wendy norris
@wendynorris.bsky.social
Asst Prof | Ethical Data Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
A question for the sellout Senators:
Employer-based open enrollment ends in mid-November. Do I:
• eat an unplanned 20% increase in my current plan
• buy a high deductible catastrophic plan and hope for the best
I have to make a decision in 10 days. How does your mythical Dec vote help us?
Employer-based open enrollment ends in mid-November. Do I:
• eat an unplanned 20% increase in my current plan
• buy a high deductible catastrophic plan and hope for the best
I have to make a decision in 10 days. How does your mythical Dec vote help us?
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
A question for the sellout Senators:
Employer-based open enrollment ends in mid-November. Do I:
• eat an unplanned 20% increase in my current plan
• buy a high deductible catastrophic plan and hope for the best
I have to make a decision in 10 days. How does your mythical Dec vote help us?
Employer-based open enrollment ends in mid-November. Do I:
• eat an unplanned 20% increase in my current plan
• buy a high deductible catastrophic plan and hope for the best
I have to make a decision in 10 days. How does your mythical Dec vote help us?
/Joyce Carol Oates leaves the chat
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
/Joyce Carol Oates leaves the chat
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Can anybody spare a gift link?
I’ve been hollering at reporters for months about the El Salvadoran men sent to CECOT alongside Kilmar Abrego Garcia with no trace and no followup.
I’ve been hollering at reporters for months about the El Salvadoran men sent to CECOT alongside Kilmar Abrego Garcia with no trace and no followup.
The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Can anybody spare a gift link?
I’ve been hollering at reporters for months about the El Salvadoran men sent to CECOT alongside Kilmar Abrego Garcia with no trace and no followup.
I’ve been hollering at reporters for months about the El Salvadoran men sent to CECOT alongside Kilmar Abrego Garcia with no trace and no followup.
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Research opportunity! I’m studying how traditional media literacy instruction adapts to digital challenges like memes & algorithms. Seeking librarians & educators with media literacy experience for a short confidential interview. Interested? forms.gle/bZs7JfVxCfeN... #MediaLiteracy TC IRB 25-496
Screening Questionnaire: Beyond Information Literacy
Study: Beyond Traditional Information Literacy: Educator Perspectives on Digital Memetic Content
IRB Protocol Number: Teachers College IRB 25-496
Thank you for your interest in participating in this...
forms.gle
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Research opportunity! I’m studying how traditional media literacy instruction adapts to digital challenges like memes & algorithms. Seeking librarians & educators with media literacy experience for a short confidential interview. Interested? forms.gle/bZs7JfVxCfeN... #MediaLiteracy TC IRB 25-496
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
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And this: article cites a recent @cdt.org survey, where, "17% of teachers reported that student information such as grades, attendance and discipline information was shared with immigration enforcement, and some school staff were reporting members of the school community to ICE of their own accord."
Student surveillance companies cash in on the ai grift by promising schools and parents their tech will keep students safe from the harms of ai.
Chatbots Are Sparking a New Era of Student Surveillance
As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.
www.bloomberg.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
And this: article cites a recent @cdt.org survey, where, "17% of teachers reported that student information such as grades, attendance and discipline information was shared with immigration enforcement, and some school staff were reporting members of the school community to ICE of their own accord."
Q for political scientists/pollsters:
How are exit poll demos weighted in off-year elections?
Has the 2025 electorate drastically shifted? I’m not convinced that group is on par with the 2024 electorate as off-year voters are built different. I’d love some quant methods to counter the wishcasting.
How are exit poll demos weighted in off-year elections?
Has the 2025 electorate drastically shifted? I’m not convinced that group is on par with the 2024 electorate as off-year voters are built different. I’d love some quant methods to counter the wishcasting.
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Q for political scientists/pollsters:
How are exit poll demos weighted in off-year elections?
Has the 2025 electorate drastically shifted? I’m not convinced that group is on par with the 2024 electorate as off-year voters are built different. I’d love some quant methods to counter the wishcasting.
How are exit poll demos weighted in off-year elections?
Has the 2025 electorate drastically shifted? I’m not convinced that group is on par with the 2024 electorate as off-year voters are built different. I’d love some quant methods to counter the wishcasting.
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Operating in an entirely different historical context, but exactly the same social context, this is the role that AI and other forms of automation often plays in governance. Giving an excuse to hide racism behind procedure as a form of feigned powerlessness.
Looking past the archive for a moment, I'm hoping that more of us begin to see how procedure is consistently abused to cloak these forms of violence. As w/SNAP today, we don't have to *believe* officials in their assertions of powerlessness in procedure. That, too, is an articulation of power.
