Reading Stuart Buck's fascinating, revealing about his $60m in grantmaking in open science at the Arnold Foundation, I'm struck by how many of the grants disproportionately went to men.
https://goodscience.substack.com/p/metascience-since-2012-a-personal
nostr:npub1y4nygj85ggturx4nlzzmdqunaxzsallu2cltm50f37kunx0h7jcs5c25mf the answer to thorny social problems is to invest in understanding and managing them rather than treating them as technical ones with universal solutions.
It’s hard to compete with silver bullets on PR, but not that hard to compete on results, unless you are the kind of person who likes to “solve” problems by making services less accessible and defunding them.
Speaking of which, does anyone have leads on a reliable smtp relay service that could send 1-3 emails a day to myself for a minimal cost?
Sigh. To everyone who has argued for the myth of resolving social problems by adding "friction" to the social web...
...could you please rewrite the software that now can't help me manage my disability due to friction in the email network?
Today I am thinking about how much bad actors poison the well.
Trying to get software to send me an automated email every day, and it turns out to be a pretty complicated challenge to verify the email isn't spam.
It's the beginning of the fall semester and I was away for a year, so I am checking my small air sensor network and setting up the alert system that informs my respiratory disability accommodation with Cornell.
Last time I was working on this, I was very ill. Today I'm in a much better position, but I'm still experiencing some PTSD just looking at the code.
Dream job alert: The NAACP is forming a Digital Justice Team 🎉
And you could be the person to create it! Here's the job description:
https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/fellowships-internships/digital-justice-fellow/
nostr:npub1x3eehr76jxudg2mpxaywhc8ttkajk6ukqyvxu35ww2km0f9jsqpq0xkqaa Congrats Shakir, thank you for your service in this way!
Today’s reading: The Channels of Student Activism, by Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder
“Political clubs are one of the primary means through which universities are forced to address student based issues… collegians can be the tip of the spear for generational alterations of American life”
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo156715802.html
Listening to this book makes me realize how unusual it was for my own training in student politics to happen in a society committed to freedom of expression, whose leadership was contested every term in elections by both conservatives and labor, as both sought cv lines for their civic and political careers.
Today’s reading: The Channels of Student Activism, by Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder
“Political clubs are one of the primary means through which universities are forced to address student based issues… collegians can be the tip of the spear for generational alterations of American life”
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo156715802.html
nostr:npub1jasr279xcslrkmavml0pqm537lq8t8n67jnkuq46qth3xtu98ejstmvtcj nostr:npub1sqfnxau480pnvm0t258kdrj5u2u72zwm2kh7tk3qf6lxtqkwvlmqgn5skr nostr:npub10upwcy5gkxm48pecr883hfh86lc04dhkk5khvlqclvu6ew7vjeusuntqyu there are several organizations that do ongoing monitoring of terms of service, most notably Ranking Digital Rights, who have done this for a decade now.
RDR has published a request for comment on their indicators on generative AI (by Sept 10), so if folks have ideas for what they should be looking for, now is a good time to offer feedback:
nostr:npub1rurtc0alf0nyrn99fejlnt6vcec9kjjthakr8dm52723jhuaxz7sc97lnf
"Worldcoin CEO Alex Blania acknowledged that people are upset, but said the company is learning through its field testing."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-crypto-eyeball-scanning-orb-problems
nostr:npub1jmkhq47ylg4zymxshdaw39qkpcjea5lg2xpxlpaetj28hxujkh6s76ke7h thank you! Let us know what you find about Zoom's new data sharing practices and their implications for research ethics.
nostr:npub143ygaee5gg409evfc7v2y8kpj7tqmwyer4cryjjckakxmsgt2y2qct3g53 To comply with HIPAA, Zoom has a special healthcare license that offers a different privacy policy, and presumably, price point https://zoom.us/pricing/healthcare
According to a post on Hacker News, Zoom's privacy policy now allows training AI on the content of meetings.
Unsure if this is new or if it had been the case for a while. Also unsure whether this applies only to the auto-transcription service or something wider (the language offers them an unconditional, irrevocable right, title, and interest in call data). If so, this could have significant privacy implications for educators and researchers.
nostr:npub13zyzdlnuhv9kg498mwujk7fwtzqkauq7zcq6kqnuuy0kjzk4ys6qh43zww... and spiderman is experiencing what happens when you open too many tabs
Slowly setting up our new home. Today: fixing some secondhand furniture and setting up this tool storage strip
