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24 Aug 2020
I was putting together a syllabus for a class a couple of years ago, and thought, "Why don't I do this for my PhD students?"
So I've been slowly writing a syllabus for them (v0.1):
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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30 Apr 2024
Live footage of the chaos on the University of Michigan campus that Congress is so interested in.
Frisbees and hammocks everywhere.
cc @virginiafoxx @RepDebDingell
ALT Outdoor photo of the University of Michigan diag. There are some people calming hanging around. The encampment is in the background. An American flag occupies the center of the image.
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30 Apr 2024
We didn't bring in the snipers or the riot gear. Let's hope we keep it that way.
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18 Apr 2023
I'm beyond excited and thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2023!!! @UMNComputerSci @grouplens
Looking forward to this next big step... but first, time to finish up that dissertation. 😊
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11 Apr 2023
Generative AI is "a Marxist nightmare: the work of millions accruing to a few capitalist owners who pay nothing at all for that labor," says @datasociety research director @jennaburrell:
techpolicy.press/chatgpt-and…
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This article by @ceciliakang and @satariano correctly identifies the knowledge gap on AI in Congress. But there's more to it than that. 1/n, n=7
As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology nyti.ms/3kIAh2x
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28 Feb 2023
Delve into new UMSI research coming to #CHI2023 about trans tech:
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Excited to share the preprint of our new #CHI2023 paper w/ @HibbyThach @kaichak3 & Aloe DeGuia. We show how involving trans people in design processes is vital for trans tech to realize its potential to address trans needs 🏳️⚧️ oliverhaimson.com/PDFs/Haims…
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9 Feb 2023
i feel bad for this poor fired Twitter engineer but on the whole this story is so funny platformer.news/p/elon-musk-…
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20 Jul 2022
One crosstab I want to highlight here -- the share of Americans who say that, growing up, they were at least somewhat worried about a mass shooting at their school.
By age group;
65 : 4%
50-64: 6%
35-49: 11%
18-34: 38%
cnn.com/2022/07/20/politics/…
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Awesome to see this feature of a #MercuryProject grantee team, including @eegilbert! (Go Blue!)
si.umich.edu/about-umsi/news… "Instead of going after misinfo itself, we're going to go after the networks that carry misinfo."
cc @ssrc_org @mosenkis @Rtg230 @NeilLewisJr @CharlesSenteio
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20 Nov 2022
The problem was never algorithms; it’s powerful companies using algorithms against our interests.
Everyone who complains about algorithms should have to spend time on Mastodon. Reverse chronological is brutal.
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14 Nov 2022
PhD students: Want to work with @marylgray @nancybaym @TarletonG and me at @MSFTResearch on sociotechnical projects? We are hiring both interns and postdocs. For more info, see: socialmediacollective.org/
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12 Nov 2022
I’m so glad to see some faculty sharing their opinion about this. The faculty/staff side of the University can feel like a monolith for students — I was constantly shocked in my reporting to find specific faculty members that are incredibly supportive (behind closed doors.)
11 Nov 2022
#Opinion | Op-Ed: A faculty perspective on reporting sexual misconduct:
ow.ly/FVY550LALS5
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11 Nov 2022
Issues like this are why I'm not excited about Mastodon. The designer didn't think through possible harms.
And like a lot of open source projects, its conceptual anchor was an existing product/service (in this case, mid-2010s Twitter).
11 Nov 2022
I think this is going to be a big problem. :-/ Mastodon hasn’t really been set up to deal with large scale coordinated harassment - and some instances are going to be bad at moderation (some intentionally, some unintentionally).
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11 Nov 2022
to be clear, i don't want to stay here either. i just also don't want to go there.
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11 Nov 2022
Imagine getting inside one of this mfers spaceships
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