Donald—I appreciate the free publicity for Borat! I admit, I don’t find you funny either. But yet the whole world laughs at you.
— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) October 24, 2020
I’m always looking for people to play racist buffoons, and you’ll need a job after Jan. 20. Let’s talk!https://t.co/itWnhJ8TQF
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I ran the McBroken data through the Spatial Equity Data tool. https://t.co/ABh1L7fFZA It found McDonalds are slightly overrepresented in white areas (first image) while locations with broken ice cream machines skew Black and low-income. (second image) pic.twitter.com/Z93NYSn4Ak
— Mark Stosberg (@MarkStosberg) October 22, 2020
Some fascinating cultural anthropology going on here.
"Put it on your website" #Debates2020 #IndieWeb
— Aaron Parecki (@aaronpk) October 23, 2020
You never really know someone until you hear them pronounce “pecan”.
— Peanut Jr. (@MrPeanut) October 21, 2020
How true….
Just got invited to edit a special issue of a journal. The title they have planned is the subtitle of my @OUPAcademic book. For me, the article processing fee will be waived, but the up to ten people I recruit to submit will each pay ~$1100 to publish their pieces. Who's in?
— Ellen Muehlberger (@emuehlbe) October 21, 2020
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS: Since kids can't go out on field trips these days, @NatGeoMuseum is putting on a virtual field trip series. Their first guest speaker is Carter Clinton, a @HowardU researcher who uses soil to study the DNA of enslaved people @nbcwashington pic.twitter.com/YiUhEq2Pl9
— Aimee Cho (@AimeeCho4) October 21, 2020
Studying soil for this sort of research is a clever and interesting route to go…
Marty McGuire (martymcgui.re)First, some backstory. But feel free to skip to the good stuff! With topics ranging from media and social critiques, to making and tech topics that I care about, to death itself, regular content from creators that post on YouTube have been a part of my daily life for the last several years. This is...
Impressive how many hoops one has to jump through to get this type of simple functionality. This is the absolute definition of a silo.
this is me now pic.twitter.com/KkaOsJz8Tk
— walter been michael (@proseb4bros) September 16, 2020
Apparently she’s recently become a contributing writer. This may explain a portion of her broader by-line/bio now.
I want to remind us that no one film can do everything, and this still is an opening for a flood of brilliant ideas to come. I’m here for all of it. ♥️
— Safiya Umoja Noble PhD (@safiyanoble) September 16, 2020
:brokenheart:https://t.co/bzztE9mRe6
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) September 19, 2020
The reason careless errors like this are important is because, as science and technology scholars teach us, tech is not created in a social vacuum. It is built within, and often reifies, power structures. By ignoring that lesson, we keep those power structures in place https://t.co/zMLeLb44MQ
— Becca Lewis (@beccalew) September 16, 2020
A Jewish teaching says those who die just before the Jewish new year are the ones God has held back until the last moment bc they were needed most & were the most righteous. And so it was that #RBG died as the sun was setting last night marking the beginning of RoshHashanah
— Nina Totenberg (@NinaTotenberg) September 19, 2020
Never have so many people simultaneously typed the word “fuck”
— Helen R. (@hels) September 18, 2020
The tobacco farmers want to run the oncology clinic, I mean how bad could it get?
— Chris Dancy (@chrisdancy) September 15, 2020
It didn't really highlight the work that Cathy O'Neil or Shoshana Zuboff have been doing NOR addresses what THEY'VE considered as solutions - only this super damaged notion of "reform" that historically not only doesn't work but allows these platforms to thrive.
— Iron Man Thee Nigga Nerd (@jackyalcine) September 15, 2020
A very important point to consider. I need to create a feed of some of these people to follow. I have one called Weapons of Math Destruction that’s pretty close to this, and focused on artificial intelligence, algorithms, and ethics.