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Mor Naaman
@informor.bsky.social

Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.

Mor Naaman is a professor of information science at Cornell Tech. He is the founder of the Connective Media Hub and director of the Connective Media degree program. Naaman is known for foundational work on tagging behavior on social networking sites, the use of sites such as Twitter as social awareness streams, and real-world identification from social network activity. His research in these areas has been cited over 12,000 times on Google Scholar. .. more

Computer science 43%
Physics 15%

💯 “I characterize science as a bunch of 5-year-olds playing soccer. They all go where the ball is, running around the field in a herd.” 💯

www.wired.com/story/scient...
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
www.wired.com

Slightly diminish a band:

The Novemberists
Slightly diminish a band:

Stone Chapel Pilots
Slightly diminish a band:

The Foo Negotiators

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Slightly diminish a band:

Stone Chapel Pilots
Slightly diminish a band:

The Foo Negotiators
Slightly diminish a band:

The Melee

Used to own this very shirt. I should see if still buried in my closet
Elon Musk calling accountability for nonconsensual sexual images an "excuse of for censorship" perfectly exposes the lie at the heart of his "censorship industrial complex" crusade. When addressing abusive material of women and children is labeled "censorship," the term has lost all meaning.

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The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.

Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

Wild! Nice that they took a reasonable 4-hour buffer there

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If you still post on X, the site for Nazis and pedophiles, I am absolutely judging you.

Great idea, we'll investigate! (other ideas welcome -- we have a long list of desired labels and are slowly working to add more)

Also probably has spent enough time in academia to know that an 8AM class is not an alternative: it's a punishment.
Dr. Kristi Sweet, the Texas A&M philosophy department head who carried out this ridiculous order, has probably read an essay or two on the duty to be true to one’s ideals and not to carry out unethical edicts from above.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

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Dr. Kristi Sweet, the Texas A&M philosophy department head who carried out this ridiculous order, has probably read an essay or two on the duty to be true to one’s ideals and not to carry out unethical edicts from above.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

Very interesting! In a slightly different context, we described a similar phenomenon:

"If there is high... alignment, the user will rely on the model to complete the task. However, such reliance... can negatively contribute to the user’s perceived agency."

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
The Role of Inclusion, Control, and Ownership in Workplace AI-Mediated Communication | Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
dl.acm.org
New: Grok is generating far more graphic sexual content than on X.

Grok’s image generator, Imagine, has been used to create explicit sexual videos of celebrities and violent sexual videos, a review of public posts shows.

70 Imagine URLs appearing to depict minors were sent to regulators today
Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X
A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok’s official website shows it’s being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that includes apparent minors.
www.wired.com

Yes it's their role but the comedians are the *only* ones left who tell it like it is. Kimmel:

“Trump decided Maduro had to go. And, yes, he’s a criminal and a dictator who’s driven his country into financial ruin while he and his family have lined their own pockets, but Maduro is no saint, either”
1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years

But we've identified 10 promise keepers:

Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers
Five years ago today, on January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the Capitol building.
popular.info

Wonder where the Russians got *this* idea?

Please follow the @socialmedialab.ca, they do important work. This ban should be evidence enough.
"Russia has indefinitely banned entry to 28 Canadian nationals for supporting neo-Nazism, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced in a press release."

The banned individuals include our Lab's two co-directors @philipmai.com and @gruzd.ca tass.com/politics/206... #cdnpoli #Canada

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"Russia has indefinitely banned entry to 28 Canadian nationals for supporting neo-Nazism, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced in a press release."

The banned individuals include our Lab's two co-directors @philipmai.com and @gruzd.ca tass.com/politics/206... #cdnpoli #Canada
Five years ago.

Also me and @justinhendrix.bsky.social every year when we teach the Tech, Media, and Democracy course

As an expert and a parent this is very welcome. Can't wait to see the details about kids' use of AI.
"Gov. Kathy Hochul will propose new privacy standards for young New Yorkers online, including safeguards that would automatically bar strangers from viewing, tagging or messaging minors."
Hochul to Press for New Safeguards to Protect Children Online
www.nytimes.com

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"Gov. Kathy Hochul will propose new privacy standards for young New Yorkers online, including safeguards that would automatically bar strangers from viewing, tagging or messaging minors."
Hochul to Press for New Safeguards to Protect Children Online
www.nytimes.com

Joy Division / Oy Division

Not sure why but this scene comes to mind

The average 4.9 rating should give a collective view of misappropriated societal level trust in this (no doubt often useful) app.

And the use of "ChatGBT" in the second review should give an example of how well-informed the users are.

There's a treasure trove of information on all the problematic ways people are using ChatGPT right there in the App Store reviews. Here are the top two currently shown; not problematic per se, except for the indicator of strong reliance in different (school/information, relationship) settings

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They spent $32,537.28 and made $404,222.33. Most of the buys were made within the past 24 hours.

Not bad for an honest day’s work.
This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

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Who should get paid when AI learns from creative work? Cornell Tech Professor Frank Pasquale and co-authors have proposed a “learnright” as a new IP right to protect creatives. Learn more: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/who-should-get-paid-when-ai-learns-creative-work-0

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Mandy Patinkin and the PS22 Children's Chorus of Staten Island perform "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" at Zohran Mamdani's Mayoral inauguration