This is the advice I consistently give people about trying AI: use something you know very well already, so you can actually determine the quality of the output for yourself, and get some idea of how the sausage is being made

this is not gonna go down well

www.reuters.com/technology/o...

Yeah. They found much higher rates of diabetes in the descendants of residential school survivors in Canada.

CW: very dark history & systemic starving of Indigenous children.
www.cbc.ca/radio/unrese...

2.
Dr. @danyaalraza.com recently warned that the growth in private for-profit primary care clinics is a slippery slope that includes the potential to monetize your health and Rx data with big pharmaceutical companies.

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floating a thought for feedback:
if the liar's dividend is the benefit bad actors can receive from a world in which there is so much doubt about what is real and what isn't,
I was thinking about "the librarian's dividend" re: the value of the people and institutions who help us evaluate information

I think I am wonderful person, who is never inherently malicious , and should always be thought of wonderfully

AND

If you designed a system around that being true I would cuss you out because if I am those things ?

I want you to be protected if I’m NOT

This is too real right now

Given funding uncertainty, we wrote about why depts & faculty should try to communicate openly with PhD applicants about any changes to their admissions processes, including if it's "nothing has changed".

Let's do what we can (when we can) to prevent cascading anxiety.

cra.org/crn/2025/09/...

Why do you constantly act like the only danger is them willingly turning it over ?

Oh right because you need the straw man argument to be condescending

And live the idea of avoiding

- social engineering
- malicious hacking
- long term observation
- general human error

📢Adam Smith, @gautamkamath.com, and I are putting together a list of job market candidates in Foundations of Responsible Computing! Last year's list was a great success so we're keeping it going!

If you want to be included, or nominate someone, see link in the replies!

Job alert! 🌸🏔️ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here!

Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).

Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020

Oh and coincidentally, huge all-purpose models also have more environmental impact than smaller models. (Was thinking of @sashamtl.bsky.social's work but here's a recent overview of this topic: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/c...)

Having seen much of the discourse around the new ChatGPT release, I think that a huge part of the problem is the idea that big commercial LLMs should be all-purpose.

It is absolutely absurd that the exact same technology would be used as a companion chatbot AND as an enterprise productivity tool.

My dissertation is now available online! The diss applies trans and feminist theory to analyze structural injustices in 3 of my empirical studies of AI governance & policymaking. Give it a look if you're concerned about power dynamics in AI policy

www.proquest.com/docview/3234...

Gender, Online Safety, and Sexuality (GOSS) Workshop is back at SOUPS 2025! Research on GOSS-related topics is more important than ever.

Was talking to a student who wasn't sure about why one would get a PhD. So I wrote up a list of reasons!
www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/reason...

Backstory: “AI in Bangladesh is a side quest,” they dismissed. I disagreed. 170 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁.

Glad to see Northeastern University spotlighting our work on Majority-World #AI governance and why we must act now"

#academicsky #RAI

www.khoury.northeastern.edu/the-fight-to...

📣 Co-Constructing the Future of Digital Intimacy Workshop at CSCW 2025: futureofdigitalintimacy.github.io

⭐ We are seeking participants & lightning talk speakers!
⭐ Apply by August 15: bit.ly/digital-inti...
⭐ Hybrid workshop for scholars and practitioners across disciplines

Thank you all for attending PETS 2025! Special shoutout to General Chair @adamaviv.bsky.social for hosting, to Program Chairs @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social and @ikben-robjansen.bsky.social , and stellar volunteers for making it a success. See you next time ✨
📅 Submit to PETS 2026 Issue 2: Aug 31, 2025

Am I? I think so, at least a little.

Are you a #CSCW researcher? I'm building a BlueSky starter pack for @acm-cscw.bsky.social. Reply to this message if you'd like to be added! As a Community Co-Chair for #CSCW2025, one of my goals this year is to help get our community synced up off of Twitter/X. TY for helping me build this out!

For years, people have suggested having alternate NeurIPS locations, outside the US. 2025 is the first time it will be done, with satellite locations in Copenhagen and Mexico City.

I wonder if this will be a one-off thing, or whether the trend will continue.

it’s hard to think of a historical precedent for wildly helpful technology degrading like this

the only thing i can think of is when they forgot how to prevent scurvy (twice) but the impact size of that was still so small by comparison

My AC runs off the solar power during the day and the solar power-charged batteries in the evening/overnight. I am constantly surprised at how little energy it actually takes - it barely registers on the load, the efficiency is so good with modern systems.