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I was putting together a syllabus for a class a couple of years ago, and thought, "Why don't I do this for my PhD students?" So I've been slowly writing a syllabus for them (v0.1): docs.google.com/document/d/11D…

We didn't bring in the snipers or the riot gear. Let's hope we keep it that way.

Live footage of the chaos on the University of Michigan campus that Congress is so interested in. Frisbees and hammocks everywhere. cc @virginiafoxx @RepDebDingell

I'm beyond excited and thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2023!!! @UMNComputerSci @grouplens Looking forward to this next big step... but first, time to finish up that dissertation. 😊

Generative AI is "a Marxist nightmare: the work of millions accruing to a few capitalist owners who pay nothing at all for that labor," says @datasociety research director @jennaburrell: techpolicy.press/chatgpt-and-co…

@cdisalvo @ICatGT @isbellHFh congrats carl! well deserved!

This article by @ceciliakang and @satariano correctly identifies the knowledge gap on AI in Congress. But there's more to it than that. 1/n, n=7 As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology nyti.ms/3kIAh2x

Delve into new UMSI research coming to #CHI2023 about trans tech:

@kous2v @MSFTResearch omg so sorry to hear this ...

I am laid off from @MSFTResearch MTL. It hasn't quite sunk in, but it has hit my confidence to lose the job I started a little over a year ago after PhD. I loved the people around me. I would have liked to reflect more, but amidst the uncertainties, I need a new job. #opentowork

i feel bad for this poor fired Twitter engineer but on the whole this story is so funny platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fi…

One crosstab I want to highlight here -- the share of Americans who say that, growing up, they were at least somewhat worried about a mass shooting at their school. By age group; 65+: 4% 50-64: 6% 35-49: 11% 18-34: 38% cnn.com/2022/07/20/pol…

@msbernst @josephseering Congrats!!

Congratulations, Professor @josephseering! Can't wait to see you take flight as faculty!

Awesome to see this feature of a #MercuryProject grantee team, including @eegilbert! (Go Blue!) si.umich.edu/about-umsi/new… "Instead of going after misinfo itself, we're going to go after the networks that carry misinfo." cc @ssrc_org @mosenkis @Rtg230 @NeilLewisJr @CharlesSenteio

@mer__edith fantastic set list though :)

I don't really use Spotify for music but when I do it's part of a long form project to make the algorithm believe I'm a 60yo man.

Whole Foods “ope collection”

The problem was never algorithms; it’s powerful companies using algorithms against our interests.

@tveinot @umsi congrats tiffany!!