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Sam Shorey retweeted
15 Jul 2025
NEW 📰: AI automation is making government jobs more stressful & error-prone, hurting workers & constituents.
@SamShorey offers a scan of the existing landscape of AI implementation from across the country & the true impact on workers & efficiency. rooseveltinstitute.org/publi…
![[T]he public sector should not be a testing ground for tools that haven’t been evaluated, tested, and established as truly beneficial.](https://venexa.site/media/Gv5xgrkWYAADeIF.jpg)
ALT [T]he public sector should not be a testing ground for tools that haven’t been evaluated, tested, and established as truly beneficial.
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Sam Shorey retweeted
17 Jan 2025
🤔What tasks do we want robots to handle? Are these preferences based on saved time or feelings we associate with the tasks?
Introducing Why Automate This?—a study exploring automation preferences across social groups, using feelings & time-spent as key factors. 👇 (1/5)
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Sam Shorey retweeted
26 Oct 2024
LRT: it’s true, I’m hiring PhD student(s) to fire up the Labour Lab at @UofTInfoFaculty. We’re going to study how new tech and data tools reconfigure the workplace and think about how data tools and forms of tech expertise work to support the labour movement! Shoot me email/dm 👋
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Sam Shorey retweeted
30 Sep 2024
New pub alert! 🚨 "My Data, My Choice? Privacy, Commodity Activism, and Big Tech’s Corporatization of Care in the Post-Roe Era" with my beyond brilliant co-authors @dominiquemvalle and @SamShorey is out now in @SocialMedia_Soc. Read for free: doi.org/10.1177/205630512412…. 🧵to follow.
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Sam Shorey retweeted
2 Aug 2024
#OutNow in #ICS
Through a Feminist Science and Technology Studies lens, Dominique A. Montiel Valle and Samantha Shorey, examine repair labour on AI robots evidencing the frictions between technological imaginaries of efficiency and communal care.
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Sam Shorey retweeted
16 Jul 2024
✨Incredibly excited to share a newly published article with @SamShorey in a special issue of @icsjournal on Platforms, Power and Friction! We explored how workers navigated the frictions teeming in AI repair labor.
15 Jul 2024
Last but not least (and finally out!) @dominiquemvalle and @SamShorey on frictions in AI repair labor, which reveal how workers both reproduce and reconfigure AI systems tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Sam Shorey retweeted
7 Aug 2024
🎊Today, we announce some additions to our 2024 cohort of think tank fellows!
We welcome 2 new senior fellows and 5 new program fellows who will enrich the progressive policy community with a breadth of voices and expertise.
Meet the new Roosevelters ⬇️
rooseveltinstitute.org/2024/…
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26 Jun 2024
there is this scene in the new Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader docuseries where the producer observes "It must be hard having this thing that's your dream also be..." and the cheerleader responds "...the thing that hurts me? Yeah." And I felt it right in my R1 tenure-track heart.
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7 May 2024
RT @Abebab: sorry to be a spoiler but there is no way around a genuinely socially responsible AI without directly tackling systemic inequal…
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2 May 2024
Maryam is one of the amazing student journalists at The Daily Texan who have been physically harmed by the militarized police presence on our campus. Our college must protect the students who are putting the skills they've learned into action with bravery & integrity.
2 May 2024
In the last week I’ve been pepper sprayed; I’ve had flashbangs knock out my eardrums; I’ve seen protesters beaten, choked and arrested (footage from Monday’s protest 4/29 ⬇️ TW: violence). It’s been a hell of a week.
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2 May 2024
This heartsinking account from @manoojpg, a UT student photojournalist, was also published in @guardian today.
ALT Highlighted text: "I was beside the student in this picture when the arrest was made and a UTPD officer had pushed me down while trying to make space. I was lying on the ground with a wall of cops between me and the student when I sat up to take this picture, not more than five feet away from her."
ALT a person with dark skin and dreadlocks pinned on the ground, visible between the blue pant legs of police officers.
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2 May 2024
I refuse to let our students learn that when they try to document injustice they will face violence and the faculty they trust will look away. This is so wrong, this is so not okay, this is not our Texas.
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Sam Shorey retweeted
9 Apr 2024
📢 Registration is now LIVE for Take Back Tech II! Join us in Chicago from June 21-23 and unite with organizers, advocates, academics, & tech workers as we reclaim tech for our gente. 🔗 ➡️ takebacktech.com
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Sam Shorey retweeted
9 Apr 2024
Why are we so excited about Large Language Models?
I, for one, would be more excited about Small Laundry-Folding Models or even Medium Dish-Washing Models.
Give me a Foundation Model for chores and I'll give you *all* my money.
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Sam Shorey retweeted
27 Feb 2024
If this isn't a metaphor about the futures we were promised versus the one we live in...
26 Feb 2024
apparently this was sold as a live Willy Wonka Experience but they used all AI images on the website to sell tickets and then people showed up and saw this and it got so bad people called the cops lmao
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Sam Shorey retweeted
29 Jan 2024
Howdy! SAVE THE DATE for another installation of the American Studies Workshop featuring @UTexasMoody communications professor Dr. @SamShorey on February 9, 2024 @ 11:30AM in BUR 436A!
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Sam Shorey retweeted
13 Jan 2024
From a 1979 IBM presentation
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Sam Shorey retweeted
9 Jan 2024
The Texas Tribune interviewed @SamShorey (@UTexasMoody) on the risks of automating government work and empowering AI technologies to make more decisions.
“It might move us towards the end goal more quickly. But is it moving us towards an end goal that we want?”
7 Jan 2024
More than a third of state agencies are using AI.
Amid fears that the technology could heighten bias or affect privacy, Texas is forming an advisory committee to recommend how the technology is deployed.
bit.ly/41Ix83O
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"Rather than treating automation as an inevitable force that workers must adapt to, we need to recognize it as a social process that can and should be shaped by those it affects most—workers themselves."
New Tech Labor forum piece from @dcalacci, out now in interactions !
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Sam Shorey retweeted
25 Oct 2023
Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. 1/
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