dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 27/06/2025as algorithms increasingly determine individual workers' pay, independent reports like this that reveal the impact on workers are crucial. amazing work led by @powerswitchaction.org and GWR that I was VERY happy to help with and contribute to! 051
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 02/04/2025language in the gender EOs sneakily frames having ID inconsistent with your birth sex as fraud. it now might be enforced for visa holders attempting to enter the US www.erininthemorning.com/p/marco-rubi...erininthemorning.comMarco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US EntryA new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth." 010
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 04/03/2025happy to see more and more eyes on workplace tracking tech as it makes its way to the creative class. keep eyes out for algorithmic pay schemes in new industries as this tech spreads www.wired.com/story/your-b...wired.comYour Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for YouWarehouse-style employee tracking tech has expanded into job after job. Now, as millions are called back to the workplace, it’s finally coming for the American office worker. 020
Reposted by dr dana calacciSasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 28/02/2025NGL Being a trans person rn is rough. Find ways to materially support trans folks please your reskeets are not enough 291
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 26/02/2025i am SO TIRED of not-rigorous evaluations of LLMs 000
Reposted by dr dana calacciCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/01/2025I think what’s going on here that these people are trying to find some true binary relating to biological sex. Genital morphology won’t do it. Sex chromosomes don’t do it. So they’ve retreated to gamete size. I think the use of large and small cell is also a hedge in this direction, not prudishness. 3047281
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 21/01/2025senior faculty in my dept just emailed a dean asking if allowing non-binary gender in a survey was “using federal funds to promote gender ideology”, we are so cooked 120
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 21/01/2025being in the university pharmacy waiting room in january feels like being in the “sick room” at the doctors office as a kid 000
Reposted by dr dana calacciDripped Out Trade Unionists @uniondrip.bsky.social · 19/12/2024The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organized with the Teamsters. Let's fucking go! 🔥 5032801424
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 17/12/2024can someone explain to me how bsky is meaningfully decentralized??? 060
Reposted by dr dana calaccidavid lunch @nicemustard.bsky.social · 10/12/2024COLE: COOP, THEY CAUGHT THE CEO SHOOTER. HIS NAME WAS TONY SPAGHETTI, REAL BOY NEXT DOOR. ABS LIKE ADONIS. POLITICAL IDEAS OF A FUTON. PERHAPS THE IDEAL MAN 4679581698
Reposted by dr dana calacciScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 08/12/2024Consider too that the handwringing about children is always followed by the ending of adult care, de facto or otherwise.independent.co.ukGPs halting transgender patients’ hormone treatment or refusing prescriptionsInvestigation: GPs cite lack of expertise or funding as key factors in withdrawals of trans patients’ prescriptions. Billie Gay Jackson and Holly Bancroft report 324164
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 06/12/2024i love lina khan’s FTC, have given talks there, am friends with some of the staff. this would be like suddenly turning a bestie into a nemesis 120
Reposted by dr dana calacciMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Yet another "gender clinic whistleblower" account falls apart as soon as reporters talk to actual patients. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/m...bostonglobe.com‘A head scratcher’: Families push back against claim that Boston clinic for trans children is ‘reckless’ - The Boston GlobeFamilies who sought treatment for their children at the clinic shared their experiences with the Globe as a counterweight to what they regard as unfounded concerns about youth gender medicine. 323762999
Reposted by dr dana calacciElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 04/12/2024I heard this is a good place to talk about taxing the rich, breaking up big tech, and ending Washington corruption. 3652404654659
Reposted by dr dana calacciCameron Loxdale @cloxdale.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Good morning Bluesky. Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer. go.bsky.app/KDY26rh 28257151518
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 04/12/2024come worry with me with me tomorrow as my rights get decided at the supreme court slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comThe Hidden Danger of the Supreme Court’s New Trans Rights CaseThe Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday in Skrmetti v. U.S. 020
Reposted by dr dana calacciButt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 04/12/2024when smash mouth said "my world's on fire, how bout yours" I felt that 1324
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 02/12/2024an llm bot that rewrites all news headlines as emoji pasta 000
Reposted by dr dana calaccimerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 25/11/2024i think something about tiktok/youtube shorts/ig reels taps into a deep genetic memory of staring into a communal fire 73529
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 23/11/2024bringing this paper to my next manicure after my nail tech argued that her phone was listening to her, sorry honey it’s not that simple 120
