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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

@ccamara@scholar.social

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Architect. Social scientist. PhD. Life-long learner. Mostly interested in cities, technology & design from a social perspective.

Research Software Engineer at the University of Warwick's @cimethods

www	https://carloscamara.es/en
Orcid :orcid:	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9378-0549
GitHub	https://github.com/ccamara
OSM	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ccamara

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo 1h ago

Alberto Corsín Jiménez 6h ago

Over 3 years we opened Cultural Anthropology to Spanish submissions. In this time, we received ZERO manuscripts from native English speakers whose fieldwork is based in Spanish-speaking countries. Food for thinking about epistemic geographic inequalities...

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo 4d ago

danmcquillan 4d ago

I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo 4d ago

steve mookie kong 4d ago

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 19

jonathan w. y. gray 🐨Jun 19

looking for a research associate to explore societal engagement with forest restoration on digital media – with @lbngr @gabrielecolombo, Rina Tsubaki & more. Grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! https://jonathangray.org/2025/05/31/superb-research-associate #digitalmethods #STS #mediastudies #environmentalhumanities

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 11

@datascience Thank you for flagging this! I didn't know about case_match(), and I can see it being very useful for most of the cases where I use case_when()!

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 11

@amapanda @twm @Geochicas sadly it won't, but I hope to share slides after. Will yours be recorded? I'd love to watch it, too!

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 10

Tomorrow, I'll be presenting at #STSItalia "Co-designing participatory data visualizations to evaluate #OpenStreetMap’s #equity: The good, the bad and the neutral", the work I've been doing with @twm and Selene Yang, Alejandra Canclini and Silvia Ribera Alfaro from @Geochicas

📆 11 June 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
🗺️ Panel 71. Mapping Public Space through Participatory Data Narratives and Cartographies – Session 1

Come and say hi!

https://stsitalia.org/event/panel-71-session-1/

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 9

If you're interested in #maps #cartography #equity #feminism or #dataviz #datavis , I'd kindly invite you to join the workshop:

Creating Inclusive Cartographies with #OpenStreetMap

📆 27th June 9:00 - 17:00
🗺️ University of Warwick

+info: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/research/digital-good-neutrality-osm/inclusive-cartographies-workshop/

signup: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/research/digital-good-neutrality-osm/inclusive-cartographies-workshop/warwick-27-june

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 5

+info about the project here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/research/digital-good-neutrality-osm

Evaluating neutrality in digital goods

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 5

Are you researching in #OpenStreetMap , #Feminism and #dataviz ? Do you create #dataviz using #Rstats? Do you have experience with #codesign?

If the answer is yes, we are looking for you! @twm and I are looking for a Part-time Research Assistant to join our #DigitalGoodNetwork project.

+info here:
https://portal.unitemps.com/Search/JobDetails/37525559

📆 deadline: 17/06/2025

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danmcquillan 4d ago

I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html

Janeishly 4d ago

@danmcquillan I loved this: "More optimistically, it's not so hard to imagine a near future where a course or programme that's vocal about the way it's limited or even eliminated AI will have additional appeal as an alternative to the current pathway where universities conclude that, thanks to AI, they don't really need most lecturers, and then students come to the conclusion that, for similar reasons, they don't really need the universities."

danmcquillan 4d ago

@janeishly I'm glad you liked it. Trying to slip a bit of optimism in ;)

@janeishly @danmcquillan works superb with the growing number people who recon they don’t need doctors, vaccines etc.

mags amond 4d ago

@danmcquillan
thank you

danmcquillan 4d ago

@magsamond you're welcome

Thijs Meeuwisse 4d ago

@danmcquillan @dingemansemark

Panda | 판다 4d ago

@danmcquillan Really nice pithy way to put it: ‘Critical thought is not something you can stochastically optimise’.

@danmcquillan Interesting article. Coincidentally, while moving boxes of my books the other day, one was Tools For Conviviality, and I briefly wondered about its leverage on today's world. From this article, that intuition feels right - now I need to figure out which box the book is in!

RaymondPierreL3 4d ago

@danmcquillan
This:
“The way this technology works means that generative AI applied to anything is a form of slopification, of turning things into slop. However, where AI is undoubtedly successful is as a shock doctrine, as a way to further precaritise workers and privatise services.”

Is a quote worth remembering and ‘boosting’.

#AISlop #Slopification

“Critical thought is not something you can stochastically optimise, and I agree with Hannah Arendt that thoughtlessness is a precondition for fascism.”

Absolutely.

rooftopjaxx 4d ago

@danmcquillan Was tempted to ask how 'slop' had become almost instantly ubiquitous, did someone with a lot of clout introduce it to the world (but you all got too busy chatting 'the university' so the Q didn't really seem right and proper in the moment)?

@RaymondPierreL3

danmcquillan 3d ago

@rooftopjaxx @RaymondPierreL3 don't know the original source, I think I picked it up from 404media

RaymondPierreL3 3d ago

@rooftopjaxx @danmcquillan
Given the ‘address’ was failry recent, I’d venture to say that the author paid ‘homage’ to Cory Doctorow and his neologism which made it into our dictionaries last year (Enshitification). TBH I quite like ‘slopification’, especially with regards to GIA and the ‘sloppy’ way (some) developers have crafted and trained it. Also, it is an introductory phase to general enshitification as the TechBros contaminate everything with the deployment of GIA.

rooftopjaxx 3d ago

@RaymondPierreL3 @danmcquillan Yep, it has that same appeal and even more rapid take up. Hence the curiosity over who coined it.

⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir 4d ago

The role of the university is to resist AI

“Critical thought is not something you can stochastically optimise, and I agree with Hannah Arendt that thoughtlessness is a precondition for fascism.”

“I want to conclude by emphasising that the proposition that the role of the university is to resist AI is not simply a defence of pedagogy, but an affirmation of the social importance of imagination.”

https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html

The role of the University is to resist AI

a libi rose 4d ago

@antoinechambertloir @danmcquillan how do i forcibly implant this information in the brains of university colleagues who are actively encouraging chat gpt use?

⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir 4d ago

@rose_alibi @danmcquillan
Unfortunately, I have no serious suggestion for you. (If it had to be one, it would probably be guillotine...)

ThierryStoehr 4d ago

And @antoinechambertloir @danmcquillan this text by @arthurperret is worth reading: ""A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT", even if it's from October 2024, but still for today imho https://www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11-14-student-guide-not-writing-with-chatgpt.html
And this text in french, very recent, reviewed for a congress (lats week), « L’intelligence artificielle générative dans l’impasse informationnelle », https://www.arthurperret.fr/articles/2025-06-20-congres-sfsic-ia-impasse-informationnelle.html
According to me, a very good text too.
And sorry if this was already on your list of text #format ressources.

A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT

Site web d’Arthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.

arthurperret.fr/

danmcquillan 3d ago

@ThierryStoehr @antoinechambertloir @arthurperret thanks for the pointer

@danmcquillan excellent article. gives much to think. e.g. do you think class is being left out of these discussions? it always played a role e.g. architects et al from expensive schools learn business admin so they can start offices and hire other architects, who don't. later the likes of stanford symbolic systems trained people to be "above the algorithm" while everyone else getting ordered by an app. now with AI, this article perfectly captures the working class point of view, but how the pupils of the management class are being taught on AI opportunities and consequences?

#ResistanceIsFutile #AI.

wauz ワウズ 4d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsmJdqKYJVg

Al Bundy - Best scene ever !

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