Luke makes so many awesome clocks, but this is one of my faves yet. Extrapolating, a broken clock that is only right twice a day could be right all the time if it moved around carefully... #ItsFiveOclockSomewhere

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

The future of AI shouldn’t be decided by a small number of companies alone. Mark Surman's piece in Fortune about why open-source AI is emerging as a critical path toward a more transparent, accountable, and human-centered future. fortune.com/2026/06/29/o...

Any scholar who is concerned about the politicization of academia and wastes energy on a moral panic about “too much woke” when fascists are taking over whole institutions and gutting research funding should be ashamed of themselves.

Good short essay on the successes the Democratic Party has when it has engaged to the left. https://campaign-trails.ghost.io/punching-left/

A delightfully imperfect handmade flyer is infinitely more compelling

GenAI can check its own output, but it can't tell you what it doesn't know it's missing. That gap matters most in K-12 edtech, where FERPA, accessibility, and student data are on the line. We call it "comprehension debt." Learn more:👉 buff.ly/YgGvUDr

The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

This essay was very good.

Does anyone have any advice for a parent whose daughter goes around all day singing random songs in the style of Michael McDonald? #AskingForAFriend

obviously the best way to hold up Both Sides™️ is with a strong floor

Was just reading @willkurt.bsky.social interesting post on manipulating LLM text outputs via...IIUC...an entropy crossfader. Wondering @eryk.bsky.social saw this too. www.countbayesie.com/blog/2026/7/...

We are replaying a past Intentionally Equitable Hospitality series. For 30 days, we will repost from a previous year, incl a video & an activity. Today is session 15 "Think ahead, pause, recalibrate & live session (no live session)." by Catherine Cronin myfest.equityunbound.org/month/may/da...

Love this! @cathyndavidson.bsky.social cathydavidson.com/intelligent-...

“The [library of things] has roots stretching back to World War II-era tool-lending libraries.* But researchers say the movement gained momentum after the Great Recession in 2008… ‘It’s a reclamation of the commons,” said Shannon Mattern…” 🤗 (* I’d say it goes farther back, to the late 19th c.)

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvt

Onionpress onionpress.org - Wordpress as a desktop app + Tor + .onion … served by @waybackmachine.bsky.social when you’re offline. Neat!

“If Doctorow’s idea of platform “enshittification” is fundamentally about ruining the experience of end users for the sake of the shareholders, Wikipedia is attempting something like the opposite. The end-user experience is being preserved, and the people behind the scenes are bearing the cost.”

Lost contact break during Germany World Cup game. Note that in football the use of hands is penalized.

In 2023, we wrote about some of the oldest known photographs of enslaved people in US history. Commissioned by a Harvard scientist in 1850 to prove a racist belief, Harvard held onto the photos — until one woman sued in 2019 and claimed some of the enslaved people were her ancestors. (1/2)

In a fit of enthusiasm I've decided to make yesterday's joke a real thing! "The So What? Project" podcast will give academics a few minutes to talk about their work in everyday language. To participate, email [email protected] and follow @thesowhatproject.bsky.social #academics

Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team

The purpose of this technology is not to accurately identify people but rather to instill in everyone the fear that they are constantly being watched.

Turns out science can help solve problems

If you think chatbots can have feelings and can be sentient, let us take you through the work of a Microsoft AI researcher who used the real time strategy game Age of Empires II to build a basic neural network using digital goats to prove that "we anthropomorphise too readily."

Interestingly, the models themselves offer pseudo-mathematical explanations for this effect, claiming that women authors are simply “less salient.”

Oregon Metro is hiring a leader for its digital team: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/oregonmetro/jobs/5364993/digital-data-services-supervisor?pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs #governmentjobs #transit #civictech #publicinteresttechnology #oregon #portland #jobs #getfedihired

I’m hiring a digital humanities librarian to join my team at Tufts! Please share with your networks! Full details: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/23231

The 2024 Nobel in Chemistry? Built on 40 years of open, curated protein data. New piece by IOI's @kaitlinthaney.bsky.social & Jennifer Gibson (@datadryad.bsky.social) asks: who's actually funding the underlying infrastructure that make science possible? issues.org/open-data-re...

I think people reacting in this thread are misunderstanding the role that multiple TVs play in this very specific bar which is just down the street from me. It’s not a sports bar and the program selection is usually ironic/absurdist. The fried squid is also very good.

Nice mention of #Wikidata and the paper I & co-authors @svmering.bsky.social @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social and Heidi Meudt wrote in this blog "Three Tools That Bring Digital Botany Within Reach" www.botany.one/three-tools-...

Enter your name into this NASA image generator to have it spelled out by various rivers and landmasses. You can refresh 🌎🔭🛰️ science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

Is this the kind of woke archaeology that Vanderbilt report (sic) is complaining about?

Is this the kind of woke sociology that Vanderbilt report (sic) is complaining about?

Hear me out: Knicks *should* attend presidential birthday to return the favor for his gift to them in game 4

Want an asynchronous refresher to learn about equitable facilitation from people around the world? Join #MYFest26 for a kick off Mon 15th to start the Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) Nourishing Reflections Replay myfest.equityunbound.org/events/inten... Registration button at page bottom

talked to AM800 live, yesterday, about the new Canada Digital Safety Act, the under-16 temporary ban, & what problem it's trying to solve. there is definitely a problem: we live in an algorithmic misinformation swamp. www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...

This image from Anthropic goes out to the two guys on here who called me dumb for talking about stochastic flocks

#SocialNetwork has the word "work" in it as well as the word "social" and good luck balancing the two if you have a scholarly interest 🤓 Parasocial Alert for @xolotl.org @bonstewart.bsky.social @mahabali.bsky.social or anyone else so inclined

My latest: open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Is there anything in the middle between parasitic, dehumanizing AI and stopping all AI development completely? What we need, says our co-director, @eli.bsky.social, is prosocial AI that reinforces human connection over profit-driven engagement.

Kaitlyn talks about the importance + potential of library consortia (I featured their work here: placesjournal.org/article/extr...)

Now Kaitlyn Thaney from @investinopen.bsky.social (which I’ve also featured in lots of talks!) on the importance of looking at dependencies among various layers of open infrastructures — eg, a project that gets funding relies on, say, IIIF, but none of that funding goes to IIIF

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

“If you plan as if Google is going to zero and it doesn’t, anything above zero is upside. If you plan for Google to be stable and it declines, then everything is catastrophic.” digiday.com/media/how-pu...

An LLM will grade a paper according to the criteria through which it is designed to produce a paper. As such, the LLM grades humans based on the criteria engineers use to assess the LLM. mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just...

See Living with Machines, edited by @ruthahnert.bsky.social, Emma Griffin, and @jonhistorian61.bsky.social "an innovative open access edition enhanced with interactive maps, datasets and visualisations, digital notebooks, and multimedia content" read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/liv...

2 days ago I had the opportunity to participate in the European Commission‘s workshop on the future of social networks in Europe, together with researchers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, investors and civil society representatives.