as algorithms increasingly determine individual workers' pay, independent reports like this that reveal the impact on workers are crucial. amazing work led by @powerswitchaction.org and GWR that I was VERY happy to help with and contribute to!

language in the gender EOs sneakily frames having ID inconsistent with your birth sex as fraud. it now might be enforced for visa holders attempting to enter the US www.erininthemorning.com/p/marco-rubi...

happy to see more and more eyes on workplace tracking tech as it makes its way to the creative class. keep eyes out for algorithmic pay schemes in new industries as this tech spreads www.wired.com/story/your-b...

NGL Being a trans person rn is rough. Find ways to materially support trans folks please your reskeets are not enough

i am SO TIRED of not-rigorous evaluations of LLMs

I think what’s going on here that these people are trying to find some true binary relating to biological sex. Genital morphology won’t do it. Sex chromosomes don’t do it. So they’ve retreated to gamete size. I think the use of large and small cell is also a hedge in this direction, not prudishness.

senior faculty in my dept just emailed a dean asking if allowing non-binary gender in a survey was “using federal funds to promote gender ideology”, we are so cooked

being in the university pharmacy waiting room in january feels like being in the “sick room” at the doctors office as a kid

The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organized with the Teamsters. Let's fucking go! 🔥

can someone explain to me how bsky is meaningfully decentralized???

COLE: COOP, THEY CAUGHT THE CEO SHOOTER. HIS NAME WAS TONY SPAGHETTI, REAL BOY NEXT DOOR. ABS LIKE ADONIS. POLITICAL IDEAS OF A FUTON. PERHAPS THE IDEAL MAN

Consider too that the handwringing about children is always followed by the ending of adult care, de facto or otherwise.

i love lina khan’s FTC, have given talks there, am friends with some of the staff. this would be like suddenly turning a bestie into a nemesis

Yet another "gender clinic whistleblower" account falls apart as soon as reporters talk to actual patients. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/m...

I heard this is a good place to talk about taxing the rich, breaking up big tech, and ending Washington corruption.

Good morning Bluesky. Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer. go.bsky.app/KDY26rh

this is the kind of content i neeeeeed

come on I JUST came out

come worry with me with me tomorrow as my rights get decided at the supreme court slate.com/news-and-pol...

when smash mouth said "my world's on fire, how bout yours" I felt that

an llm bot that rewrites all news headlines as emoji pasta

i think something about tiktok/youtube shorts/ig reels taps into a deep genetic memory of staring into a communal fire

bringing this paper to my next manicure after my nail tech argued that her phone was listening to her, sorry honey it’s not that simple

mixtapes of social media babyyyy

@astra.bsky.social: Remember for that a lot of this country's history, labor unions were illegal and people organized and struck anyways.

Conservatives trying to figure out how to post on platforms without libs

rly fun to have my civil rights framed as a “culture war” by both major political parties

The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together.

This isn't a culture war. This is the only trans congresswoman, ever being bullied through the press and legislation, and having only 1 of hundreds of colleagues stand up for her. They can do more than 1 thing at a time. Defending her will not take so much effort that they can't do their jobs.

My job keeps me in almost daily contact with members of civil society. These are people working tirelessly to defend people’s rights & ensure the government doesn’t just ignore defenseless communities. This bill genuinely frightens them. Call your reps. (It matters.) Tell them fuck this bill.

is hell thread gone or

literally the most popular regs imaginable

“are LLMs human subjects research?” is a paper title i would have expected to see by now

seriously, private kudos is all good and well but does jack shit if you’re trying to change anything at all

the dark reality virginia eubanks saw almost ten years ago 💀

absolutely insane to see this on trans day of remembrance. vile shit

again, we can just call billionaires oligarchs, it's really fine! it's also more accurate and on bluesky we lilke being accurate! being accurate makes you hotter!

yayyy my first starter pack 💅

Very excited for Mike Tyson and Jake Paul to touch gloves, lean in, and with a caress trained by decades of love take each other to the gates of heavenly ecstasy

Almost ten years ago

lots of good points in here that are very consistent with what we found in our new paper at cscw on data donation!! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

This article haunts me: “People have to file freedom of information requests just to learn an algorithm set the length of their prison sentence. The more public institutions rely on tech companies, the more we are losing democratic control over their processes and decisions.”

Pretty blown away by this paper from Piotr Sapiezynski and team at Northeastern and Princeton, presented at #CSCW2024: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... For lots of good legal and moral reasons, Facebook doesn't allow advertisers to explicitly target ads to "White Republicans" or "Black Democrats"..

The long-tail of YouTube (42 views or fewer) is highly multi-lingual, and about things like video games, church services, advertisements.... Quotidien YouTube is an accidental archive of what is going on in different parts of the world.

in college we would get high and search things like “IMG_4032” on youtube; you get reams of single digit view videos that are ALL over the place. true “bottom quadrant” material, which @ethanz.bsky.social argues is actually very important to study

People will be like "Oh! These trans people want outrageous things!" and the "outrageous things" are literally just • legal protections against discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, public accommodations, etc • the ability to update identity documents to accurately reflect name/gender

i remember @mako.cc talking about this work last year and i was super interested. understanding these dynamics is crucial for making more democratic institutions and media ecosystems. excited for the talk

New: An open-source project called DeFlock has mapped thousands of license plate reader surveillance cameras all over the world. See if they're in your city. They also need help mapping more www.404media.co/the-open-sou...

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