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Crystal Lee
@crystaljjlee.com
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Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼 crystaljjlee.com
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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 13d
My department @cuboulder.info is hiring a TT assistant professor in the area of environmental justice!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Please share and encourage candidates to apply!
Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice and Information/Technology
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Aug 25
my dog energetically playing in the background of my zooms has so much only child energy
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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · Aug 19
Disappointing but unsurprising to see an argument not about why Taiwan and Palestine should stand in solidarity and seek to amplify each other's self-determination struggles, but an assertion that Taiwan deserves statehood while Palestine does not
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New Bloom @newbloommag.net · Aug 19
"The Hypocrisy of 'The Hypocrisy of Recognizing Palestine But Not Taiwan'" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
The Hypocrisy of “The Hypocrisy of Recognizing Palestine But Not Taiwan” | New Bloom Magazine
A recent op-ed in the Washington Post by Vincent C. Chen–“The hypocrisy of recognizing Palestine but not Taiwan”–criticizes Western countries for moving toward the recognition of Palestine but not…
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Aug 15
this was SUCH a beautiful episode! I don’t really like projecting on people based on media snippets, but both of them really seem like gems.
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Aug 15
omg!!!! I’m so jealous! Are you mostly in Taipei?
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Aug 15
dear lord who art in heaven, please deliver me from that momentary lapse of judgment and allow me to touch ALL THE GRASS
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Aug 15
I went back on Twitter for 10 minutes and INSTANTLY I felt the brain worms coming for me
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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · Aug 12
So we’re ending wage theft?
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Aug 12
NatCon’s Statement of Principles—signed by Peter Thiel, Yoram Hazony, Russ Vought, etc.—says the “national govt must intervene energetically” to “restore order” in “states or subdivisions” where “law & justice have been manifestly corrupted” or where “lawlessness, immorality, & dissolution reign” 1/
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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · Aug 7
Me not writing a paper:
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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · Aug 7
Epistemic chilling
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · Aug 7
GPT-5 is like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”

Man, have you ever tried to get a PhD to follow instructions? It’s virtually impossible.
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Aug 7
not that anyone asked but his book called African Fractals is nothing short of revelatory
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Aug 7
I'm re-reading some truly fantastic work from Ron Eglash and have discovered that his dissertation has the best title ever (also be a great band name): "The Cybernetics of Chaos"
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Aug 4
ah, I used them the first time around but I should find the extras I didn’t use! Thanks for the reminder :)
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Aug 4
omg thank you!!! That looks like exactly what I need! Though I must admit that releasing a bunch of wasps in my house — microscopic or not — does scare me a little bit 😅 Will report back!
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Aug 4
after ripping apart my kitchen and spending a small fortune on airtight containers...I thought I was finally done.

moths, a couple months later: hold my beer
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Sep 3
based on a Google reverse image search, I think I have pantry moths and after ripping my kitchen apart to try and find the source I still HAVE NOT SUCCEEDED

send help!!!!!
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Jul 20
days since we’ve had no technofascist developments: 0
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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · Jul 19
Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Jul 19
you mean I won't have "blah" and "ugh" as commit messages anymore??
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Jul 19
I hate having most kinds of AI assistance for any kind of writing but my god having Co-pilot write a detailed draft of a commit message is life-changing
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Jul 19
thanks for coming to my TED talk but also I'm curious to what extent these dynamics would apply in German academia
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Jul 19
that, and I simply do not get paid enough to expend any cognitive and emotional energy on students ostensibly doing bad stuff (or evaluating whether or not someone is lying). Much better to focus on the little joys, like seeing a new idea click in a student's mind
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Jul 19
maybe I'm naive and believe too much in the power of karma, where their dirty dealings ultimately come back to bite them in the ass at some point, but this kind of cognitive reframe is what I remind myself of every time I can feel myself receding into that hole
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Jul 19
I'm sure there are a ton of students who take advantage of my leniency / flexibility / fundamental belief that students do want to do well (which is why they resort to this kind of stuff), and I just remind myself that that's an emotional and professional burden that they need to shoulder, not me.
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Jul 19
the re-frame: frustration that a student is probably lying about a family member dying? → why does the student feel like they have to invoke such a drastic response in order for instructors to have a little flexibility about assignments and exams that ultimately don't matter that much?
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Jul 19
I guess the way I've dealt with this is to remind myself of the big picture, systemic problem: the fucked up academic / political economy that pushes students towards believing that they have to Do It All in order to have a chance at success (thus precipitating cheating and irresponsible LLM use)
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Crystal Lee @crystaljjlee.com · Jul 19
I don't have any good tips, but I do just want to say (as corny as it sounds) that I'm grateful that you're being so attentive to this. I feel like it's too easy in our line of work to retreat farther and farther into what Jeffrey Moro calls "cop shit," and being attentive to it is the first step
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