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Amy Bruckman

@asbruckman.bsky.social
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I study online communities, content moderation, and social movements.

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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dungeon Crawler Carl is wildly popular because it resonates with real-world issues. asbruckman.medium.com/the-meteoric...
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The Meteoric Popularity of Books about Resisting our Corporate Overlords, Dungeon Crawler Carl
The books “Dungeon Crawler Carl” (DCC) by Matt Dinniman are wildly popular. At the 2026 DragonCon convention, so many people showed up for…
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When I do “wait and save” on Uber, I’m guessing they use the extra time to find a driver who will do it for cheaper? (I always feel guilty….)
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"A Nerdy 2017 Paper About Reddit Gives Me Hope for America" asbruckman.medium.com/a-nerdy-2017...
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A Nerdy 2017 Paper About Reddit Gives Me Hope for America
People are impressionable. In the 2017 paper “You Can’t Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech,” Eshwar…
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Meta will pay $$$ and change its platform: www.wired.com/story/meta-w...
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Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All
In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement.
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Universities should not have football teams—it violates our duty of care. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...
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At Least 1 in 4 NFL Players Gets CTE, Major New Study Finds (Gift Article)
The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Over the last five years, sociologists have published about a million high-quality refereed articles on inequality, and during that time period inequality globally has doubled. 🔥 -- paraphrasing Adina Sterling at ASA plenary on the need for sociology to have real world impact.
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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 23/07/2026
That said, it may turn out that AI hurts low quality content (e.g., SEO blogs, clickbait, etc.) more than it hurts quality content (e.g., The New Yorker). Above a certain quality, people pay a premium to get non-slop. Below that quality, it’s human-slop, and AI is simply a better UI for IR.
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Help me out: Companies that made money from search hits are struggling. Gen AI scrapes and shares their content, and now they get no hits. But there will be no more content to scrape if everyone stops posting it. This is not a stable situation. What comes next?
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Bathroom graffiti conversation
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 13/06/2026
"Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement" www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio
A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I had fun giving this TeDX talk: Reinvienting Teaching After the Introduction of AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI6L...
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Reinventing Teaching After The Introduction Of AI | Amy Bruckman | TEDxWeber School Youth
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
License plate cameras are routinely used for warrantless searches for minor things like employment background checks, school zone residency verification, etc www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints
An EFF analysis of millions of searches of Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) data by police has uncovered a troubling pattern: in the absence of a warrant requirement to search ALPR d...
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Jonathan Haidt is a grifter who is much closer to right wing conspiracy theorists than he is to any serious social scientists trying to solve complex problems like social media harms and youth mental health. Good to see students at his alma mater pushing back www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...
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N.Y.U. Students Object to Speaker Who Calls Their Generation ‘Coddled’
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I hate getting neighborhood emails that assume your views. Got one this morning "Please oppose those bike lanes!" and a few months ago "Please support more surveillance cameras!" Um, no and no?
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Dark pattern: you hit "unsubscribe" and it replies, "you have unsubscribed from <email type>." Of course <email type> is one of 100, and there's no provided link to your broader preferences and no button for unsubscribe all. Thanks NextDoor.
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Option 1: Continue to tell ~3 people/week, "Where you used the word 'methodology' you meant 'methods.' Methodology is the study of methods." Option 2: Give up and accept that the common usage is correct by definition since language evolves. Thoughts?
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Dude on @cnbc.com raving about what a bad idea Momdami’s second home tax is has convinced me: It’s a great idea!
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This paper by @halavais.bsky.social looks great! Too bad it doesn't exist? "Li, X., & Halavais, A. ( 2021 ). The dynamics of online community building: A study of Discord servers as social infrastructures. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication."
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Ten years ago, I wrote a short essay (in honor of Sherry Turkle's birthday) suggesting that we should say "please" and "thank you" to computer assistants not for the machine (of course) but to reinforce our own habits of politeness. In other words, growling at Alexa and Siri is bad for you. (1/2)
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 07/04/2026
For your citing purposes, U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against genocide: 18 U.S.C § 1091; U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against wantonly destroying infrastructure 18 U.S.C § 2441 which incorporates by reference Geneva Convention IV art. 147.
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I hope the military will refuse orders to commit war crimes.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Starbucks announced it will expand tipping to make it easier for customers to tip baristas across the US. The company is also adding bonuses in stores that meet certain goals. Except for union baristas. /1
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Best thing I've read about AI and jobs. TL;DR: "The ATM tried to do the teller’s job better, faster, cheaper; it tried to fit capital into a labor-shaped hole; but the iPhone made the teller’s job irrelevant.” davidoks.blog/p/why-the-at...
