Abigail De Kosnik

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Calling @UCBerkeley undergraduates! Research fellowships available, mentored by our amazing #newmedia grads! Check it out! http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/resources/2851/undergraduate-research-fellowship
Undergraduate Research Fellowship - Resources - Berkeley Center for New Media

“This brilliant illustration, made by Swedish artist Karl Jilg & commissioned by the Swedish Road Administration, shows just how extreme the situation truly is — even in an urban district that's designed with pedestrians in mind.”

How much space in our streets that we’ve surrendered to cars, and how little space is left for everything else.

#streets #cities #urbanism #roads #cars #car

https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/18/7236471/cars-pedestrians-sidewalks-roads

This brilliant illustration shows how much public space we've surrendered to cars

Vox

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED - new deadline Tuesday 31 January 2023:

New #NSF-funded summer program for #philosophy (or related) graduate students, for training in #AIEthics and #DataEthics at #NortheasternUniversity!

$12k stipend per student

More details+application info for the summer 2023 cohort at the program website:

https://cssh.northeastern.edu/ethics/summer-grad-training-program/

(Deadline extended to give the selection committee members more time to clear other things off their plates :-) )

Summer Training Program to Expand the Al and Data Ethics Research Community

This summer school is intended for graduate students with advanced training in applied ethics, ethical theory, philosophy of science, or other areas with potential research applications to AI and big data who would like to develop research capacities in the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), data ethics, and the philosophy of technology.  Designing AI and […]

The Ethics Institute

🔊 Call for Applications! The Center on Digital Culture and Society (CDCS) is accepting applications for Post-doctoral Fellowships, 2023-2024. Submit by February 14, 2023: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/cdcs-call-applications-post-doctoral-fellowships-2023-2024

#commodon @communicationscholars

CDCS Call for Applications for Post-doctoral Fellowships, 2023-2024

The great Sidney Poitier, snapped in Harlem in 1959 by Sam Falk.

#film #movies #cinema #SidneyPoitier #photography #ClassicHollywood #BlackCulture #BlackHistory #Harlem

Cambridge University Press has released all the History books in its “Cambridge Elements” series.
They’re all #OpenAccess, available for download in PDF until Wednesday, January 11.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/subject/History/66BE42A30172E280FDE64F8EE2F485B0
History

Welcome to Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core

"We've never had a president of the United States stir up a violent attempt to block the transfer of power ... If we are to survive as a nation of laws and democracy, this can never happen again." -
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson

#January6thCommittee

Twitter seems to have removed the new policy to ban accounts linking to competitors.

here is their page in the internet archive's wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20221218183504/https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531261791522817

Twitter Support on Twitter

“We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.”

Twitter
This is apparently the tweet that led to my suspension from Twitter. Right as I was reinstated they announced a new policy that they apparently found me to have retroactively violated
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #news #elonmusk #tech #technews #technology
A great article from Intelligencer on the stunning amount of money going into fútbol right now, and how that made for the best World Cup ever. Also, note the mention at the beginning of the article of the Qatari tournament exec's dismissal of a Filipino migrant worker's death (the brutal conditions of the workforce that built the stadiums in Qatar are well-known): https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/the-last-world-cup.html?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_content=nym&utm_term=curalate_like2buy_8ulK2dIq__1a684826-8188-4132-9fce-b760418338b1 #football #WorldCup #worldcupfinal #Filipinos