Today feels like the first day of class even though it’s already week 3

apropos of vibes, but striking when “critical computing” papers make critical points only by citing other ACM papers, particularly when a dozen papers are stacked into a single bracket citation [1, 9, 33, 34, 49, 54, 63, 74] And yes I too have sinned. Effects of formats (cf. Sterne, 2012), perhaps?

Facilitating a hybrid panel? Turns out it’s just as hard, if not harder, than doing AV for concerts. Speaking from experience. #4S2025

Have you noticed that everyone in certain subcultures keeps using the term "first principles"? I explore its origins for Compact magazine: www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

File under "Ego + Capital + Tech ≠ Intellectual Insight." These self-styled tech visionaries are as full of hallucinations as the AI systems they impose on us. At least there's an excuse for the AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...

Just got to Denver for #ICA25! Excited to present my work on TikTok's formatting of trendiness at the #DebatingCreatorCulture preconference today

What makes an industry an industry?

Check out my colleagues’ and my work on sociotechnical errors published in @ijoc-usc.bsky.social (edited by Mike Ananny and Simogne Hudson)! I found the collection incredibly illuminating in helping me think through how errors are/may be claimed, mobilized, accounted for, and cared for

Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel.

How can live music culture help us rethink the ethics of algorithms when their operations are indeterminate in real time? This past weekend, I explored this question at the Failing Media Conference in Chicago. Part of this work was just published in IJOC: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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Is there a difference between solo dates and romanticizing life

gotta recalibrate what matters

Celebrating the 1-year pub date of "In the Land of the Unreal" with talks in SoCal. Finally returning to the place that inspired this book. Catch me at USC tomorrow and UC-Irvine on Wednesday.

Tomorrow is 228 Peace Memorial Day, which commemorates the February 28 Incident, which was a massacre against Taiwanese people by the ruling KMT. In this guide, we will tell you the importance of this holiday, and how it is celebrated in Taiwan. taiwantravelblog.com/228-peace-me...

If you are a Cornell Alum, you can vote in the upcoming Alumni Trustee Election. This vote is important - two of the candidates are right-wing attorneys who will work to enact their political agenda on the university's administration. See alt text for more info. vote.yeselections.com/cornell/

HUH?????

Is the campus getting bigger or am i walking slower

The first part of the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS25) is coming up on 30th Jan from 2pm - 4pm UTC via Zoom. 10+ presentations of cutting edge and critical perspectives on democratic public inputs to AI development and governance. Info and registration: pairs25.notion.site

An insightful piece by Evani that grounds pragmatic recommendations for AI assessment in recent exemplars and the longer history of responsible technology design

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

Techbros be like 'AI will free humanity from work' while their model trains on the unpaid digital labor of millions, the poorly paid data labeling of thousands more, and is focused on automating away the most interesting jobs first. The Fragment on Machines was a warning not a pitch deck 💀

where’s the silly goofy side of Bluesky

Come join our wonderful team and help us make a library of surveillance research in the Majority World! You will also work with me 🤗

Planning your #NeurIPS2024 itinerary? Stop by the #QueerinAI poster session from 6:30-8pm PST tomorrow (Tuesday) to hear about some of my ongoing work: "Diversifying Data Annotation: Measuring Differences in Community-Driven Content Moderation"

I have a blog now! Check out my first post: "Avoiding TikTok Moderation through Satire." jamieacooley.work/blog-posts-w...

Constantly wondering if the stuff I am laying out is too obvious or too out there and not written clearly enough to convince anybody

NEW from @davidthewid.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and I in Nature: we break down the political economy around ‘open’ AI and how it’s been wielded in corporate lobbying to exacerbate rather than reduce corporate concentration. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

still one of my fav pieces that nicely sums up many of the critiques of AI in a relatively short article

‼️ @cendemtech.bsky.social is recruiting interns for next summer ‼️ I had an amazing experience as an intern of the AI Governance Lab. Highly recommend the program and happy to chat about my experience (specifically as a PhD student that worked in tech policy for the first time)

This looks fascinating! Lately I’ve been thinking about the prevalence of convenience as a temporal orientation — how this came to be and what this means for people. Can’t wait to dig into it!

Publication news! 🎺 It’s Wrapped season… and Taylor’s (@taylorannabell.bsky.social) and my article on our Spotify (Un)wrapped project is now out in the Journal of Gender Studies. The article outlines how creative workshops can be used to critically analyse ‘algorithmic events’ like Wrapped.

‼️ First single-author pub in iJoC: ijoc.org/index.php/ij... Through 2 years of fieldwork and 27 interviews, I trace how participants of underground electronic' dance music scenes reconfigured their shared culture of secrecy with the advent of smartphones.

Just ate dinner but already want second dinner

CDT's @aliyabhatia.bsky.social writes an op-ed for The Wire advocating for tech companies to better represent language diversity in the development & testing of #AI systems for Indian users. thewire.in/tech/big-...

Still in awe at the dialogues at @fluxfestival.bsky.social this past weekend on reimagining what artistry means in the face of new technologies…

syllabus for becoming evil

Responsible AI…for whom and by whom? How could it be otherwise?

Reintroducing myself here — I spent this past summer at @cendemtech.bsky.social studying the everyday harms of AI. Beyond attending to high-risk scenarios, I call for a joint consideration of severity and prevalence as a more pragmatic orientation to anticipating and preparing for AI harms

just moved from the other site...am i too late to this party???