JennyLDavis
@jenny-l-davis.bsky.social
Sociologist of emergent tech. Dog content enthusiast. https://www.jennyldavis.com/
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Over 18 months, CDT studied content moderation in four low-resource languages—Maghrebi Arabic, Kiswahili, Tamil, and Quechua—across South Asia, North/East Africa, and South America. cdt.org/insights/con...
July 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Over 18 months, CDT studied content moderation in four low-resource languages—Maghrebi Arabic, Kiswahili, Tamil, and Quechua—across South Asia, North/East Africa, and South America. cdt.org/insights/con...
New Essay w/ Hayoung Seo: "It's Not Optimal"
On the value of human excess in an age of AI
Joint Review of:
1 Co-Intelligence @emollick.bsky.social
2 The Last Human Job @allisonpugh.bsky.social
3 AI Needs You @verityharding.bsky.social
4 The Importance of Being Educable by Leslie Valiant
On the value of human excess in an age of AI
Joint Review of:
1 Co-Intelligence @emollick.bsky.social
2 The Last Human Job @allisonpugh.bsky.social
3 AI Needs You @verityharding.bsky.social
4 The Importance of Being Educable by Leslie Valiant
“There is virtue in the good enough, value in frivolities, and diminishing returns on perfection.”
These are the lessons of four new books on AI, @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social and Hayoung Seo write:
These are the lessons of four new books on AI, @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social and Hayoung Seo write:
It’s Not Optimal
Four books about a new age of AI tell stories of sluggish processes, ambiguous outcomes, emotionally charged issues, and generous margins for error.
www.publicbooks.org
June 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New Essay w/ Hayoung Seo: "It's Not Optimal"
On the value of human excess in an age of AI
Joint Review of:
1 Co-Intelligence @emollick.bsky.social
2 The Last Human Job @allisonpugh.bsky.social
3 AI Needs You @verityharding.bsky.social
4 The Importance of Being Educable by Leslie Valiant
On the value of human excess in an age of AI
Joint Review of:
1 Co-Intelligence @emollick.bsky.social
2 The Last Human Job @allisonpugh.bsky.social
3 AI Needs You @verityharding.bsky.social
4 The Importance of Being Educable by Leslie Valiant
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🎤 NEW in @publicbooks.bsky.social #tech: "It’s Not Optimal" by @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social & Hayoung Seo--a brilliant take on #AI's sociality in conversation with books by Leslie Valiant, @verityharding.bsky.social, @emollick.bsky.social, & @allisonpugh.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/its-not-opti...
It's Not Optimal - Public Books
Four books about a new age of AI tell stories of sluggish processes, ambiguous outcomes, emotionally charged issues, and generous margins for error.
www.publicbooks.org
June 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🎤 NEW in @publicbooks.bsky.social #tech: "It’s Not Optimal" by @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social & Hayoung Seo--a brilliant take on #AI's sociality in conversation with books by Leslie Valiant, @verityharding.bsky.social, @emollick.bsky.social, & @allisonpugh.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/its-not-opti...
It isn't complicated. There's hate speech that is prohibited and free speech that is protected. This administration is punishing protected speech by mischaracterizing it as hate speech.
Everyone on all sides understands this is what's happening
Everyone on all sides understands this is what's happening
April 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It isn't complicated. There's hate speech that is prohibited and free speech that is protected. This administration is punishing protected speech by mischaracterizing it as hate speech.
Everyone on all sides understands this is what's happening
Everyone on all sides understands this is what's happening
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⚠️ Attendees of #FAccT2025, this is very important! ⚠️
June is the peak of tourist season 😎, and affordable hotel options will disappear soon!
Please book your accommodations ASAP! We want you to enjoy your visit to Athens! 🦉
Our list of hotels and discount codes: facctconference.org/2025/hotel
June is the peak of tourist season 😎, and affordable hotel options will disappear soon!
Please book your accommodations ASAP! We want you to enjoy your visit to Athens! 🦉
Our list of hotels and discount codes: facctconference.org/2025/hotel
April 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
⚠️ Attendees of #FAccT2025, this is very important! ⚠️
June is the peak of tourist season 😎, and affordable hotel options will disappear soon!
Please book your accommodations ASAP! We want you to enjoy your visit to Athens! 🦉
Our list of hotels and discount codes: facctconference.org/2025/hotel
June is the peak of tourist season 😎, and affordable hotel options will disappear soon!
Please book your accommodations ASAP! We want you to enjoy your visit to Athens! 🦉
Our list of hotels and discount codes: facctconference.org/2025/hotel
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Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
ACM FAccT 2025 Call for Socials
facctconference.org
April 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
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✨🎙️ PUBLICATION ALERT ✨🎙️ Out with Nature Machine Intelligence today @natmachintell.bsky.social: "Materiality and Risk in the Age of pervasive #AI #Sensors", with the great Susan Kennedy, VJ Reddi, Brian Plancher, Pete Warden, Emanuel Moss & Matthew Stewart. Read the paper here: tinyurl.com/3skyvep7
a woman in a red shirt is singing into a microphone in a club .
ALT: a woman in a red shirt is singing into a microphone in a club .
media.tenor.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
✨🎙️ PUBLICATION ALERT ✨🎙️ Out with Nature Machine Intelligence today @natmachintell.bsky.social: "Materiality and Risk in the Age of pervasive #AI #Sensors", with the great Susan Kennedy, VJ Reddi, Brian Plancher, Pete Warden, Emanuel Moss & Matthew Stewart. Read the paper here: tinyurl.com/3skyvep7
I don't think Sean Ward has migrated to this platform yet but he did lead a 🔥 article about the move away from Twitter/x
Out today in Symbolic Interaction
doi.org/10.1002/symb...
