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If DJT can't threaten other nations with tariffs, what will he do? He'll be reduced to saying, "I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
Looking for a hotel for an upcoming trip, and so many of the reviews seem fake and AI-written. Much worse than a year ago. Is there any place online that has verified reviews?
Wikipedia is surprisingly good at covering important current events: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
applying for jobs again
Social media could work differently. We teach digital literacy, but ppl often can’t apply those lessons w/in systems that obscure where info comes from & how it gets to them. What might social media look like if users had better signals of information provenance? www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...
X turned on account location, and immediately turned it off again--because it showed that your "farmer in Michigan" is really a paid troll in Bangladesh. We need a social network that shows where content is from.
asbruckman.medium.com/x-added-acco...
With cites to @katestarbird.bsky.social
Amazon sues Perplexity over their agentic browser Comet using Amazon to make purchases for users. Might be an interesting case to keep an eye on www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Do you hire recent college grads? If so, are your new hires generally prepared with the skills they need? Is their level of preparation different than it was five years ago?
Is your work software neurotic (overthinking, overly cautious)?Jonathan Grudin explained why in 1988. asbruckman.medium.com/45e025999058s
Ny post cover for tomorrow The Red Apple Zohran holding a hammer and sickle
This goes so hard OMG
Amy Bruckman (@asbruckman.bsky.social) is sharing updates on CSCW's shift to rolling deadlines. You can read more about the process and apply to be on the editorial board here: Read more details about rolling and apply to be on the editorial board: medium.com/acm-cscw/csc...
#cscw2025
I’m in a session at the CSCW conference featuring 6 papers focused on online misinformation. It’s one of at least 3 sessions this conference focusing on misinfo or similar. The room is completely packed. I’m concerned about how few papers and sessions we will see in 3-5 years due to funding cuts.
#NOKINGS
New York City, NY
Thoughtful podcast on the future of the Middle East: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
Amazon cheats customers in a hundred ways www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
I’m not crying, you’re crying
“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”
-Declaration of Independence
This only happens to you once
Hidden fees and deceptive sales practices are about to get worse with the introduction of "AI Agents":
asbruckman.medium.com/the-cost-of-...
Great post by @popehatnamechanges.bsky.social on problems with "free speech culture":
It "picks a speaker, treats that person’s speech as the speech that should concern us, and then applies a set of cultural norms and questions only to the responses to that speech."
www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...
I’m worried it can still get stupider
You can read their paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
There will be a Lasting Impact session at #cscw2025 on Tuesday, October 21 at 11am. This session will be available to in-person and virtual attendees.
@asbruckman.bsky.social @michaelannephd.bsky.social
CSCW is experimenting with a rolling format!
We still need an Editor-in-Chief for the "Mixed Methods" Track, preferably a full professor or research manager in industry from the Global South. Let @eegilbert.org and I know if you know someone good. #CSCW #CSCW-Rolling
medium.com/acm-cscw/csc...
America's lowest wage workers were experiencing the fastest wage growth from 2015-2022.
Now they are experiencing the slowest wage growth and the most abrupt deceleration.
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
Nice Planet Money podcast about what happened when other nations (Argentina, Greece) falsified economic data podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
