From a friend who was there today: MIT class president denounced the MIT administration and said “we MIT students showed the world what we want is an end to Israeli military collaboration," the crowd erupted in chants of "free palestine," flags everywhere, they cut the livestream 🇵🇸

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

hi folks! I'm teaching tech ethics this summer, and part of the course is having students read news articles about ongoing tech issues. can anyone recommend publications that cover tech issues in a non-US context (either issues in countries beyond the US and/or do not center the US)?

hi folks - especially journalism friends! I have a dear friend who is an expert on detransition and is looking to communicate about their research and its implications in light of the new NIH directives - anybody know who I might connect them or an appropriate place to pitch an op-ed? thank you!!

Breaking out the billionaire tears mug this morning apropos of nothing (or no one, or company)

Addendum: whether DeepSeek or OpenAI, there's no such thing as AGI and attempting to build it results in harm. See our paper.

Sharing tools I created in #p5xjs for creative coding basics for often explained concepts that lacked demos. With AI, blending ideas is now easier. I am going to try with my students in class today. sustaining-boursin-d41.notion.site/Tools-for-cr...

I just created this BlueSky starter pack of Researchers and Creators of Trans Technology (loosely defined). Please share, and let me know if you want to be added (or removed)!

This is one of the biggest design flaws of this app: it’s all in the clear. That’s design for people who don’t have security and privacy concerns, not design for all. I’ve run the studies myself and it’s clear: visibility controls are the #1 way to help marginalized folks protect themselves online

ICYMI, last week I posted the icebreaker activity I did with my first day of my course on data literacy of/by/for the humanities. Had the students make a dataset about themselves and go through the steps of organizing, questioning, and analyzing it.

As @crystaljjlee.com says… trying to be the person my dog thinks I am today.

I’m going through and saving some of my favorite tiktoks before leaving that app and something that I think is underarticulated about the value of TikTok is that it just makes me like other people more. Like look at these beautiful humans doing human things.

The idea that a president can issue an executive order that overrides Congress, while it may be appealing to everyone who wants TikTok back and agrees that the TikTok ban is a first amendment violation, is actually illegal dictator shit

MERMAIDS CAN BE FAT!!! I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!!!

idk I feel like the government shutting down a very popular app due to how widely we were able to access information concerning a hushed genocide should be alarming to everybody regardless of your interest in using the app yourself

Because TikTok isn’t around to remind you, now is a good time to go check in on our Palestinian neighbor’s GoFundMe’s.

It’s nearly impossible to explain to non disabled people the hope we had at the beginning of the pandemic. Hope for inclusion & accommodation. For better awareness & treatment of chronic illness. Having that hope ripped away and replaced with increasing ableism, eugenics & hatred? Its devastating

“Lord take Teams not TikTok”

Thank goodness the TikTok ban is in effect and now no one can ever use my data for nefarious purposes.

A short story in two frames.

I’m sad.

I am so sad TikTok is gone and I don’t want any version Trump “saves”

Sigh

I’m gonna spend 2025 reading books and thinking about them.

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Ahh, is this hope I am feeling? Nice to see folks from the old platform on here. Excited to be in community with folks again. 💜

🌟 New paper alert! 🪩 Our paper “Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities” is out & will be presented at GROUP ‘25. So much care from @jordant.bsky.social, @katta.bsky.social, @cfiesler.bsky.social, & I went into it! 💜 Read here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.04614

💻📢 Our #HCI study of fat people's experiences in online communities (w/ @blakeley.bsky.social, @katta.bsky.social, @cfiesler.bsky.social) has been accepted to GROUP 2025! arxiv.org/abs/2410.04614

Did a boat write this?

Also note that the survey above was designed and piloted before Bluesky launched. So we did add a few questions about Bluesky but it is focused on Twitter and Mastodon! (Including decisions to NOT join Mastodon.)

We're conducting a survey about social media platform migration! If you're at least 18 & have used Twitter and/or Mastodon and/or Bluesky you're eligible to participate. You can optionally provide an email to enter $75 drawings. Plz share! https://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3BLXjcmBmKpyR2S

A first post always feels like too much pressure, so uh, here’s a photo of my dog.