Jennifer Jacobs

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Assistant Prof. Media Arts and Technology, UCSB. Expressive Computation Lab. she/her
personal websitehttps://jenniferjacobs.me
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lab websitehttps://expressivecomputation.com
time to break out the negative vspace, amirite?
@lea aw that's comforting.
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.
The 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/
Tech Workers Versus Enshittification

Communications of the ACM
@mjk That sounds like a good Saturday [Friday] night.
Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters Building

Employees at the National Science Foundation say they’ve been blindsided by a plan for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to take over their offices

Scientific American
President Releases Devastating NSF Budget Request; Proposes to Turn Back the Clock More than 20 Years on NSF Funding. Join the Discussion and Take Action!

On Friday, the Trump Administration released the details of its Fiscal Year 2026 (FY2026 budget request to Congress – a budget we already knew was disastrous from the release of the President’s “sk…

GovAffairs
Trump 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.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2025/05/19/trumps-nih-and-nsf-cuts-could-cost-the-us-economy-10-billion-annually/

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually

Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

Forbes