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Right?! The portrayal of black women in OBAO was so fucking weird, and it was the most shallow depiction of leftist activism - incredible to me that people take this movie seriously as political critique. It’s a family drama

Troubling translation: Sociotechnical research in AI policy and governance The common call for researchers to simply “translate” sociotechnical insights into policy overlooks the complex dynamics of policymaking. Using two case studies, the article shows how meaningful relat...

In a new piece for @policyr.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social, @serena124.bsky.social, @charleyjohnson.bsky.social, and @erie.bsky.social explore the challenges of bridging empirical research and policy, and outline what’s needed to do it well. policyreview.info/articles/ana...

Years ago I wrote a paper on "the fappening" (celeb nude photo leaks) and young men's sense of entitlement to women's nude bodies. The slogan "AI Girls Never Say No" is beyond disgusting and tells us a lot about how this user base views women: as goods, trophies, possessions, not people

The prompts are in this report: publicinterestnetwork.org/wp-content/u... and they are even worse than whatever you're imagining. No, I don't want a stuffie explaining kink, spanking, and role-play to my five year old, JFC

As Authorities Crack Down on Scam Compounds, Victims Are Getting Left Behind | TechPolicy.Press Survivors are concerned law enforcement isn't doing everything they can to fight scam compounds and the cartels that run them, Laura Scherling writes.

Authorities have launched a transnational crackdown on scam compounds in Southeast Asia, but it's leaving survivors with incomplete support, writes Laura Scherling.

Oops @weisenthal.bsky.social

Joe @thestalwart is a friend and I've been enjoying watching him make his way through the media studies canon! He read Walter Ong over the summer and loved it.

Make sure to give your reps a call-there will be a hearing on KOSA NOV 18th so get in your opinions as much as you can before that.

All parents and kids should be talking to administrators and school boards about how their districts are implementing AI. Require transparency, privacy, limits, and guardrails IF it’s allowed at all. Push back against big tech trying to sell harmful chatbots to your children.

Continues to blow my mind how this concept has become common vernacular

Meta must rein in scammers — or face consequences Scams are ruinous to users — but, reportedly, big business to Meta.

New in @theverge.com - half of US scams originate on a Meta property. The company must do more. @lanalanalana.bsky.social and I weigh in www.theverge.com/tech/820906/...

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.

If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

It’s trials w real punishments.

When people ask me how we can stop online scams, I point to THIS

Our Time A campaign for an affordable NYC

Very exciting to see activists launching a new nonprofit today to keep building on the community of volunteers that came together to get Mamdani elected.

Our Time is a 501(c)(4) and plans to start events in December.

Genuine question: who is advising Mamdani on tech, surveillance, AI, etc?

Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed

This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.

This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Tweet from Heritage Foundation's boss Kevin Roberts: Thank you, Jonathan Haidt, for reminding everyone Heritage yesterday that tech tycoons like Leonid Radvinsky and Solomon Friedman are profiting to the tune of millions by preying on America's young men and women. We are proud to be in this fight with you. It is time to arrest, prosecute, and convict the sick perverts behind OnlyFans and PornHub.

There are a large number of Democratic politicians who insist that Jonathan Haidt is a reliable narrator and one who they should take their legislative cues from. They should be asked why they're supporting someone the Heritage Foundation is cheering on in their efforts to censor the internet.

Read more from my fantastic team at D&S studying how people use general purpose LLMs for mental health and emotional support, including a new Big Data & Society paper:

A chatbot for the soul: mental health care, privacy, and intimacy in AI-based conversational agents - Communication and Change Artificial intelligence-based conversational agents—chatbots—are increasingly integrated into telehealth platforms, employee wellness programs, and mobile applications to address structural gaps in me...

And it's Open Access! Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... and thanks to the editors, reviewers, and my wonderful collaborators for making this such a fun and relatively painless process.

Moreover, both conventional impact assessments *and* human-AI research often ignore the larger regulatory, economic, and political landscape in which AI chatbots & users exist. Understanding context and working with impacted communities is crucial to understand both immediate & downstream effects.

However, while therapeutic conversations are governed by privacy laws, wellness chatbots are not. We call for regulation on both therapeutic and general-purpose chatbots that takes into account that people use chatbots for mental health guidance even when that is not their intended purpose.

The paper draws from participatory algorithmic impact assessments- focus groups with impacted users- to surface their concerns. Wellness/psychic chatbots can encourage users to share very personal information, and their recommendations may feel revelatory or even divine.

A chatbot for the soul: mental health care, privacy, and intimacy in AI-based conversational agents - Communication and Change Artificial intelligence-based conversational agents—chatbots—are increasingly integrated into telehealth platforms, employee wellness programs, and mobile applications to address structural gaps in me...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social and I discuss wellness chatbots, their labor implications, & "private vibes" vs "privacy". We call for critical human-AI communication scholarship that takes into account context & political economy: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Since moving to civil society, I've noticed a huge dearth of support for researchers working in the space - although there are tons of us! Come join this D&SxACLUxCDT event where we talk about the opportunities and challenges of research to support tech policy & advocacy!

KOSA KEEPS RISING FROM THE DEAD - DON'T LET THIS ZOMBIE BILL SUCCEED. It would implement widespread age verification across all 50 states and censor queer/reproductive content!

Tenenbaums BY FAR

mom's group chat at my son's old school poppin' this morning because a kid sent a TikTok to the kids group chat "Where Peppa comes home to find her family slain in pools of blood, and she kills Shrek with a sword in revenge"

Basically: US academia will drastically shrink. It will decrease in influence worldwide and domestically, and ideas from academia will be far less likely to enter mainstream. Knowledge production privatized, less accessible, less public.

Downstream effects: academic publishing devastated; fewer people with academic training means smaller audience for academic work (regardless of where it's published); culture of academia gets more insular; conferences get smaller