Out today in Symbolic Interaction
doi.org/10.1002/symb...
Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration
Social media platforms are imbued with politics and values through an interplay of coded architectures, platform policies, economic models, and algorithmic curation, together shaping and shaped by th...
doi.org
March 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I don't think Sean Ward has migrated to this platform yet but he did lead a 🔥 article about the move away from Twitter/x
Out today in Symbolic Interaction
doi.org/10.1002/symb...
Out today in Symbolic Interaction
doi.org/10.1002/symb...
This Google Maps and Calendar business is an absolute tutorial on the politics of place, time, and technology.
February 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This Google Maps and Calendar business is an absolute tutorial on the politics of place, time, and technology.
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PostDoc: Conceptual Framework for Justice and Wellbeing in Transport & Mobility
jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/p...
jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/p...
PostDoc: Conceptual Framework for Justice and Wellbeing in Transport & Mobility
The TU/e is constantly looking for scientific and non-scientific staff further its ambitions. View here our current vacancies.
jobs.tue.nl
February 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
PostDoc: Conceptual Framework for Justice and Wellbeing in Transport & Mobility
jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/p...
jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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First, Google removed events like Pride & BHM from Calendar. www.theverge.com/news/608858/... Now, they come for our maps.
A harsh reminder that default settings aren’t just re: convenience—they’re a form of control that shapes user behaviour & choices. Welcome to the Gulf of Digital Imperialism.
A harsh reminder that default settings aren’t just re: convenience—they’re a form of control that shapes user behaviour & choices. Welcome to the Gulf of Digital Imperialism.
February 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
First, Google removed events like Pride & BHM from Calendar. www.theverge.com/news/608858/... Now, they come for our maps.
A harsh reminder that default settings aren’t just re: convenience—they’re a form of control that shapes user behaviour & choices. Welcome to the Gulf of Digital Imperialism.
A harsh reminder that default settings aren’t just re: convenience—they’re a form of control that shapes user behaviour & choices. Welcome to the Gulf of Digital Imperialism.
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As someone with an actual PhD in geography, I am utterly disgusted with Google for this. What a joke.
February 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
As someone with an actual PhD in geography, I am utterly disgusted with Google for this. What a joke.
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Are you guys for real right now? We only rate dogs. This is so clearly a bunny rabbit having his dinner. Please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10
February 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Are you guys for real right now? We only rate dogs. This is so clearly a bunny rabbit having his dinner. Please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10
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New piece with @rscarlets.bsky.social : The TikTok ban won't work—it'll create exactly what it claims to prevent. Bans don't eliminate platforms, they transform them into less governable forms. Our analysis of the paradox at the heart of platform restrictions:
www.techpolicy.press/the-tiktok-b...
www.techpolicy.press/the-tiktok-b...
The TikTok Ban Paradox: How Platform Restrictions Create What They Aim to Prevent | TechPolicy.Press
Alex Turvy and Dr. Rebecca Scharlach write that the US TikTok ban reveals the limitations of current government regulatory paradigms.
www.techpolicy.press
December 18, 2024 at 2:19 PM
New piece with @rscarlets.bsky.social : The TikTok ban won't work—it'll create exactly what it claims to prevent. Bans don't eliminate platforms, they transform them into less governable forms. Our analysis of the paradox at the heart of platform restrictions:
www.techpolicy.press/the-tiktok-b...
www.techpolicy.press/the-tiktok-b...
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We recently had the great pleasure of hosting @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social & hearing her give a public lecture on algorithmic reparation. In our latest blog, Jenny reprises her lecture and discusses this alternative approach to bias in AI systems.
#artificialintelligence #aibias #sociodigitalfutures
#artificialintelligence #aibias #sociodigitalfutures
Blog post version of my talk at UofBristol's Centre for Sociodigital Futures. Such a generative visit with generous scholars 🙏
sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/11/26/a...
sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/11/26/a...
December 17, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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I do few things with the same fervor as when serenading this dog
December 12, 2024 at 9:27 PM
I do few things with the same fervor as when serenading this dog
I'm late for most things but yesterday, managed to show up for a talk one full month early 🏆
December 11, 2024 at 9:17 PM
I'm late for most things but yesterday, managed to show up for a talk one full month early 🏆
I'm at the point in the semester where I just need to absorb other people's smart thoughts about interesting things. Yay for Co-Opting AI 🙌
karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-op...
karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-op...
Co-Opting AI: Cars
A critical discussion about the deep entanglement of AI systems with the perennial dream of data-driven cars and autonomous mobility.
karshinstitute.virginia.edu
December 2, 2024 at 10:37 PM
I'm at the point in the semester where I just need to absorb other people's smart thoughts about interesting things. Yay for Co-Opting AI 🙌
karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-op...
karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-op...
Blog post version of my talk at UofBristol's Centre for Sociodigital Futures. Such a generative visit with generous scholars 🙏
sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/11/26/a...
sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/11/26/a...
Algorithmic reparation – from fairness to redress – ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
November 29, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Blog post version of my talk at UofBristol's Centre for Sociodigital Futures. Such a generative visit with generous scholars 🙏
sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/11/26/a...
sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/11/26/a...
Just a couple middle-age ladies making use of this Thanksgiving downtime @k8henne.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Just a couple middle-age ladies making use of this Thanksgiving downtime @k8henne.bsky.social
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The ban won’t take effect for at least 12 months. But key details about it are still missing – including how social media platforms will actually verify users’ age theconversation.com/australias-s...
Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery
The ban won’t take effect for at least 12 months. But key details about it are still missing – including how social media platforms will actually verify users’ age.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2024 at 6:49 PM
The ban won’t take effect for at least 12 months. But key details about it are still missing – including how social media platforms will actually verify users’ age theconversation.com/australias-s...