Bought a book called Virtual Afterlives and got this as a freebie in the used book packet. Ermmmmm

Hello fellow data privacy enthusiasts: any suggestions for where to start trying to trace who approved a local Flock camera and how? It appears to be on private property (non municipal land) which is making it even more difficult.

I am BEGGING Le Tigre or similar to make an absolute bop out of this

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 4mo ago

hinton wants a mother dawkins wants a wife neither wants a woman with independent life

Have you tried unplugging the Internet and keeping it off?

tldr; cyberfeminism is rad and might be our way out of the bad (current AI) place For the past four (five?) years or so, I've been struggling to articulate what exactly about the cyberlibertarian technoculture of Silicon Valley bothered me so much...

Really looking forward to this event, in which we will be discussing Anuli's insightful and provocative report on the reality of AI literacy and upskilling in the "Age of AI". Hope to see you there!

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Next week! Join us on Feb 17 as D&S's Anuli Akanegbu, GA State Senator Nikki Merritt, @techequity.bsky.social's @tnewmsblues.bsky.social, & Bard Professor @threatstovalidity.bsky.social discuss what the AI literacy trap is doing to workers, w @serena124.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/404-j...

AND: Join us on Feb 17 @ 12pm ET as Anuli Akanegbu, GA State Senator Nikki Merritt, @techequity.bsky.social's @tnewmsblues.bsky.social, & Bard Professor @threatstovalidity.bsky.social discuss what the AI literacy trap is doing to workers, w @serena124.bsky.social. 5/6 datasociety.net/events/404-j...

Bad things about 2026: many. The horrors persist unrelentingly. Good things about 2026: when I write '2025' by accident on paper for the first six months of 2026, it's very easy to correct the 5 to a 6.

Professoring field notes, Fall '25: intro to AI lecture slide deck for Deep Learning starts with Transformers (sequence-to-sequence vs self/multi-attention) ends up with feminist standpoint theory and collapse of the minority (vs majority) voice and why LLMs are authoritarian machines. Ooops?

As many in the Bard community are aware, a Bard College student was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after appearing for a scheduled interview at the New York Asylum Office. For more information, including how you can help the detained student, please visit go.bard.edu/take-action.

Almost like data work is a highly skilled labor form that requires close attention to detail on top of computational expertise :-)

Cameron Colony@cameroni101.bsky.social · 12mo ago

As someone who does accounting and data validation, this would get me fired:

Interested in teaching data analytics (Assistant rank) or systems topics (Open Rank) at a liberal arts college? Bard is hiring in both! Happy to answer questions about life here generally. Good people, good place, genuinely interdisciplinary campus! Job postings: www.bard.edu/humanresourc...

How do you write an AI course policy for a course in...AI? I'm trying to figure that out right now, with a working draft here: annabelrothschild.com/2025/08/11/a.... I'd love feedback -- we'll be talking in depth about all the FACcT* issues around AI throughout the course, this is just a spoiler.

Tired: accidentally pushing to prod Wired: vibe coding prod

Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social · last yr.

Vibe deleting. arstechnica.com/information-...

Just solved a printer bug as Grace Hopper intended (dissembling entire unit to excavate stink bug carcass)

new level of bureaucratic clustersauce: petitioning my former institution to stop marking emails from my new institution as automatic spam so that I can continue to work with colleagues there all this because one admin sent all our SSNs for a free pizza lunch a few years ago (/s)

Synthetic data and labels (to replace human production) is starting to feel like the NSDAP project to create butter from coal: Details are sketchy, nutritional value seems even more dubious, but we're full steam ahead? www.nytimes.com/1936/02/28/a... www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

FAT MADE FROM COAL, GERMANS DECLARE; Plant Reported Ready to Produce Sebaceous Acid, Which Would Reduce Oil Imports. (Published 1936)

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Data centers are the new sacrifice zones

Ariel Wittenberg@arielwittenberg.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW from me: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma. www.eenews.net/articles/elo...

graduating on international workers' day from the university that always chooses whether phd students are students or workers based on what is most convenient for admin will never not be funny

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on justice-oriented audit frameworks. Closing date April 30, 2025. pls share widely

AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie · last yr.

We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on developing a justice-oriented audit framework synthesising computational methods, theories of justice, and existing regulations to premeditatively focus audits towards meaningful accountability. www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/post...

So if Unis are halting graduate admissions this year, are they going to refund applicants all those $100 admissions application fees?

AI is but a concept of a plan

🎉Microsoft Research New England is hiring a predoctoral research assistant to work with @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social on issues related to the dynamics of technology and society. 🎉 socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...

Seeking a Sociotechnical Systems Research Assistant (aka “Pre-Doc”)

Apply here: (NOTE: Application Portal opens February 3, 2025) Deadline: March 3, 2025. (Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.)  NOTE: Unfortunately, applicants must be eligib…

socialmediacollective.org

''‘Well, suppose I would oppose this, what good would I do? I wouldn’t do very much good, I would just lose my influence. Then why should I oppose it?’ You see, the moral point of view was completely absent, or very weak.'' -- Leo Szilard, on anticipatory obedience ("His version of the facts", p 13)

The loss of jobs at CDC coupled with major job losses at Emory and GA Tech will devastate Atlanta.

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 2y ago

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

About those (GT) emails: www.11alive.com/article/news...

Georgia Tech questioned by state NAACP over deleting DEI references from website, school says it began discontinuing DEI programs in 2023

The Georgia NAACP on Sunday highlighted an email with a directive to delete content referring to DEI, justice and other terms.

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Had a lot of conversations with soon-to-be BA/S CS graduates about SWE jobs outside FAANG. Considering recent news about Costco upholding DEI values, I'd like to point out there are 95 (!) open IT jobs, many of them in Seattle and similar cities! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/ca...