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What is the future of ‪@facct.bsky.social‬? Join our #FAccT2025 CRAFT session, "Taking Stock at FAccT: Insights from Participatory Design," to discuss its role in activism, community building, & real-world impact. This is your chance to help co-create our collective vision. 🧵 (1/4)

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New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278 Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/

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Wouldn't it be cool to combine Notion or similar tools-for-thought with a social network layer? -> Tools-for-collective-thought (thinking about these things @cosmik.network )

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Great insight, this explains a lot

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Really appreciating this piece by Bonfire How do we help scale care with technology and collective stewardship? bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow_s...

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With Bill Gates winding down his foundation’s giving, this era of billionaire philanthropy is drawing to a close, writes Jeremy McKey. Its likely successor, led by Elon Musk and other tech moguls, could blur the lines between private profit and public interest, McKey says:

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We had a great onsite in NYC last week w/ @sharef.bsky.social @ronent.bsky.social @wesleyfinck.org - product brainstorming, strategy, bouldering and homebrewed kombucha! 🍻 Also inspiring convos w/ @exgenesis.ingroup.social @clinamenic.com & many more! IRL sensemaking is the best ✨

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"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

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If nobody is gonna build the bsky are.na clone, I think I'm gonna have to... Probs use W3C's web annotations as the starting point for the lexicon, and the long term vision is something approaching subconscious (RIP 🪦) Anybody building this?

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

For all the web annotators, curators and bookmarkers out there, stay tuned. We’ll have something for you to play around with soon 🔖 👀 #atproto

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What stage capitalism is this?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

55% of the way there 🚀

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The old colonial protest was "no taxation without representation" For data colonialism, we need the inverse: "no representation without taxation" Today, users have valuable representations (eg digital twins) created from their data but receive no compensation while platforms capture all the value. >

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"while VLMs excel in object and activity recognition, they perform poorly on causal rea- soning tasks, often only marginally surpassing random guessing" Vision Language Models != World Models arxiv.org/abs/2506.00869

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Happy to share this paper. Full thread coming soon!

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 15 days ago • 1695 comments

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

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“It is critical to embrace human cognition and collective intelligence for AI to progress to the next level” arxiv.org/abs/2505.19167

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It turns out that people are very interested in funding browsers as infrastructure — the room was packed and the discussion had to be cut off after 90min!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Collective intelligence is only as strong as our collective attention.

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📢 New @cosmik.network‬ blog post! Herbert Simon told us that information consumes attention. For 50 years, we've accepted that as a one-way street: attention as a scarce resource. This is the linear attention economy: we feel it as acute info overload, too many browser tabs open >

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Alison Gopnik, telling it like it is, at Johns Hopkins.

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America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain economist.com/science-and-...

submitted 29 days ago • 60 comments

Into the “golden age of science that is transparent, rigorous, and trustworthy”… www.notus.org/health-scien... h/t @shahanmemon.bsky.social

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This paper looks like a refreshing perspective on how to understand LLMs “Rather than asking whether these models “think” or “understand” in human-like ways, a more productive direction lies in analyzing how they participate in processes of meaning-making.” arxiv.org/abs/2505.17080

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Happy to announce the first workshop on Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models — PragLM @ COLM 2025! 🎉 How do LLMs engage in pragmatic reasoning, and what core pragmatic capacities remain beyond their reach? 🌐 sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/praglm/ 📅 Submit by June 23rd

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If you still have papers up on academia dot spam, this is a sign to take them down. This is the second such story in my feed - the other was “AI made a podcast of your work”. Did they ask you permission to train their bots on their work? Didn’t think so.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Katherine Skinner from @investinopen.bsky.social opens the #TCDL2025 conference with a compelling bit of myth busting in defense of sustainable open infrastructure

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"Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills that demand time, patience, and a willingness to look beyond the surface." h/t @wesleyfinck.org www.theflaneursproject.com/p/archives-a...

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"Through analysis across multiple LLMs, we uncover persistent issues: invalid reasoning steps, ... and hallucinated conclusions. Our findings suggest that current models’ performance can appear to be competent on simple tasks yet degrade sharply as complexity increases." arxiv.org/abs/2505.20296

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The problem with viewing intelligence as the capacity for "general purpose problem solving" is that it leaves out the question of relevance realization - how do we identify what problems are worth solving in the first place?

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Democracy is dying at the root, and all we have power to do is "like". The entire information system we exist consumes democracy like yesterday's leftover and convinces us we're freer than ever.

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

Democracy isn't dying quietly. It’s being suffocated, by noise, lies, distraction, and systems that profit from confusion. But we’re not here to mourn it. We’re here to fight for what comes next.

submitted 25 days ago • 25 comments

🎯 "We are, in many ways, trapped inside the lopsided imagination of those who hoard power and resources to benefit the few at the expense of the many…These faux futurists let their own imaginations run wild when it comes to bending our digital and physical realities"> www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIi...

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