ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social

I'm absolutely over-the-moon delighted to say the book I co-edited w/ D Mackinnon and @VVFast is finally being sold with @utpress! It's been a v. long process starting at 2019 @4sWeb in NOLA, & will extend into an authors-meet-critics at @theAAG next mo.! utorontopress.com/9781487527174/…

@geomeg @IGU_Online_ @IguTourism @igc2024dub @IGUMethods @igu_cdes @IGUurban thank you so much! 😃

"Policymakers need to recognize that #urbanplanning policies should not be limited by...digital technologies." ~@burnsr77 STPF fellow Ryan Burns looks at short-comings of "smart cities," which often view #tech as the sole solution to urban issues.

Canada's Smart Cities Challenges tends to put technology and the wants of vendors before the issues faced by city residents, resulting in a kind of technology solutionism, argues @burnsr77 theconversation.com/why-canadas-sm… #cities

been hearing that #ChatGPT and other #AI can help make your #city better? here's my latest critique of that idea: theconversation.com/why-canadas-sm… #SmartCities #Canada

@murakamiwood Ugh, that one's paywall Ed. This one is open: esquire.com/style/news/a51…

@murakamiwood This is related: haaretz.com/us-news/2017-0…

@mmitchell_ai I 100% agree, just wondering what you say to those who claim that such terminological precision is pedantic gatekeeping, like the one high profile paper from 2017 about algorithms?

Gentle reminder that ChatGPT is not a "model" ("foundation" or otherwise). It's a larger system, likely composed of multiple different models and traditional coded rules. Terminology is important, and breakdowns like these can happen when we lose clarity.

@SophiaMaalsen @DallasRogers101 a few weeks ago my uni's accountants combined my "amount owed" in Canadian dollars and Argentine pesos (1=~300) and used a $ sign, so my department head exasperatingly asked how tf i racked up a $500,000 bill over the summer.

@Julian_H0ffmann Holy cow! Those are jaw-droppingly gorgeous!

Mapmakers! Post your favorite maps you’ve made

@evgenymorozov @lemonde As someone in DC working on AI policy, I'd say that in other times, technology is just straight up geopolitics - not by any other means!

My interview with @lemonde on what we should still learn from Allende : technology is geopolitics by other means

@VVFast @UCalgary @UCalgaryGeog @Paulterinho glad you got the screen to work! :D

@leilaharris @DrKarenBakker @PoWG_UBC @ubcires oh my god, i'm speechless... i'm so sorry for your loss - she was such an incredible thinker!

Great podcast here! Glad to be a part of it

@SophiaMaalsen so cool to see this today! thanks for the shout out, @SophiaMaalsen ! @TretterEliot

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@Prof_FSultana It's 2 weeks, not 1, but I'm going to be in DC taking up a tech policy fellowship on Sept 1. Reach out if there's anything I can do to help!

@samkinsley i think another reason so many are still using it is pure inertia: it took a long time to build up the follows i wanted here, and most of the people/orgs i want to follow are already here, too. i was always a rare poster, frequent observer, but i'm totally done trying now.

Earth’s hottest recorded day was 16.92°C (62.46°F) on 24 July 2022 We’ve broken this record on each of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 July 2023, so far It’s the hottest it’s been in 125,000 years. Now back to drilling for oil everyone

@kyjts me: i'm sure this sucks in many ways and i'm sorry for that. i hope their interest in you will fizzle out soon. also me: assuming you're safe, this is pretty cool and i'd print it out for my office wall. good on you!

@BBFarhadi @LHAEUTOISE Huge congratulations! I can't think of anyone more deserving of this! 🥳🥂