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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the increasing number of requests I get for input on something that has just been run through AI and sent to me come in all flavors and I don't like any of them

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think that the end goal of a lot of tech companies at this point is to destroy any point social or psychological mediation the individual has left, such that there are any only atomized individuals connected by computer networks, with the tech company oligarch as the owner or operator of said nets

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Can people eat bouncy balls?" is a tough one because the best possible outcome is that your child has been seriously considering eating a bouncy ball

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Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

📣Post Doc Alert! I am hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher in political language and NLP/LLMs 🤩 Come join a great, interdisciplinary team at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social in Odense! Applications due October 15, 2026. Detail here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Computational Political Communication Postdoc position(s) at The Digital Democracy Centre

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

So what I am saying here is that just claiming that AI is mid misses the political and economic project it’s being leveraged to bring about (upward wealth transfer), while only focusing on that project without noting the flaws of the tech risks missing HOW it’s carrying out that project. 12/n

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My first parenting webinar, entitled "Five descalation strategies not to try when your middle child enters the kitchen weilding a mini baseball bat to protest bed time," will be out next week. Stay tuned.

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

give me an AI that can pick out a decent watermelon at the supermarket and then we'll talk

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

People often pitch AI as unprecedented. But what if we already have the organizational tools to evaluate & negotiate its use? Our new book Auditing AI opens in the 1980s with the story of the US Network for Organ Sharing how how they test & decide on their algorithms direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...

Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

As of this morning I am officially "Dad, did they have traffic lights when you were younger?" years old. It feels bad.

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My son's first teeball practice* is in a batting cage built in the back of a liquor store because it's still might snow in late April. It will be cut short for the Sabres game. g/l finding something more Buffalo than this. *(why are we having a practice for teeball?)

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

New #FAccT2026 paper with Su Lin Blodgett and @ninamarkl.bsky.social on the ideological work performed by discourses that sell the capabilities of generative AI products tisjune.github.io/papers/facct...

Title: "A natural language interface for everyday life": The social and political functions of AI capabilities discourses
Authors: Justine Zhang (University of Michigan), Su Lin Blodgett (Mila), Nina Markl (University of Essex)
Abstract: We interpret and historically contextualize AI capabilities discourses: spectacular narratives that ostensibly lay out the capabilities and use cases of the latest generative AI models in marketing and scientific communications. We complement existing work scrutinizing these discourses as components of a wider phenomenon of “AI hype”—which tends to focus on “debunking” them—by exploring how they rationalize wider social projects. Via an analysis of marketing materials produced by companies like OpenAI, we trace how AI capabilities discourses extend longer-running capitalist discourses, which construct aspects of self and social life as segmentable “skills” with economic value, and which responsibilize people for their survival in precarious economic conditions. We then show how AI capabilities discourses build on top of this ideological scaffolding. We suggest that these discourses have power because they reiterate hegemonic ideas about society and personhood that are entwined with material conditions. As such, contesting the power of the AI industry necessitates more capacious forms of political action, beyond interventions aiming to merely correct narratives.

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Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The English book is out! 🎉 🥳 Happy and proud that the English version of our book is presented today at the Global Progressive Mobilisation meeting in Barcelona! "The Open Future and Its Enemies: How we can Protect Free Society from AI Dictatorship" @paulnemitz.bsky.social #OpenFuture #Democracy

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🚨NEW ESSAY ALERT🚨Broken Connections: Fieldnotes from the Old Internet. The most personal thing I've written in years. I trace my history with internet communities & online relationships & how much of that is now gone. And a lot about LiveJournal. Open Access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Quite coincidentally, I just sent this paper to all of the students in my lab this morning!

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I have been thinking for the last few years about ideologies and how they emerge in text. This paper, with @davidlazer.bsky.social and Kim Williams, reflects some of those thoughts, and how I think we can improve and expand on how we operationalize ideology in discourse. arxiv.org/abs/2603.18945

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A conceptual framework for ideology beyond the left and right

NLP+CSS work has operationalized ideology almost exclusively on a left/right partisan axis. This approach obscures the fact that people hold interpretations of many different complex and more specific...

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

One of the benefits of writing a paper with only senior co-authors is that I do not have to avoid the satisfaction of informing this reviewer that this is not what the E stands for in EMNLP

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I've tried to spell accommodate like, maybe, 1000 times in my life and never once have I done it correctly

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Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Consider submitting an ICWSM workshop proposal! It’s a great opportunity to create space for discussions around emerging research threads, new methods, or even old but exciting topics. Deadline: Jan 30.

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Extended deadline for the ICWSM/JQD Global Initiative. (Ask your friends) to submit a 2-page proposal by Jan. 23. A free trip to ICWSM'27 in (TBD) and mentorship on your paper submission!

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Child 1: I am sad, I will cry and seek comfort Child 2: I am sad, I will cry and then try to hit you Child 3, this morning: I am sad, I will not cry but will somehow find a metal wrench and throw it at you

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New paper (**w/ several brilliant folks looking for PhD positions!**) We look at attitudes towards doing social justice work in 500 students taking a first-year seminar class about computing, and qualitatively assess reasons for (not) wanting to do justice work. dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

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ICWSM 2026: Submit

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

every now and then I stumble on a place like r/slowcooking where people just all out stan each others slow cooker recipes and it temporarily restores my faith in humanity and the internet

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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ICWSM 2026: Submit

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

“The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.” Check our article instead, which uses conversations not individually chosen for public sharing, actually describes our methods and data, and finds quite different distributions for how people use ChatGPT and personal info disclosed in their chats.

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Trust No Bot: Discovering Personal Disclosures in Human-LLM Conversations in the Wild

Measuring personal disclosures made in human-chatbot interactions can provide a better understanding of users' AI literacy and facilitate privacy research for large language models (LLMs). We run an e...

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Come be my boss! The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair. Please feel free to reach out with questions! www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816 [Plz repost]

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Professor, Department Chair of AI and Society

The Department of AI and Society at the University at Buffalo, invites applications from outstanding scholars with excellent leadership abilities for the position of Department Chair. The Department o...

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

the key to good writing: 1. Decide 1-3 days before the deadline to rewrite the intro 2. End up drafting the leading phrase "At it's core, human communication is about..." 3. Question life choices

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar? Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly. A few examples in thread ↴

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/07/2025

Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download! 📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info 💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025. More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734

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Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society

The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Only problem with the baby starting to sleep through the night is that I need to find a new excuse to justify my caffeine intake now

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Rabiraj Banerjee @rabirajb.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

So ICWSM concluded today and it was a blast, was a great honor to attend @icwsm.bsky.social at Copenhagen and present my work with @kennyjoseph.bsky.social and other colleagues. The paper link is here : ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...,

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View of Measuring Dimensions of Self-Presentation in Twitter Bios and their Links to Misinformation Sharing

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

How information sharing in social media has slowly shifted from public posting to private channels. Strong empirical evidence from Facebook by the one and only Kiran Garimella. DETOX #ICWSM.

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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

In our new paper (w/ @jongreen.bsky.social , @davidlazer.bsky.social, & Philip Resnik), now up in Nature Human Behaviour (nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02223-4), we argue that this tension really speaks to a broader misconceptualization of what misinformation is and how it works.

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Using co-sharing to identify use of mainstream news for promoting potentially misleading narratives - Nature Human Behaviour

Goel et al. examine why some factually correct news articles are often shared by users who also shared fake news articles on social media.

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Got this written up, fwiw. Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content. arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354

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Tory Wegerski @producertory.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Sending this out again for anyone in Pittsburgh who lost their NEA grant last week, or is fighting for their NSF money, or who is being RIF'd from their fed job, or who wants to tell an investigative journalist anything, really. You can be anonymized and you will be protected.

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/

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Yini Zhang @yinizhang.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

🚨 New paper out in @journalqd.bsky.social! 🚨 How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information. #socialmedia🧵

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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🎉 Acceptance notifications have been sent—congratulations to all the authors! 🔥 If you are a student, be sure to check out the #ICWSM 2025 Student Travel Grant 📅 Deadline: Mar 31, 2025 🔎Details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/... ✍️Application form: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/m1xp8i...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Congrats to ADL, AJC and the other mainstream Jewish orgs content to sit back while a fascist delivers antisemitic smears against the most prominent Jew in American government

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Learning your one kid dodged pink eye and can go to daycare so you uncancel your meetings only to be called 20 minutes later by the nurse to pick up one of your other kids

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A colleague is looking for technical folks to review papers for a special issue in the Journal of Social Work Research on Social Work and AI. Chance to do some interdisciplinary dialogue in an important area! Fill out this google form if you're interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Reviewer Solicitation Form

This form asks for your interest and availability in reviewing 1 - 2 full length (approx. 20-35 pgs) interdisciplinary manuscripts for a special issue of the Journal on Social Work Practice. The revie...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Who won the Trump/Vance/Zelensky Oval Office shouting match? We asked three Russian bots in an X comment thread.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2025

Rufo straight up admits that the entire framing of being against "cancel culture" was BS and they just wanted to be the ones doing the "canceling." Every radical centrist who was just asking questions in the Atlantic played their useful idiot role in bringing this to fruition.

"Article headline reads 'The Right Is Changing Cancel Culture’s Rules' with a subheading 'Conservatives can end the era of unjust left-wing social annihilation.' The byline shows the author as Christopher F. Rufo and the date as February 26, 2025."

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