Want to take a useful step in the face of the LibGen/ Meta situation? Learn more about how the scholarly publishing industry, which includes publishers and libraries and aggregators and more, is structured. + the experts who make it work, and how and why humanities publishing is so vulnerable.
Tive a honra de contribuir na atual edição da Revista Vida Simples em uma conversa sobre nossa relação com a tecnologia. Se alguém ler, depois me conta o que achou. ☺️
This framework for thinking about how (and when) to introduce current events into class really works -- highly recommend
"Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle. All these union-secured structures make possible a degree of devotion..."
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and those who can remember the past are like, what the hell, man?
🌍 O Brasil faz história no Oscar! "Ainda Estou Aqui", de Walter Salles, acaba de vercer a categoria Melhor Filme Internacional, levando ao mundo uma obra poderosa baseada no livro de Marcelo Rubens Paiva. +
I'm Still Here just won Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. It has a powerful, unexpected message about life under authoritarianism.
Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024)
Canada needs to quadruple-down on a homegrown vaccine production industry, yesterday.
The research field around „tech workers“, the high paid professionals in the digital economy, is growing! Glad to see this fascinating piece by Kenzo Seto on the sociotechnical imaginaries of tech workers in the Global South out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #techworkers #digitalcapitalism
"the accusation is already a milestone in Brazilian history. If accepted, it will bring the military and police to stand trial to answer to the civil authorities for crimes committed against democracy, something Brazil has never been able to do."
1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.”
I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
Today we launched a new report on how data centres could derail the energy transition in Europe: new data centres risk increasing emissions in Europe - they must be powered by additional renewable energy or they must not be built 🤖⛽
Are you looking for historical Telegram data for a new social media research project? Our @communalytic.org computational social science research tool can help. communalytic.org/docs/telegra...
"It’s unclear when the website, which lists mostly Black employees who work in agencies primarily within the Department of Health and Human Services, first appeared."
This is a huge tragedy. And it’s also part of a big increase in pedestrian fatalities caused by America’s obsession with SUVs. Hug a sociologist today, and help us build a world where SUVs disappear. www.reuters.com/world/us/tal...
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
thank you and same, we could make a French version
"É preciso parar de endeusar os magnatas da tecnologia e lembrar que eles só trabalham em benefício próprio”, diz Ailton Krenak search.app/525tWf75N1y1...
Photo of a pedestrian street crossing button to which someone has affixed a little yellow sign that reads “don’t forget to remember
Don’t forget to remember
I wrote about all the ways Jonathan Haidt gets it wrong and how early Haidt would not have been happy with later Haidt.
newrepublic.com/article/1903...
Ainda Estou Aqui: como Eunice Paiva desconstruiu farsa criada pela ditadura sobre seu marido
Confira:
COLUMN: As internet search engines degrade and AI spits out wrong answers and replaces human workers, I’m struck by how the 1957 romantic comedy “Desk Set” starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy predicts it all
Remember this? A problem we didn't have in automated speech recognition tools until OpenAI decided they were going to do away with alignment (not the kind that so-called "AI safety" people do)? And they're giving us "artificial general intelligence" any day now right?
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
Lisa's talk at NYU last fall has been rattling around in my head for MONTHS. The book offers a fresh and carefully observed picture of how technology, politics, capitalism, and art together produce our shared experiences of social worlds. Nominally about VR, but also about much bigger things
This is a beautiful reflection on research methods and why we cannot simply automate everything.