Why did free speech vanguards change their tune following the murder of Charlie Kirk? Is it possible to leave the low hanging fruit of content moderation alone and reach a little higher up the tree? My initial thoughts here:

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“It’s an uncomfortable truth that platforms are profiting from this event, and that’s built into deeper structures than content moderation” said @juliehawke.bsky.social, peace-building and research lead (and my colleague!) at Build-Up

@socialcohesiontech.bsky.social

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“[I]t is hard not to notice that, in the aggregate, something poisonous is in the architecture of [online] platforms and the way that our technologies demand not just our attention, but our most heightened emotions,” @cwarzel.bsky.social writes. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

TB testing for new students is in room 105. My office is 'O 105.' With all the knocks and redirections this morning, I just think I'm missing good opportunities. Oh you thought we were testing for tuberculosis? This is a Toxic Boyfriend screening. A Trust Building exercise. Therapeutic breathing...

Are you trained in or currently engaged in responding to toxic speech online, and able to take a short 5-10 minute survey? This survey asks you to reflect on skills and strategies for responding to toxic speech. Thanks in advance for your time!

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Some of you probably have a use for RSS-scraped US news stories from 2022 through 03/2025. This collection apparently has ABC, CBS, CNN, LA Times, NBC, NPR, NYT, Politico, ProPublica, USA Today, and WaPo.

I'm a PhD student at Notre Dame. This is infuriating, and your response, though sorry you had to write it, is exactly what is needed.

🔔 (new paper!)

You might have heard of the "Habermas Machine", an AI-human pipeline that is really good at finding common ground between ideologically diverse groups, at least in lab settings.

But can this kind of approach help in real world conflicts?

I just finished a syllabus for a hopeful future course that I want to teach so, so badly. In 3-5 years can a university hire me just to run this course?

DYSTOPIAN OR UTOPIAN FUTURES: Technology, Peace, and Conflict through Science Fiction

FALL 3024 (👀) SYLLABUS & COURSE SCHEDULE

Not today Statan, not today
#sociology

Seems like maybe there should be laws preventing this.

So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate.

The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵

New article: Understanding to intervene: The codesign of text classifiers with peace practitioners

👉 bit.ly/3Or79rX

#machinelearning #socialmedia #peacebuilding

Consciousness and bureaucracy - The two words that have always escaped my spelling capabilities and also the two words I keep writing papers about