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New chapter 📕 out in this multidisciplinary volume on disinformation, edited by @goripaula.bsky.social and Lisa Ginsborg

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It was a treat to present ongoing work on political influencers & FEC regulation in the U.S. earlier today at PlatGovNet 2025

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Thanks to the organizing team @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social Emilie de Keulenaar @claraigk.bsky.social @jcmagalhaes.bsky.social & Ivar Hartmann 🙏

What Everyone Can Learn About A.I. From the Asian American Experience Four takeaways from four Asian American academics who study race, tech, and society

Here's a (scholarly) rant about A.I. and the seeming paradox Asian Americans as complicit with it that me, Michelle Huang, and Tara Fickle wrote as part of a DISCOnetwork writing jam. Is A.I. the next Iron Chink? medium.com/@hatlabnorth...

New conspiracy theory just dropped:

What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?

Very excited to read the final report - congrats, @isabelalinzer.bsky.social & @beccabranum.bsky.social. Love the title 📐

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

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Moira Weigel — Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School Moira Weigel This essay has been peer-reviewed by "The New Extremism" special issue editors (Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia), and the b2o: An Online Journal editorial board. Since the election ...

fascinating how the myth that habermas was karp's diss advisor sticks to him like honey, as @moiraweigel.bsky.social has pointed out elsewhere

www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...

Congrats, Nicole - looks fab!

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Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share!

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🚨Special Issue Alert: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics
(1/9) Introduction from our guest editors Zoetanya Sujon, Harry Dyer and Felipe Bonow Soares. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#academicsky #socialmediasky

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note so self: include this case in chapter on ai influencers that i still need to write

after the #aoir fomo comes the #ade fomo 🪩

What makes the internet so special you ask? It was designed in the 1970s to create a system resilient to single points of.....oh.

Jokes aside, I'm grateful that so much infrastructure *did* keep running yesterday. Saying a general thanks to all the engineers whose work made that possible.

Seems like an opportune moment to re-up our paper about AWS seeking infrastructural dominance in education through a range of operations that include platforming the edtech industry on its cloud services codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/h...

experiencing strong #AoIR2025 fomo - and looking forward to joining in 2026 ❤️ 🇲🇽

I spoke with Brendan Rascius of the Miami Herald about DHS Secretary Noem’s Hatch Act-violating video blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

The #CASResearchGroup around Sahana Udupa @sahanaudupa.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social has come to an end, but the project will continue.

www.cas.lmu.de/de/programme...

Chatkontrolle: „Hey Plattformen, regelt das mal.“ Im Interview spricht Martin Riedl, Plattformforscher an der University of Texas at Austin, über die Relevanz von verschlüsselten Apps, wie Content Moderation jenseits von Client-Side-Scanning…

Warum Verschlüsselung wichtig ist und bleibt, hat uns Plattformforscher @martinriedl.bsky.social ebenfalls im Interview erklärt. Er führt einige Beispiele aus den USA an. buff.ly/YuyQpsq

It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

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Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Opinion | A Crescendo of Errors (Published 2013)

This is but a small gripe in light of the weight of the world, but here's my annual complaint about the misuse of 'crescendo' in U.S. journalism. Reader, it does NOT mean the climax of something, but the process of getting louder as the late Miles Hoffman wrote in '13
www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/o...

Social video and podcasts are the next frontier for Democrats seeking office Some political strategists say Democrats are falling behind Republicans in reaching voters in an important way: They're not active enough on platforms like TikTok.

I recently spoke with @sachapfeiffer.bsky.social of @npr.org for a story on Democrats and their social media capabilities - aired on All Things Considered today.
Listen to it here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

here's an idea: before provosts buy new software and force faculty to use it for annual reviews (like sympletic elements), they should be mandated to manually enter a few CVs themselves. i have a hunch that there would be a certain degree of deterrence

i was gonna complain again about peer review, but everything has been said already...🤦‍♂️

wowowow - big news indeed. all the congratulations!!