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Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft

Ed tech

The idea that a university or insurer could predict your race is itself just another way that Super Crunching is reducing our sphere of effective privacy.

Ian Ayres • Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

Fobazi Ettarh argues that librarians are conditioned to accept low pay, low status, and expanding workloads because librarianship is regarded as a calling — a care-centric vocation that is “inherently good and sacred, and therefore beyond critique.” Yet historians have shown that libraries, for all their goodness, are built upon protocols and... See more

Places Journal • Maintenance and Care

This lasting faith in Google has bolstered its reputation and disguised its flaws. In her book Algorithms of Oppression, internet studies scholar Safiya Noble highlighted cases of “algorithmically driven data failures that are specific to people of color and women.” The book outlined the structural ways that racism and sexism are fundamental to

Terry Nguyen • The Future of Search

The Age of Curation

Mukul Patnaik mukul.dev

Curators are API’s that exist between people and all the knowledge of the world.

An API is an “application programming interface” that allows two apps to communicate, sending data between someone requesting something and a database full of data.

A curator exists in the space between people who want to know more about a topic and the massive amounts

A Political Ecology of the Repair Manual

Shannon Mattern placesjournal.org