Phoebe Sengers
@sengers.bsky.social
Cornell prof, politics of technology design, rural infrastructure, social impact of design, speculation.
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Much like Trump’s tariffs and foreign policy choices are making it such that the international community can never trust America again, so higher education is facing the fact that its 80-year partnership with the federal government has ended. Even if the funds flow again, the bond has been broken.
Can Harvard Use Its Endowment To Make Up For Federal Cuts? It’s Possible, but Not That Simple. | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s endowment is not a $53.2 billion pile of cash. But as the University sits on the precipice of historic financial losses, it has increasingly faced calls to draw from endowment funds to make ...
www.thecrimson.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Much like Trump’s tariffs and foreign policy choices are making it such that the international community can never trust America again, so higher education is facing the fact that its 80-year partnership with the federal government has ended. Even if the funds flow again, the bond has been broken.
Let's imagine that your country is descending into an authoritarian dictatorship, which is searching your data. What would you do? Two recommendations: the Electronic Freedom Foundations's Surveillance Self-Defense guide ssd.eff.org, and mail and cloud storage through Proton proton.me.
Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...
ssd.eff.org
April 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Let's imagine that your country is descending into an authoritarian dictatorship, which is searching your data. What would you do? Two recommendations: the Electronic Freedom Foundations's Surveillance Self-Defense guide ssd.eff.org, and mail and cloud storage through Proton proton.me.
Paper on abstraction in digital agriculture is out! rdcu.be/d2AKe Critical agrifood scholars view abstracting from material conditions as a driver of damage in industrial agriculture; computer scientists see abstraction as a core value. What happens when these views collide in digital agriculture?
Analyzing abstraction in critical agri-food studies and computer science: toward interdisciplinary analysis of digital agriculture innovation
rdcu.be
December 6, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Paper on abstraction in digital agriculture is out! rdcu.be/d2AKe Critical agrifood scholars view abstracting from material conditions as a driver of damage in industrial agriculture; computer scientists see abstraction as a core value. What happens when these views collide in digital agriculture?
Reposted by Phoebe Sengers
Never. We make it our business not to know yours. That's our whole deal ❤️
December 6, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Never. We make it our business not to know yours. That's our whole deal ❤️