The ActivityPub Trust & Safety Task Force is looking for a new Co-Lead (I'm stepping down because I'm leading the Social Web Working Group now).
Specifically we'd like someone with trust and safety experience! Doesn't have to be paid/professional experience (volunteer moderation workers […]
Wiki In Africa is excited to support SICSS-Kenya 2026, hosted in Nairobi and led by Dr Amos Kipkorir Langat. sicss.io/2026/kenya/... #SICSSKENYA2026
What does it mean to cultivate something that hundreds of people collectively decide is worth carrying into the future?
This month, I received tenure from Cornell University. The most common question I've been asked is "what will you do with it?"
This post, which I sketched before hearing the […]
What does it mean to cultivate something that hundreds of people collectively decide is worth carrying into the future?
This month, I received tenure from Cornell University. The most common question I've been asked is "what will you do with it?"
This post, which I sketched before hearing the […]
I've created a search on iNaturalist that lets you look at all of the different kinds of nests that ants construct.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=ant-architecture-the-nests-and-constructions-of-ants&verifiable=any&place_id=any
"At least one morning a week, Claudia typically finds herself on this corner, where she has been standing guard as a volunteer for the past six months. Her responsibilities are straightforward and precise: To keep an eye out for federal immigration officials." […]
> Sociocultural engineering research is being systematically attacked under the current US government, pressuring researchers to eliminate cultural inquiry from our work. These attacks present an existential crisis for HCI
> Marginalized HCI practitioners are at […]
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Tech firms are continuing their speed run through dystopian literature by recreating Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" except we don't get the utopia, and it's more than one child who suffers.
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@anildash writes: "So, the biggest IPO in the history of the world has the […]
Enjoyed speaking at the Santa Fe Institute Tuesday on the importance of centering affecting communities in the science & policy of AI
Grateful for collaborators Avriel Epps, Lucas Wright, Alexandra Gonzalez, @sarahgilbert & Megan Price
Also grateful for a ride […]
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