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AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

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Also 8 years ago I suggested educational theory itself, not just classrooms or infrastructure, would end up "owned" by organizations with the capacity to generate and analyze data. Google is certainly out to own "learning science" to justify its AIED incursions journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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LAST NIGHT AT UCLA - On the one year anniversary of the violent encampment raid, UCLA admin called in riot police to break up students watching The Encampments documentary on campus. These schools are at war with their students. Movies are illegal.

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)

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Today my new @mitpress.bsky.social book with Mark Brockway publishes! It explores the historical forces that gave rise to a shapeshifting, amalgamated figure of the liberal devil mapped onto a very broad conceptualization of “the left” and the Democratic Party mitpress.mit.edu/978026255227...

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The IDF has kidnapped the co-director of Oscar winning film No Other Land after being assaulted by a gang of Israeli settlers.

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“OpenAI cofounder Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has developed ‘super intelligence.’” In other words, here’s 2 billion to do nothing. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...

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We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

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"At least six students were potentially outed to school officials after writing about being gay, transgender or struggling with gender dysphoria" apnews.com/article/ai-s... h/t @hypervisible.bsky.social

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If you're a caregiver (and/or teacher or school leader) concerned about surveillance technologies in schools, I maintain the Against School Surveillance Technologies Library. The library has journalism, peer-reviewed research, and other resources on the problems of surveillance technologies.

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Code Pink is flooding congress to lobby congress members to make statements on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil tomorrow, Wed. 3/12 and Thurs. 3/13. More details in the link. Please join if you can and share widely. Hope to see folks there. www.codepink.org/congress4mah...

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“If academic freedom in teaching & in scholarship can be overridden by the dicta of politicians & administrators, then the right to learn will not survive our present moment.” Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s full letter to Governor Hochul on CUNY interference here: www.aaup.org/news/governo...

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Hello Bluesky friends! My first book - The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life - hits the shelves this month and I'm having a launch event, hosted by @briony.bsky.social :) 18 MARCH 2025 1500 GMT HYBRID Book your (online) place here: tinyurl.com/ydrep6fh

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Any friends putting together panels for AoIR 2025 and need an extra person?

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Catch my brilliant colleague @bletiecq.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today on the Right's war on universities: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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When I started at D&S last Sept I didn't even know what genAI red-teaming was (events where users systematically prompt LLMs to reveal bias, inaccuracy etc). This report covers the history of red-teaming, various ways the public is involved, and how to improve it. Huge kudos to the team!

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Excited to teach @nickttaylor.bsky.social’s The Grounds of Gaming this spring. The book is amazing - highlighting how spaces of play and material infrastructures shape gaming, exclude others, and reify patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, and White supremacy. Get a copy now! #videogames #gamestudies

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“we can’t innovate as well as the chinese so we need the government to stop them from beating us”

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in mere hours!!! come get gamer-fied

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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

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A bunch of federal employees saying they are gonna hold the line is fuckin raw ✊🏽

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A lot progressive tech is in academia or non profits and convenings are oriented towards expertise, not power bldg. @meredithmeredith.bsky.social warned of critical academia industrial complex: all critique, no power building. Folks trying to change this: laborcenter.ucsd.edu/news-and-eve...

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I feel like this is the archetype and pinnacle of experiences we all have every so often with digital files. I cringe while reading and feel this man's pain, like a familiar old wound is stinging. www.wired.com/story/bitcoi...

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New year, same old Meta. Great article from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social. Always ambivalent about seeing the research from by book The Digital Closet (bit.ly/digitalcloset) continue to hold true. #LGBTQ #censorship #queerbooks www.usermag.co/p/instagram-...

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After the election of Donald Trump, the power of Silicon Valley needs to be challenged now more than ever — and that requires countries to take control of their technological destinies. I’m thrilled to share a new white paper I helped co-author called “Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty.”

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I have a student that wants to do an MA in Women's and Gender Studies in either Ireland or the UK. Anyone have recommendations for MA programs to look into?

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Thrilled to finally upload THE DIRTY BOOK: A USERS GUIDE TO EROTIC SOFTWARE (1982) up on @archive.org. @textfiles.com helped me nab this on ebay, @philsalv.bsky.social did the scans for VGHF. So what is this thing? 🧵👇 archive.org/details/the-...

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Happy to see so many new folks flowing in to BlueSky 👋

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new open access article out - in which I moonlight as a communications scholar (based on a case study from one of my PhD chapters) & draw on my extensive participant observations of the berlin nightlife scene to write about how instagram polices queer content. a fun read! 🏢 ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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Google and Amazon are directly fueling Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza. Send the companies’ CEOs a message demanding an immediate end to Project Nimbus and all contracts powering this genocide. #NoTechForApartheid

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We absolutely cannot wait to host #AoIR2024 next year in beautiful, green Sheffield 🍃🍁🌱 we’re so proud to be your hosts and can’t wait to show you around. We want to express our tremendous thanks to AoIR folks for their guidance so far, and to our local team. See you in 2024! 🇬🇧

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Excited to host Aram Sinnreich (@aramsinn.bsky.social) talking about Music, Copyright, & Technology this Sep. 21 at 4:30pm (EDT). Please come by in person or register to tune in via Zoom. More details here: bit.ly/45Y9mBC

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My book, Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond, is out today! https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/

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World, meet Alex, Bill, and Mophat, three workers whose labor was essential to filtering violence and abuse out of ChatGPT. For the first time they’re ready to tell you who they are—and how the work unraveled their lives and their families. https://on.wsj.com/3PQJ7IE

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Overheard at bougie DC cafe: “For me, everything’s only getting better.”

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Funniest shit I’ve seen in awhile

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Every screenshot of Threads I've seen is basically 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐳 who getting they ketch upped?? 8,729 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 · 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘣𝘺

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BlueSky: Trans person makes a joke replying to Jake Tapper, immediately illustrated by comic artist, liked by AOC. Everything gets nine likes. Threads: Ellen DeGeneres hosts a rap battle between Frito-Lay and Cheez-Its riddled with "chedda," avoiding hard-R. The CIA buys all the data.

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