Joanna Bryson, blathering

@j2bryson
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I'm an academic, proud to work in a policy school, but still sometimes longing to return to natural science and/or programming again. Or maybe art? This Mastodon account is more personal than professional; my more professional one is bridged here https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson.bsky[email protected] Blogpost on my social media policy, linking yet more accounts: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html Increasingly reading physical books again too.
PositionProfessor of Ethics and Technology, Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School, Berlin
ExpertiseArtificial & natural intelligence, culture, cooperation, evolution (behavioural ecology),
Expertise (cont.)technology policy, competition/antitrust, and (digital) governance
Websitehttps://www.joannajbryson.org/
Pigeons drinking from spouts into a fountain
Reminds me of the Scott Monument

US, Iran trade strikes putting truce at risk

The United States and Iran each launched strikes in the worst escalation since they signed their interim peace deal. Follow DW for more.
https://www.dw.com/en/us-iran-trade-strikes-as-truce-faces-threat/live-77729995

US, Iran trade strikes putting truce at risk

The United States and Iran each launched strikes in the worst escalation since they signed their interim peace deal. Follow DW for more.

Deutsche Welle
It turns out that beef tartare is like haggis in that the spices that make it yummy work even better when they don’t have to hide dead animal. #plantbased
“Every state suddenly felt that it was strong, and forgot
that other states felt exactly the same; all states wanted even
more, and wanted some of what the others already had. The
worst of it was that the very thing we loved most, our common
optimism, betrayed us, for everyone thought that everyone
else would back down at the last minute,” #zweig
I often say the present time is most analogous to WWI in #inequality as well as its concomitant #polarisation. But only the US sounds quite like this now.:“If today, thinking it over calmly, we wonder why Europe went to war in 1914, there is not one sensible reason to be found,
nor even any real occasion… I can explain it only thinking of that excess of power, by seeing…a tragic consequence of the internal dynamism that had
built up during those forty years of peace, and now demanded
release.
BluesMusic (@bluesmusic.bsky.social)

Gunhild Carling is a Swedish jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist rockin'🎶'Bagpipe Swing' #bluesmusic

Bluesky Social

@j2bryson why are racist immigration policies and attitudes so prevalent everywhere?

I think we're relying too much on the arc of history and not enough on organising for justice

Why is alcohol dangerous in a heatwave, and should I cut it out completely?

Those partial to a pint may be relieved to know a modest of amount of weak beer may actually be beneficial

The Guardian
Everything conveyed a sense of the growth and wider distribution of wealth. Even we writers noticed it from the
editions of our books printed; in the space of ten years the
number of copies printed per edition tripled, then multiplied by
fivefold and by tenfold.