AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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The logic is that a rising tide lifts all ships. And regardless of all social advances, once again, won through Black liberation movements, we have remained in at the bottom rung of the social ladder. Black women, the backbone of our movements, the most educated demo in USA, remain in a double bind.
I had such a great time co-organizing the CHI workshop on Standards for LLM Use in Human Subjects Research! We had a fantastic turnout and discussion, and we're looking forward to continuing this conversation to produce concrete standards.
so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
AI companies should be extremely careful not to repeat the many mistakes that have been made — and harms that have resulted from — the adoption of personalized ads on social media and around the web. (4/5)
(2) Give authors of papers the ability to edit the AI-generated summary. Ideally directly, but if that's not possible, to easily request a change. (3) Give authors the ability to opt out of having an AI summary on their paper entirely. (Or require an opt in.)
As someone who has ::checks notes:: 117 publications in the ACM Digital Library, can confirm I was not asked nor told about this. It doesn't appear on ALL papers, and I can't intuit a rhyme or reason to which ones. Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm legitimately surprised there's not an opt out option.
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
becoming one of those computer scientists who won't stop yapping about my analog hobby of choice. (canon ae-1 · kodak ultramax 400)
the non-ironic, casual deployment of the white usage of "woke" in news articles and opinion pieces makes me want to scream
I've always felt somewhat uncomfortable with the framing of AI risk around the actions of "malicious actors". Because sometimes the malicious actor is the company that built the thing. And the model is causing harm because it was successfully steered into doing what it's creators wanted it to do.
the research homies of all time are cooking btw 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Ro Encarnación@rone.bsky.social · last yr.I'm incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with this team. Truly one of the best collaborative experiences I have had to date (special s/o to our MVP @mkgerchick.bsky.social for leading this)! Check out Marissa's talk on our paper "auditing the audits" if you're at #FAccT2025! ⬇️
y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI
my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world
Work can be so endlessly rigorous about the technical half of the word but the socio half just stands in for anything and everything
the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought
anyway, if your problem with technology was those inconvenient people who do technical work, and how they ask questions, have opinions, take ethical stances, etc. then it might be especially tempting to just replace them with ai. fewer tedious coffees, for one thing.
Important points @ach.bsky.social ACH2025 conference by Mohammad Suliman about the gaps in accessibility for research and programming. Taking notes for our new ACH Anthology!
I catch blocks if I talk about C19 but: There’s a new, more contagious strain spreading—“razor blade throat” is one symptom. But, most spread is SYMPTOMLESS. You DON’T KNOW you’re spreading it. More spread, more mutations & variants—>more disabled & dead. Put a mask on in public. We keep us safe.
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Few tech critiques have aged as well as Phil Agre saying "Oh come on. Face recognition will work well enough to be dangerous, and poorly enough to be dangerous as well." Obviously lands well beyond face rec.
The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.