can. Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...

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