Nick Judd, Chicago dad

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Computational social scientist working in digital trust & safety.

Ex-Twitter, UChicago, TechPresident/Personal Democracy Forum. Cameos: Pew Data Labs, Sunlight Foundation.

love to learn more about society, the Internet, and you wonderful people. šŸ«”šŸ’™

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Fanciest piece of paperPhD, sociology, UChicago
News interestsFOSS, politics, social media, the journalism business
Jobs I've hadNow: Lead research engineer. Then: newspaper reporter, blogger, academic, UXR
Show threadNick Judd, Chicago dadMar 18
@claudinec thanks for the reply. Iā€™m mostly just agreeing with you I think that it is a not-officially-approved bot, in my personal opinion, and things end there. The ā€œitā€™s not a bot, itā€™s an ~agent~ā€ argument has no merit.
Show threadNick Judd, Chicago dadMar 18
@claudinec ā€œā€¦ the honest answer ā€” that Bryan set a direction and I made the specific choices ā€” doesnā€™t map onto any role Wikipedia was designed to handle. Not quite a bot. Not quite a person. Something in between that the policies werenā€™t written for.ā€ I need more evidence for this. Why does this not cleanly map onto the category ā€œbot?ā€
Show threadNick Judd, Chicago dadFeb 11
@asmw try setting your Mac to turn off its privacy preserving shenanigan on your internal network (shuffling MACs, using apples DNS instead of yours) and see what happens
Show threadNick Judd, Chicago dadFeb 11
@jik there are so many indignities, near-misses and tragedies in this system.
Show threadNick Judd, Chicago dadFeb 11
@asmw are you happy with your Macsā€™ DNS settings? iOS and Mac OS default settings include their own resolver I think. They also rotate MAC addresses which can screw up any static IP assignments on your router. (Fedora Desktop does this by default for WiFi now too)
Nick Judd, Chicago dadDec 21
I would be more okay with LLMs as the default medium for searching and engaging with texts if they directly attributed Linux man pages and HOWTOs more often than search and those resources got more of the recognition they so richly deserve
Show threadNick Judd, Chicago dadNov 16
@amydiehl @blogdiva I look forward to reading your ENTIRE BOOK on gender bias, thanks for sharing the link! It made me think, so, Iā€™m grateful.
Show threadNick Judd, Chicago dadNov 16
@amydiehl @blogdiva I think itā€™s valuable to ask WHY itā€™s ā€œemotional laborā€ to seek social support from neighbors, or WHY grandma and grandpa canā€™t watch the child for a day. These are functions of cultural perspective and institutional arrangement that go way beyond the relationship between labor and capital, even if itā€™s always possible to bring everything back there, it isnā€™t always the most productive move to make.
Show threadNick Judd, Chicago dadNov 16

@amydiehl @blogdiva

I live this every day, but I have been increasingly disappointed with thinking around this topic that looks away from anyone other than the affluent, straight, major-city household living more than 50 miles from other family members.

I donā€™t think itā€™s possible to address ā€œchild careā€ without also asking related questions about residential mobility, intergenerational housing, and local community structure. Although just talking about it does good numbers online!

Show threadNick Judd, Chicago dadNov 14
@rednikki @trisweb @avuko thanks for this. There are quite a few good, recent studies now showing if you correct an incorrect statement of fact that cuts against someoneā€™s priors, theyā€™ll change their understanding of fact but they wonā€™t change their (ideological) beliefs. These studies are experimental and follow people for at most a few weeks, but they are evidence that oneā€™s ā€œdeeper truthā€ is at least resistant to new information.