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Jason Farman

@farman

Exploring tech, culture, & human experience. Prof and author of Delayed Response | Mobile Interface Theory. https://t.co/0zCY3Vj1vB

College Park, MD Katılım Temmuz 2007
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My book, tentatively titled “A History of New Things,” shows how industrial design created newness as a value. I trace the history of our desire for the new, show its impact on our lives & environment (as we dispose of things at an accelerating pace), and what we can do about it.
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Why We’re Wired to Want, But Not Enjoy, Black Friday Deals: A Neuroscientist and an Industrial Designer Have Advice About Your Black Friday Buying Habits. My latest post on Substack substack.com/home/post/p-15…
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My new Substack article: How a Camera’s Design Changed Technology Forever When industrial design gave technology a sleek surface—one that could be change each year to represent updates—consumers were distanced from how these devices actually work. open.substack.com/pub/jasonfarma…
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Baudelaire in 1859 on photography (or perhaps a 2024 critic of #AI promptography?): "If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.”
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Those Black Friday desires hit hard
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When he told me, “We are more adept at wanting than we are at liking,” it felt like he gave me the keys to unlock the deeper reasons why we’ve ended up in a cycle of endless upgrades. open.substack.com/pub/jasonfarma…
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This is how I want politics to be: I do not listen to Shania Twain and will not buy her albums. But my God she is talented. I understand why people like her even if I don’t. Republicans, where are you Shania Twains???
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@PeppermintScone @UofMaryland This initiative is being spearheaded in part by Neda Atanasoski, chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. My guess is that the initiative will hire many faculty in the arts & humanities who can bring a critical and cultural lens to AI.
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This is my 15th year at @UofMaryland and I've never seen anything like this: The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute has openings for *30* (!) tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. ejobs.umd.edu/postings/124144
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@CaseyJ_edu To be clear, this initiative is being spearheaded in part by Neda Atanasoski, chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. My guess is that the initiative will bring many faculty to the arts & humanities (many who can bring a critical lens to AI)
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Casey Jakubowski, PhD
Casey Jakubowski, PhD@CaseyJ_edu·
0 for humanities but millions for #stem Yet #ethics #exploitation is everywhere! #AcademicChatter I wrote a book called Getting to the Hearts of teaching about the need to #support #humanities #AcademicTwitter #education
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This is my 15th year at @UofMaryland and I've never seen anything like this: The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute has openings for *30* (!) tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. ejobs.umd.edu/postings/124144

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@heyitsmehugo @kayaulai @UofMaryland My guess is that the low end is for the adjuncts / PTK folks who will be hired to teach a few classes and not be on the tenure track. No one on the tenure track here is earning a salary that low (even in my lowly humanities department!).
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Hugo@heyitsmehugo·
@kayaulai @farman @UofMaryland You might have a point there. Regardless, it is a bit disappointing (yet not shocking) to see such a low starting value. It's laudable that the university is looking to expand, but that amount is what some Ph.D. students earn as yearly tuition, which is already not much.
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@minilek @UofMaryland My understanding is that this is a part of a campus-wide hiring initiative that will bring in 30 people this year. Though I’m not on the hiring committee or a part of the institute, so am not 100% certain, this is how UMD has done it in the past.
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Jelani Nelson@minilek·
For clarification, the ad says "University Authorized FTE: 1.0", but then in the body it says "openings for 30 tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence". So, are these openings to be filled as part of some multi-year plan with only 1 hire authorized this cycle? Or does UMD have the capacity to hire up to 30 TT faculty this cycle?
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13 years ago the seedlings of my current book project were planted, the same year I started teaching planned obsolescence. A few years later I started repair workshops with my grad students, eventually expanding it to my undergrads and the local community.
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What fix-it video have you watched recently? I watched a video on how to replace the brush roll on my vacuum cleaner; it was an easy and cheap fix to give it new life. The fixing community is keeping this stuff out of landfills!
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