Reposted by dr dana calacciLilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 23/11/2024@astra.bsky.social: Remember for that a lot of this country's history, labor unions were illegal and people organized and struck anyways. 0335
Reposted by dr dana calaccidarth mando @mandolakes.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Conservatives trying to figure out how to post on platforms without libs 61372155
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 22/11/2024rly fun to have my civil rights framed as a “culture war” by both major political parties 120
Reposted by dr dana calacciRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together. 10598302187
Reposted by dr dana calacciRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024This isn't a culture war. This is the only trans congresswoman, ever being bullied through the press and legislation, and having only 1 of hundreds of colleagues stand up for her. They can do more than 1 thing at a time. Defending her will not take so much effort that they can't do their jobs. 154118732055
Reposted by dr dana calaccidell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024My job keeps me in almost daily contact with members of civil society. These are people working tirelessly to defend people’s rights & ensure the government doesn’t just ignore defenseless communities. This bill genuinely frightens them. Call your reps. (It matters.) Tell them fuck this bill. 24016
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 21/11/2024“are LLMs human subjects research?” is a paper title i would have expected to see by now 000
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 21/11/2024seriously, private kudos is all good and well but does jack shit if you’re trying to change anything at all 010
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 21/11/2024the dark reality virginia eubanks saw almost ten years ago 💀 000
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 21/11/2024absolutely insane to see this on trans day of remembrance. vile shit 072
Reposted by dr dana calaccim. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 19/11/2024again, we can just call billionaires oligarchs, it's really fine! it's also more accurate and on bluesky we lilke being accurate! being accurate makes you hotter! 320438
Reposted by dr dana calacciPrufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Very excited for Mike Tyson and Jake Paul to touch gloves, lean in, and with a caress trained by decades of love take each other to the gates of heavenly ecstasy 4417
Reposted by dr dana calacciAna Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Almost ten years ago 152
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 15/11/2024lots of good points in here that are very consistent with what we found in our new paper at cscw on data donation!! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... 010
Reposted by dr dana calacciAna Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 15/11/2024This article haunts me: “People have to file freedom of information requests just to learn an algorithm set the length of their prison sentence. The more public institutions rely on tech companies, the more we are losing democratic control over their processes and decisions.”botpopuli.netBig Tech Makes Political Choices About Our Data: We Should do the SameIn her book Silicon Values, Jillian York recalls a meeting with Facebook executives in 2011, a few months after the start of the Arab uprisings. When the... 210456
Reposted by dr dana calacciEthan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Pretty blown away by this paper from Piotr Sapiezynski and team at Northeastern and Princeton, presented at #CSCW2024: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... For lots of good legal and moral reasons, Facebook doesn't allow advertisers to explicitly target ads to "White Republicans" or "Black Democrats"..dl.acm.orgOn the Use of Proxies in Political Ad Targeting | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer InteractionDetailed targeting of advertisements has long been one of the core offerings of online platforms. Unfortunately, malicious advertisers have frequently abused such targeting features, with results that... 24319
Reposted by dr dana calacciAmy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024The long-tail of YouTube (42 views or fewer) is highly multi-lingual, and about things like video games, church services, advertisements.... Quotidien YouTube is an accidental archive of what is going on in different parts of the world. 182
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 13/11/2024in college we would get high and search things like “IMG_4032” on youtube; you get reams of single digit view videos that are ALL over the place. true “bottom quadrant” material, which @ethanz.bsky.social argues is actually very important to study 030
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business · 11/11/2024i remember @mako.cc talking about this work last year and i was super interested. understanding these dynamics is crucial for making more democratic institutions and media ecosystems. excited for the talk 030
Reposted by dr dana calacciJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/11/2024New: An open-source project called DeFlock has mapped thousands of license plate reader surveillance cameras all over the world. See if they're in your city. They also need help mapping more www.404media.co/the-open-sou...404media.coThe Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the WorldDeFlock has mapped the locations of more than a thousand ALPRs around the United States and thousands more around the world. 16336164
