Shawn Micallef: Artemis II rekindled our interest in space — which makes the loss of this Toronto landmark hit that much harder Artemis II returns to Earth even as crews demolish the McLaughlin Planetarium, the symbol of a bygone era of enthusiasm for space exploration.

In @thestar.com today I wrote about the dreamy rekindling of space travel coinciding w Toronto’s terrestrial tear down of a communal place to share the Dark Side of the Moon.

This 💯

In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/985884

It’s time to play ✴️ “Who Said It? AI Edition”! ✴️ 🌏 It takes a lot of human labor to make it seem like there are no humans involved in AI. Just pull the curtain back slightly and you’ll see them: software developers, hardware engineers, data annotato...

It's time to play "Who Said It? AI Edition" aka "AI Researchers Say The Darndest Things." First three correct submissions win a copy of my new book from @uoftpress.bsky.social #AI #STS

www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-ti...

Understanding the people behind the machines — Schwartz Reisman Institute In his new book Humans of AI , anthropologist Joseph Wilson draws on extensive fieldwork to show how artificial intelligence is not inevitable or autonomous, but built, shaped, and sustained by the p...

Come and hear a conversation between @danbrownefilm.bsky.social and me at the U of T Bookstore on May. 26. 6-8 PM FREE. @uoftpress.bsky.social @torontosri.bsky.social srinstitute.utoronto.ca/news/underst... TICKETS: www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...

Inspiring to hear @karenhao.bsky.social talk about the power citizens have in rising up against toxic empires. At @rotmanschool.bsky.social

There will be humans there.

Join us for the launch of #HumansOfAI at the University of Toronto Bookstore, where @josephwilsonca.bsky.social will be in conversation with Dan Browne.
March 26, 6–8pm EDT
Reserve tickets here: bit.ly/4cqKr0h
@UofTBookstores #FreeEvent

Book Launch: Humans of AI by Joseph Wilson Join author Joseph Wilson in conversation with Dan Browne for the launch of Humans of AI: Understanding the People Behind the Machines!

Join me for the launch of Humans of AI from U of T Press with @danbrownefilm.bsky.social on March 26 in Toronto #AI #Anthropology #STS #LLMs www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...?

Brain. I always spell it "brian"

@shawnmicallef.bsky.social blurbed my new book and it has, so far, made three people laugh out loud, especially in the context of the other blurbs: "AI... may, or may not, change our entire lives and world" is like a British way of saying "you guys don't know wtf you're talking about."

Humans of AI - University of Toronto Press

Big thanks to @gretchenmcculloch.com and her post on Public Lending Rights. My new book #HumansofAI is in libraries all across Canada and now I get paid for that! Registration is open: publiclendingright.ca My book from @uoftpress.bsky.social utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

The Second-Term Aesthetic | Dushko Petrovich Córdova So, in the cramped airplane’s limited sightlines, I looked for clues about whether these were just regular Midwestern dads, like me, flying for work, or whether they were regular Midwestern dads, flyi...

Another gem from @dushkopetrovich.bsky.social at @nplusonemag.com n + 1: The Second-Term Aesthetic www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...

It's people you guys... all the way down

Meet the Humans of AI Trying to make sense of the carnival of interest that surrounds AI can be exhausting. Do you need to “future-proof” your business? Gird yourself for the robot apocalypse? Or prepare for the rapturous ...

My book Humans of AI: Understanding the People Behind the Machines is out today from Aevo U of T Press! www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-h...

If you’re interested in: #humans #anthropology #AI #language #LLM #labor check it out. Review copies avail.

Help take A Call to Address Humanity’s Cosmic Footprint (Nature Astronomy) to the UN. Endorse & share today: www.cosmicfootprint.org/openletter.h... #SpacePolicy #ScienceDiplomacy #STS

Pay No Attention to Those Engineers Behind the Curtain: The Hidden Infrastructure that Runs AI - Society for Linguistic Anthropology -Joseph Wilson The following is an (lightly edited) excerpt from Joseph Wilson’s forthcoming book Humans of AI: Understanding the People Behind the Machines to be published by University of Toronto Pr...

An excerpt from my upcoming book #HumansofAI for @uoftpress.bsky.social "Pay No Attention to Those Engineers Behind the Curtain: The Hidden Infrastructure that Runs AI"
#STS
@americananthro.bsky.social @cas-sca.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08...

My own school, @uoft.bsky.social has advised against all non-essential travel to the US, including for conferences like this. Insisting on in-person attendance to @americananthro.bsky.social is antithetical to the principles we adhere to as social scientists; pleaser reconsider. #anthropology

I've made some gentle requests but haven't heard anything back. @americananthro.bsky.social Please reconsider your policy to hold an in-person only conference this year. You're alienating all non-US members who aren't comfortable travelling to the US this year. #anthropology

Hi all: Q for the #anthropology community.
Any suggestions for programs for creating diagrams for a (ling anth) dissertation?
I need to do two things:
1. create a map of my field-site (a science lab); and
2. turn photos/video stills into black-line drawings.
cc @ethnolectures.bsky.social

You’re Being Alienated From Your Own Attention Every single aspect of human life is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention.

@nickseaver.website did you see this in the Atlantic? #Attention ftw. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Sitters and Standers The American worker divide: Those who sit, and those who stand

pudding.cool/2024/11/sitt... from @alv9n.com

Would love to learn more; have you published anything on this yet? I just googled your book on interactive TV in Japan -- looks cool!

Join Our Paper Club with MIT on The Future of Open Human Feedback [AI Tinkerers - Paper Club] Join Our Paper Club Event Series! Meet with Leshem Choshen, AI Researcher at MIT and IBM, to explore how open human feedback can transform AI development. Don’t miss this unique opportunity: Hear dire...

Join us Dec. 3 at 12 PM EST for our last Paper Club of 2024, with Leshem Choshen from MIT CSAIL/IBM "Future of Open Human Feedback". #AI #NLP #LLM #ML #STS

Open to all!

paperclub.aitinkerers.org/p/join-our-p...

Police departments across U.S. are starting to use artificial intelligence to write crime reports Even as AI gains traction in police work, legal experts are raising concerns over accuracy, transparency, and potential bias.

Police departments across U.S. are starting to use #AI to write crime reports

"legal experts are raising concerns over accuracy, transparency, and potential bias — challenges that could significantly shape the future of AI... in #policing..."

www.cnbc.com/2024/11...

Opinion: The whole notion that AI will overtake humanity relies on a false premise There is a belief that more computing power will directly and inevitably produce more intelligence on the part of AI. But that fundamentally misunderstands what intelligence is

My latest for the Globe and Mail argues that "The whole notion that AI will overtake humanity relies on a false premise" #AI #NLP #ML #LLM

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

System Crash Technology Podcast · 2 Episodes · Updated Weekly

Thrilled that @parismarx.com of the brilliant @techwontsave.us and King Ludd himself, @bcmerchant.bsky.social are now teaming up to give us an extra weekly dose of tech-critcial insight and wisdom with System Crash - Timely and neccesary - first episode here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

A reminder that Spectacles of Waste is now available 'everywhere', it seems. From Polity/Wiley or your preferred book provider. Sad to say, I'm already working on the sequel: waste in space, or spaceshit earth!
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

#STS #histSTM

Thx for putting this together! Can I get on that list pls?

The #SciComm starter pack is almost full. Make sure to revisit it as l’ve added lots of folk this week.

Do share it and flag up if you’d like added.

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