The Texas abortion bounty law & now this trans snitch law are designed to cultivate a culture of fear & paranoia. They're right out of the authoritarian playbook, relying on the same kind of social control as the Stasi, with the same antidemocratic effects jill.substack.com/p/the-texas-st…

Lately, I have been really enjoying talking with Sam Walkow and thinking out loud with her about user generated content, TTRPGs, "system agnostic" modules, and how this relates to file formats, data analysis and API development in the natural sciences.

"Put another way, Peabody hoped that by prompting her students to create new narratives of the past, they would also imagine alternative possible futures." Incredible essay!

Awesome! Zotero any chance this could be added as a feature to the PDF reader?

Okay Stranger Things using "Running Up That Hill" has me thinking. What's the best use of music in film or TV? And why is it "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap in The OC?

I’ve been waiting for this thread for so long

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I can't think about tooling and data anymore without also thinking about this: reallifemag.com/same-old/

Every trans person you know is going to wake up tomorrow and find leaders who've made the elimination of people like us a priority of their politics faced with zero accountability for doing so. In fact, many will be rewarded for it.

“Hate generalizes, love specifies”. Great post on looking for injustices rather than gaps in research: 4sonline.org/intersectional…

The University of Illinois

This 100%

I was too excited to be at #hicss56 in Hawaii to post this before my talk, but I wrote a paper on decision making in technology during crisis situations: scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/eab0afaa…. Thanks to everyone who came to the talk!

"It is the form of the interface that enables the function of the technology": fastcompany.com/90836114/techn…

most "fairness" work in AI ethics/CS is coming up with ways to avoid acknowledgement/tackle structural, historical, & power disparity issues that permeate society that necessarily pervade algorithmic systems

For asylum seekers, mistakes introduced by machine translation tools can have severe consequences. As Andrew Deck reports for Rest of World, the seemingly trivial errors of these tools can be life-changing for refugees. restofworld.org/2023/ai-transl…

Can't believe we live in a world where some would rather see an AI system as human before acknowledging the humanity of the marginalized actual people around them.

I'm presenting a lightning talk titled "What Scientists Draw When They Draw Data" at #SciPy come and see me!