time to break out the negative vspace, amirite?
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Jennifer Jacobs
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Assistant Prof. Media Arts and Technology, UCSB. Expressive Computation Lab. she/her
Just finished (manually) writing the coding documentation for a new toolkit project. Had the depressing realization that I am probably writing something more likely to be ingested by a model than read by a human.
people are paying attention.
Electronic Frontier FoundationThe men who run Big Tech have always wanted to “enshittify” their services—to shift as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves, EFF’s @pluralistic writes in Communications of the ACM. Unions are an antidote. https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-workers-versus-enshittification/
John OverholtTrump Admin Revokes Harvard’s Authorization To Enroll International Students https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/23/trump-admin-revokes-sevp/
Trump Admin Revokes Harvard’s Authorization To Enroll International Students | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students on Thursday, dramatically escalating the administration’s fight with the University and threatening thousands of current students.
And this isn't just a problem for researchers. To state what should be obvious, this is going to hurt our economy massively in the long term.
The NSF program that we have been preparing a proposal for past few months (and had a preliminary proposal in the submission platform) suddenly changed its status to "not accepting proposals".
This is just the next development in a seemingly endless sequence of grant cancellations, panel suspensions, and other crises that, put together, are making it increasingly difficult to run and sustain a research lab.
This is what we get when the federal government FUNDS SCIENCE. These kinds of amazing advances and lifesaving technologies are what we are at risk of losing under the current administration.
adafruitTariffs just got real: our first $36K bill with 125% + 20% + 25% markup hits hard 💸. These are upfront costs - due before selling a single unit - causing serious cash flow strain, price increases, read more! 📦 http://adafruit.com/tariffbill
Posted today. Cap on indirect costs for all NSF grants at 15%. Paired with the NIH reductions, this is the death knell of research universities as we know them in the US.
