Virginia Leavell
@heyyvirginia.bsky.social
Asst prof of Organisational Theory and Information Systems
@CambridgeJBS
| technology and the organization of work | ethnography and SNA | PhD
@UCSBTMP
@CambridgeJBS
| technology and the organization of work | ethnography and SNA | PhD
@UCSBTMP
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USC, Los Angeles County’s single largest private employer, with a $7.6B endowment, has over 130 faculty and staff suddenly homeless, 2100 evacuated. Are they providing emergency housing or subventing rentals? Nope. Instead, they’ve started a GoFundMe.
#infuriating
#infuriating
Help Trojan Students and Employees Impacted by L.A. Wildfires
I am fundraising at USC and invite you to support this great project I am passionate about:
fightongiveback.usc.edu
January 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
USC, Los Angeles County’s single largest private employer, with a $7.6B endowment, has over 130 faculty and staff suddenly homeless, 2100 evacuated. Are they providing emergency housing or subventing rentals? Nope. Instead, they’ve started a GoFundMe.
#infuriating
#infuriating
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Awesome to see the history of quantum computing *has* a materiality...and it's being preserved.
After five years of effort, I was delighted to collect for the Computer History Museum yesterday the Sycamore quantum computing processor used in Google Quantum AI’s 2019 “beyond classical” milestone.
December 11, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Awesome to see the history of quantum computing *has* a materiality...and it's being preserved.
I just don't think we should accept that human contact is a luxury good: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...
Opinion | Nurses, Chaplains and Teachers Should Not Be Replaced With Technology
We’re increasingly becoming a society in which very wealthy people get human care, like concierge medicine and private schools with tiny class sizes.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 10:55 AM
I just don't think we should accept that human contact is a luxury good: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...
I sent a 100-line email to my incarcerated friend today. 25¢ per message. What would your workday cost if every email was a quarter?
November 28, 2024 at 11:09 AM
I sent a 100-line email to my incarcerated friend today. 25¢ per message. What would your workday cost if every email was a quarter?
I love it when the technical minutia I studied my dissertation research on smart metering shows up in other places as relevant to society. Cell vs radio networks... contributing to social problems in the UK! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Energy smart meter issues creating north-south divide
Technology differences mean meters in northern England and Scotland may not work properly, energy firm body admits.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2024 at 10:49 AM
I love it when the technical minutia I studied my dissertation research on smart metering shows up in other places as relevant to society. Cell vs radio networks... contributing to social problems in the UK! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
For anyone wondering what the secret sauce was in Amazon's "just walk out" technology, it turns out it was just thousands of workers in Indian manually tracking your movements and purchases... gizmodo.com/amazon-repor...
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.
gizmodo.com
April 3, 2024 at 10:27 AM
For anyone wondering what the secret sauce was in Amazon's "just walk out" technology, it turns out it was just thousands of workers in Indian manually tracking your movements and purchases... gizmodo.com/amazon-repor...
In my Future of Work class today we talked about data and trucking and surveillance. Obviously I showed a clip from Convoy to give British students a sense of American trucking culture. Mini shout out to @patrickmccray.bsky.social who also screens Convoy clips in class.
March 7, 2024 at 6:21 PM
In my Future of Work class today we talked about data and trucking and surveillance. Obviously I showed a clip from Convoy to give British students a sense of American trucking culture. Mini shout out to @patrickmccray.bsky.social who also screens Convoy clips in class.
Worst idea.. ever?
November 3, 2023 at 1:07 PM
Worst idea.. ever?
I like writing about fights on Wikipedia discussion boards because I get to make footnotes about TPS reports and "demands for shrubbery"
October 3, 2023 at 1:37 PM
I like writing about fights on Wikipedia discussion boards because I get to make footnotes about TPS reports and "demands for shrubbery"