squandered 10 precious minutes of writing time responding to a promoted post from dystopian surveillance profiteer Garrett Langley (Flock Safety CEO) on my fave platform, LinkedIn. when will I learn???
Hannah BW
@hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
public law, science, technology hannahbw.com
this is interesting! I just read a vagrancy case from DC in this era in which a guy was accosted by cops and grilled about his purported homosexuality because he was walking at night
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24h agonot a uniquely DC thing but the society women here maintained a list of 'walkers' who were gay men who could be trusted to take your daughter safely home from events
cannot wait to read this!!!
Ben Heath@jbentonheath.bsky.social · 2d agoI've posted my first systematic attempt to make sense of the past 20 months, as well as what came before. It's a work in progress, so please do hit me up with comments, objections, and screeds. The abstract (w/ alt text) is here. Some acknowledgments & refs in 🧵.1/x papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
tfw you are interrupted by your toddler while thinking aloud in a voice note
the PDFs are breaking not only my brain but also my tiny old computer :( going to need to buy a new laptop so I can finish this article
Hannah BW@hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · last wk.Maybe I’m reading too many 1000p hearing transcripts but I can feel my internal knowledge management system breaking down. What are we using these days? Notebooks? Obsidian? Index cards?
“Are big tech companies embracing surveillance over privacy?“ Is water wet?
okay I’ll go first. I use Zotero and Dropbox to manage sources and a physical notebook and many colored pens to digest/interpret archival sources. I’m realizing I need a more centralized place to keep notes on secondary literature. I could use Zotero for this too but I don’t love its interface
Hannah BW@hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · last wk.Maybe I’m reading too many 1000p hearing transcripts but I can feel my internal knowledge management system breaking down. What are we using these days? Notebooks? Obsidian? Index cards?
Maybe I’m reading too many 1000p hearing transcripts but I can feel my internal knowledge management system breaking down. What are we using these days? Notebooks? Obsidian? Index cards?
I've just taken a very quick look on my phone but at first glance the drop in “perceived decline“ in free expression is disturbingly, if predictably, polarized on party lines: Rs show only slight decline compared to 10 years ago while Ds dropped by more than 30 percentage points
John Sands@iohn.bsky.social · 2w agoA new survey from @knightfoundation.org and @ssrsresearch.bsky.social reveals a disquieting decline in how free Americans feel to use the freedoms protected by the #FirstAmendment without government interference or punishment. 🧵
I don’t say this lightly but it’s possible that interdisciplinary research is doomed
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2w ago"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
day 1 of “vacation”: pissed off my dad by saying the b-word (boomer)
one drawback to taking a walk to getting your creative juices flowing is that then, the juices are flowing, but you are outside instead of at your computer
guys I don’t mean to be a troll. I really don’t. But people are out here saying they’re using Claude like a research assistant, and I just… don’t understand. it just makes shit up? you ask it for citations or specific links and it be like
HAL 9000: I'm Sorry, Dave
ALT: HAL 9000: I'm Sorry, Dave
static.klipy.com
oh, no…. not my high school planning a party to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11. it seems plain to me that inviting people who were between 13 and 18 to relive the most traumatic day of our lives with an open mic and a “chance to connect at a nearby bar” is unwise
There’s a fight that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has been deferring. Now that TPS for Haitians is gone, he can’t defer it any longer. The road to abolishing ICE begins with local obstruction — not just the noncooperation of so-called sanctuary laws. And not taking it risks discrediting socialism.
The End of TPS for Haitians Is A Moment of Truth for Zohran Mamdani
Will 'municipal socialism' stand by as ICE snatches, cages and deports tens of thousands of New Yorkers? Or will it resist?
forever-wars.com
this is a great thread about a very bad report
Shobita Parthasarathy@shobitap.org · 4w agoI suffered through Kratsios' answer to Science: the Endless Frontier. The NYT summary is good, but there's more to it. And I should say that I welcome improvements to the scientific enterprise (which is why I'm participating in @alondra.bsky.social and Jenny Reardon's Public's Science project). 🧵
for everything I work on there’s a point at which I realize there is one word on which I rely too heavily. usually it’s “enmesh” (because i am the child of a psychoanalyst) but today it’s “technique“ i guess because this paper is very STS-y
IAS is obviously a special and specific setting, but I remain convinced that putting out tea, coffee, and cookies at 3pm, as it does, is a good practice that should be widely imitated
Orin Kerr@orinkerr.bsky.social · 4w agoI suspect the main answer is to have a centrally-located faculty lounge or other dedicated faculty area that has good coffee and snacks. Professors may be introverts, but drinks and food stand the best chance of bringing them in. /2
I suffered through Kratsios' answer to Science: the Endless Frontier. The NYT summary is good, but there's more to it. And I should say that I welcome improvements to the scientific enterprise (which is why I'm participating in @alondra.bsky.social and Jenny Reardon's Public's Science project). 🧵
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
nytimes.com
just posted a revised version of How Tech Took Over, about how decades of law and policy intended to secure the benefits of innovation and scientific advancement ended up elevating the tech industry as partners in public governance. so grateful to folks who gave comments and feedback!
How Tech Took Over
Technology firms play key roles in public governance. Their products enable forms of reasoning and data processing that modern agencies depend upon. Their data
papers.ssrn.com
obviously this is far from the worst thing Trump has done but has anyone noticed the distinctive pop-up ads on the White House website? next thing you know they’ll be offering 15% off
there isn’t even a tacodeli in every city in Texas (why?!?!) but it would CLEAN UP in NYC. tacombi could never
Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 4w agoI went to grad school at UT Austin so am steeped in TexMex. Why have breakfast tacos not made it outside of Texas? It's not rocket science. Why is there not a TacoDeli in every city?? Hrumph.
holy shit I had heard this had happened to someone but I didn’t know it was Ivan. I don’t know him personally but ofc if you write in tech and surveillance you know his work. WTAF.
Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · last mo.🚨Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department and AAUP UT Austin Chapter VP: “Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university, because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.” ⬇️
just posted a revised version of How Tech Took Over, about how decades of law and policy intended to secure the benefits of innovation and scientific advancement ended up elevating the tech industry as partners in public governance. so grateful to folks who gave comments and feedback!
How Tech Took Over
Technology firms play key roles in public governance. Their products enable forms of reasoning and data processing that modern agencies depend upon. Their data
papers.ssrn.com
Very excited to share this with the world. We have been working on it for a while! www.wired.com/story/the-ac...
The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
wired.com
I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.
Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · last mo.Hi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.
