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An interesting collection of responses to "How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Higher Ed?" Like others, I rejected the premise of the question. <grin>...
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Can you help me identify everyday examples of mundane low-stakes data modeling failures. We've seen a lot of discussions of supply chain failures and labor shortages. But what about when companies are...
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Congrats @pahlkadot!! For anyone who cares about govt and/or tech, omg this book is amaaaaaazing!! I am sooo inspired by Jen’s efforts to make tech work in govt and her reflexivity in the process....
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In December, I penned an essay called “What it Failure is the Plan?” It was about Twitter. It was entertaining to re-read today given Twitter’s ongoing self-immolation....
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I really appreciate @davekarpf's push for us scholars to reckon with the relevance/importance of "mission science." Even though I'm not a political comm person, I'm so with him that the end result is...
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What makes a social media site vibrant? It's not about the technology. It's about how the networks are nurtured into being. Here's some lessons from 20 years ago that Alt-Twitter designers need to...
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I’m delighted to back @pluralistic’s kickstarter for his upcoming book: “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation”. Want a DRM-free audio/ebook? Or a hardcover (signed even!)? You can...
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Wagner James Au has been trying to get me to engage with virtual reality since we first met in the mid-aughts. You name the iteration, he's been excited about it. In his new book "Making a Metaverse...
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Umm... How am I only learning there's a song called "Context Collapse" today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFpWs6k_CM4
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I am soooo sad that I had to cancel my #ASA2023 attendance. Boooo. Damn thee Covid. Luckily my amazing collaborators - @chchliu and @jksarathy - will be presenting our work. Please go cheer them on for...
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Parents of trans/gender affirming youth: Please consider signing this: https://www.transparentsletter.com/ Bills like KOSA won't help youth, but they will increase the harms to vulnerable youth,...
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"The Screens are the Symptom" is a re-review of Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" in light of contemporary ideas of book banning, screens, children, and broader epistemic battles....
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For those interested in AI, this is a fantastic primer by the AINow Institute on the infrastructure needed to make AI work. Think: chips and compute plus the geopolitics, institutions, markets, and...
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Dreaming of pursuing a PhD? This RA/pre-doc position at MSR is designed as a training path while contributing to research. @nancybaym@tarleton Mary Gray and I are looking for a predoc with an orgs/STS...
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I’m bracing for the destruction of the administrative state. @donmoyn offers one way that this could happen: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/opinion/trump-deep-state-schedule-f.html
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4S scholars: @cyberlyra and I are organizing an open panel for 4S/EASST on "The Implications of Institutional Breakdown for Science and Technology" if that's your jam:...
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Techno-legal-solutionism is what happens when policymakers require tech companies to be solutionistic for good. It’s just as fatally flawed of a logic as the deterministic ones regularly used by tech....
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The Kids Online Safety Act isn’t designed to help kids. Congress is using kids to hold Big Tech accountable. Kids will get hurt in the process....
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Ummm... This chart is TERRIFYING. Have the data centers that undergird AI already triggered this much of a shift in energy consumption? ::shudder::...
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New paper by @cyberlyra and I in a Sociologica special issue on failure looks at how constraining time/money in public sector orgs like NASA and the Census Bureau can introduce risk. In short, resource...
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