What a cool project from @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social and her students documenting xAI's data centers in Memphis. The website is "a targeted lens on a specific locale and a window into AI’s infrastructural expansion" and has a "StoryMap, providing a place-based account of the story and its stakes."

We're Live!! "What is Sociological About AI?" The articles in this issue are excellent in their own right but even better together, building out a Sociology of AI

Over 18 months, CDT studied content moderation in four low-resource languages—Maghrebi Arabic, Kiswahili, Tamil, and Quechua—across South Asia, North/East Africa, and South America. cdt.org/insights/con...

New Essay w/ Hayoung Seo: "It's Not Optimal" On the value of human excess in an age of AI Joint Review of: 1 Co-Intelligence @emollick.bsky.social 2 The Last Human Job @allisonpugh.bsky.social 3 AI Needs You @verityharding.bsky.social 4 The Importance of Being Educable by Leslie Valiant

🎤 NEW in @publicbooks.bsky.social #tech: "It’s Not Optimal" by @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social & Hayoung Seo--a brilliant take on #AI's sociality in conversation with books by Leslie Valiant, @verityharding.bsky.social, @emollick.bsky.social, & @allisonpugh.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/its-not-opti...

It isn't complicated. There's hate speech that is prohibited and free speech that is protected. This administration is punishing protected speech by mischaracterizing it as hate speech. Everyone on all sides understands this is what's happening

⚠️ Attendees of #FAccT2025, this is very important! ⚠️ June is the peak of tourist season 😎, and affordable hotel options will disappear soon! Please book your accommodations ASAP! We want you to enjoy your visit to Athens! 🦉 Our list of hotels and discount codes: facctconference.org/2025/hotel

Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨

✨🎙️ PUBLICATION ALERT ✨🎙️ Out with Nature Machine Intelligence today @natmachintell.bsky.social: "Materiality and Risk in the Age of pervasive #AI #Sensors", with the great Susan Kennedy, VJ Reddi, Brian Plancher, Pete Warden, Emanuel Moss & Matthew Stewart. Read the paper here: tinyurl.com/3skyvep7

I don't think Sean Ward has migrated to this platform yet but he did lead a 🔥 article about the move away from Twitter/x Out today in Symbolic Interaction doi.org/10.1002/symb...

This Google Maps and Calendar business is an absolute tutorial on the politics of place, time, and technology.

PostDoc: Conceptual Framework for Justice and Wellbeing in Transport & Mobility jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/p...

First, Google removed events like Pride & BHM from Calendar. www.theverge.com/news/608858/... Now, they come for our maps. A harsh reminder that default settings aren’t just re: convenience—they’re a form of control that shapes user behaviour & choices. Welcome to the Gulf of Digital Imperialism.

As someone with an actual PhD in geography, I am utterly disgusted with Google for this. What a joke.

Are you guys for real right now? We only rate dogs. This is so clearly a bunny rabbit having his dinner. Please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10

New piece with @rscarlets.bsky.social : The TikTok ban won't work—it'll create exactly what it claims to prevent. Bans don't eliminate platforms, they transform them into less governable forms. Our analysis of the paradox at the heart of platform restrictions: www.techpolicy.press/the-tiktok-b...

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I do few things with the same fervor as when serenading this dog

I'm late for most things but yesterday, managed to show up for a talk one full month early 🏆

I'm at the point in the semester where I just need to absorb other people's smart thoughts about interesting things. Yay for Co-Opting AI 🙌 karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-op...

Blog post version of my talk at UofBristol's Centre for Sociodigital Futures. Such a generative visit with generous scholars 🙏 sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/11/26/a...

Just a couple middle-age ladies making use of this Thanksgiving downtime @k8henne.bsky.social

The ban won’t take effect for at least 12 months. But key details about it are still missing – including how social media platforms will actually verify users’ age theconversation.com/australias-s...