A 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. 🧵

Knight Foundation-SSRS Poll: Americans Feel Free Expression is Eroding - Knight Foundation

For more than two decades, Knight Foundation has commissioned research to better understand Americans’ lived experience with the First Amendment and free expression. As the country marks its 250th ann...

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Perhaps humanity's most urgent mission now is figuring out how to build technology that facilitates human flourishing. @natefast.bsky.social and @julianaschroeder.bsky.social are on the job: psychoftech.substack.com/p/the-psycho...

The Psychology of Technology: The Science We Need in the Age of AI

We founded the Psychology of Technology Institute in 2016 to advance an interdisciplinary field we call the "Psychology of Technology." A decade later, it has never mattered more.

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We're excited to announce the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award winners! Please join us in congratulating them!

We asked people in 8 countries 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 how they use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find overall platform ambivalence - people use platforms for news & info about politics, but they're also skeptical of the information they see there. 1/

Waqas Ejaz@waqasejaz.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢In our new report, co-authored with @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social, we examine how people in🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find evidence of ‘platform ambivalence’, and a lot more (1/5).

Happy to share this piece I wrote for the SF Chronicle on how we can have more productive, respectful political conversations. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Yes, Americans are divided. But it doesn’t have to be this way

Under the right conditions, we are surprisingly capable of communicating and co-existing across difference.

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This is a thoughtful thread, thanks

Eli Pariser@eli.bsky.social · 2y ago

I started a collective document of the best post-election reads (link at the end of the thread). Here’s what I’ve found most illuminating. I’m curious how these working thoughts resonate with others and what you think I’m most missing:

@elijfinkel.bsky.social and @nourkteily.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc for their new Center for Enlightened Disagreement: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjI3Nw== Come join an amazing group of interdisciplinary researchers at Northwestern U, Kellogg School of Management!

Looking for people to follow? Here’s a directory of 4,500 starter packs which you can search by keyword! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

All - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Welcome new followers! If you're new to us, we're a nonprofit R&D lab trying to reimagine social media. We think every community in America deserves a healthy digital public space. More on our three main focuses below!

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We are researchers, engineers, designers, and community leaders working together to create digital public spaces where people can thrive and connect.

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Now anyone in LA can hail a Waymo robotaxi

Now anyone in LA can hail a Waymo robotaxi

Waymo has opened its robotaxi service to everyone in Los Angeles, sunsetting a waitlist that had grown to 300,000 people. The Alphabet-backed company said starting Tuesday anyone can download the Waymo One app to hail a ride in its service area, which is…

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Really fantastic paper led by Zarine Kharazian about governance capture within self-governing communities, featuring a case study of the Croatian language Wikipedia community. Zarine will be presenting at CSCW this week.

Zarine Kharazian@zarine.net · 2y ago

i guess "governance capture" may be kind of relevant these days... i'll be at CSCW this week presenting our paper with @mako.cc and @katestarbird.bsky.social exploring why some self-governing online communities are more vulnerable to capture than others: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

New job post at Northeastern! on AI governance. Hope to have some CSS applicants. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Ten charts showing tech diffusion by @azeem.bsky.social GenAI adoption is off to a faster start than the internet and computers (Fig 4) www.exponentialview.co/p/10-charts-...

🔮 Ten charts to understand the Exponential Age

This week marks the 500th edition of the Sunday newsletter.

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