So sad…

Jason Read@jasonread.bsky.social · 10mo ago

www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

Job: the University of Arizona Libraries is hiring a Librarian with focus on Instructional Strategies and STEM (assistant/associate) to join our new cohort model of liaisons arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Excuse me while I declare this day a holiday and take the extended week to celebrate

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Breaking News: Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election. He could face decades in prison. nyti.ms/4pyzL3Q

"The political imagination of our elites raises the slogan “humanity first” only to display a barren concept of what it means to be human: to be a user, a consumer, and a source of data extraction."

Other worlds ARE possible! Let’s talk about privacy and data protection initiatives stemming from the global majority? Join us at @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social

The Privacy Center@georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · last yr.

From banning Sam Altman’s “Tools for Humanity” iris-scanning crypto project, to stopping Meta from mining user data for training AI, Brazil has been a global trailblazer in issues of privacy and data protection.

Here I am diffracting the critical and talking about my research at #stshub2025 in Berlin

Two wishes I have (not unrelated): - to be as assertive as a mediocre white man - to go through airport security as smoothly as a Global North passport holder

Looking forward to be in conversation with critical STS folks from around the world.

The Privacy Center@georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our postdoc Fritz Fellow @maripoyares.bsky.social is one of the panelists of the 2025 STS Hub, taking place at the @humboldtuni.bsky.social in Berlin March 11 - 14. For programming visit: sts-hub.de/25/

Our postdoc Fritz Fellow @maripoyares.bsky.social is one of the panelists of the 2025 STS Hub, taking place at the @humboldtuni.bsky.social in Berlin March 11 - 14. For programming visit: sts-hub.de/25/

My thought precisely: “oh, wow, that was basically my yearly stipend”!

Emmie Hine@emmiehine.com · 2y ago

the funny thing is, PhD stipends are so low that you could hire me for a year or this "PhD-level agent" for a month 🙃 #academia

“Thies” chatbots shall take our jobs

Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · 2y ago

google AI knocking it out of the park as usual

One of the most overlooked and omnipresent aspects of internalized colonialist supremacy in US-American scholars (even in progressive circles) is their inability to speak a foreign language.

Yes, I could not agree more, but at this point, I'll take whatever argument gets people mobilized.

THIS!! The big question, which for so long sounded kind of reformist, but is now both urgent and radical is: WHO IS the subject of rights?

Jason Read@jasonread.bsky.social · 2y ago

The saddest thing is that Bezos doesn't even mean "personal liberties and free markets." The Washington Post isn't going to write editorials about the personal liberties of trans people or undocumented workers nor are they going to even write something arguing against tariffs.

This is a very good read about how the promise of an open, global social sphere, was transformed by social media into a realm of extremist echo chambers.

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2y ago

New America's Akash Kapur connected with Nicholas Carr after the publication of his new book, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, which explores the broader forces and patterns underlying social media's corrosive effects on people and society.

Heine’s message is right there in the Bebelplatz: “it was just the beginning, where books are burned, eventually people will be burned too”.

robin celikates@robin-c.bsky.social · 2y ago

The university just decided to cancel our event. Dark times for academic freedom and international law and a very dangerous precedent www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/franc...

Come work with me this summer at @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social Feel free to DM with any questions!

The Privacy Center@georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Privacy Center is seeking currently enrolled @georgetownlaw.bsky.social students who are passionate about the intersection of privacy, tech, human rights, and immigration enforcement to join us this summer for a 10 week paid fellowship!

My piece on Border Solidarity is out on Critical Times @dukepress.bsky.social !! Many thanks to the reviewers, and to @robin-c.bsky.social and Judith Butler for their feedback on previous versions of the paper.

Zombies, aliens, the Chinese, robots from the future… Nop! At the end, the US government was taken over by a handful of mediocre, entitled, white boys

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2y ago

BREAKING: DOGE has gained access to Medicare and Medicaid payment systems www.investing.com/news/politic...

My interview with the Brazil Unfiltered podcast is out! I spoke about the impact, in Brazil, of facebook’s recent announcement, (un)regulated social media, and the dangers to democracy. For those interested in dialogues beyond the global north: www.braziloffice.org/en/podcasts/...

The Impact of Big Tech on Brazilian Politics — Washington Brazil Office

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green interviews Marianna Poyares, a Fritz Fellow at Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology . She is a critical theorist working on the et...

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