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Blakeley H. Payne

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fat liberation and technology info phd student @ cu boulder | before: math + cs @ UofSC, ai + ethics @ MIT she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · Oct 9

🌟 New paper alert! 🪩

Our paper “Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities” is out & will be presented at GROUP ‘25.

So much care from @jordant.bsky.social, @katta.bsky.social, @cfiesler.bsky.social, & I went into it! 💜

Read here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.04614

Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities

Online communities are important spaces for members of marginalized groups to organize and support one another. To better understand the experiences of fat people -- a group whose marginalization ofte...

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · May 29

From a friend who was there today: MIT class president denounced the MIT administration and said “we MIT students showed the world what we want is an end to Israeli military collaboration," the crowd erupted in chants of "free palestine," flags everywhere, they cut the livestream 🇵🇸

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · May 22

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

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Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · May 20

thank you for sharing and for the work you do 💜

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Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · May 20

Thank you, this is perfect!

Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · May 20

Yes!! This is so helpful. Didn't know about Netzpolitik, excited to familiarize myself with it too!

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Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · May 20

Thank you!!

Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · May 20

(thank you in advance!)

Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · May 20

hi folks! I'm teaching tech ethics this summer, and part of the course is having students read news articles about ongoing tech issues.

can anyone recommend publications that cover tech issues in a non-US context (either issues in countries beyond the US and/or do not center the US)?

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Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thank you so so much for both of these!!

Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · Apr 11

thank you *so* much! hope all is well - or as well as it can be right now. 💜

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Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · Apr 11

@clancyny.bsky.social I know it's been a while, but I thought you might know some folks! But no worries if not, either!

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Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · Apr 11

hi folks - especially journalism friends! I have a dear friend who is an expert on detransition and is looking to communicate about their research and its implications in light of the new NIH directives - anybody know who I might connect them or an appropriate place to pitch an op-ed? thank you!!

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Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · Jan 29

Breaking out the billionaire tears mug this morning apropos of nothing (or no one, or company)

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Jan 27

Addendum: whether DeepSeek or OpenAI, there's no such thing as AGI and attempting to build it results in harm.

See our paper.

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Saber Khan @saberkhan.bsky.social · Jan 24

Sharing tools I created in #p5xjs for creative coding basics for often explained concepts that lacked demos. With AI, blending ideas is now easier. I am going to try with my students in class today.

sustaining-boursin-d41.notion.site/Tools-for-cr...

Tools for creative coding | Notion

Here is a set of interactive p5.js sketches that should help beginner coders understand how p5.js and other language work make graphics. These tools were inspired by the CC Fest - Teacher Training Cam...

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · Jan 24

I just created this BlueSky starter pack of Researchers and Creators of Trans Technology (loosely defined). Please share, and let me know if you want to be added (or removed)!

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Michael Ann, spooky, scary, spooky scary halloween femme @michaelann.bsky.social · Jan 21

This is one of the biggest design flaws of this app: it’s all in the clear. That’s design for people who don’t have security and privacy concerns, not design for all. I’ve run the studies myself and it’s clear: visibility controls are the #1 way to help marginalized folks protect themselves online

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · Jan 21

ICYMI, last week I posted the icebreaker activity I did with my first day of my course on data literacy of/by/for the humanities. Had the students make a dataset about themselves and go through the steps of organizing, questioning, and analyzing it.

Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · Jan 14

Taught the first day of "Data for the Rest of Us" and tried an activity I'm calling "We Data." Students construct datasets about themselves in small groups and look for stories in the spreadsheet. A good icebreaker and introduction to the themes of the course. More here:

We Data: An Icebreaking Activity · Brandon Walsh

Head of Student Programs at the Scholars' Lab in the UVA Library

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Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · Jan 20

As @crystaljjlee.com says… trying to be the person my dog thinks I am today.

A very fluffy bernedoodle puppy, with long black and white curly hair, flops his head and front two paws over some carpeted stairs. He looks tired and sleepy.

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Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · Jan 20

Like no platform is a monolith, obviously, and I know the ways the right are using that app. But it also feels important to me to acknowledge that TT up until yesterday probably felt the closest to me to the promise of social media.

Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · Jan 20

It’s sooooo easy to get on here or other platforms and confirm the idea that other people are generally ill intentioned or intentionally ignorant etc and it makes me more afraid, isolated, and less willing to show care. That has been the opposite of my experience on TikTok and that is *valuable*

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Blakeley H. Payne @blakeley.bsky.social · Jan 20

I’m going through and saving some of my favorite tiktoks before leaving that app and something that I think is underarticulated about the value of TikTok is that it just makes me like other people more. Like look at these beautiful humans doing human things.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 19

The idea that a president can issue an executive order that overrides Congress, while it may be appealing to everyone who wants TikTok back and agrees that the TikTok ban is a first amendment violation, is actually illegal dictator shit

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Meg Adams (ArtbyMoga) @artbymoga.bsky.social · Jan 18

MERMAIDS CAN BE FAT!!! I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!!!

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · Jan 19

idk I feel like the government shutting down a very popular app due to how widely we were able to access information concerning a hushed genocide should be alarming to everybody regardless of your interest in using the app yourself

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