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Why the ATM didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
There's a lot more to replacing labor than just automating tasks
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
If DJT can't threaten other nations with tariffs, what will he do? He'll be reduced to saying, "I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Looking for a hotel for an upcoming trip, and so many of the reviews seem fake and AI-written. Much worse than a year ago. Is there any place online that has verified reviews?
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Wikipedia is surprisingly good at covering important current events: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...
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Killing of Renée Good - Wikipedia
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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Social media could work differently. We teach digital literacy, but ppl often can’t apply those lessons w/in systems that obscure where info comes from & how it gets to them. What might social media look like if users had better signals of information provenance? www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...
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Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries
A large number of MAGA social media influencers were exposed over the weekend as being being based in other countries.Podcaster Matt Binder posted screenshots showing that Charlie’s Voice Rising, a po...
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
X turned on account location, and immediately turned it off again--because it showed that your "farmer in Michigan" is really a paid troll in Bangladesh. We need a social network that shows where content is from. asbruckman.medium.com/x-added-acco... With cites to @katestarbird.bsky.social
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X added account location — and turned it off hours later.
A window onto what is most broken about the internet.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Amazon sues Perplexity over their agentic browser Comet using Amazon to make purchases for users. Might be an interesting case to keep an eye on www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Amazon vs Perplexity: the AI agent war has arrived
A lawsuit over automated shopping reveals a deeper struggle over who will control the next generation of AI and what happens when autonomous agents start acting on our behalf
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Do you hire recent college grads? If so, are your new hires generally prepared with the skills they need? Is their level of preparation different than it was five years ago?
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Is your work software neurotic (overthinking, overly cautious)?Jonathan Grudin explained why in 1988. asbruckman.medium.com/45e025999058s
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Why Your Work Software is Exhausting to Use
Has the software you need to use to get administrative things done at work gotten more time-consuming to use? Do you feel like the software…
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This goes so hard OMG
Ny post cover for tomorrow The Red Apple  Zohran holding a hammer and sickle
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Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Amy Bruckman (@asbruckman.bsky.social) is sharing updates on CSCW's shift to rolling deadlines. You can read more about the process and apply to be on the editorial board here: Read more details about rolling and apply to be on the editorial board: medium.com/acm-cscw/csc... #cscw2025
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CSCW Rolling Submissions
CSCW is experimenting with a new format: rolling submissions. You will be able to submit work to CSCW whenever it is ready (no deadlines)…
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I’m in a session at the CSCW conference featuring 6 papers focused on online misinformation. It’s one of at least 3 sessions this conference focusing on misinfo or similar. The room is completely packed. I’m concerned about how few papers and sessions we will see in 3-5 years due to funding cuts.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18/10/2025
#NOKINGS New York City, NY
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Thoughtful podcast on the future of the Middle East: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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David Remnick: How The Two State Solution Ended in Disaster
Podcast Episode · On the Media · 10/15/2025 · 39m
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Amazon cheats customers in a hundred ways www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Column | I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played.
Here’s what you should do to actually get a good deal on Amazon.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 05/10/2025
I’m not crying, you’re crying
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This only happens to you once
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Hidden fees and deceptive sales practices are about to get worse with the introduction of "AI Agents": asbruckman.medium.com/the-cost-of-...
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The Cost of a Taco: Accelerating Dark Patterns for Consumers and the Threat of AI Agents
There are four pretty good taco shops near my office. Yesterday for lunch I had one fish taco and one grilled chicken. Here’s my receipt:
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Great post by @popehatnamechanges.bsky.social on problems with "free speech culture": It "picks a speaker, treats that person’s speech as the speech that should concern us, and then applies a set of cultural norms and questions only to the responses to that speech." www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...
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How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One
Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I’m worried it can still get stupider
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ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
You can read their paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... There will be a Lasting Impact session at #cscw2025 on Tuesday, October 21 at 11am. This session will be available to in-person and virtual attendees. @asbruckman.bsky.social @michaelannephd.bsky.social
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Hollaback! | Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
CSCW is experimenting with a rolling format! We still need an Editor-in-Chief for the "Mixed Methods" Track, preferably a full professor or research manager in industry from the Global South. Let @eegilbert.org and I know if you know someone good. #CSCW #CSCW-Rolling medium.com/acm-cscw/csc...
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CSCW Rolling Submissions
CSCW is experimenting with a new format: rolling submissions. You will be able to submit work to CSCW whenever it is ready (no deadlines)…
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/09/2025
America's lowest wage workers were experiencing the fastest wage growth from 2015-2022. Now they are experiencing the slowest wage growth and the most abrupt deceleration.
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