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Phoebe Sengers

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Cornell prof, politics of technology design, rural infrastructure, social impact of design, speculation.

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Can Harvard Use Its Endowment To Make Up For Federal Cuts? Itโ€™s Possible, but Not That Simple. | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvardโ€™s endowment is not a $53.2 billion pile of cash. But as the University sits on the precipice of historic financial losses, it has increasingly faced calls to draw from endowment funds to make ...

Much like Trumpโ€™s tariffs and foreign policy choices are making it such that the international community can never trust America again, so higher education is facing the fact that its 80-year partnership with the federal government has ended. Even if the funds flow again, the bond has been broken.

17.04.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Surveillance Self-Defense Weโ€™re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...

Let's imagine that your country is descending into an authoritarian dictatorship, which is searching your data. What would you do? Two recommendations: the Electronic Freedom Foundations's Surveillance Self-Defense guide ssd.eff.org, and mail and cloud storage through Proton proton.me.

19.04.2025 23:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Societal Impact of Farm Networking | An interdiscipinary Cornell research collaboration

This work, led by Lara Roeven and Steven Wolf, comes from our project on societal impact of farm networking. sites.coecis.cornell.edu/farmnetworki...

06.12.2024 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Analyzing abstraction in critical agri-food studies and computer science: toward interdisciplinary analysis of digital agriculture innovation

Paper on abstraction in digital agriculture is out! rdcu.be/d2AKe Critical agrifood scholars view abstracting from material conditions as a driver of damage in industrial agriculture; computer scientists see abstraction as a core value. What happens when these views collide in digital agriculture?

06.12.2024 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Never. We make it our business not to know yours. That's our whole deal โค๏ธ

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