👏 Fully agree 👏 We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025

Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

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HOPE has been banned from St. John's University. www.2600.com/content/hope...

I hardly post on microblogging apps despite writing about them constantly for the past several years. Something about the tweet format just doesn't register as a conversation in my mind. It feels like yapping into the void in a way that Discord, Cohost (RIP), and even phpBB forums don't.

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

Sarah Gilbert@sarahagilbert.bsky.social · last yr.

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

#tech for those of you who do now or might someday upload content to YouTube, h/t @pantsawe.bsky.social

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · last yr.

So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service." Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):

72% of the book challenges are coming from organized pressure groups and politicians they work with to falsely claim inclusive books are offensive or inappropriate, according to the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social. (1/2)

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff

#HANDSOFF #NYC

Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · last yr.

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

If you study networks, or have been stuck listening to people who study networks for long enough (sorry to my loved ones), you may have heard that open triads – V shapes – in social networks tend to turn into closed triangles. But why does this happen? In part, because people repost each other.

have you ever lost sleep wondering how hashtag activism campaigns unfold over time??? in a new paper with @erikavmelder.bsky.social and @foucaultwelles.bsky.social, we look at the temporal evolution of 7 years of #StopLine3 on twitter more here: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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This is pretty bad- but better this than Apple just sneakily adding a backdoor. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.

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Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies 🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

Got a bluesky account just to plug this #CHI25 preprint that I got to write with @taliabhatt.itch.io and @michaelann.bsky.social. "We ask: what does an orientation of HCI research towards fighting epistemic injustice look like?" arxiv.org/abs/2501.14648

Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering Participant Knowledge

Justice, epistemology, and marginalization are rich areas of study in HCI. And yet, we repeatedly find platforms and algorithms that push communities further into the margins. In this paper, we propos...

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"Making extensions under MV3 is much harder than making extensions under MV2. That's just a fact. They made things harder to build and more confusing," EFF’s Alexei Miagkov told @theregister.com.

Google's slow Chrome Extension reforms anger developers

Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren't kept

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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Gritty continues to be a real one

Friends play a key role in the lives and wellbeing of adults 50 and older. CID Faculty Affiliate Sarah Patterson @spattersearch.bsky.social contributed to the National Poll on Healthy Aging @um-src.bsky.social. Read the press release: isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

Just to share something cool... I was looking for pixel fonts for my neocities and like, I keep getting all the usual font sites on google and like... Sometimes you want like.. a REAL website like no I need a page where some weirdo wrote the HTML!! int10h.org/oldschool-pc...? So I found THIS!!!

I get the game design argument for contact damage but it's just not very fun. Actual attack hitboxes add so much to any action game. I'm supposed to believe my guy is a cool powerful hero and yet he loses half his life bar and is flung across the screen simply by touching a snake? Yeah, sure.

Recently talked to a student who admitted to using ChatGPT as a study device - by feeding it all of the class lecture slides and having it generate summaries. So now OpenAI has ownership of all the slides my co-instructor and I created from scratch…

I cant believe Cave Story is 20 years old.. Such an amazing and formative game for me, what better way to enjoy it than on a fully restored IBM ThinkCentre that also happens to be from 2004! ( ^ ^)

You do not need to be an academic to visit an archive. You do not need a degree to visit an archive. There is no terrifying Don at the door grilling potential visitors. If it's your first time, a nice archivist will help you. It's our shared history, our preserved records. Go explore it.

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Don't forget: Just like most awards shows, The Game Awards is entirely an industry operation designed to advertise games, mostly AAA games. I was happy to see Balatro nominated, but it felt like an appeasement. There's hundreds of fantastic indie games with awesome devs that go ignored by TGA.

Just got two commercials in a row that featured teenagers coming of age and immediately desiring to sell <cars/insurance> as part of their newfound identity and purpose as an adult. They're working overtime to bake perpetuating capitalism in as our default goal today, huh?

I’m gonna be real …. I’m not paying $5/month or more for 20-30 individual newsletters We need a better media ecosystem

I just stumbled across a drama response youtube video that was sponsored and had a 90 second ad read in the middle of describing allegations against another creator. I don't think I've ever seen the quiet part spoken so loud. They're profiting off of manufactured outrage.