New paper by Janet is cyberlyra at hachyderm.io and I in a Sociologica special issue on failure looks at how constraining time/money in public sector orgs like NASA and the Census Bureau can introduce risk. In short, resource binds can trigger legitimacy crises. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/1…

The Kids Online Safety Act isn’t designed to help kids. Congress is using kids to hold Big Tech accountable. Kids will get hurt in the process. zephoria.medium.com/kosa-isnt-desi…

For those interested in AI, this is a fantastic primer by AI Now Institute on the infrastructure needed to make AI work. Think: chips and compute plus the geopolitics, institutions, markets, and politics that make it all happen. ainowinstitute.org/publication/po…

'The Screens are the Symptom' is a re-review of Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' in light of contemporary ideas of book banning, screens, children, and broader epistemic battles. zephoria.org/thoughts/archi…

“Attacks on internet safety and security come at a moment when the stakes for democracy could not be higher,” writes Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety at Twitter. “We should be worried about what happens next.” nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opi…

Parents of trans/gender affirming youth: Please consider signing this: transparentsletter.com Bills like KOSA won't help youth, but they will increase the harms to vulnerable youth, including those who are trans and those whose parents don't support them.

Event coming on October 4 at the BoulderPublicLibrary:

'Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet,' a conversation with two brilliant media scholars, Ted Striphas and danah boyd

Learn more and spread the word: calendar.boulderlibrary.org/event/11249625

This week on Reimagining the Internet: danah boyd (danah boyd). We start efforts to 'protect' kids from the internet, make our way to the public sphere, cyberutopianism and why the census underlies all of US politics and history. It's a ride. publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/86-dan…

I am soooo sad that I had to cancel my #ASA2023 attendance. Boooo. Damn thee Covid. Luckily my amazing collaborators - Chuncheng Liu cliu.bsky.social and Jayshree Sarathy - will be presenting our work. Please go cheer them on for me!!

my favorite band in rolling stone 😍

Umm... How am I only learning there's a song called 'Context Collapse' today? youtube.com/watch?v=rFpWs6…

Here's why I'm still trying to ignore the metaverse:

zephoria.org/thoughts/archi…

As always, danah boyd has the take from left field that also feels far more true than the hurried takes that keep coming out.

Our Databite series features critical conversations on the power and purpose of data-centric technologies in the world today — and they’re all available online. datasociety.net/library/databi…

I'm on the board for Data & Society - one of THE BEST organizations thinking through the implications of our collisions between tech and society. And I wanted to give a shout out the Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab that they've just started (datasociety.net/algorithmic-im…). 1/n