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Suzanne Conklin Akbari

@sakbari.bsky.social

Living on Lunaapahkiing, faculty at IAS, servant of two cats and sometimes one dog.

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Suzanne Conklin Akbari@sakbari.bsky.social · 3h ago

“The stakes could not be more consequential. AI is already shaping who gets hired, who gets surveilled, who receives care, and whose voice is amplified or suppressed. […] These systems will reproduce and entrench uneven social conditions. […] Yet this outcome is not inevitable.”

nestor guillen@birdsnfrogs.bsky.social · 4h ago

This weekend I finally had time to read through @alondra.bsky.social's "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool" and I can't recommend it enough. Every mathematician who has been reading countless essays about AI and math should stop and read this direct.mit.edu/daed/article...

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · yesterday

I'm hosting post-screening Q&A today at Film at Lincoln Center for "Once Upon a Time in Harlem" with Liani Greaves, the granddaughter of the late genius filmmaker Bill Greaves. *That* showing is sold out, but if you're in NYC, make sure you see this absolute masterpiece of documentary 💗✊🏽

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

In 1972, legendary filmmaker William Greaves gathered an extraordinary group of artists, writers, actors, musicians, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance. After more than 50 years, his son David Gre...

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Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · yesterday

Last I checked, about ten years ago, there remain medieval manuscripts in the collection the only catalog handlists of which are the handwritten ones accessible in the reading room. I doubt that’s changed in the interim but I’m happy to be corrected. The point is that the BL has been STARVED.

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · yesterday

So just considering the medieval manuscripts alone (and obviously the BL has so much more), the need for well-paid curators and catalogers as well as IT professionals is extreme. I’m not even going to get into the cyberattack, which took all of the digitized MSS offline—poof! Gone!

Anna@superteadrinker.bsky.social · 2d ago

Interestingly, this BL survey of why you visited the BL most recently doesn't even offer 'to read books from the collection' as a possibility. Which is pretty much what I'd expect, tbh.

Reasons: exhibitions, tours, events, cafe, shopping, av materials.
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · yesterday

During my PhD I worked as a curatorial fellow on a medieval manuscripts exhibition at the British Library and then was a research associate there for a time. This was when the Tories came in and the blow to funding was shocking. Hard to convey how austerity has battered this institution.

Anna@superteadrinker.bsky.social · 2d ago

Interestingly, this BL survey of why you visited the BL most recently doesn't even offer 'to read books from the collection' as a possibility. Which is pretty much what I'd expect, tbh.

Reasons: exhibitions, tours, events, cafe, shopping, av materials.
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 2d ago

Princeton Students rock: "We think it is clear that AI is not academically necessary to a large portion of the student body and may have destructive consequences." www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

How a universal ChatGPT pilot compromises Princeton’s mission

We believe that Princeton administrators should defer to the academic departments to determine who gets paid access, as they are uniquely placed to establish procedures for all students to justify why...

dailyprincetonian.com

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d ago

more people will try to distance themselves from the GOP debacle. it's a good time to reflect on the fact that that party doesn't need to exist

screenshot of a facebook post by philosopher Vanessa Wills, text reads: "This is going to make more sense in the first half of 2027 than it does right now, but I just want to remind progressives that America does not, in fact, "need" a Republican Party. It would be entirely all right for there to be no one there on the other side of the proverbial "aisle." The total collapse of the Republican Party would be a good thing for Americans and for the world. If at least ostensibly having two parties rather than one makes a meaningful difference to the democratic character of the United States, work on us having a liberal party and a left party. Why must the two parties be a center-right business party and the Nazis? If the most ghoulishly reactionary people you can think of need a party in order to feel politically represented, it's all right to let them worry about that themselves. Let Musk and Thiel dem work it out. There is no earthly reason that liberals and leftists need to make it their business to help the Republican Party recover from this. The right wing of the Democratic Party is already plenty conservative enough and has outsized control over the party. It is the constant threat of being ruled by Republicans that permits those right-wing establishment Democrats to keep getting away with anything and everything, up to and including a literal 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴. There is no reason for Democratic voters to accept it when their elected officials sacrifice things that matter to working people, all for the sake of pursuing compromise with what is for all intents and purposes an openly and expressly fascist party."
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Voters want normal people in charge, and they took their wrath out on otherwise normal Republicans who refused to push back against the lunacy, corruption and incompetence within the GOP,” Erick Erickson writes in a guest essay.

Jamison Foser@jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 4d ago

has the New York Times announced the roster of new progressive columnists they're bringing on board, the restructuring and creation of new verticals, and other dramatic steps they're taking to reflect the Real America they didn't properly understand or nah?

Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social · 4d ago

Abu Shehadeh, a highly respected journalist and intellectual, was snatched by 15 masked men. This is, in most likelihood, part of the effort to discredit the elections by claiming they were "stolen" by Palestinian voters. So far, no evidence has been presented.

The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 4d ago

Around 15 Israeli officers, some of them masked, raided the Jaffa home of journalist and colleague Abed Abu Shehadeh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, at midnight on 3 November. Police refused to disclose where he is being held.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4d ago

There are now enough states with Dem trifectas to pass the interstate compact on the national popular vote. The end of the Electoral college may be upon us.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 5d ago

It's sad to think that left-leaning humanities profs have talked for decades about the need for publicly funded humanities scholarship and education, only to be ignored by Democrats who just want education to be job training. Then the right-wing just goes ahead and does publicly funded humanities.

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d ago

Moderates repeatedly crossing party lines to endorse and publicly vote for Republicans amidst the most racist and disastrous Republican administration in public memory ought to end the argument that’s it’s the left wing of the party that needs to prove it’s loyalty to the Democratic base.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5d ago

Josh Turek says he didn't vote for a Democratic ticket, and instead voted republican for several races. And yet trans people are vilified for doing the same to him?

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5d ago

Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools. No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children.  Our public schools exist to serve students, not to grow the profit margins of Big Tech.

Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I.

Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google’s search engine.

nytimes.com