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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

CBI's MOSAICS (Meanings, Ontologies & Structures of AI in Culture & Society) Symposium Program/Registration now open (link below). Org. Cmt.: Sareeta Amrute; @babintsevak.bsky.social @anitachan.bsky.social; G. Con Diaz; me. 32 terrific critical AI scholars. Oct 15-16. cse.umn.edu/cbi/mosaics-...

Poster/flyer for CBI's MOSAICS Symposium. Photos of keynote speakers Paula Chakravartty, Roderic Crooks, Tiara Roxanne, Janet Vertesi, image of a laptop keyboard with hands typing, co-sponsors names and logos.

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Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#PhD fellowship at the Center for Digital Narrative in Bergen: three years studying how players and player communities turn games into stories. 🎮 Starts February 2027, deadline 15 October. Bring a project proposal! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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PhD Research Fellowship in Games and Interactive Digital Narratives, Center for Digital Narrative (307441) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Games and Interactive Digital Narratives, Center for Digital Narrative (307441), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Thursday, October 15, 2026

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A great analysis of the tie between the attack on humanities and aggressive pushing of AI into universities.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

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Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom”

Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center.
STORY TK”

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

AI is already impacting children’s developing brains in profound ways, and kids’ wellbeing is not at the center of tech industry innovation, @drdanasuskind.bsky.social writes‬. “Every time we replace a human with AI, we risk rewiring how a child relates to the world.” thehill.com/opinion/tech...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🙏🏾

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

It’s kinda funny / harrowing that LLMs didn’t get smarter or less brute-force-y, we just got better graphics cards, and more comfortable with wasting obscene energy on what still remains the most overrated madlibs ever. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

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We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All

The vast ‘brains’ of artificial intelligence models can memorize endless lists of rules. That’s useful, but not how humans solve problems.

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Congratulations, Ben!!! Anyone who gets to work with you is very lucky. You are inimitable!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/02/2025

“But can a human life be reduced to a dataset? Can a body be tuned up like a machine? Or is this explosion of self‑tracking simply narcissism redesigned for the age of big data, by a society that has internalised the tech industry maxim that more data is always better?”

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‘The bot asked me four times a day how I was feeling’: is tracking everything actually good for us?

Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we’re all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this ju...

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The American Institute of Physics is looking for an associate director who will lead our new policy research and analysis function, which is within my portfolio. We will be busy. americaninstituteofphysics.applicantstack.com/x/openings

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A bit of a rant from my research leave bubble: I understand, AI is a research topic in vogue now, even in the humanities, but it would be nice if more people actually tried understanding the primary sourcers they use, or at least read beyond their first page.

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A helpful discussion of knowledge vs information vs content.

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

What's troubling about ed tech is that it always promises to be tailored to students' individual needs, but it operates with universal, normative concepts of learning and intelligence.

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Yes, walks and podcasts are a great combo! So I'm going for a walk in half an hour, and I'm going to start with the episode that features you

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

What a cool podcast!! Thank you for sharing!

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 01/12/2024

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...

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camwing @camw.ing · 05/12/2024

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part:

"The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop."

Here's the whole paragraph:

We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Congrats on your publication, Honghong! Can't wait to read it!

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Yet another example of full automation being a dream predicated on profound hubris.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

For the lovely 🦋 folks: #postdoc jobs: We have exciting post doc positions open in the U of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research priority area "Human(e) AI". Applicants from eg communication, law, logic, and philosophy welcome! 🗓️: deadline December 13 Share 🫶 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...

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Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in Human(e) AI

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Anjalie Field @anjalief.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I'm super excited about this program and happy to connect if you're interested in working with me through it!

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Don't have any suggestions, but super curious what others will recommend. Interesting that there's quite a solid body of lit on measuring cognitive abilities in the masses, but how about evaluating cognitive abilities of the selected few?

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Here's an excellent non-teaching postdoc opportunity in political history/ history of tech and/or media at the Center for American Political History and Technology at Purdue. careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoct...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

My just published essay on a major security and privacy conference of NSF, and the larger research program at NSF in these areas (Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, or SaTC). #histsci z.umn.edu/NSFSaTC

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Bridges Over Troubled Waters: Reflections on NSF SaTC

Introduction: This is a reflective essay and review of the September 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) PI Meeting, in Pittsburgh at the Convention Center and Carnegie Mellon ...

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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

If it passes regulatory muster, taxpayers will be subsidizing the profits for Microsoft To be clear

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Godspeed You! BOOsky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

well there it is. Elon poisoned local waters with mercury for years and the FAA may have known the FAA said 'We will get back to you' this morning when i asked ahead of the rumored story for @popsci.bsky.social haven't heard anything since, if you can believe it! www.popsci.com/science/spac...

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SpaceX accused of dumping mercury into Texas waters for years

The bombshell allegations may violate the EPA's Clean Water Act.

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Thanks, Ben! My last chapter will be on the first attempts to build such tutors. So that's a helpful context!

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Steph Dick @mysdick.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Here is the latest issue of BJHS Themes -- Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power -- which developed out of our Mellon Sawyer Seminar. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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BJHS Themes: Volume 8 - | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - BJHS Themes - Volume 8 -

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Thanks! Egle Rindzeviciute's Power of Systems discussed Soviet computational models of economy and environmental change.

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

What a wonderful initiative! The podcast is wonderful. So excited about the newsletter!

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Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

My first post here will be an act of self-promotion. My article of Soviet studies and formal models of creative thinking is out and available via FirstView www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Rules of creative thinking: algorithms, heuristics and Soviet cybernetic psychology | BJHS Themes | ...

Rules of creative thinking: algorithms, heuristics and Soviet cybernetic psychology

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