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On Friday, February 28, 2025, at 12 PM, I'll be at Yale University to present my book, "Waiting for Robots", in conversation with @posada.website Looking forward to this talk—hope to see you there, on zoom or in the flesh.

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📢 ¡Ya disponible! Estudios Feministas de Seguridad desde América Latina y el Caribe (UFSC, 2025), editado por Alessandra Jungs de Almeida desde Amassuru. El libro es un esfuerzo transnacional y feminista para repensar la seguridad en la región. 🔗 Descárgalo aquí: library.fes.de/pdf-files/bu...

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The "Make it fair" campaign by British creative industries and how "the [UK] government is siding with big tech over British creativity.” From @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

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A seven-byline story from WaPo: “.. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits ..” @washingtonpost.com $TSLA www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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Can't believe book pub day is here!! Trans Technologies is officially published today! Use discount code MITP30 for 30% off today only (unfortunately available only in the US) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...

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Some people will look at this and only see how foolish it is. But what it also is an attempt to set up a blameless, unaccountable arbiter by inserting automation into a “decision making” process. And tbh I wish more people at more news outlets would call that out.

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Straight to my syllabi next year: Facebook and Content Moderation by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf7X...

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"Meta is revamping a program that has paid bonuses to creators for content based on views and engagement, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts it once policed." www.propublica.org/article/face...

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🕊️ In a moment where we can't necessarily rely on government to protect people from the harms of AI, we can work more closely together, at a grassroots level, to make a real difference. When things feel helpless, look to the helpers: @ajlunited.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, 1/...

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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New executive order imposing tariffs on countries that regulate US tech companies: "My Administration will act, imposing tariffs and taking such other responsive actions necessary to mitigate the harm to the United States and to repair any resulting imbalance" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Tourmaline has the first biography of Marsha coming in May. You can preorder now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677583...

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Published this week in the MIT faculty newsletter: A Call for Courage in the Face of Rising Antisemitism, White Supremacy, Misogyny, and Authoritarianism medium.com/data-feminis...

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We are excited to launch "A Woman's Place is in a Safe City," a data story on the use of #NirbhayaFunds for digital surveillance in India, in collaboration with @mitdusp.bsky.social Data+Feminism Lab, POV Mumbai @thesafecityapp.bsky.social & 3 anonymised Kolkata-based NGOs. bit.ly/3EvqV3R 🧵Read on:

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Three fallacies of AI: 1. “That the purpose of AI is efficiency and scale” 2. “That AI requires a tradeoff – between safety and progress, between competition and collaboration, and between rights and innovation” 3. “It is not inevitable that AI will lead to great public benefits”

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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

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Join us at www.twitch.tv/dair_institute in 10 minutes for the launch of the data labelers association 👇🏼

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🎨 Avec le projet « Delacroix numérique », Sorbonne Université s'allie à @schmidtsciences.bsky.social pour offrir une nouvelle perspective sur l’œuvre d'Eugène Delacroix, célèbre peintre du XIXe siècle ! 👉 Découvrez ce projet d'humanités numériques annoncé lors du #SommetActionIA : swll.to/5TMogE

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The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era.

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This could be every waterfront freeway in the USA… (Paris, EmmanuelSPV)

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Years of constant AI hype + deliberate use of the umbrella term AI to refer to wholly unrelated applications such as text generation and values-based decision making (the main point of "AI Snake Oil") has confused the public enough that replacing civil servants with AI seems at least plausible. 1/2

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NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

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Join us for the book launch of “Waiting for Robots” by @casilli.bsky.social at Yale University! 📅 Feb 28, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1:30 PM (GMT-5) 📍 In Person (HQ 276) & Online (open to all) RSVP 👉 tinyurl.com/waiting4robots

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The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities. It's deadly to the US economy. The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.

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If you're trying to move off of US-based cloud software like Dropbox and Google suite: we're swapping sync.com for Dropbox (large, cloud-based file storage. They have a sale on right now 25% off!), and CryptPad.FR (based in France) for a Google suite replacement. 1/2

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DOGE is accessing vast troves of data, shutting down gov websites, and promising to replace countless jobs with an "AI-first" strategy. There's a reason Musk is aiming to automate the government—it's all about concentrating power and exercising control. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/government...

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The tech/hacker community can do this work and the data is already being collected here, now someone needs to whip up a nice looking website: old.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track...

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1/ I suspect we are days away from hearing Elon is "using AI" to “streamline” benefits programs. You should know why fully automating decisions about who gets critical assistance is a terrible idea that will have disastrous consequences. A 🧵 based on work I’ve done with the great @awhf.bsky.social

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I was honored to receive the 2025 MLK Humanitarian Award from New York University last night. In my remarks, I noted that to receive an award bearing Dr. King's name is both humbling and challenging for, in this critical moment, his legacy demands of us not mere words, but action and courage. 🧵

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This is devastating. Burawoy was one of the most incredible minds in US sociology, an admirable mentor to so many, and an altogether remarkable exceptional educator. www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

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This is ethnic cleansing. Openly admitted to. A crime against humanity.

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this is really bad considering Cohere is considered one of the good, responsible AI companies around. shows there really is no good AI company like there is no good millionaire

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

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The call for papers for the 8th conference of the International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-8) is live! The conference will take place in Bologna, Italy, on September 10-12. The deadline for submissions is April 27 www.indl.network/indl-8/

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EPA, CDC, USAID and other data sites of federal government are all down or being scrubbed of long-term data that WE THE TAXPAYERS paid for. I teach with these tools! Why are our universities saying nothing about loss of access to information and research implications? I cannot believe the silence 🧪

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Bleak. The USAID website has gone dark.

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An affront to science and academia: “Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov”www.404media.co/archivists-w...v/

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He really thinks the treasury is the accounts department and he can just delete a few columns and tell the employees to go sicko mode

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🚨In Brief! UBC Sociology grad student Colter J. Uscola summarizes new work from @posada.website in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on the ways work platforms, digital crypto banks, and local brokers slash international workers' take-home pay: contexts.org/articles/she...

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By now you've all heard about China's AI sensation DeepSeek, the startup that built a model matching ChatGPT for just $5.6M—0,001% of Stargate's $500B. MAGA in in panic mode, Sam Altman cries corporate espionage (which he pronounces "model distillation"). www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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From DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report: “For non-reasoning data, such as creative writing, role-play, and simple question answering, we utilize DeepSeek-V2.5 to generate responses and enlist human annotators to verify the accuracy and correctness of the data.” arxiv.org/pdf/2412.194...

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