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Operating in an entirely different historical context, but exactly the same social context, this is the role that AI and other forms of automation often plays in governance. Giving an excuse to hide racism behind procedure as a form of feigned powerlessness.
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
Reposted by wendy norris
OpenAI updates its terms of service for ChatGPT: can’t use the service for “tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional.”
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
ChatGPT users can’t use service for tailored legal and medical advice, OpenAI says
OpenAI dispelled suggestions that it’s changing its terms around legal and medical advice.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
OpenAI updates its terms of service for ChatGPT: can’t use the service for “tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional.”
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
Instead of catching up on too many work emails, I'm watching Instagram reels of multi-million Euro apartments for sale in Paris, like the well-functioning adult that I am.
It's like a classy Friday Night Zillow.
www.facebook.com/reel/6764713...
It's like a classy Friday Night Zillow.
www.facebook.com/reel/6764713...
25K views · 342 reactions | Paris 16ᵉ - Appartement de 8 pièces avec vue tour Eiffel
Entièrement rénové, ce superbe appartement familial de 246m2 occupe seul le 5e étage d'un bel immeuble haussmannie...
Paris 16ᵉ - Appartement de 8 pièces avec vue tour Eiffel
Entièrement rénové, ce superbe appartement familial de 246m2 occupe seul le 5e étage d'un bel immeuble haussmannien.
Baigné de lumière, son.....
www.facebook.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Instead of catching up on too many work emails, I'm watching Instagram reels of multi-million Euro apartments for sale in Paris, like the well-functioning adult that I am.
It's like a classy Friday Night Zillow.
www.facebook.com/reel/6764713...
It's like a classy Friday Night Zillow.
www.facebook.com/reel/6764713...
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Tech's current model seems to be
1) overpromise to get financing
2) lend to each other
3) burn through unreal amounts of money
4) ruin existing products
5) embed it into as many sectors as possible
6) count on a bailout
1) overpromise to get financing
2) lend to each other
3) burn through unreal amounts of money
4) ruin existing products
5) embed it into as many sectors as possible
6) count on a bailout
*OpenAI Would Like Federal Backstop For Data Center Investments, CFO Says -- WSJ
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Tech's current model seems to be
1) overpromise to get financing
2) lend to each other
3) burn through unreal amounts of money
4) ruin existing products
5) embed it into as many sectors as possible
6) count on a bailout
1) overpromise to get financing
2) lend to each other
3) burn through unreal amounts of money
4) ruin existing products
5) embed it into as many sectors as possible
6) count on a bailout
JOB: Tenure-track sociology faculty job alert!
Student-centered private liberal arts university. Strong undergrad teaching experience expected in sociology and tech/society. 4/4 load. Max class size: 35. Open to ABD.
Rochester, NY is a hidden gem. Lovely and affordable.
jobs.naz.edu/postings/4334
Student-centered private liberal arts university. Strong undergrad teaching experience expected in sociology and tech/society. 4/4 load. Max class size: 35. Open to ABD.
Rochester, NY is a hidden gem. Lovely and affordable.
jobs.naz.edu/postings/4334
Assistant Professor of Sociology
The sociology program at Nazareth University of Rochester, NY invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin fall 2026. The candidate will teach courses t...
jobs.naz.edu
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
JOB: Tenure-track sociology faculty job alert!
Student-centered private liberal arts university. Strong undergrad teaching experience expected in sociology and tech/society. 4/4 load. Max class size: 35. Open to ABD.
Rochester, NY is a hidden gem. Lovely and affordable.
jobs.naz.edu/postings/4334
Student-centered private liberal arts university. Strong undergrad teaching experience expected in sociology and tech/society. 4/4 load. Max class size: 35. Open to ABD.
Rochester, NY is a hidden gem. Lovely and affordable.
jobs.naz.edu/postings/4334
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New scholarship alert: In our new paper--STRATEGIC DELEGATION OF MORAL DECISIONS TO AI--Stephan Tontrup and I show experimentally that people consider AI to be an entity capable of bearing moral responsibility, and also ... 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Strategic Delegation of Moral Decisions to AI
<p>Our study examines how individuals perceive the moral agency of artificial intelligence (AI), and, specifically, whether individuals believe that by using AI
papers.ssrn.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New scholarship alert: In our new paper--STRATEGIC DELEGATION OF MORAL DECISIONS TO AI--Stephan Tontrup and I show experimentally that people consider AI to be an entity capable of bearing moral responsibility, and also ... 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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This is what I was trying to explain in my 2024 IAC talk, which I don't know if I ever posted online,
If you read what the people building these things describe doing, they are building a model of the Shannon Information of a subset of past uses of language.
