comp.social

[comp.social @eegilbert]

I was putting together a syllabus for a class a couple of years ago, and thought, "Why don't I do this for my PhD students?"

So I've been slowly writing a syllabus for them (v0.1):

https://t.co/W9E3rmcO2x

[comp.social @eegilbert]

We didn't bring in the snipers or the riot gear. Let's hope we keep it that way.

[comp.social @eegilbert]

Live footage of the chaos on the University of Michigan campus that Congress is so interested in.

Frisbees and hammocks everywhere.

cc @virginiafoxx @RepDebDingell

[Harmanpreet Kaur @harmankkaur]

I'm beyond excited and thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2023!!! @UMNComputerSci @grouplens

Looking forward to this next big step... but first, time to finish up that dissertation. 😊

[Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress]

Generative AI is "a Marxist nightmare: the work of millions accruing to a few capitalist owners who pay nothing at all for that labor," says @datasociety research director @jennaburrell:
https://t.co/AO9pNdagbB

[comp.social @eegilbert]

@cdisalvo @ICatGT @isbellHFh congrats carl! well deserved!

[Suresh Venkatasubramanian (mostly in the sky now) @geomblog]

This article by @ceciliakang and @satariano correctly identifies the knowledge gap on AI in Congress. But there's more to it than that. 1/n, n=7

As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology https://t.co/yC5Us9sYSs

[School of Information @umsi]

Delve into new UMSI research coming to #CHI2023 about trans tech:

[comp.social @eegilbert]

@kous2v @MSFTResearch omg so sorry to hear this ...

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

i feel bad for this poor fired Twitter engineer but on the whole this story is so funny https://t.co/FhKNufNS6n

[Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy]

One crosstab I want to highlight here -- the share of Americans who say that, growing up, they were at least somewhat worried about a mass shooting at their school.

By age group;
65+: 4%
50-64: 6%
35-49: 11%
18-34: 38%

https://t.co/VrlzEVNdee

[comp.social @eegilbert]

@msbernst @josephseering Congrats!!

[Heather Lanthorn | improving health systems @hlanthorn]

Awesome to see this feature of a #MercuryProject grantee team, including @eegilbert! (Go Blue!)

https://t.co/ynO7UAqXZc "Instead of going after misinfo itself, we're going to go after the networks that carry misinfo."

cc @ssrc_org @mosenkis @Rtg230 @NeilLewisJr @CharlesSenteio

[comp.social @eegilbert]

@mer__edith fantastic set list though :)

[comp.social @eegilbert]

Whole Foods “ope collection”

[comp.social @eegilbert]

The problem was never algorithms; it’s powerful companies using algorithms against our interests.

[Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan]

Everyone who complains about algorithms should have to spend time on Mastodon. Reverse chronological is brutal.

[comp.social @eegilbert]

@tveinot @umsi congrats tiffany!!