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trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me

artIG@davidthewid

Postdoc@CornellTech.

PhD@CMU,exNASA/MSR/IntelLabs.

[Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social @davidthewid]

🎉📢 I'm on the tenure track job market! 👋✨

I study how people building “AI” think about the downstream harms their work makes possible, and the epistemic and political economic systems which shape their thoughts, and our future.

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@predict_addict @JonWashburn You didn't answer the question. Link?

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yo, @loadedonloaded, can you DM me your current email? wanting to get in contact with you and your PSU email isn't working! :)

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📣🚨NEW: ☁️ Big Cloud—Google, Microsoft & Amazon—control two thirds of the cloud market. They’re getting rich off the AI gold rush.

In work with Nathan Kim, we show how Big Cloud is expanding their empire by scrutinizing their *investments*… 🧵

📄PDF: https://t.co/uLKTMaNiCF

[Paul Azunre @pazunre]

Read up on why we cannot be complacent, and why "Open Source" is often really a wolf in sheep clothing, especially in Africa:

https://t.co/fWlMMVjyfi

[Texas Conference of the AAUP @TexasAaup]

Dr. David Widder: “learning about controversial issues yields courageous + careful thinkers.…I urge the Board of Regents to…reject this unnecessary + destructive proposal.” 👏

https://t.co/PAcw9dEIUr

[Jon Taylor @ProfJonTaylor]

Students can solve controversial problems. UT must trust them to do so -- David Widder @statesman
https://t.co/P67BDfQ5bi

[Austin Statesman @statesman]

A vague proposed policy on “controversial topics” risks narrowing what students can learn at the University of Texas, David Gray Widder writes. | Opinion https://t.co/SOxZMHD7ya

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Non paywalled link: https://t.co/vrR4B65Iep

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We should trust Texas students to think about controversial topics, and professors to help them solve societal challenges.

The UT Board of Regents is considering curtailing professors teaching controversial topics; I am proud to speak up in response:

https://t.co/pt8pNtPPwX

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@AAUP @TexasAaup

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🫧The news is finally asking about an AI Bubble, and when it will pop. Good!🎈

Our data shows how we got here. Big Cloud is frantically investing in AI startups to build market share and justify their *massive* investments in AI infrastructure.

Graphs as hype-antidote, here:

[Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social @davidthewid]

🫧The news is finally asking about an AI Bubble, and when it will pop. Good!🎈

Our data shows how we got here. Big Cloud is frantically investing in AI startups to build market share and justify their *massive* investments in AI infrastructure.

Graphs as hype-antidote, here:

[Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social @davidthewid]

📣🚨NEW: ☁️ Big Cloud—Google, Microsoft & Amazon—control two thirds of the cloud market. They’re getting rich off the AI gold rush.

In work with Nathan Kim, we show how Big Cloud is expanding their empire by scrutinizing their *investments*… 🧵

📄PDF: https://t.co/uLKTMaNiCF

[eleanor @eleanordotcomm]

i have lost and continue to lose respect for my male comrades over being flippant. do you think adopting a glib or dismissive tone makes you sound better read, better organised, more radical? it doesn't. i trust that your politics are rooted in your compassion, so act like it.

[Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu]

📢 New Research Paper! Design versus reality: assessing the results and compliance of algorithmic impact assessments

https://t.co/9ILouKol7j

[Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu]

ICYMI: Our paper on algorithmic impact assessments is out!

We conducted a detailed examination of 26 AIAs completed by Canadian departments and agencies. We offer findings and recs for accountability efforts going forward in AI policy and government structures more broadly.

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

Are you even a hacker if you can’t release the Epstein files? Where are the hackers

[Yasmine Kotturi, Ph.D. @yasminekotturi]

✨Call for participation

At our CSCW 2025 workshop in Bergen 🇳🇴, we’re reimagining design thinking through the lens of hope theory—to meet this moment with research practices that sustain agency, purpose, and imagination.

📝 Apply by Aug 18
🔗 https://t.co/xaa21o5xzL
#CSCW2025

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i cant keep up with AI hype nonsense.

preparedness? security? superintelligence? big tech working toward a *prosperous future*? wtf

[Nathaniel Li @natliml]

I joined @Meta AI, running preparedness and security evaluations with @summeryue0 and @_julianmichael_ to ensure that Superintelligence's newest models enable a prosperous future. Grateful for the team they built at @Scale_AI and excited for the critical work ahead.

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@WellsLucasSanto @vicwingly this salad is nonsense though

https://t.co/pV5aKXgawC

[victryena 🪾 @victryena]

how is it possible that germans can have amazing beer but have food thats just straight up a plate of bullshit LMAO

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@WellsLucasSanto @vicwingly huh tbh I think that broth looks amazing