Colleen Wynn
@colleenewynn.bsky.social
Sociologist and demographer studying housing, neighborhoods, and families. SoTL and community engaged research. She/her.
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When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
Reposted by Colleen Wynn
A problem with using predictive text technology to summarize research is that an author’s use of words or phrases might be an endorsement of those words or phrases—but not reliably so, and Google seems to have no issue with rolling this technology out despite its lack of sophistication on this
Fun little artifact from Google's new AI summaries: "Fields has said that the main purpose of slavery was to create white supremacy, not to produce goods." Of course, non-AI readers would recognize that this is precisely the opposite of what Barbara Fields argues.
September 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A problem with using predictive text technology to summarize research is that an author’s use of words or phrases might be an endorsement of those words or phrases—but not reliably so, and Google seems to have no issue with rolling this technology out despite its lack of sophistication on this