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writer ethnographer Prof Umich Author of Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation she/her

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Vannevar Bush is rolling in his grave.

10.05.2025 01:45 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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What do we know about China’s new AI safety institute? - DigiChina Excluded from the international AISI network at its first meeting, China positions CNAISDA to take a seat at the table

NEW: What do we know about China's new AI safety institute?

China fielded a new organization ahead of the AI Action Summit next week in Paris. It appears positioned to represent China in a setting it had been left out of.
digichina.stanford.edu/work/what-do... w/ colleague Caroline Meinhardt 1/

07.02.2025 00:27 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Just started reading it last night. More important than ever

06.02.2025 13:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They are trying to force NSF staffers to take the DOGE deal by pushing from the top down as well.

05.02.2025 00:46 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban.

Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on
Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.

30.01.2025 22:24 πŸ‘ 39072 πŸ” 10254 πŸ’¬ 882 πŸ“Œ 322

having finished David Golumbia’s β€˜Cyberlibertarianism’, I’ve tried to collect some thoughts, a πŸ§΅β€” i’ve decided to do more posting about interesting reading here

30.01.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Quality Journalism in China Is Not Dead; It’s Just More Dispersed Than Ever This essay maps the evolving landscape of quality journalism in China, exploring where reliable information thrives under increasing restrictions. Analysing the roles of state-owned institutional medi...

Good journalism is often assumed to be dead in China. Yet, according to @fangkc.bsky.social, Chinese quality journalism remains remarkably resilient in the face of the formidable challenges it faces. It has adapted, evolved, lost some strongholds, and found new life in alternative spaces.

29.01.2025 11:31 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

David Golumbia’s posthumous β€˜Cyberlibertarianism’ is such an interesting read on this relationship between the far right and a wide range of β€˜digital rights/digital freedom’ groups (β€˜cyberlibertarians’ as he calls them) β€” not everyone is equally culpable but few are innocent here

29.01.2025 07:56 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

Scoop: Elon Musk’s lackeys have taken over the Office of Personnel Managementβ€”essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

28.01.2025 23:15 πŸ‘ 742 πŸ” 371 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 55
USAspending.gov

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov

And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

They need to hear from you.

28.01.2025 04:59 πŸ‘ 5661 πŸ” 3398 πŸ’¬ 144 πŸ“Œ 131
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Donate to Wikipedia.

Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it

21.01.2025 22:48 πŸ‘ 3858 πŸ” 1921 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 70

My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.

22.01.2025 23:52 πŸ‘ 4107 πŸ” 1075 πŸ’¬ 103 πŸ“Œ 41

Very very reduced social media consumption, local community organizing, writing, travel to china as much as possible ;)

21.01.2025 02:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

17.01.2025 17:40 πŸ‘ 18542 πŸ” 8709 πŸ’¬ 735 πŸ“Œ 707
Locked Down in Shanghai Two residents describe a city coming apart at the seams.

Wrote a thing about the Shanghai lockdown with @danwwang for @NYMag @intelligencer Shanghai’s Soul yearns for freedom: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04/locked-down-in-shanghai.html

13.04.2022 14:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@UmichDigital

23.02.2022 01:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
AAS 2022 Prizes - Association for Asian Studies The AAS is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s...

Over the moon, deeply honored, tickled pink ✨🎈 'Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation' was awarded the Joseph Levenson prize!!! @AASAsianStudies @PrincetonUPress many thanks to the committee! https://www.asianstudies.org/aas-2022-prizes/ @MichiganESC @umsi...

23.02.2022 01:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“’βœ¨ So honored to learn that my book #prototypenation won the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the @EastAsiaAnthro Incredible to see my work recognized by scholarly community I deeply cherish and hold in such high esteem. Big thanks to the committee and congrats to Lyle Fearnley

11.11.2021 12:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone have any idea how to get a human at google to help with this?

20.07.2021 13:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Immensely proud of my doctoral student Cindy @kaiy1ng who just submitted her important dissertation "Afterlives of Authority" an ethnography of how the promises and machineries of data science, AI, and agile software shape environmental state sciences and governance in Indonesia!

17.06.2021 16:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

such a great term #technobenevolence - a technique of diversity in the workplace that renders categorization of workers inevitable and even desirable

11.05.2021 13:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

when cloaked in a language of positivity such as inclusion, diversity, and technological progress racist forms of violence endure, diffuse, and are normalized. from @ruha9 's amazing #CHI2021 keynote on insidious spikes, the violence of dreams of frictionless design and more

11.05.2021 12:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Weina Zhao - Eine Wienerin aus Peking | SO | 02 05 2021 |... Ich heiße Wien und stamme aus Peking - Gedanken der Film...

https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20210502/637766/Weina-Zhao-Eine-Wienerin-aus-Peking?fbclid=IwAR0a500FctRc3nsCpKqkvgZfLO_Ce4uW8H3TJUJik8v5aHIvndKi9cu1pYk

08.05.2021 13:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Weina Zhao spricht mir aus dem Herzen; about transnational identity, how racism and colonialism come together in austria and china and beyond; ΓΆsterreichisches Schubladendenken und die Furcht vor dem "anderen": ...

08.05.2021 13:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fantastic issue! @interactionsMag has developed a much needed critical voice in computing research and design @danielarosner @alxndrt with #criphci #queeriousfutures and super sharp analysis of #covidpreneurism among other wonderful contributions

05.05.2021 16:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Donate to Help Indian Sanitation Workers Brave the Pandem... Over the past few weeks, India has been reeling from the ...

I just donated to this campaign. Sanitation workers, primarily from the Dalit community, manually remove human waste from dry latrines, sewers, and septic tanks and face significant health risks, in addition to financial hardships and caste discrimination https://gofund.me/347addf3

01.05.2021 13:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us to talk all things "China and the Digital" in German, in this fantastic interview series by Alexandra Stefanov at #chinaimpulse #china #digitalisierung; live through March 10 - register here: http://www.china-impulse.de/china-und-die-digitalisierung

08.03.2021 21:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0