Phoebe Sengers

Phoebe Sengers

@sengers.bsky.social

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

226 Followers 117 Following 3 Posts Joined Oct 2023
10 months ago
Can Harvard Use Its Endowment To Make Up For Federal Cuts? It’s Possible, but Not That Simple. | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard’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 Trump’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.

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10 months ago
Surveillance Self-Defense We’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.

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1 year ago
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...

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1 year ago
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?

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1 year ago

Never. We make it our business not to know yours. That's our whole deal ❤️

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