andresmh

andresmh, 10 months ago to fediverse

Do you know librarians who have created Mastodon instances?

A librarian at my institution is interested in advocating for creating one. It might be helpful to read about other librarians' experiences doing this or the existence of some other cases managed by libraries.

#fediverse

clive, 3 months ago to random

Fantastic -- if super-distressing -- article by Gisele Navarro about the horrible state of product reviews online

The tl;dr is that Google seems to overweight reviews from longstanding big journalism brands ...

... but many of those brands, like Popular Science, were long ago bought up by private equity or conglomerates, then hollowed out ...

... so they now produce crappy articles that are probably lying about their "test labs" to please Google

https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

Read it! So good

andresmh, 5 months ago to fediverse

We're organizing a small in-person workshop about federated/decentralized social media at Princeton.

https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu/

We're interested in bringing folks who develop fediverse tech or admins that manage active Mastodon instances. We have some travel funding.

Ping me if interested, and please boost 🚀 to reach more people.

#fediverse

andresmh, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Informal survey for Mastodon sys admins.

Where do you host your instance?

Please bost to increase visibility 🚀

andresmh, 3 months ago to random

We're looking for suggestions for creative subdomains for a Mastodon server at a university.

The main constraint is that the university doesn’t want to let us use a third-level domain like foo.princeton.edu, but they might be okay with foo.bar.princeton.edu.

What would be a good foo.bar subdomain?

Some ideas:
fedi.verse.princeton.edu
activity.pub.princeton.edu

Any other ones?

P.S. Using mastodon in the domain might not be a good long-term idea because the software might change.

andresmh, 7 months ago to random

📣 Postdoc Fellowship at the Center for Information Technology and Policy at Princeton.

Priority areas include: 1) Platforms and Digital Infrastructure, (2) Data Science, AI and Society, and (3) Privacy and Security

Join us! https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=32041

andresmh, 1 month ago to random

Woah! Someone posted the 1 billionth Scratch project online:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1000000000

The Scratch online community has come a long way since it started as a master's thesis project!

Here is one of the first mock-ups of the website I did around 2005, inspired Flickr and some other "web 2.0" websites of that era

andresmh, 8 months ago to random

💼 The Future of (Academic) Conferences Is Unconferences: Exploring a Decentralized Network of Regional Meetups

New writeup with @soya, Kang, Joy, @bellini @lumbroso @metaxa https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3612939

Also, the corresponding directory of regional meetups https://cafe.hci.social

andresmh, 1 year ago to random

We at @princeton HCI are recruiting people interested in building, designing, and studying Social Computing Systems.

Roles include:
👩‍🎓 grad students
👩🏽‍🔬 postdocs
🕵🏼‍♀️researchers
👩‍💻engineers

Grad applications due Dec 1!

If you're into the Fediverse, you're likely a good fit.

Examples of the projects we're working are... 🧵
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andresmh, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Poll to test your internet age

andresmh, 10 months ago to random

Do you know anyone looking for a postdoc to turn their research into broadly adopted tech? This (social) entrepreneurship fellowship at Princeton comes with a $120k package.

https://start.princeton.edu

I’d be excited to be the faculty sponsor for someone working on social computing systems, specifically on improving the labor conditions of gig workers or on social AR.

Applications are due July 16

andresmh, 3 months ago to random

News and updates from our first year of work at the Workers’ Algorithm Observatory https://medium.com/the-workers-algorithm-observatory/fairfare-is-1-and-growing-6e5ae8781477

andresmh, 11 months ago to random

I’m on the board of a non-profit called Crisis Text Line looking to hire a new CTO as they transform into a more scalable organization. They are remote friendly. If you or someone you know is interested here is the job description: https://boards.greenhouse.io/crisistextline86/jobs/5619527003

andresmh, 7 months ago to random

Check out the Workers' Algorithm Observatory, a suite of software tools to facilitate worker-led auditing of the platform economy:
https://wao.cs.princeton.edu

If you're at #CSCW2023, talk with my postdoc @dan, who presented early insights about platform take rates at the Back to Labor workshop https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/b2b2labor-workshop/home

If you know of Uber driver organizations interested in partnering, let us know.

WAO collaborators include @samanthadalal and Danny Spitzberg. Grateful for the support from @mozilla

andresmh, 6 months ago to random

S7E1 of HBO's Silicon Valley:

Richard Hendricks of Pied Piper discovers that the foundational technology of Pied Piper has been built entirely on OpenAI's tech stack. With Sam and his team's departure from OpenAI to Hooli, Pied Piper's entire operation is at risk. Richard scrambles to save his company from collapsing.

The twist comes when it's revealed that Erlich, in his quest for revenge against Richard, had infiltrated OpenAI's board with the specific intention of destabilizing Pied Piper.

andresmh, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to fediverse

What’s an interesting 12-week #Fediverse-related project for computer science undergrads? 🧑🏽‍🏫

I’m teaching a class for Princeton undergrads in the Fall 🍂 and I want to give them an option to work on a project focused on either building a system, or studying something about how people use the Fediverse.

Some ideas:

andresmh, 1 year ago to random

Setting “mastodon.social” as the default on the main Mastodon mobile app kicked a can down the road and turned into a keg of gunpowder 🥫➡️🧨

It might have solved a UX problem (instance selection) in the short term. But it introduced an exponentially harder sociotechnical problem: scaling moderation.

Instead, we should:
a) increase the number of smaller and well-moderated instances.
b) turn instance selection UX into a productive type of friction.

andresmh, 3 months ago to random

🗞️Big news: The Driver’s Seat Cooperative is transitioning their tools for gig workers to the @princeton Workers’ Algorithm Observatory we’ve been running.

We’re excited to expand our suite of worker-led technologies.

https://blog.driversseat.co/post/driversseat-wao

andresmh, 1 year ago to random

Also, the second @princeton affiliated paper of the day: our collaborator Kelly Mack is presenting her research on Inclusive Avatars as part of her internship with our team last summer.

Check out her presentation at #CHI2023 in Room X11+X12, Tue, Apr 25 | 14:30 - 14:44 :chi:

Previous thread on the research: https://hci.social/@andresmh/110216944014635085

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01880

andresmh, 1 month ago to random

Last Fall, a few of us attended a CRA workshop in DC to discuss the future of research on social tech. Here is a report about it that includes topics ranging from governance to decentralization to the role of academia, and more https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/CCC-Future-of-Research-Workshop-Report_Final.pdf

Check it out!

andresmh, 1 month ago to random

Princeton continues to dive into the Fediverse! 🐅 ❤️ 🐘

Multiple units across our campus are setting up their own accounts on the brand-new micro.blogs.princeton.edu Mastodon server!

Follow the Center for Information Technology Policy at @citp
and the Department of
Computer Science at @PrincetonCS

andresmh, 14 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to random

:chi: How are you participating in #chi2024?

jbigham, 1 month ago to random

these days Google Scholar usually knows about my publications having been made publicly available before I do, and so I just update the list of publications on my web page based on it.

I think back in the day, I would post papers on my web page because it would take too long for them to appear on the official sites, and they'd be paywalled and hard to access there.

andresmh, 1 month ago to random

Princeton's @citp is teaching a mini-course for policymakers to learn about predictive and generative AI in Washington, DC: https://micro.blogs.princeton.edu/@citp/112169656786216023

Share it your favorite policymaker!