Lara Rose

she/her // PhDing: mental illness in literature & in academia // on the payroll at Women Writers Project (@NUwwp), @oceanicexchanges, & @NULabTMN

[Lara Rose @lararose_edu]

Sage advice from @julia_flanders on finding a place within the academy: "You can be the hemlock tree growing out the side of the cliff."

[Lara Rose @lararose_edu]

On the first day of #WomensHistoryMonth I'm sitting in a room of feminist coders, designing our Code of Conduct, so that we can make history.

[Lara Rose @lararose_edu]

ICYMI: You can embed captions for images you post to twitter for accessibility: https://t.co/gXSPkqxbEp

[Lara Rose @lararose_edu]

@NUlabTMN @mckelveyf What about resistance: Gaming/exploiting daemons is part of internet politics ("daemonic warfare"): Acceleration (move faster than daemons) vs escalationism (escalating the issue) vs obfuscation (going dark).

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@NUlabTMN @mckelveyf Other speculations: how would pirates optimize the internet? Or how would the environment optimize the internet? (Probably *not* by letting bitcoin mining continue at its current state: https://t.co/OsQaX4FjDt)

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@NUlabTMN @mckelveyf Value proposition: How are these technologies related to governance issues? Will we move to "dark optimization." Right now, optimize is mostly used for benign capitalism: ISPs just want to make more money on the networks. So what would be the dark side of optimization?

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@NUlabTMN As a communications researcher, @mckelveyf concerned with how optimization changes dynamics of time and space.

[Lara Rose @lararose_edu]

@NUlabTMN Examples: based on packet-inspection, daemons can tell what shows people are watching on Netflix, locate and block illegal streams (copyright-protected content), or speed the content the provides highest capital gain.

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@NUlabTMN Imps are now the routers, hubs, etc. that make up the $41 billion network that makes internet available (mostly CISCO and Juniper Systems). So how will these daemons change when we are now in a post-network-neutrality internet?

[Lara Rose @lararose_edu]

@NUlabTMN What does this have to do with Internet Daemons? computer as communication: series of programs (daemons) that translate data from one computer to another. Interface Message Processors (imps) responsible for routing intervention: inspection, queuing, touring, policy management

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@NUlabTMN Early developers wanted to believe the question of optimal internet is a *technical* problem, distinct from "softer" social, economical, political problem.

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@NUlabTMN Donald Davies wanted to created a model for time-sharing computer systems that could optimize the performance of the digital infrastructure. Internet is multi-media medium; so what is an optimal network of networks on a global scale?

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@NUlabTMN The internet evolved from Advanced Research Projects AgencyNET as a way for computers to optimize human-to-human interaction. So ARPANET & the internet should be examined within the cyborg sciences framework (see Donna Haraway)

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@NUlabTMN History of Network Neutrality: Initially an anti-discrimination principle to keep ISPs from optimizing or controlling content on their networks. But, FCC ruled "in order to optimize the end-user experience, ISPs must be permitted to make reasonable management practices.

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@NUlabTMN Optimization points to ways that media & technology govern human conduct, stands in for political debate. It raises media policy questions about who decides the optimal state and its forms of governance. & integral to emerging decisions about media policy (data, A.I)

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@NUlabTMN A Matter of Optimization: Apple's explanation for the battery scandal (battery dies over time, the iOS software slows down for stability) functions as a technological value that stands in for a political/commercial value.

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@NUlabTMN I'll be live-tweeting here in the comments section in case anyone's bandwidth doesn't allow the livestream to load.

[Chris Marsicano @ChrisMarsicano]

As y'all know, I study higher ed lobbyists and used to work for one. A friend asked how I would lobby against the Graduate School Tuition Waiver Tax if I were still in the game. I thought about it, and here’s how I would tell students to oppose the #GradStudentTax (Thread): 1/19

[pathological supply avoidance @griph]

1997: the new frontier of literature is HTML where you can dig into supplementary info on words & phrases during the main narrative

2017: listen we don’t know how this is even possible but your ADHD is terminal