One crosstab I want to highlight here -- the share of Americans who say that, growing up, they were at least somewhat worried about a mass shooting at their school. By age group; 65+: 4% 50-64: 6% 35-49: 11% 18-34: 38% cnn.com/2022/07/20/pol…

Imagine getting inside one of this mfers spaceships

I’m so glad to see some faculty sharing their opinion about this. The faculty/staff side of the University can feel like a monolith for students — I was constantly shocked in my reporting to find specific faculty members that are incredibly supportive (behind closed doors.)

PhD students: Want to work with Mary L. Gray Nancy Baym is not here @TarletonG and me at Microsoft Research on sociotechnical projects? We are hiring both interns and postdocs. For more info, see: socialmediacollective.org

The problem was never algorithms; it’s powerful companies using algorithms against our interests.

Whole Foods “ope collection”

Awesome to see this feature of a #MercuryProject grantee team, including comp.social! (Go Blue!) si.umich.edu/about-umsi/new… "Instead of going after misinfo itself, we're going to go after the networks that carry misinfo." cc SSRC Jeff Mosenkis Rebecca Gluskin Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD Charles Senteio (he/him)

i feel bad for this poor fired Twitter engineer but on the whole this story is so funny platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fi…

Delve into new UMSI research coming to #CHI2023 about trans tech:

This article by Cecilia Kang and Adam Satariano correctly identifies the knowledge gap on AI in Congress. But there's more to it than that. 1/n, n=7 As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology nyti.ms/3kIAh2x

Generative AI is "a Marxist nightmare: the work of millions accruing to a few capitalist owners who pay nothing at all for that labor," says Data & Society research director Jenna Burrell, PhD: techpolicy.press/chatgpt-and-co…

I'm beyond excited and thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2023!!! UMN Computer Science & Engineering GroupLens Looking forward to this next big step... but first, time to finish up that dissertation. 😊