JennyLDavis

DataCenter : DataCenter

What a cool project from @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social and her students documenting xAI's data centers in Memphis. The website is "a targeted lens on a specific locale and a window into AI’s infrastructural expansion" and has a "StoryMap, providing a place-based account of the story and its stakes."

We're Live!! "What is Sociological About AI?"

The articles in this issue are excellent in their own right but even better together, building out a Sociology of AI

Graphic for a CDT Research report, entitled “Content Moderation in the Global South: A Comparative Study of Four Low-Resource Languages.” An illustration of four different hands, all being touched by / wrapped around a bright blue connective internet cord.

Over 18 months, CDT studied content moderation in four low-resource languages—Maghrebi Arabic, Kiswahili, Tamil, and Quechua—across South Asia, North/East Africa, and South America. cdt.org/insights/con...

🙏 @monasloane.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social @megancummins.bsky.social

New Essay w/ Hayoung Seo: "It's Not Optimal"
On the value of human excess in an age of AI

Joint Review of:
1 Co-Intelligence @emollick.bsky.social
2 The Last Human Job @allisonpugh.bsky.social
3 AI Needs You @verityharding.bsky.social
4 The Importance of Being Educable by Leslie Valiant

It's Not Optimal - Public Books Four books about a new age of AI tell stories of sluggish processes, ambiguous outcomes, emotionally charged issues, and generous margins for error.

🎤 NEW in @publicbooks.bsky.social #tech: "It’s Not Optimal" by @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social & Hayoung Seo--a brilliant take on #AI's sociality in conversation with books by Leslie Valiant, @verityharding.bsky.social, @emollick.bsky.social, & @allisonpugh.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/its-not-opti...

It isn't complicated. There's hate speech that is prohibited and free speech that is protected. This administration is punishing protected speech by mischaracterizing it as hate speech.

Everyone on all sides understands this is what's happening

⚠️ Attendees of #FAccT2025, this is very important! ⚠️

June is the peak of tourist season 😎, and affordable hotel options will disappear soon!

Please book your accommodations ASAP! We want you to enjoy your visit to Athens! 🦉

Our list of hotels and discount codes: facctconference.org/2025/hotel

Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial

We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨

a woman in a red shirt is singing into a microphone in a club . ALT: a woman in a red shirt is singing into a microphone in a club .

✨🎙️ PUBLICATION ALERT ✨🎙️ Out with Nature Machine Intelligence today @natmachintell.bsky.social: "Materiality and Risk in the Age of pervasive #AI #Sensors", with the great Susan Kennedy, VJ Reddi, Brian Plancher, Pete Warden, Emanuel Moss & Matthew Stewart. Read the paper here: tinyurl.com/3skyvep7

Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration Social media platforms are imbued with politics and values through an interplay of coded architectures, platform policies, economic models, and algorithmic curation, together shaping and shaped by th...

I don't think Sean Ward has migrated to this platform yet but he did lead a 🔥 article about the move away from Twitter/x

Out today in Symbolic Interaction
doi.org/10.1002/symb...

Not to mention the political problem of omission. How do we show the erasure of cultural events when the evidence is their absence?

This Google Maps and Calendar business is an absolute tutorial on the politics of place, time, and technology.

PostDoc: Conceptual Framework for Justice and Wellbeing in Transport & Mobility The TU/e is constantly looking for scientific and non-scientific staff further its ambitions. View here our current vacancies.

PostDoc: Conceptual Framework for Justice and Wellbeing in Transport & Mobility

jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/p...

First, Google removed events like Pride & BHM from Calendar. www.theverge.com/news/608858/... Now, they come for our maps.

A harsh reminder that default settings aren’t just re: convenience—they’re a form of control that shapes user behaviour & choices. Welcome to the Gulf of Digital Imperialism.

A screen shot of Google Earth with “Gulf of Mexico” in the search bar. The red pin in the gulf is labeled “Gulf of America.”

As someone with an actual PhD in geography, I am utterly disgusted with Google for this. What a joke.

Are you guys for real right now? We only rate dogs. This is so clearly a bunny rabbit having his dinner. Please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10

The TikTok Ban Paradox: How Platform Restrictions Create What They Aim to Prevent | TechPolicy.Press Alex Turvy and Dr. Rebecca Scharlach write that the US TikTok ban reveals the limitations of current government regulatory paradigms.

New piece with @rscarlets.bsky.social : The TikTok ban won't work—it'll create exactly what it claims to prevent. Bans don't eliminate platforms, they transform them into less governable forms. Our analysis of the paradox at the heart of platform restrictions:

www.techpolicy.press/the-tiktok-b...

Honored by this top spot accolade 🏆

🙌

Tan dog. Blue collar. Sitting with eyes closed.

I do few things with the same fervor as when serenading this dog

Can't wait to read the TikTok piece!

I'm late for most things but yesterday, managed to show up for a talk one full month early 🏆

Co-Opting AI: Cars A critical discussion about the deep entanglement of AI systems with the perennial dream of data-driven cars and autonomous mobility.

I'm at the point in the semester where I just need to absorb other people's smart thoughts about interesting things. Yay for Co-Opting AI 🙌

karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-op...

Blog post version of my talk at UofBristol's Centre for Sociodigital Futures. Such a generative visit with generous scholars 🙏

sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/11/26/a...

WhatsApp message that reads 'lol are you spending t-giving joining Blue sky too?' with a laugh-cry emoji

Just a couple middle-age ladies making use of this Thanksgiving downtime @k8henne.bsky.social

Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery The ban won’t take effect for at least 12 months. But key details about it are still missing – including how social media platforms will actually verify users’ age.

The ban won’t take effect for at least 12 months. But key details about it are still missing – including how social media platforms will actually verify users’ age theconversation.com/australias-s...