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Adryana H. @awyrm.bsky.social · 9h

Sooo many great books here!

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Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social · 14d

🌟 If you’re applying to CMU SCS PhD programs, and come from a background that would bring additional dimensions to the CMU community, our PhD students are here to help!

Apply to the Graduate Applicant Support Program by Oct 13 to receive feedback on your application materials:

Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Graduate Application Support Program. Apply by October 13, 2025.

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Adryana H. @awyrm.bsky.social · 9d

I read Rua's new book in one go because I literally couldn't put it down. I can't recommend this enough.

$fractalecho.bsky.social$

Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 22d

Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Disabling Intelligences

This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.

link.springer.com

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Adryana H. @awyrm.bsky.social · 14d

Borsook's work was a central theme in my undergrad philosophy capstone. So glad to see her work being championed 💙

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · Apr 10

Steve Silberman's groundbreaking book NeuroTribes, which fully debunked any story of an "autism epidemic," is 10 years old this summer. The answer has been out there for a decade. He'd be LIVID about this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 10

RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Apr 1

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all you wonderful lovely people! 🏳️‍⚧️

Thank you for sharing as much of yourselves as you are comfortable sharing; all our lives are richer for it ❤️

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Feb 21

they are openly advocating for the use of physiognomy in recruitment

make it stop

Human capital---encompassing cognitive skills and personality traits---is critical for labor market success, yet the personality component remains difficult to measure at scale. Leveraging advances in artificial intelligence and comprehensive LinkedIn microdata, we extract the Big 5 personality traits from facial images of 96,000 MBA graduates, and demonstrate that this novel ``Photo Big 5'' predicts school rank, compensation, job seniority, industry choice, job transitions, and career advancement. Using administrative records from top-tier MBA programs, we find that the Photo Big 5 exhibits only modest correlations with cognitive measures like GPA and standardized test scores, yet offers comparable incremental predictive power for labor outcomes. Unlike traditional survey-based personality measures, the Photo Big 5 is readily accessible and potentially less susceptible to manipulation, making it suitable for wide adoption in academic research and hiring processes. However, its use in labor market screening raises ethical concerns regarding statistical discrimination and individual autonomy.

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Adryana H. @awyrm.bsky.social · Feb 21

My first clay creations, of course it has to be Finn and Jake.

Clay sculptures of Finn and Jake from Adventure Time.

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free link @aisucks.antifa.meme · Jan 15

the worst possible thing you can do is hand your unlocked phone to a cop (or even your locked phone tbh)

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jan 15

“Residents will be able to present their driver’s license and State ID using their iPhone or Apple Watch by opening the ‘Apple Wallet’ application on their device.”

Illinois residents may soon be able to own digital driver's licenses and state IDs

Illinois residents may soon be able to present state identification by opening an app on their smartphone or smartwatch. Here's what you need to know.

www.sj-r.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jan 2

“While Apple claimed that Siri only activated its listening mode after detecting its wake word—‘Hey Siri’—The Guardian reported that the assistant mistakenly turned itself on and began recording conversations in response to similar words and even the sound of zippers.”

Apple Agrees to $95 Million Settlement in Siri Eavesdropping Lawsuit

The company's virtual assistant allegedly recorded plaintiffs who hadn't said

gizmodo.com

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Dec 27

I'm working on a starter pack... its focus is Information Warfare, Covert Ops and Propaganda... trying to fill gaps on existing lists of 'disinfo' experts and bring in a wider sweep of experts on covert ops & information warfare, broadly defined. go.bsky.app/7NTCqKZ

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Adryana H. @awyrm.bsky.social · Dec 23

Psalm and I Who Have Never Known Men were some of my faves from this year :)

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Adryana H. @awyrm.bsky.social · Dec 23

I read over 60 books this year in an effort to get back into it. These are my six favorites!

A visual display of six book covers, listed as such: The Mismeasure of Man, I Who Have Never Known Man, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The Book of Form and Emptiness, The Jakarta Method, and Animal Liberation Now.

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · Dec 23

something odd about being a researcher who doesn’t fit neatly into a single well-defined discipline: most established single-discipline experts tend to initially see your work as an ill-formed or incomplete version of whatever their discipline normally does

Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · Dec 22

When you're really innovating *and* you don't fit the White Male Scientist Default, the paradoxical thing you have to do is learn to cultivate a massive protective wall around you and stop taking the feedback of all the 'experts' who think they understand everything that could be your future.

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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · Nov 20

I created a starter pack for researchers who work at the nexus of HCI & cybersecurity / privacy here.

Please do let me know if you would like to be added to the list!I'm sure I've missed many folks.

go.bsky.app/RGsu5jn

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Nov 23

"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI"

www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...

this is a damning report

reads: The Ways AI Decides How Low-Income People Work, Live, Learn, and Survive

The use of artificial intelligence, or AI, by governments, landlords, employers, and other powerful private interests restricts the opportunities of low-income people in every basic aspect of life: at home, at work, in school, at government offices, and within families. AI technologies derive from a lineage of automation and algorithms that have been in use for decades with established patterns of harm to low-income communities. As such, now is a critical moment to take stock and correct course before AI of any level of technical sophistication becomes entrenched as a legitimate way to make key decisions about the people society marginalizes.

Employing a broad definition of AI, this report represents the first known effort to comprehensively explain and quantify the reach of AI-based decision-making among low-income people in the United States. It establishes that essentially all 92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI.

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