🌶 David Gray Widder

The Grimy Residue of the AI Bubble What kind of residue will the AI bubble's popping leave behind? By Alex Photo credit: Marc Sendra Martorell Q2 earnings are in. According to Pitchbook data,...

I wrote a blog post on this, and I don't think it will be.

buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Also @davidthewid.bsky.social and @histoftech.bsky.social wrote on this

ash.harvard.edu/resources/wa...

you see them big clouds? what if they were, like, smaller?

779% cotton seems like too much cotton

A very bad hot-dog-stealing dog

My dog stealing a plate of frozen Impossible hot dogs and inhaling them as if they were meat is a good advertisement for Impossible hot dogs and a bad advertisement for my dog

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

Public broadcasting is dead, long live public broadcasting

Screenshot of a gmail inbox with advertisement reading "Google Cloud Startups: Scale with $200k, on us"

ironic ad for me to get this week 👀

(stay tuned for something big from me next week!)

🤖 Always on the lookout for potential net positive uses of “AI”, esp for elderly…but the claims here pissed me right off:
“There was no way that we could have found enough songwriters out there to be able to create those tracks in an authentic way”
🚫 No. MANY musicians [wc]ould do this. And, 🧵

Yeah, imagine. But then again it’s the most charitable read to say they’re marks falling for the AI grift.

not precrime, pre-lax-on-crime. wtf, lol.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

"Queer praxis towards infrastructural counterpower: a case study of Signal and encrypted *****"

I think this is *the* chi paper actually

So far, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty has largely been limited to countries in Africa, South America and Asia that have historically been critical of Israel.

This is an amazing way of writing “most of the world”

wait that is how I play chess. i call it chestwheels. i challenge him to a duel! ♟️🏎️

im sorry but i just saw a job post from the National Humanities Alliance (funded by Mellon foundation) trying to hire a masters level fellow to analyze a sample of n=100,000+ of QUAL data. of course the job post discusses use of AI, like what are you guys doing out here?! & no one saying anything?

conference schedule on Third Day - online only, 31 july, 2025, full text here: https://ialiis.birzeit.edu/conference/en/

but I'm probably gonna tune into the last day of the Birzeit conference tomorrow morning as I work! :)

Livestream will be here: www.youtube.com/@BirzeitUniv...

ya, where I usually stumble upon Abeba!

What is it, 3 times we've seen each other this year so far? Paris summit, Mexico, FAccT?

Essayli shouted “Fuck the Justice Manual” at a team of his attorneys pursuing an indictment stemming from the protests, said four current and former federal prosecutors familiar with the incident. Essayli’s reference to DOJ’s handbook of prosecution rules came during a break from lawyers’ presentation to a grand jury. A grand juror overheard the exchange, they said.

Tired: Suggesting that the government should tell judges "Fuck you"

Wired: Yelling "Fuck the Justice Manual" news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Conference program with spiky artwork and title "Engineering Destruction: Militarization and the War Economy", and details: "29-31 July at Birzeit University and Online, Hall 243, Institute of Law Annex Building".

I'm tuning into the "Engineering Destruction: Militarization and the War Economy" conference held by Birzeit University's Inst. of Intl. Studies:

ialiis.birzeit.edu/conference/en/

Now, Andrew Ross (NYU)'s keynote is about the closeness between academia and war: www.youtube.com/live/N-B5eo8...

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Roderic Crooks’ Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality  - Connected Learning Alliance Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will rec...

More on Crooks' excellent book and his argument that "Part of what makes access to technology so appealing is that it offers a way to address inequality among minoritized peoples without having to identify or name the racism and structural oppression that shape the life chances of all people."

I've added a few new folks to the starter pack for @acm-cscw.bsky.social, and I will continue posting reminders about this leading up to #CSCW2025. Let's keep this list growing and build up a better space to interact off of X. 🌱
Reply or DM if you publish at CSCW & I'll add you!
go.bsky.app/SPumuMT

I'm at CSCW :)

Register for our hybrid workshop! Think about radical histories (and strategize towards radical futures!) in tech with us!

Tesla is in constant finesse mode with the often-touted but much delayed rollout of its robotaxi service. After a limited launch in Austin, Texas, the company said it would offer the service in the San Francisco Bay Area. But according to Reuters, that ain't gonna happen because a key California regulator hasn't given Tesla the go-ahead. Instead, Tesla will provide a "chauffeur-style service operated by human drivers," in Reuters' exceptionally diplomatic parlance. Translation: taxis driven by cabbies

okay this is actually hilarious

www.jalopnik.com/1923966/tesl...

I could never have imagined that the same person concerned about "secret Jewish space lasers" would also be concerned about AI sucking up all the water

broken clock right twice a day, etc

nymag.com/intelligence...

Oh!

📣🔥❤️‍🔥 I'm excited to moderate a panel with none other than *Lucy Suchman and Joan Greenbaum* at Aarhus '25 - we'll hear them reflect on their work in tech social justice movements, and what we can learn and do today.

Join us on August 19th IRL or online:
tech-organizing-reflections.github.io