Migrating from one instance to another means my #embroidery posts got lost despite still circulating, so I’m going to reshare a few, starting with this french knot color wheel that I spent a month stitching to see if I could make the colors come back around to themselves. #art#womensart
This is another in the same intuitive #embroidery genre that I stitched earlier this year. In retrospect it looks a lot like the arrival of spring. (Posted before but on the other account so lost to mastodon).
Too often we approach issues of equity and inclusion through the lens of harm reduction. That's essential, but it's the minimal bar for acceptable tech, not an end goal.
What would AI that spurs joy from within minoritized communities look like? This exciting new fellowship sponsored by MSR with Edinburgh's BRAID project seeks a creative UK-based scholar to collaborate with me and our team to help us imagine.
I don’t want to get too mystical, but today we ran across a groundhog in a field, which would be pretty normal, but this one was completely white. According to the internet this happens like four times in a century and I am not even making that up.
@andresmh According to a local paper in Pennsylvania a trapper got one in its trap around 2014 and it had been 25ish years since one had last been seen.
Hey guess what! Our special issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication with eleven new studies of Tech and the Future of Work plus an editor’s intro by me and Nicole Ellison is OUT! And open access! https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/issue#1672708-7210222
Hi #AoIR2023 peeps! Our group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge Mass is actively seeking a predoc research assistant and very soon we will be looking for a postdoc and several PhD interns. Several of us will be there - @tarleton@ZoeGlatt and me for example. Please feel welcome to ask us about these opportunities!
I for one am glad that the charade of pretending that Elon’s toy is still “Twitter” is over. Let X join Gab and Parler and the others. Should have rebranded in October 22. Maybe even journalists would have been embarrassed to be reliant on X.