Danya Glabau

It's so fun, enjoy!!

More rhetorical than design oriented but like this from Stark and Hoffman culturalanalytics.org/article/11052

Looking for critical/STS/media studies work on the "data lake." Anyone? 😬

I've had a very grumpy day, hundreds of pages of grading only punctuated by faculty meeting, and this thread is turning things around

I'd love a browser/general software extension that adds a "No, fuck off!" button to any pop-up suggesting "AI" "help" with something --- and the option to send exactly those words to the company producing the software.

Check it out. At The New School, you could've studied composition with John Cage, social science methods with John Dewey, cultural history with Lewis Mumford, or photography with Berenice Abbott

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

METROCrossReferenceCoalition_Students The Cross-Reference Coalition An Experimental School

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers. We'll also make a rad book...

Sadeghi says this "genetic optimization" allows parents to minimize disease while maximizing traits they prefer. However, critics have drawn comparisons to a different term: "eugenics." "[It's not eugenics] by any stretch, because it's fundamentally about empowering people with information that they can use to give their child the best start in life," he said. "And yes, if you want 2 inches taller for your child, 3 inches taller, right, if you want a couple IQ-point difference, absolutely, by all means, do that. But I'm saying, you're really asking me here, you're asking me, what is life about? That's what you're really getting at when you talk about height and IQ, right, they're abstractions of life."

His “it’s not a eugenics company” tee is raising questions already answered by his shirt. www.cbsnews.com/news/nucleus...

The #ManufactureOfDoubt is an historical script that regulated industries use in pursuing their political and economic goals. Many of the issues noted by the editor are known techniques deployed in #agnotology.

I wrote about a lot of this in my book; also see work of @drtomori.bsky.social

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Please post about your book that I *should* read. I’m so tired of the weird Nazi affair shit on my timeline.

if you work on "AI" and are concerned with social issues, you should apply to be the new director of the Tufts AI Institute: apply.interfolio.com/178311 (Need to be tenureable in one of our engineering departments, but it's explicitly open to people who work on human-oriented stuff.)

The Segway, the AI of my youth

Friends, please join us in supporting work of the Society for Disability Studies during this pivotal time - for humanity, for bolder ways of knowing. For decades, SDS has fostered alternative systems of knowledge and activism - including disability justice. Ex. A: @disstudies.bsky.social Quarterly

Luckily I like extremely simple styles. I just want fifteen identical sleeveless shell tops in a variety of seasonally appropriate, non-plastic textiles. Shocking how hard this is after body changes from birthing as child

DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.

Wired: "That’s absolutely false,” one USDA source says of reporting that DOGE has disbanded. “They are in fact burrowed into the agencies like ticks.”

*at 40, maybe a single time I can do a post without a typo...

Meanwhile I'm learning how to make my own clothes because 40 I don't have time or interest for clothes that don't fit anymore

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!

The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.

Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:

• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.

She could teach the tourists taking up the whole moving walkway standing still a thing or two about how to exist in public in NYC, that's for sure.

Ms Four is on her way home and I received a video of her just strolling through JFK with her suitcase like a pro lol

Go wash your eyeballs, I'm sorry

The Rights of the Child: Parenting, Politics, and the Body - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Any compassionate person can intuit and observe that young humans require, relative to so-called adults, an extra level of safeguarding against certain environmental hazards, from automobiles to firea...

I love that (actual, meaningful) children's rights is becoming more of a thing. ICYMI this is going to be AWESOME and it's online!! I got a preview of some of Sophie's thinking on this in a previous class a few years ago thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

I saw this openly eugenic company's subway ads last week, was too slow to get a hate photo for posterity app.mynucleus.com/pick-your-baby

I think what they meant was the contemporary graffiti aesthetic started in the 70s but lol

Ancient Rome would like a word

NPR announcer just said graffiti was invented in New York in the 1970s