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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩
@kerim.one
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Taiwan-based anthropologist. 人類學家與台灣新住民。 https://kerim.one My Triptych newsletter: https://triptych.oxus.net/
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · Feb 23
Here is thread about my current professional activities (teaching, writing, etc.) which I will pin to my profile to give people a better sense of who I am and what I do. You can find more about me at kerim.one
P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩
Landing page for P. Kerim Friedman.
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 1d
love the newsletter! always a great mix and well-explained
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 1d
I think it might be a good idea to cut back on my social media use and put more work into my newsletter.

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Triptych is a free newsletter that delivers 3 fabulous links to your inbox, two or three times a month.
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 1d
I was Bluesky user #308, and have been a major booster of this platform since the beginning, but I'm starting to think that the skeptics were right.

It isn't too late to fix things, but I'm doubtful the team will take this excellent advice from @brunodias.bsky.social to heart:
Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals
As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 2d
Trump family has doubled its fortune to $10 Billion just since the 2024 election.
Trump’s Kids Sure Have Gotten a Whole Lot Richer in the Past Year
Donald Trump’s entire family has raked in millions thanks to his presidency.
finance.yahoo.com
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 2d
"This is beyond politics; this is about care. Some say that medical societies must remain apolitical. However, ignoring political issues that affect health means ignoring real barriers to care. Staying silent while pretending to be neutral is, in effect, a form of complicity." - @thelancet.com
Gaza's healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent
The catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with the apparent deliberate targeting of health-care infrastructure and personnel, has highlighted a profound challenge to the global medical community. ...
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 2d
I guess that big bet on biotech never panned out? I hope they think of something else soon ...

www.bbc.com/news/article...
How China is challenging Nvidia's AI chip dominance
Beijing has urged local firms to use homemade chips. But is China ready to turn away from Nvidia?
www.bbc.com
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d
Blacksky is currently using the Bluesky moderation decisions, that's the issue
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Sophia @sfrunner.bsky.social · 3d
This looks absolutely terrible. Banning a Black user for calling out racism from the CEO's follow list proves the exact problem Black users keep highlighting here. Moderation should protect users from harm, not protect power from criticism. Full transparency is needed now. Fix this, Bluesky.
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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 4d
Before creating For You I actually built a link-focused personalized feed Links For You.

It uses the same algorithm but:
- it only looks at posts with links
- it groups all posts with the same link to avoid showing different posts that have the same link

Feedback welcome!
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 4d
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 4d
They can. It really depends on the rules of the hotel and of the booking website.
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 4d
I'm often annoyed by John Gruber, but he is good on this one, if perhaps a bit overly optimistic at the end:

"Apple’s removal of ICEBlock from the App Store is, in multiple ways, worse than Apple’s removal of HKmap-dot-live from the App Store back in 2019."
Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store
It’s rather chilling to consider what Apple would have done if the Trump administration had “demanded” a list of device IDs and user identities for everyone who had installed ICEBlock. Or what Apple *...
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 4d
I had missed this new polling data, released back in June. I had always assumed that the Dems lost because of low voter turnout, but this suggests that if the non-voters had turned up to vote, many of them would have voted for Trump. Depressing.

Gift link
If Everyone Had Voted, Harris Still Would Have Lost
www.nytimes.com
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 4d
I guess spell checkers have made it into one?
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 4d
@spacecowboy17.bsky.social I see you have a version of "for you" with videos, I wonder if it would be possible to make another that only contains posts that have links (especially links to news stories)? Thanks.
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 4d
(Ugh. And they need an edit button. That really should be "blinded" not "blindsided.")
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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d
My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 5d
Only if you cc everyone!
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 5d
There are people who spend their lives studying the interaction between online sociality and tech. Some of them work in Trust & Safety, others work as researchers in anthropology, sociolinguistics, and related fields. They desperately need some of these folks on their team.
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 5d
The Bluesky team treats every social interaction as an engineering problem. They have made some significant advances through this approach, and may continue to do so, but that very success has also blindsided them to aspects of social interaction that can't be reduced to tech.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d
We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 5d
The New York Times has repeatedly framed Trump’s unilateral attack on government agencies and civil society group’s (like universities) as a “tussle” between equals. And they continue to use the phrase “to heel,” as if his acts of intimidation are part of the presidents’s constitutional duties.
The affair of the sword is the latest tussle between Mr. Trump and those who run the nation’s nonpartisan culture and and historical institutions, a number of whom he has fired or sought to bring to heel, starting with the National Archives.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 5d
A rather technical post about what is going on behind the scenes:
we can just do things - underreacted
underreacted.leaflet.pub
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 5d
A post I wrote with @notsaved.bsky.social for @techpolicypress.bsky.social about algorithms:
Algorithms Don't Make the Rules | TechPolicy.Press
Gabriele de Seta and P. Kerim Friedman say we must demystify “the algorithm,” demand transparency, and give ordinary users tools to control their feeds.
www.techpolicy.press
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 5d
Someone built a better algorithm for Bluesky:

A personalized algorithmic feed based on your likes.

It finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently.

You can also train it by asking it to show more/less posts like the one it shows you.
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