Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social)

#STS researcher @SSofCS @mcgillu. thinking about disability/mental health x AI or CS ethics education. she/her

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

Come see @AbramovichShira present our co-authored paper “Evaluating Refusal” at the #NeurIPS2024 EvalEval workshop today! Drawing from Indigenous and feminist studies, Shira will be presenting on why refusal needs to be incorporated into evaluation frameworks of #GenAI.

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

Ted Chiang delivering a sharp keynote speech at the #GenAI and Creativity workshop at #NeurIPS2024 on why #GenAI is not art, arguing that art requires perspiration and is more than just inspiration. Art is the culmination of many intentional choices— not a short text prompt.

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

@ArcMembership @arcinternet Hi could you poke again with more urgency? I haven’t heard anything from your team since early Tues morning and I’ve followed up twice with no response. It’s been well over a month and my critical issue still persists, despite my constant efforts to flag the issue to your team.

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

@ArcMembership My pinned tabs haven’t been syncing across devices and it has completely undermined my @arcinternet-based workflow. I submitted a support request 3 weeks ago and have since followed up twice yet I have not heard back at all. Very frustrated as a longtime user!

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

@ArcMembership @arcinternet Hi! Can you poke again? My issue still hasn’t been resolved and I haven’t heard from your support team since last Friday and I’ve followed up 4 times with no response. Really disappointed that it’s taken a month of prodding from me for my critical issue to still remain unsolved!

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

@dasha_pruss @patitsel @jonathansterne Hi Dasha! DM-ing you now

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

Proud to announce I will be presenting a paper I co-authored with @patitsel and @jonathansterne
at #FAccT2023 tomorrow!

https://t.co/hJtHCXFMpJ

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

@bethmsemel @patitsel @jonathansterne thank you, and likewise! Will absolutely shoot you an email to set up a time to connect

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

@danmcquillan @patitsel @jonathansterne thank you for your kind words! I haven't written anything else at this point but you might be interested in the work of @bethmsemel who has written work critiquing computational psychiatry https://t.co/OVH0zwvbLR

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

Always appreciate hearing my critique echoed by others! Thanks for writing and sharing this compelling piece of poetry that beautifully hits many of the same points made in my paper

[danmcquillan (@[email protected]) @danmcquillan]

Looks like a great and important analysis! Very much the kind of critique i was hoping for when I wrote 'Mental health and artificial intelligence: losing your voice' https://t.co/rH59KpOh1A #FAccT2023

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

Very important #FAccT2023 tutorial by @benefitstechhub and @eiweil on tactics that technologists can employ to support better public benefits tech that resists austerity logics

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

the feminine urge to use all too well (10 minute version) (taylor’s version) (from the vault) as a pomodoro timer

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

@smdiehl Reminded me of our most recent conversation @patitsel!

[Angela Okune @Honoluluskye]

Excited to be in a STS Bibliodiversity Project discussion led by Prof @DuyguKasdogan today as part of the annual #6S2021 student preconference workshop of @4sWeb #4S2021

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

Fascinating info I learned: FB's human content moderation policies are mostly crafted IN SECRET by a male-dominated group of CS/legal professionals and that the LEAST experienced content moderators are the ones overseeing decisions related to FB's adult content policy #SIGCIS2021

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

Loving the Queer & Trans Histories of Computing panel at #SIGCIS2021 moderated by @whitneypow! Really enjoyed @alex_monea's presentation on "The Digital Closet" aka the cisheteronormative biases embedded in both automated + human content moderation systems at Facebook and Google

[Rachel Thomas @math_rachel]

To rush CS students through simplified, condensed overviews of ethical understanding & position them to be the primary arbiter of change promotes engineers' inclination towards seeing themselves as solitary savior, to the detriment of the quality of the solution. 1/

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

I write words for a living and yet cannot find the right ones to describe the mix of grief, fear, and loss of seeing the news and thinking: I am an Asian woman, too.

[Anna J. Ma (@onlineluddite.bsky.social) @onlineluddite]

An incredibly thoughtful perspective on why integrating ethics education into technical CS course material is *still* insufficient at "driving meaningful, material change" in the tech industry, 10/10 read for anyone interested in tech ethics + responsible computing education!

[jessica dai @jessicadai_]

it's super trendy these days to talk about teaching ethics to CS students but less trendy to think about what that actually looks like. I wrote down some of my thoughts based on working on the first year of Brown's program -

https://t.co/8pElQyDNCa

[Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻 @dannagal]

I've received several DMs from friends asking what do to about parents/family members who believe misinformation regarding the election, vaccines and COVID. Here's a research-based thread to help explain the roots of these beliefs and how to (and how *not* to) address them. 1/