@tama thank you so very very much!

I'm very appreciative to have been given the opportunity to talk about my current research examining age-appropriate design, content ratings, and children's rights for this month's episode of the D4CR's Designing for Children's Best podcast. Available wherever you listen to podcasts, this new series is a uniquely valuable resource for designers, makers, scholars, activists, policymakers, and others working to advance children's rights online/in tech and media.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/d4cr-podcast/episodes/Whats-age-appropriate-e23uhgq/a-a9qr45a

@rickf It is an excellent and illuminating dissertation. Enjoy!

The worst thing about introducing my children to top-tier/critically acclaimed animated television shows is that they almost all end way before they should. Best kids' TV = cancelled kids TV waaaaaay too often. #OwlHouse #StarVSForcesofEvil #StevenUniverse

I learned today that 5 of my books are among the more than 1600 books banned in some schools right now.

https://pen.org/index-of-school-book-bans-2022/

For more information
https://pen.org/issue/free-the-books/

honestly, "so gay that it's illegal in russia" should be used as a selling point

(though I feel the bar for getting banned there might be very low these days)

On Friday, March 10th, I’ll be in conversation with @safiya as a part of her Data X Salon series. I can only imagine we’ll be talking about some hot issues. Via zoom; please join and spread the word!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/531241476557

Finally had a moment to read this statement from the FTC and it is 🔥🔥🔥

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/02/keep-your-ai-claims-check

A few choice quotes:

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#AIHype #MathyMath #FTC

"You don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism"
Seen in London, Ontario Canada

Do not seize the day. This will startle the day and may cause it to become aggressive and give you a nasty bite.

Instead approach the day calmly without making eye contact, pet it gently, and slowly enfold it in a careful embrace

If the day shows any signs of resistance to being engaged with, it is likely to turn on you. Back off and return to bed.

New study out of NYU shows that "Infants Outperform AI in “Commonsense Psychology.” A quote from the story: “A human infant’s foundational knowledge is limited, abstract, and reflects our evolutionary inheritance, yet it can accommodate any context or culture in which that infant might live and learn,” observes Dillon. Current AI isn't able to make those inferences, or at least not as accurately. Bit of a reality check. Also, go babies!
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2023/february/infants-outperform-ai-in--commonsense-psychology-.html

Via Prof. David Hesmondhalgh, “a 25,000 word review of academic research on "The Impact of Algorithmically Driven Recommendation Systems on Music Consumption and Production,” bringing together critical work (including STS) with computer science research.”

PDF version can be found here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4365916

s3e2 of the Critical Technology podcast, "The Artist and the Automaton" which explores new research/publications by the brilliant @aleenachia is now live! @KMDIUofT https://www.buzzsprout.com/1475689/12193206

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt for creating "products that infringe the rights of artists and other creative individuals under the guise of alleged "artificial intelligence."" Notice how AI is called alleged + put in quotation marks. Also DeviantArt? What? omg was that epic fan/art platform just a front for machine learning the whole time!?! Or is that a more recent "pivot"? Either way...how did I miss that?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-filed-against-stability-ai-midjourney-and-deviantart-for-dmca-violations-right-of-publicity-violations-unlawful-competition-breach-of-tos-301721869.html

It's been more than a decade since I began thrilling to Kate Beaton's spectacular, hilarious snark-history webcomic "Hark! A Vagrant," pioneering work that mixed deceptively simple lines, superb facial expressions, and devastating historical humor:

https://memex.craphound.com/2012/03/23/hark-a-vagrant-the-book/

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Fake pockets in women’s slacks are the pantriarchy. Thank you.

CFP The #Datafied #Family: free, online event 28 June organised by Surrey Sociology's @ProfRanjanaDas https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounters-in-care-intimacies-routine-and-play/

RT @DataJusticeLab@twitter.com

⚡️Our Call for Papers for the third DATA JUSTICE conference is out!!⚡️ Deadline for abstracts Jan 30th: https://datajusticelab.org/2022/12/21/call-for-papers-3rd-data-justice-conference-collective-experiences-in-the-datafied-society/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DataJusticeLab/status/1606251632936816640

Been seeing a lot about #ChatGPT lately and got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together. And apparently this is known behavior. 😮

RT @SurreySociology@twitter.com

Call for papers: *The Datafied Family*, free, online event 28 June organised by @SurreySociology@twitter.com's @ProfRanjanaDas@twitter.com - keynotes from @Livingstone_S@twitter.com ,
@usharaman@twitter.com, @veronicabarassi@twitter.com & @giovannamas@twitter.com
🔗https://ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounters-in-care-intimacies-routine-and-play/ https://t.co/qpfoINyGso

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SurreySociology/status/1612480464174084100