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Since we’re talking about this: I really valued the access afforded by online events/conferences this year and will be very sorry to see it go away. I’ve had better experiences

resolution for 2020: tell and hear moar Dad Jokes(tm) Q: why do you never see elephants hiding in trees?A: because they’re so good at it. a skeleton walks into a

“Mathematical fairness is not the same as justice.” —@merbroussard author of Artificial Unintelligence, keynoting @SocHistTech @hssonline joint annual meeting online, and starting out with the example of the algorithmic grading

Happy Labor Day. Beware the Company Town—it’s not just an economic system, but a political one.https://time.com/4020710/first-labor-day/ “Pullman gave bricks-and-mortar expression to his sense of the immutability of the social order.

great tip if you absolutely must use YouTube as a professor, but this is also a great reminder of why we should avoid it and not serve educational content from

Many universities’ blackboard installs will literally not allow you to delete video lectures once you’ve uploaded them. It’s no stretch to think universities will try to use these to re-teach

historically, most (if not all) democracies that have failed have been derailed by far, far less than this. “the election” will not save us. I truly don’t want to be

This is the worst way forward with AI. It is unethical to fund or publish scholarship like this.https://twitter.com/forcriticaltech/status/1275402019130478595 #defundAI if it’s gonna be like this (& it’s already shown us

Wonder if this will mean Twitter, Facebook et. al finally push back or continue to play along with him. Turns out it wasn’t Warren who was the “existential threat.”Trump is

just a reminder that this bug—created, ironically, by Google trying to serve info “better”—still exists after many years & bug reportsSo think about how the UK didn’t have a prime

Great article. But the shocking part isn’t that COBOL programmers are still needed, it’s that these states and corporations let them all go, when they still had a huge investment