Annabel Rothschild
@threatstovalidity.bsky.social
assistant prof in computer science @ Bard College; opinions mine only
interested in everything to do with data work and data workers and old & aging computer systems
interested in everything to do with data work and data workers and old & aging computer systems
Phil Agre's "Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI" (1998) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Ref
Every technology fits, in its own unique way, into a far-flung network of different sites of social practice. Some technologies are employed in a specific site,
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December 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Phil Agre's "Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI" (1998) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Shout out LinkedIn for telling me AI can write better than I do! On this very d*mn post!
August 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Shout out LinkedIn for telling me AI can write better than I do! On this very d*mn post!
At least syphilis doesn't also destroy the environment at the same time!
July 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
At least syphilis doesn't also destroy the environment at the same time!
Meanwhile my spotify is offering me "vancouver punk fuzzy friday evening" so maybe I should be borrowing your algorithm??
June 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Meanwhile my spotify is offering me "vancouver punk fuzzy friday evening" so maybe I should be borrowing your algorithm??
I can't conduct actual business, but other people can refuse anti-virus as mandated by DoD contracts...clearly the solution here is for me to become a Defense Contractor Jr
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
United States Files Suit Against the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech Research Corporation Alleging Cybersecurity Violations
The United States joined a whistleblower suit and filed a complaint-in-intervention against the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (GTRC) asserting claims t...
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June 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I can't conduct actual business, but other people can refuse anti-virus as mandated by DoD contracts...clearly the solution here is for me to become a Defense Contractor Jr
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
!! really cool news, congratulations!!
May 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
!! really cool news, congratulations!!
“An Ersatzmensch was a substitute person, a simulacrum of a human being, who was no more real than the Ersatzbutter they spread on their Ersatzbrot.” harpers.org/2014/05/oper...
I really don't like where this points...
I really don't like where this points...
Operation Margarine, by Nina Martyris
Tracing the wartime rise of ersatz butter
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May 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“An Ersatzmensch was a substitute person, a simulacrum of a human being, who was no more real than the Ersatzbutter they spread on their Ersatzbrot.” harpers.org/2014/05/oper...
I really don't like where this points...
I really don't like where this points...
it is also my advisors' shared wedding anniversary (absolute cliché if you know them)
May 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
it is also my advisors' shared wedding anniversary (absolute cliché if you know them)
*week 6 🤦♀️
March 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
*week 6 🤦♀️
This is such a great list! For week 7, if looking for some longer pieces:
- "Whose AI dream" dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- "Making data work count" dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
- "When workers want to say no" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
- "Whose AI dream" dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- "Making data work count" dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
- "When workers want to say no" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Whose AI Dream? In search of the aspiration in data annotation. | Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
dl.acm.org
March 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is such a great list! For week 7, if looking for some longer pieces:
- "Whose AI dream" dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- "Making data work count" dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
- "When workers want to say no" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
- "Whose AI dream" dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- "Making data work count" dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
- "When workers want to say no" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
I think Unis who've done this have a responsibility to refund application fees to potential students, but I'm sure that won't happen
February 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I think Unis who've done this have a responsibility to refund application fees to potential students, but I'm sure that won't happen