And another gem from the summer: Nicholas Proferes @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @ankolika.bsky.social Chia-Fang Chang and Ava Francesca Battocchio write about the rhetoric of localism in platform content moderation. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor. (via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)

We're hiring tenure-track Asst Prof Philosophy. Good people, great research and teaching. AOS applied ethics broadly construed. AOCs open. Teach bioethics, ethics of AI, undergrad, graduate certificate in Ethical Dimensions of AI, planned Masters Bioethics. philjobs.org/job/show/30245 #philsky

Worth reading: "The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here" by Damon Beres www.theatlantic.com/... #GenerativeAI

NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.

If you donate to your local food bank remember your employer might match your donations and double them. Every month I send $50 and they get $100

Going to watch the baseball game tonight on mute while blasting Bauhaus in the background.

So baseball again in a few hours, right?

Do...do stadiums serve breakfast?

googling 'how do you win baseball'

lol game 4 is later today

Sisyphus would love this game.

OK so you know the gag on the Simpsons when Sideshow Bob is stepping on the rakes, it's funny, then it's too much, then it's terrible, then it's transcendently hilarious this baseball game

RIP david lynch you would have loved a baseball stadium full of people slowly losing their minds

Sports people. Do you realize what time it is? Go to bed.

Sandy Koufax now making his way toward the Dodger bullpen

wow 12 innings of baseball that's almost ten miles on the 101

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

🇳🇴 I'm in Bergen for #CSCW25 🇳🇴 This Wednesday, in the "Content Moderation" session, I'll present my paper about how Reddit moderators are grappling with AI-Generated Content. I'm honored that it received a Best Paper Honorable Mention 🤓 If you're here too, let's connect! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

Is AI actually a sound social investment? Or a net drain of value? Come to Edinburgh and help us @braiduk.bsky.social develop a more holistic and rigorous methodology for measuring AI’s real worth!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

words have (different) meaning(s according to which discourse communities are deploying them and to what rhetorical purposes)!!!

8% of US adults say they have no close friends www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

September’s post in the APA Blog’s “Teaching and Learning Video Series” is a very fun consideration of our intuitions about the threshold for moral status by way of an iconic scene from “The Good Place.” Thanks @profprof.bsky.social! blog.apaonline.org/2025/09/17/c...

fellow loud music enjoyers: ho99o9's new album is fantastic.

4S folks: if you are looking for something to do post conference, Ada’s technical books is worth a visit. adasbooks.com

Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!

What is it going to take to get companies to care about this and do something? It's been a tough day reading this great report by @kashhill.bsky.social on the risks of chatbots. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...

7. The paper looks at how researchers might hand off boring "drudge work" such as data collection and cleaning to AI agents, and what could (and IMO will) go wrong as they do so. Here's a key passage.

5. Today I read a paper by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social and Alexander Mussgnug that I think illustrates this point perfectly. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24891/1/Phil...

Increasingly, what makes sense to me is framing a class as a *dialogic community* and assessing students on their contributions as members of that community. Such contributions can be and should be as spontaneous as they are regulated. +

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing. help.aol.com/articles/dia... ht @mat.tl

NEW: In a likely first, security researchers have shown how generative AI agents can be hijacked to cause physical consequences. They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler. They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*

The full-day, hybrid workshop is "Matters: Ethical Challenges in Research with Online Communities" led by Matthew Zent plus @schancellor.bsky.social, @cfiesler.bsky.social, @sarahagilbert.bsky.social, @estellesmithphd.bsky.social and more. sites.google.com/umn.edu/cont...

Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying. Deadline: October 1, 2025 Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

***Job Opportunity in History*** Assistant Professor, Science, Technology, and Society, Harvey Mudd College 19/ networks.h-net.org/jobs/68862/h...

New OA pub day! Given the dwindling of local newspapers, folks are turning to social media. Platforms are discursively constructing local community groups as a new kind of hub. But local volunteer mods are the ones who are charged to realize these visions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

GWU IDDP organized a Council to reflect on the comments submitted to NTIA’s Request For Comment (RFC) regarding Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data. Check out the findings here: iddp.gwu.edu/ethical-use-...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people. Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7