@Difference_Engs

Feminist technoculture, decolonizing technoscience, occasional blog, hallway conversations and rants. Semi-anonymous. We are not legion.

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Joined October 2013
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Eileen Clancy
@clancynewyork7 Jul 2016
.@LatanyaSweeney: Arbitrary decisions by Silicon Valley companies govern our lives. They make the decisions. We need to change that. #AINow
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Lucy Suchman kills it, calls out econ presumption that care, teaching work low skill while programming high skill. Skill read politically
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JJ Bryson 2@j2blather7 Jul 2016
#ainow @LatanyaSweeney "I showed google an easy way to avoid the bias of their ads, they chose not to use it… COMPUTERS aren't evill."
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Demystification as an ethical subject, Lucy Suchman. We mix the aspirations and achievements of AI to our detriment.
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It’s no longer AI once a machine can do it. Engineers model human, and then human gets redefined in turn -l sweeney
Innovation is overvalued. Maintenance often matters more | Aeon - fantastic, incl. history of anxieties around innov ow.ly/10sw3Z
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leaving aside the neoliberal IP dream of value creation for now
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Eileen Clancy
@clancynewyork7 Mar 2016
“Feminism & Scholarly Piracy: A Love Note” @clmorgan to archaeologists, applies elsewhere. middlesavagery.wordpress.com…
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Kavita Philip: 80s activism pushed humanities canons. "What would canon wars look like in STEM and STS fields today?" differenceengines.com/?p=108…
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Nick Seaver@npseaver13 Aug 2015
This piece by @ncecire on Apple, Google, modernism, and childhood, is so so good: natalia.cecire.org/research/…
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turkopticon@turkopticon5 Jun 2015
“Conditions that have long affected migrant workers, women, and people of color have spread via technology” buzzfeed.com/coralewis/gawke… …

As Gawker Unionizes, Labor Adapts

As digital media gets its first big union shop, one labor powerhouse is betting on nonunion organizing for a U.S. workforce with fewer factory workers and more Uber drivers.

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On zines: “No matter how numerous the copies... its impact is unquantifiable, discontinuous, untrackable.” -@lnzombia ow.ly/ISNxC
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Public Books@PublicBooks21 Jan 2015
'Today’s hierarchy of data labor echoes older gendered, classed, and raced technology hierarchies' — @gleemie Irani publicbooks.org/nonfiction/j…
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Wondering what cognitive functions one must display to be treated as a person, not a thing. (Re: orangutan Sandra in Argentina zoo)
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anthropologyworks@anthroworks22 Dec 2014
Sandra the orangutan granted limited human rights | via @Telegraph fw.to/q1CIG9L
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Replying to @Slate
Thoughtful piece @Slate. Choosing double mastectomy is not simply a matter of being "ill-informed" on survival stats! slate.me/1oeNx3R
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