'The gigantic and costly industry Silicon Valley is building around generative AI is still struggling to explain the technology's utility,' Scott Rosenberg reports. After a year and a half, 'it remains tough to say exactly why we should all start using [it].' axios.com/2024/04/24/gen…

Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Inspiring! Also, rang so many bells. Being a first-gen is difficult.

Fun fact: An uncle of mine, who has always maintained that I am good for nothing, tells people that I do shady business in Canada by bringing people from other countries (as I recruit students). :p

BREAKING: After 203 days, the Hawai'i state* legislature has joined the call for a #CeasefireNOW .

Hawai'i becomes the first state* in the U.S. to do so.

While everyone is paying attention to protests in higher ed, you should know that 800,000 people took to the streets in Buenos Aires this week to fight Milei’s cuts to free public university education in Argentina: english.elpais.com/international/…

Extreme heat wave in Bangladesh has killed several people & is keeping 33 Million children out of school. The implications of ongoing escalating climate change & a warming earth is devastating for the world's poorer communities. This is climate injustice.
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As some of us have said for months, the genocide is an ecocide & climate issue, it’s a pollution issue. It’s about the fossil-military-colonizing industrial complex.
“Gaza’s 37m tonnes of bomb-filled debris could take 14 years to clear, says expert” theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Just in case my earlier tweet got lost among the many ICSE-related posts last week😂 I'm sharing this again: University of Toronto is hiring a CLTA Teaching Stream Assistant Professor in the area of Software Engineering with the potential to be long term! 📢📢📢 Pls rt!

So happy to receive one CHI Best Paper Award and one CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention Award in CHI2024!

All credit goes to my excellent co-authors, including Pratyasha Saha, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Taiabul Haque, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Joseph Jay Williams, Anastasia Kuzminykh, Alex Mariakakis, and marycz.

📣New! Edited by Ranjit Singh, Jenna Burrell, PhD, and Patrick Davison, “Keywords of the Datafied State” is a collection of essays on concepts that are central to understanding the relationship between the government, technology, and data. 1/6 datasociety.net/library/keywor…

Looking forward to this excellent event.

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MoTaz and Najla Said, daughter of the late Edward Said, have arrived at Columbia’s solidarity encampment in support of the student movement

In the context of technology, people have long been called “users' — a term that seems to describe a transactional relationship, though many of the ways we relate to tech are quite personal. Taylor Majewski suggests it’s time for a new word. technologyreview.com/2024/04/19/109…

I’m honestly crying a little as I watch this video.

When I think about what it means to be an educator, it is this. A shared commitment to, and love for, your students and their right to learn and act on that learning.

And for them to do this during prayer 🙏🏽

✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me, Niels van Doorn, Cheryll Soriano, andrea pollio & Julie Yujie Chen journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS

Anyone tempted to think AI Surrogates can replace human participants in experiments needs to read this devastating empirical critique by Angelina Wang & colleagues arxiv.org/abs/2402.01908

So looks like calling in the NYPD to arrest over 100 students for peacefully protesting in solidarity with Palestinians in an attempt to silence them has backfired for @columbia. It’s night 3 and these students are making it clear they’re not going anywhere.

Stipends for master’s students will rise from Can$17,500 (US$12,700) to $27,000 per year, PhDs will be set to a uniform annual $40,000 and most postdoctoral-fellowship salaries will increase from $45,000 to $70,000 per annum.

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📣 New! Edited by Murali Shanmugavelan ||| முரளி சண்முகவேலன் & Aiha Nguyen, 'The Formalization of Social Precarities' explores platformization from the point of view of precarious workers in Bangladesh, Brazil, and India. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/the-fo…