Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social

🎉📢 I'm on the tenure track job market! 👋✨ I study how people building “AI” think about the downstream harms their work makes possible, and the epistemic and political economic systems which shape their thoughts, and our future.

@predict_addict @JonWashburn You didn't answer the question. Link?

@JonWashburn The accounts dummy. Something that you probably don’t even know what it is

What do arXiv apparatchiks actually do for 3m usd per year? Most of them hold full time jobs in academia, why are they paid 3m usd per year and for what exactly? One can hire 100 people per year for this money delivering AI platform products that generate tens and hundreeds of millions of dollars per year in revenue. What do arXiv apparatchiks behind what is basically a website actually do?

yo, @loadedonloaded, can you DM me your current email? wanting to get in contact with you and your PSU email isn't working! :)

📣🚨NEW: ☁️ Big Cloud—Google, Microsoft & Amazon—control two thirds of the cloud market. They’re getting rich off the AI gold rush. In work with Nathan Kim, we show how Big Cloud is expanding their empire by scrutinizing their *investments*… 🧵 📄PDF: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5…

Read up on why we cannot be complacent, and why "Open Source" is often really a wolf in sheep clothing, especially in Africa: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Dr. David Widder: “learning about controversial issues yields courageous + careful thinkers.…I urge the Board of Regents to…reject this unnecessary + destructive proposal.” 👏 statesman.com/opinion/column…

Students can solve controversial problems. UT must trust them to do so -- David Widder @statesman statesman.com/opinion/column…

A vague proposed policy on “controversial topics” risks narrowing what students can learn at the University of Texas, David Gray Widder writes. | Opinion statesman.com/opinion/column…

Non paywalled link: archive.is/yiIhh

We should trust Texas students to think about controversial topics, and professors to help them solve societal challenges. The UT Board of Regents is considering curtailing professors teaching controversial topics; I am proud to speak up in response: statesman.com/opinion/column…

@AAUP @TexasAaup

🫧The news is finally asking about an AI Bubble, and when it will pop. Good!🎈 Our data shows how we got here. Big Cloud is frantically investing in AI startups to build market share and justify their *massive* investments in AI infrastructure. Graphs as hype-antidote, here:

i have lost and continue to lose respect for my male comrades over being flippant. do you think adopting a glib or dismissive tone makes you sound better read, better organised, more radical? it doesn't. i trust that your politics are rooted in your compassion, so act like it.

📢 New Research Paper! Design versus reality: assessing the results and compliance of algorithmic impact assessments link.springer.com/article/10.100…

ICYMI: Our paper on algorithmic impact assessments is out! We conducted a detailed examination of 26 AIAs completed by Canadian departments and agencies. We offer findings and recs for accountability efforts going forward in AI policy and government structures more broadly.

Are you even a hacker if you can’t release the Epstein files? Where are the hackers

✨Call for participation At our CSCW 2025 workshop in Bergen 🇳🇴, we’re reimagining design thinking through the lens of hope theory—to meet this moment with research practices that sustain agency, purpose, and imagination. 📝 Apply by Aug 18 🔗 positech-cscw-2025.github.io #CSCW2025

i cant keep up with AI hype nonsense. preparedness? security? superintelligence? big tech working toward a *prosperous future*? wtf

@WellsLucasSanto @vicwingly this salad is nonsense though x.com/vicwingly/stat…

@WellsLucasSanto @vicwingly huh tbh I think that broth looks amazing

overhearing a conversation where a group is talking about how they saw a post online saying that german food is bad so now they're debating german food @vicwingly discourse is everywhere holy shit