Jeffrey Gleason
@jlgleason.bsky.social
CS PhD Candidate at Northeastern | Computational Social Scientist | https://jlgleason.github.io/
This is an excellent conference. I attended a few years ago to present a digital experiment I ran and have been itching for an excuse to return. Call for abstracts now open!
CODE@MIT@codemit.bsky.social · 3w ago📢 Call for abstracts for the Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE@MIT), which takes place Nov 13-14. 📨 Submit your best work by *Sept 13th*! ide.mit.edu/events/2026-...
Next big thing for Leaflet: helping creators monetize! 💸 First step = paid memberships for your publications Next, exploring other things like one-off payments — tell us what you need! Almost ready & we'd love to find some early partners, please fill out the linked form if you're interested!
Piloting paid memberships for the open social web!
Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!
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If people only knew how many Mixue soft serves you can get for the price of an oak milk latte
Episode 2 of The Studio was so, so good. Max cringe.
v1.127 is live! We're rolling out improvements to search over the coming weeks. You'll get more relevant results and more ways to find what you're looking for. The new "Filters" button lets you query and filter by keywords, people, date range, language and more. You can even share your searches!
Every once in a while you find a paper that does a lot with a simple approach. Today's is from @natematias.bsky.social, Cassidy Waldrip, and @davidlazer.bsky.social. They simply ask how much computational social science can be reproduced? #metascience. journalqd.org/article/view...
View of Commercial Determinants of Replication Infeasibility in Computational Social Science
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Love to read “Chance of precipitation: 0%” on my weather app while walking in the rain
First trip to Seattle starts with a great light rail experience from the airport
Are you curious about the environmental impact of AI? Install the AI Impact Tracker to estimate the environmental footprint of your ChatGPT usage, including energy, water, and CO2. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-im... #FAccT2026
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A very good measure of how well the cats are adjusting to their new home: how many times they demand play each day.
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Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team
co/core — an AI cooperative
co/core is a cooperative for AI inference — people pooling the Macs they already own to run open models for each other, instead of renting from the big clouds. An experiment in AI infrastructure we bu...
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During the national anthem, President Donald Trump was booed by the Game 3 crowd at MSG.
The ROOST Model Community is growing! Today we welcome Zentropi's CoPE-B-A4B, a bring-your-own-policy model that's got the power of 25B but runs on only 4B active parameters. It's a fast, low-cost model that can be used on its own or as a first pass before larger models! roost.tools/blog/welcomi...
Welcoming Zentropi's CoPE-B-A4B to the ROOST Model Community
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
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Since May 2025, we've removed 8,526 accounts tied to state-backed influence activity on Bluesky. 4,907 of those takedowns happened in 2026 alone, roughly double the rate we saw in 2025. 1/4 🧵
Jesus, USCIS just continues to make cruel and stupid policies 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...
Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says
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We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.
Liz Dye@lizdye.bsky.social · 3mo agoBREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Arnold Arboretum smells and colors in the spring are undefeated
Like @mychal3ts.bsky.social writes, “The library is always here for you." That's why we're committed to being here for our libraries. This year, we're adding $31.7 million in permanent, baseline funding to our city's three library systems so they can better serve New Yorkers.
Our new report is out: How Americans Spend Their Time Online. www.nuinfoinstitute.org/publications... Five companies (Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon) capture more than half of all online time. Alphabet alone takes 35%.
As I write up my last grad school paper, I increasingly wonder if academic papers will ever transition to a shorter, more direct format.
Anyone interested in standardising political ad libraries on AT? We could get all parties to post (under their legit handle) in this way and have a unified-but-decentralised transparency database that way.
Who Targets Me@whotargets.me · 3mo agoThe EU's Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) Regulation is starting to roll out in more countries. In Ireland, each party has built their own political ad library. Transparency is welcome, and potentially useful, but... there are *thousands* of political parties in the EU.
Turns out college drop out DOGE bros put in charge of cancelling humanities grants violated both the law and the First Amendment by asking ChatGPT to tell them why it was okay to cancel grants for being "DEI"
Techdirt@techdirt.com · 3mo agoCourt To DOGE Bros: Asking ChatGPT ‘Yo, Is This DEI?’ Is Not Proper Legal Process & Also A First Amendment Violation Back in early 2025, DOGE bros Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh were handed multiple government roles with a simple mandate: go find the woke stuff and kill it. Fox and Cavanaugh had…
I cannot stress how cataclysmically STUPID it is to not fund science.
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo agoNSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
