Glencora Borradaile
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glencoraspeaks.bsky.social
Glencora Borradaile
@glencoraspeaks.bsky.social
Believes communication should be private by default and worries about surveillance-supported threats to the First and Fourth Amendment.

Professor of Computer Science, Oregon State University
Public Voices Fellow, theopedproject.org

Opinions my own.
A good review for our collective reminder.
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋

📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗

huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
November 28, 2024 at 4:24 AM
Police arresting students for civil disobedience should not be on the experiential learning menu at universities.
theopinionpages.com/2024/10/an-e... #PublicVoices
November 23, 2024 at 12:49 AM
After a year of university overreaction to campus protest, will students feel safe in expressing their ideas that push the boundaries of their institution with complete surveillance of their activities?
www.commondreams.org/opinion/figh... @commondreams.org #PublicVoices
The Fight Against Fascism Starts on Campus | Common Dreams
Colleges are ahead of the curve when it comes to surveillance creep, and the ivory panopticon will only get worse as surveillance technologies get more advanced.
www.commondreams.org
November 23, 2024 at 12:47 AM