bennett

@bennett@sciences.social

PhD student in #History of Science and in Science & Technology Studies (#STS) at UW-Madison.

I study #data politics and practices in 21st-century sciences, especially at the [interface?/interstices?/overlap?] of the life and social sciences. Currently an editorial project assistant at Social Studies of Science (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sss).

Other interests: housing, transit, tech. I don't eat animals.

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bennett,

@bookstodon @TheWarOnCars

This week's (currently Patreon-only, but published soon) is a compelling discussion of transportation in with Jeremy Withers, author of Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles https://global.oup.com/academic/product/futuristic-cars-and-space-bicycles-9781789621754

bennett, to california

voted overwhelmingly to place extremely mild welfare standards pork sold in the state's stores, standards recently upheld by , and the industry continues to just openly defy the law, because they know they're the kind of entity the law protects but does not bind

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-prop-12-18164252.php

mdekstrand, to random
@mdekstrand@hci.social avatar

One of my pet peeves is using a citation as a part of speech (e.g. "We use the foo from [32]") — for me, the bracketed citation is always a parenthetical. Is there a good reference for why this is good (that doesn't descend into nonsense prescriptivism), or for an argument that I'm wrong?

bennett,

@jbigham @mdekstrand my current job is editing papers (albeit not in your field) between their acceptance and their publication, and I endorse this message. So much awkward phrasing is exactly this kind of missed opportunity.

bennett, to ai

My blogging—no longer in preparation for preliminary exams because I PASSED BABY!—continues this summer.

First off, #GodHumanAnimalMachine, Megan O'Gieblyn's compelling examination of #AI, #metaphor, and #transhumanism, which reveals the shared history and oppressive purpose of hard-line Calvinist doctrines of predestination and the apocalyptic transhumanism of our #tech overlords

#books #religion #SummerReading #philosophy

https://bennettmcintosh.bearblog.dev/god-human-animal-machine/

bennett,

post includes a for tofu minced "pork" lettuce wraps, because my recipe-posting is the opposite of 'd

https://bennettmcintosh.bearblog.dev/god-human-animal-machine/#the-recipe

bennett,

and @pluralistic 's post today on why the apocalypse is good marketing for AI complements this nicely, and makes me feel even better about my recipes being anti-SEO'd

https://doctorow.medium.com/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee-4ac92fa2eed

bennett,

@FTWynn @pluralistic yah, to me "the same people funding blockchain are funding AI" tells us much less about AI's potential than it does about the lack of any fundamental correspondence between VC-hype and the actual future of AI.

What this admonishment helps us do is get away from hype about exponential curves & human extinction, and towards more sober discussion of the actual, current, and material harms and structures of the system. I think @pluralistic does a decent job of that in the post.

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    bennett,

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