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Alice Goldfarb
@alicegoldfarb.com
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Thinking about messy data.

[Unbreaking](https://unbreaking.org/) & [CU Boulder's Info Visions Lab](https://infovisions.github.io/)

(extricated from afgoldfarb on 🐦, was once goldfarb.bsky.social 🦋)
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sesmith.lol
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
alicegoldfarb.com
"Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003."
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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wynkenhimself.bsky.social
I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
State-issued documents aren't just tools to allow identification; they're also tools to enforce hierarchies. In his book "The Passport in America," the historian Craig Robertson argues that the document has served both to affirm and to assign such attributes of identity as class, race and gender. That last category didn't show up on the U.S. passport until 1976, after a panel of experts convened by the State Department noted that the rise of "unisex attire and hairstyles" had made it harder to determine a person's sex. "Gender markers thus were born out of the fear that gender was becoming ungovernable," wrote the immigration attorney Lauren Des Rosiers.
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Reposted by Alice Goldfarb
stevemullis.net
As someone who spent 7 years on NPR's digital desk rewriting/editing radio stories for the website, this is incredibly disappointing. I understand the financial strains they are under post-rescission, but this is not the way.
micahloewinger.bsky.social Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 3d
"Last week, NPR’s leadership proposed testing the use of artificial intelligence to produce digital versions of radio stories, to make the middle of the editorial process more efficient."

Please DM/email/signal me if you know something about this!

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Who Wrote That Headline? Maybe a Robot.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Reposted by Alice Goldfarb
celestelabedz.bsky.social
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Reposted by Alice Goldfarb
ryancordell.org
Job alert!

@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year

Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposted by Alice Goldfarb
jessicacalarco.com
School lunches get a bad rap, but they're healthier than the average packed lunch. And making them free for all amplifies academic and health benefits for low-income kids by removing stigma/shame.

So I'm glad Colorado voted to raise taxes on high-income households to make school meals free for all.
Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps Proposition MM’s passage means Colorado will fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students Coloradans voted Tuesday to increase taxes on wealthy households to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school kids and bolster the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps. The Associated Press projected that Proposition MM would pass at 8:25 p.m. when 57% of the votes counted were in support of the measure and 43% were opposed. The increased taxes on households earning at least $300,000 will shore up funding for free school meals for all public school children, provide raises for school meal staff, and support school district efforts to buy locally-sourced food. Any leftover funding will go toward new state costs for administering the SNAP program as a result of cuts enacted by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress earlier this year. The passage of Proposition MM marks the second time Coloradans have voted to tax themselves to provide meals for public school kids in recent years. Democrats in the state legislature referred Proposition MM to the ballot this year when funding for the state’s free school meals program began to wane.
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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anildash.com
Ten things I took away from one remarkable, history-making moment. Turn the volume up. www.anildash.com/2025/11/05/t...
Turn the volume up. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Alice Goldfarb
patricknessbooks.bsky.social
Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d
In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community.

It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
Alt text: Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article headline titled “The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition.” The subheadline reads, “More gay people are speaking out against the gender ideology of trans and queer activists.” The article is categorized under “U.S.” and written by Pamela Paul, published on October 31, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. ET.
November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
I am so upset.

Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
hebagowayed.bsky.social Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 9d
To be asked to write about racism only to be racially aggressed in the editing process is a new level unlocked I have to say.
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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miriamposner.com
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
• Professors should never put a student's words or work into an AI software without their consent. • Professors should also be transparent about their Al usage with grading, curriculum building, and any other way they might use it in their teaching. • If a professor does use Al chatbots in the classroom, they should explain their reasoning behind this decision and how its usage will help students meet learning outcomes. • Professors should additionally respect a student's choice to refuse Al. To do this, it would be ideal that they have assignments that students can choose from that do
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Alice Goldfarb
jessicacalarco.com
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Reposted by Alice Goldfarb
flowingdata.com
Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
Venn diagrams as jack-o-laterns showing trick/treat logicals: OR, AND, XOR, NOR, NAND, and XNOR
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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joshscherr.bsky.social
Print edition @theonion.com ads don’t miss
A newspaper full page ad with a brightly colored burst of exploding powder, Adobe logo in the corner, copy reading “experience the magic of buying new software every month forever”
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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hansilowang.bsky.social
Mail-in voters who haven't returned ballots yet: Check your state's deadline to make sure your vote gets counted.

If your ballot must be received by Election Day, consider stopping by a ballot drop box or early voting site. It may be too late for the U.S. Postal Service to deliver it by Nov. 4...
Table 11: Receipt and Postmark Deadlines for Absentee/Mail Ballots
Summary of the state deadlines for when election officials must receive absentee/mailed ballots and postmark deadlines.
www.ncsl.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by Alice Goldfarb
mellymeldubs.bsky.social
This Data Through Design program looks really cool.

You can submit a proposal to make an art exhibition with data from NYC's open data portal. They give $900 stipends.

Proposals are due November 2.

datathroughdesign.com/2026
Data Through Design (DxD) is an annual exhibition featuring art works that creatively analyze, interpret and interrogate data made available in New York City’s Open Data portal. The DxD collective is pleased to announce our DxD 2026 Call for Proposals—seeking new art work, or work in progress not yet exhibited, that engages creatively with tangible and/or multimedia expressions of NYC’s Open Data. This year, we invite projects that explore ecosystems and cycles of life—how data expresses rhythms of growth, decay, renewal, and transformation, as well as the interplay between human and non-human worlds. We encourage artists to consider how the city, our communities, and data itself can be understood as ecological and cyclical: what accumulates, erodes, regenerates, or lingers as traces? How might data be materialized, embodied, or inscribed by natural processes? How might art reveal the ways human and natural systems shape and respond to one another?
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
Some good news!

“Boston City Council has voted unanimously to ban its government from using facial recognition technology, including the police department, making it the largest city on the East Coast to do so.”

www.builtinboston.com/articles/bos...
Boston Police Can No Longer Use Facial Recognition Software | Built In Boston
The law makes it illegal for city officials to “obtain, retain, possess, access, or use” facial recognition technology, acknowledging that it “has the potential to harm communities of color who are al...
www.builtinboston.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
alicegoldfarb.com
I am getting a humidifier. I am frustrated by the many "smart" / wifi-connected / you need the app options. As a person with fingers, I'm very happy to push a button when I want it on or off.
October 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Reposted by Alice Goldfarb
geekyjules.julessherred.com
The CBC now has an article

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
U.S. to photograph Canadian travellers when they enter and exit at all land borders, airports | CBC News
The United States is expanding its facial identification program for travellers, with the goal of collecting images of non-U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country by all modes of transport.
www.cbc.ca
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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museum.of.emilyk.art
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Reposted by Alice Goldfarb
louisathelast.bsky.social
This got to me. Haunting and beautifully written. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-m...
In memory of the Christmas Island shrew
It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its voic...
news.mongabay.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
alicegoldfarb.com
I can not wait.
comicsbeat.bsky.social Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 19d
Exclusive: GENDER QUEER – THE ANNOTATED EDITION hits shelves next spring

Oni Press has announced Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, with commentary from creator Maia Kobabe alongside cartoonists and academics.
Exclusive: GENDER QUEER – THE ANNOTATED EDITION hits shelves next spring
Oni Press has announced Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, with commentary from creator Maia Kobabe alongside cartoonists and academics.
www.comicsbeat.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Reposted by Alice Goldfarb
holgate.permanent.red
The standard Icelandic musician bio is “weekend supervisor at fish processing plant / experimental synth composer / deputy foreign minister”
October 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM