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Radhika Gajjala

@cyberdivalive.bsky.social
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/10/2025
Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.
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The AI Industry's Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff
Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“Perhaps his most fundamental heresy was the belief that the computer revolution, which Weizenbaum not only lived through but centrally participated in, was actually a counter-revolution. It strengthened repressive power structures instead of upending them.”
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
My book ms "The Inattention Economy: Seeing the Digital Labor of Women of Color” is in production at the University of Minnesota Press. So grateful to Anne Carter and Leah Pennywark at UMP. It's a book about how the work of digital infrastructure became women of colors' work and thus invisible
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Suggestion: stop talking about AI as “hype,” start talking about AI as a (very real) political and ideological instrument.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I don’t think anyone in tech believed that “prompt engineer” was going to be a real job. Better prompts improve results at the margins, sure, but not so much that years out we need classes of people performing that function and not at scale that replaces anything. www.wsj.com/articles/the...
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The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
Prompt engineering, a role aimed at crafting the perfect input to send to a large language model, was poised to become one of the hottest jobs in artificial intelligence. What happened?
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28/04/2025
"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Returning to #DH spaces - meets - physically this April has reminded me of why I do what I do…. In multiple modes of text-il-ing …and multiple dataspaces and multiple visualizing spaces .
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Time to move on to other warp experimented …
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
#whyreturn and #toolingaround
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 09/04/2025
#DHmakes 🤩
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Global DH cookie #msuglobaldh
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 07/04/2025
Between the printing presses, the sheep herding, the spinning, the knitting/crochet/weaving, #DHmakes is ready to survive, rebuild, and spread the word!
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Shout out to @roopikarisam.bsky.social at the #msuglobaldh
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
In person sessions begin #msuglobaldh2025
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
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DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Prepping for a keynote last minute as always….
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act. As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.
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LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie
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Global DH Symposium @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
¡Oradora Principal highlight! Estamos encantados de anunciar que la Dra. Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social regresa como oradora principal en el Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2025! 🎉 Presentará en persona el 8 de abril—¡no te lo pierdas! #MSUGlobalDH
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Nothing to see - just me prepping for tomorrow zoom with Leeds …
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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Thrilled to have organised this panel on Sexuality,Mobility,Belonging & to be in conversation with such brilliant, critical colleagues! The audience engagement was fantastic, with thoughtful questions on political blackness, queer joy, & activism in these challenging times @cyberdivalive.bsky.social
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Was honored to be respondent to a fabulous panel at #aas convention in Columbus - panel put together by @rkdasgupta.bsky.social (with whom I’ve been in conversation for years but only just finally met in person).
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 10/01/2025
Important thread for #DHmakes We've got means of production and project management / organization skills. No better time to put it all to use.
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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
With painful memories, here is to share some resources about a sad anniversary day - five years ago today in Wuhan, its health commission issued the first public notice about an "unknown pneumonia," which later turned out to be COVID-19. guobin-yang.blogspot.com/2022/01/upco...
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Talks and resources about my new book The Wuhan Lockdown
sociology, China, communication studies, journalism, digital activism, digital culture, technology, media studies
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 16/12/2024
Data is crunched and prepped into a weavable spreadsheet, warp (representing location, and words / time on the variable dent reed) is tied on, so full speed ahead on the data #weaving of my girlfriend's mother's memoir. #DHmakes
A folding rigid heddle loom with warp in shades of green, gold, red, browns, in a variable dent reed.
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Still not sure if this is space that makes sense to me and what I do.
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Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This Thursday Dec 5th, 6:30pm GMT I'll give a talk @ LSE @lsemedia.bsky.social about my new book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' out w/ @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... In-person and online, all welcome, details ⬇️ @mediacomgold.bsky.social
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Technocolonialism: when technology for good can be harmful
6.30pm Thurs 5 Dec | Mirca Madianou | Free public event at LSE
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 01/12/2024
25 years ago, the global justice movement, inspired by the Zapatista uprising, exploded into mass consciousness. Indymedia was born amidst the smoke and tear gas of the Battle of Seattle, and the media landscape shifted forever. archive.org/details/turn...
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 01/12/2024
STFU! ACAB
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
www.instagram.com/reel/DC_qKPE...
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
And the idea that "is it public" is all that matters and not what you DO with people's content, is absurd. Like you cannot possibly suggest with a straight face that this example of using transgender YouTubers' videos to train facial recognition is 100% fine. www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16...
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Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software
In the race to train AI, researchers are taking data first and asking questions later
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
And Shamika Klassen interviewed people who were part of Black Twitter about how they felt about researchers using their tweets. We found that things like positionality really matter here, especially in the context of historical harms. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
But it turns out that actual humans aren't just blanket totally okay with their social media posts being part of a research paper somewhere. Context matters! Like um... who are you? What are you going to do with it? What's the research about? What was the tweet about? Could it be traced back to me?
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
In 2016 my collaborator @profprof.bsky.social and I surveyed Twitter users about how they felt about researchers using their tweets. And one of the findings was that most of them had no idea this was happening. But when they found out... they cared. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
"Hey everyone! 👋 I’ve created a starter pack of South Asian artists, authors, academics, activists, and orgs. I’ll keep it updated—DM me or reply if you or someone you know should be added! ✨" go.bsky.app/GGd6dxU
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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
For all those folks that are happy that they can create a #maga free environment in Bluesky, I ask you on behalf of progressive South Asians, and #casteoppresed and #religous minorities that you consider that this elections was about a uniting of multi-racial right wing actors.
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
@rutgersupress.bsky.social Nicole Solano you’re the best ! Thankyou !
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McKinley Valentine @mckinleaf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Incredible use of the medium, you gotta click through and read the bios go.bsky.app/KDY26rh
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 14/11/2024
As lovely as it is to see so many people come here and celebrate finding their communities it’s just as important to remember that with the good comes the bad and the bad will escalate the closer we get to January. Learn how to curate your feeds. No one deserves your time. Protect your peace.
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Quoting my millennial son “Real early social media energy” (when FB and twitter started he was finishing college).
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Oh a bluesky norm I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone else share yet. There are three primary fake accounts here: 1. fake Keanu Reeves (we all kind of like all the fake hims) 2. fake Elon Musks (opposite energy, worst kind of fake) 3. fake Russell Crowe (no one knows why) (IOW yes we have bots, block!)
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13/11/2024
www.theverge.com/2024/11/11/2...
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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week
There are now more than 14.5 million users total on the platform.
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Jinsook Kim @jinsookkim.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Console-ing Passions 2025 will be in Atlanta!
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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Message me or email if interested.
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Florida Man, PhD @casusscribere.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
I am a Digital Humanities web developer and IT professional. My greatest hits include: * That sounds great; who is going to maintain it? * No, really; who is going to maintain it? * Lets try again; who is going to maintain it after you get bored with it / run out of grant money? * **screaming**
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