If you read what the people building these things describe doing, they are building a model of the Shannon Information of a subset of past uses of language.
lol i think i wrote down somewhere recently "the information it disgorges is only ever incidentally accurate"
November 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is what I was trying to explain in my 2024 IAC talk, which I don't know if I ever posted online,
If you read what the people building these things describe doing, they are building a model of the Shannon Information of a subset of past uses of language.
If you read what the people building these things describe doing, they are building a model of the Shannon Information of a subset of past uses of language.
Reposted by wendy norris
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
We need to go full tilt to protect foundational knowledge in CS/CHI/CSCW:
- Lifetime ACM ban for all authors that use Gen AI in any form
- Demerit system for orgs affiliated with Gen AI users; N pts means X years of desk reject
CV inflation is out of hand and there needs to be real consequences.
- Lifetime ACM ban for all authors that use Gen AI in any form
- Demerit system for orgs affiliated with Gen AI users; N pts means X years of desk reject
CV inflation is out of hand and there needs to be real consequences.
A welcome update from arXiv.org to combat garbage Gen AI/LLM papers that pollute the CS knowledge base:
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
h/t @jschoeley.com
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
h/t @jschoeley.com
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
We need to go full tilt to protect foundational knowledge in CS/CHI/CSCW:
- Lifetime ACM ban for all authors that use Gen AI in any form
- Demerit system for orgs affiliated with Gen AI users; N pts means X years of desk reject
CV inflation is out of hand and there needs to be real consequences.
- Lifetime ACM ban for all authors that use Gen AI in any form
- Demerit system for orgs affiliated with Gen AI users; N pts means X years of desk reject
CV inflation is out of hand and there needs to be real consequences.
A welcome update from arXiv.org to combat garbage Gen AI/LLM papers that pollute the CS knowledge base:
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
h/t @jschoeley.com
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
h/t @jschoeley.com
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A welcome update from arXiv.org to combat garbage Gen AI/LLM papers that pollute the CS knowledge base:
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
h/t @jschoeley.com
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
h/t @jschoeley.com
Good grief, Bsky Team. You know what’s a lo-fi, foolproof way to gauge disinterest?
< Ye olde fashioned shun >
Don’t engage with content you don’t like. People have agency. We don’t need algo minders.
Block/Mute work just fine for reporting offensive content. Don’t turn this place into Facebook.
< Ye olde fashioned shun >
Don’t engage with content you don’t like. People have agency. We don’t need algo minders.
Block/Mute work just fine for reporting offensive content. Don’t turn this place into Facebook.
No matter the platform you should have your default feed be reverse chron of who/what you follow and curate and diversify that feed.
You’ll be better informed and less prone to disinfo and group think.
This is a hill I will die on.
You’ll be better informed and less prone to disinfo and group think.
This is a hill I will die on.
“As users ‘dislike’ posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.”
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Good grief, Bsky Team. You know what’s a lo-fi, foolproof way to gauge disinterest?
< Ye olde fashioned shun >
Don’t engage with content you don’t like. People have agency. We don’t need algo minders.
Block/Mute work just fine for reporting offensive content. Don’t turn this place into Facebook.
< Ye olde fashioned shun >
Don’t engage with content you don’t like. People have agency. We don’t need algo minders.
Block/Mute work just fine for reporting offensive content. Don’t turn this place into Facebook.
It's so rainy and blustery outside today we won't be able to recreate this classic Halloween costume.
#MayTheForceBeWithYou
#MayTheForceBeWithYou
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It's so rainy and blustery outside today we won't be able to recreate this classic Halloween costume.
#MayTheForceBeWithYou
#MayTheForceBeWithYou
Folks, how much more blatant does the surveillance need to be? Gen AI apps collect your data ... beyond your chat session ... often for years. Don't fall for the squishy ToS language "may use."
Read this paper.
The section on data collection of children's chat app use will light your hair on fire.
Read this paper.
The section on data collection of children's chat app use will light your hair on fire.
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Folks, how much more blatant does the surveillance need to be? Gen AI apps collect your data ... beyond your chat session ... often for years. Don't fall for the squishy ToS language "may use."
Read this paper.
The section on data collection of children's chat app use will light your hair on fire.
Read this paper.
The section on data collection of children's chat app use will light your hair on fire.