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Sara Simon@sarambsimon.bsky.social |
604 followers 871 following 325 posts
grad student in history & science studies • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her
smbsimon.github.io
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Daniel Feldman
@dfeldman.bsky.social
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An important 1982 lecture by Grace Hopper is stored on tape in a vault at the NSA
MuckRock filed a FOIA request to get a copy of the lecture
Three years later, the NSA said they could not read the 1982 tape format, and sent back a photocopy of the tape reel 🙃
www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
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Melody Schreiber
@mscribe.bsky.social
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So many stories are talking about low polls/approval ratings for Biden in the context of his age and not this
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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two classes in a row now that all my pottery throws have gone miserably! but it's ok because the clay can be recycled and it was hours spent blissfully away from my screens
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Shannon Mattern
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
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Data & Society is hiring a rsch + ref librarian to help them "figure out better methods for making [their] rsch visible, discoverable, + durable" — and to create new methods of repository building to foreground the work of "lay experts, radical thinkers, community organizers, activist scholars"
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m. r. sauter
@oddletters.bsky.social
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has anyone ever figured out why every single elementary schooler in the US in the 90s was given a recorder i would sincerely love a long form cultural history feature/surprisingly upsetting limited series podcast about that
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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Steal my slide! 😂
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mike tigas
@mike.tig.as
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New blog post! How the history of traditional open-source software can inform us about the economic benefits of open-weights AI models. (And some color on the mixed definitions of "open" and "open-source" being thrown around in the AI space.) www.ftc.gov/policy/advoc...
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Rachel Holliday Smith
@rachelholliday.bsky.social
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an oldie but a goodie:
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Ben Gross
@bhgross144.bsky.social
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Poser urges us to reflect on the conference theme (repair) and consider not just the upkeep of technological artifacts but also efforts to remediate the environment and address structural issues in our academic discipline(s).
#SHOT2024
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Ben Gross
@bhgross144.bsky.social
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Hecht notes that many of our colleagues from Africa encountered difficulties traveling to this conference due to visa issues. She notes that as professional societies w/aspirations to global inclusion, SHOT & ICOHTEC must do everything we can to overcome these issues. #SHOT2024
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Dan Greene
@dmgreene.bsky.social
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Great stuff in this new special issue of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing on "Logistical Histories of Computing," editing by @miriamkp.bsky.social and Matthew Hockenberry ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresul...
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stacy-marie ishmael
@smi.bsky.social
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The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism is running a campaign to go entirely *tuition free*. If you want US media that is made by more
people with different kinds of experiences and backgrounds and languages, here’s where you can put your money:
www.journalism.cuny.edu/give-to-the-...
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Ingrid Burrington
@lifewinning.com
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time.com/6982015/bitc... this story about rural Texans getting sick from Bitcoin mine noise pollution is a wild ride
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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yeah it's not good!!!
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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to be clear, the conf never should have suggested we relegate this to AI, translation work is HARD, I am just enjoying the challenge!
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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joke's on me, I am actually really happy to be brushing up on my high school Spanish! (though I am glad my project is about public health data, which means I can lean on translated government forms for specialized vocab)
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Kim Shumway
@kimshum.bsky.social
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Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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she's here 🤩
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Ashley Shew | Against Technoableism
@ashleyshoo.bsky.social
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I'm pointing to one direct material consequence here, but there's also those who won't go out or participate if they need the mobility or stability help too. Fewer disabled people will participate in public when some of our simple tech is constantly depicted as signaling our inferior/lesser status.
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Ashley Shew | Against Technoableism
@ashleyshoo.bsky.social
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A lot of ableism isn't deliberate: that makes it more pernicious! A walker is representing being at lower faculty, by your description. I tweeted this on the other site: "The way walkers are used in media/culture is truly revolting -- & this rep prevents ppl from using what is a useful tool."
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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major fireworks in our neighborhood, visible from our living room. the cat keeps coming out to look at them, then boom loud noise and he races back under the bed 😞
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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I will bring this one back every year
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Melody Kramer
@mkramer.bsky.social
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hi! I’m on the job market. would love to chat!
melodykramer.github.io
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Shannon Mattern
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
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One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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The latest from Isaac Chotiner is, as always, very much worth your time.
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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.io
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"It marks the second incident in two months involving a Tesla’s near miss-with a train while utilising its driver assistance system."
