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Works in Progress: Christoph Becker Sep 27, 10-11 AM PDT. Reorienting Computing for Just Sustainability Virtual & free, reg. req'ed eventbrite.com/e/sigcas-wip-i… Enacting meaningful change in computing to meet urgent needs for sustainability & justice @mitpress @vardi @doctorow @sigchi

@digijordan @Figure_robot Melania and Jordan, views on the future of meaningful employment.

The White House today had a @Figure_robot explain to the world that it will soon be replacing teachers… And it will. It will also replace surgeons, lawyers, pilots, truck drivers, police officers, soldiers and basically every other job. And believe it or not…this is good.

Interesting developments commondreams.org/news/ai-chatbo…

From on high: vaticannews.va/en/world/news/…

What kind of computing infrastructure / ecosystem would be best for the planet and its inhabitants? @doctorow @vardi theguardian.com/technology/202…

@JuliaEMcCoy Not clear why AI is needed to retrieve facts? Seems like an unnecessary use of energy?

We are sending our kids to school to memorize facts that AI can retrieve in 0.3 seconds. We're grading them on essays that AI writes better than their teachers. We're preparing them for jobs that won't exist by the time they graduate. The entire education system is training humans to compete with machines at what machines do best. That's not education. That's sabotage. The schools that survive will teach thinking, not memorizing. Creating, not repeating. Discerning, not obeying. Every other school is a museum that doesn't know it yet.

Call 4 Contributions computingwithinlimits.org/2026/ LIMITS 2026, a place for a wide range of perspectives & approaches. Contributions welcome from researchers, engineers, designers, artists & anyone exploring computing in ways that engage w/ pressing ecological & social issues & crises

I'll be at Yale today for a guest lecture in the “Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society" course! My talk, “Global Imperatives for an Equity-Centered Approach to AI Governance,” will discuss my latest research, work, and vision for inclusive approaches to AI oversight.

Who (except for the people who were mocked as technophobic Luddites for being skeptical about the hype coming from AI companies like Waymo) could have seen this coming?!?!???!?

@sciencegirl subways generate a lot of waste heat too!

Finland's underground data centers heat entire city blocks using server waste heat In Finland, several data-centres now feed their waste heat into municipal district-heating networks instead of simply dumping it into the air. For example, waste heat generated by data-centre cooling is captured and transferred into the district-heating grid, providing carbon-neutral heat to thousands of homes and public buildings. This reuse of thermal energy helps reduce reliance on fossil-fuel heating, cuts emissions, and turns the by-product heat from digital infrastructure into a genuine resource rather than waste.

I Participate, Therefore We Benefit: Ubuntu as a Relational Compass for Ethical Compensation in HCI, "a frmwrk for relational compensation... reimagines compensation not as payment for data but as a form of restorative justice & relational accountability." pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1776…

Story you may have missed! techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hac…

One of my students taught me about this project today. It's fascinating. @acmsigcas @ACM_Ethics glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/aboutus.html

An Empirical Inquiry into Surveillance Capitalism: Web Tracking! Specifically focusing on the #bigtech corporations: specifically Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft arxiv.org/abs/2508.07454

Big Friendly Giants?!? theguardian.com/technology/202… @vardi @doctorow @ieee @sigchi

computer-aided preaching! What hath computing wrought? axios.com/2025/11/12/chr…

@GrandpaHarris65 Big Brother warned us! Ignorance IS strength.

I wonder if the fall of Rome was this stupid.

What hath computing wrought? Another tech trajectory that could be used for good... ? nytimes.com/2025/11/14/mag…

Help is on the way! consumerreports.org/electronics/ar…

"The company's top human resources executive said Tuesday that the tech giant needs to be "organized more leanly" due to the "transformative" nature of AI." nbcnews.com/business/busin…

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows theguardian.com/technology/202…