Vannevar Bush is rolling in his grave.

NEW: What do we know about China's new AI safety institute?

China fielded a new organization ahead of the AI Action Summit next week in Paris. It appears positioned to represent China in a setting it had been left out of.
digichina.stanford.edu/work/what-do... w/ colleague Caroline Meinhardt 1/

They are trying to force NSF staffers to take the DOGE deal by pushing from the top down as well.

Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban.

Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on
Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.

having finished David Golumbia’s ‘Cyberlibertarianism’, I’ve tried to collect some thoughts, a 🧵— i’ve decided to do more posting about interesting reading here

Good journalism is often assumed to be dead in China. Yet, according to @fangkc.bsky.social, Chinese quality journalism remains remarkably resilient in the face of the formidable challenges it faces. It has adapted, evolved, lost some strongholds, and found new life in alternative spaces.

David Golumbia’s posthumous ‘Cyberlibertarianism’ is such an interesting read on this relationship between the far right and a wide range of ‘digital rights/digital freedom’ groups (‘cyberlibertarians’ as he calls them) — not everyone is equally culpable but few are innocent here

Scoop: Elon Musk’s lackeys have taken over the Office of Personnel Management—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it

My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

Wrote a thing about the Shanghai lockdown with @danwwang for @NYMag @intelligencer Shanghai’s Soul yearns for freedom: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04/locked-down-in-shanghai.html

Over the moon, deeply honored, tickled pink ✨🎈 'Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation' was awarded the Joseph Levenson prize!!! @AASAsianStudies @PrincetonUPress many thanks to the committee! https://www.asianstudies.org/aas-2022-prizes/ @MichiganESC @umsi...

📢✨ So honored to learn that my book #prototypenation won the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the @EastAsiaAnthro Incredible to see my work recognized by scholarly community I deeply cherish and hold in such high esteem. Big thanks to the committee and congrats to Lyle Fearnley

Immensely proud of my doctoral student Cindy @kaiy1ng who just submitted her important dissertation "Afterlives of Authority" an ethnography of how the promises and machineries of data science, AI, and agile software shape environmental state sciences and governance in Indonesia!

when cloaked in a language of positivity such as inclusion, diversity, and technological progress racist forms of violence endure, diffuse, and are normalized. from @ruha9 's amazing #CHI2021 keynote on insidious spikes, the violence of dreams of frictionless design and more

Weina Zhao spricht mir aus dem Herzen; about transnational identity, how racism and colonialism come together in austria and china and beyond; österreichisches Schubladendenken und die Furcht vor dem "anderen": ...

Fantastic issue! @interactionsMag has developed a much needed critical voice in computing research and design @danielarosner @alxndrt with #criphci #queeriousfutures and super sharp analysis of #covidpreneurism among other wonderful contributions

I just donated to this campaign. Sanitation workers, primarily from the Dalit community, manually remove human waste from dry latrines, sewers, and septic tanks and face significant health risks, in addition to financial hardships and caste discrimination https://gofund.me/347addf3

Join us to talk all things "China and the Digital" in German, in this fantastic interview series by Alexandra Stefanov at #chinaf="/hashtag/chinaimpulse" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#chinaimpulse #china #digitalisierung; live through March 10 - register here: <a href="http://www.china-impulse.de/china-und-die-digitalisierung" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.china-impulse.de/china-und-die-digitalisierung

It's in the mittens. fantastic piece by @NaomiAKlein deconstructing the bernie inauguration meme and aesthetics of american governance. Thx for pointer @semimaris https://theintercept.com/2021/01/21/inauguration-bernie-sanders-mittens/