You can tell Tesla is close to "solving self-driving" because they are down to the tough edge cases like *checks notes* trains
nz.news.yahoo.com/tesla-autopi...
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Kelsey Atherton
@atherton.bsky.social
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Resignees said they experienced "an Admin that has prioritized politics over just & fair policymaking; profit over national security; falsehoods over facts; directives over debate; ideology over experience, and special interest over the equal enforcement of the law" www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
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ElizabethRDale
@elizabethrdale.bsky.social
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(Gentle cough): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Chelsea O'Brien
@chelseamdo.bsky.social
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I think you could ask a few questions but none the student giving tours will know... What's the institution's discount rate? Has the institution offered retirement packages? Have there been layoffs or hiring freezes? How has student recruitment changed in the past few years?
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Rachel Shelden
@rachelshelden.bsky.social
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I say this to my history students every semester. Lawyers do not have a monopoly on law, courts, & especially the Constitution--despite how often they are told otherwise. It may be in the best interest of lawyers to claim that unique authority; it's in everyone else's best interest not to let them.
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Charles Logan
@charleswlogan.bsky.social
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The situation is somehow even worse than previously reported: "the tool processed student records in ways that likely ran afoul of L.A. Unified’s own data privacy rules and put sensitive information at risk of getting hacked." www.the74million.org/article/whis...
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Gregory Pratt
@royalpratt.bsky.social
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My latest story for Chicago Tribune: Error in new lung transplant algorithm harmed sick and dying patients. An embarrassingly basic scientific error led to major problems for people across the country in an incident a surgeons group called “deeply troubling.”
www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/30/l...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"Gaza’s remaining hospitals, health centers and oxygen stations will stop working within 48 hours...Israel’s closure of the vital Rafah border crossing last month severed key supply lines, limiting access to food, fuel and medical supplies, aid groups say."
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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lots of great work happening at ProPublica, The 19th, and Capital B, as well as more local-focused places like The City, Texas Tribune, Spotlight PA, etc.
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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no sour grapes, literally zero jealousy! just an understanding of how power works both in and out that place
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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In all seriousness public consciousness around the courts is night and day from pre 2016. The Barbie movie had a joke about appellate judgeships!
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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I worry sometimes that my criticism of the NYT is written off as disgruntled former employee whining. Please listen when us former employees say that with a legacy like this, the shit there runs deep.
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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We’re living through an era when everything needs to be upended yet so many people are clinging tightly to the edge of the pool. I understand why this is: when things feel uncertain, the status quo is a mirage of ‘safety’. But we need people who are willing to swim in the deep end & offer new paths
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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If you care about the way AI is steamrolling environmental concerns you might be interested in this (free, online) conference happening in July—program just posted, and link to register: uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-t...
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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joining the chorus to say i'm logging off now, no need to watch anything or be online tonight. go enjoy the sunshine, make a fun dinner, hang with your pet. i am so glad i left journalism, lol
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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yesss
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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amazing landing spot, congratulations!!
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD
@ubiquity75.bsky.social
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Here are keywords: — SSRN article ostensibly written by a law professor — false quote attributed to me — in a paper I never wrote — because it doesn’t exist — and because I don’t hold the opinions ascribed to me — but it sure sounds like something ChatGPT would do.
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Kathleen Bachynski
@bachynski.bsky.social
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“What emerges is a portrait of a threat that is steadily rolling along, yet also settling into what feels like a routine. Nearly every day, a few new herds are found to have infections, entrenching the virus deeper into the cattle population and expanding its footprint across more states.”
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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christ
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Julia Carrie Wong
@joolia.bsky.social
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the times’ willing participation in a right-wing Christianist assault on the human rights of a small minority is one of the most disgraceful chapters in its history. absolutely sickening
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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What the fuck? I just had my first case of Covid and was frankly non-functional for 2 solid weeks (fever up to 102), as well as probably contagious. I’m lucky it was summer & I’m an academic, but if it had been mid-semester I would’ve been PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE of teaching, nvm contagion issues…
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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and also a slightly less lopsided bowl from last week—progress!
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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glass working!! love it. i have found centering to be the hardest part of working the pottery wheel and am embracing the life metaphor that comes with that, along w the weirdness of the final product! here's a picture of a funky vase & cat food bowl i made a few weeks ago
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Sara Simon
@sarambsimon.bsky.social
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not lillstreet but thank you for the tip—i will check them out!!
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