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Radhika Gajjala

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WIRED @wired.com · 15h

Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.

The AI Industry's Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff

Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · May 3

Worth a reread:

"As Weizenbaum wrestled with this complicity, he found that his colleagues, for the most part, didn’t care about the purposes to which their research might be put. If we don’t do it, they told him, somebody else will. Or: scientists don’t make policy, leave that to the politicians."

Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · May 2

Suggestion: stop talking about AI as “hype,” start talking about AI as a (very real) political and ideological instrument.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · May 2

My book ms "The Inattention Economy: Seeing the Digital Labor of Women of Color” is in production at the University of Minnesota Press. So grateful to Anne Carter and Leah Pennywark at UMP. It's a book about how the work of digital infrastructure became women of colors' work and thus invisible

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · Apr 28

I don’t think anyone in tech believed that “prompt engineer” was going to be a real job. Better prompts improve results at the margins, sure, but not so much that years out we need classes of people performing that function and not at scale that replaces anything.

www.wsj.com/articles/the...

The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete

Prompt engineering, a role aimed at crafting the perfect input to send to a large language model, was poised to become one of the hottest jobs in artificial intelligence. What happened?

www.wsj.com

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Apr 28

"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...

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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Apr 18

Returning to #DH spaces - meets - physically this April has reminded me of why I do what I do…. In multiple modes of text-il-ing …and multiple dataspaces and multiple visualizing spaces .

Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Apr 13

Time to move on to other warp experimented …

Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Apr 12

#whyreturn and #toolingaround

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · Apr 9

For their fellowship, @claudiaeberger.bsky.social created a data quilt—dataviz made in fabric!—to explore the history of who the "public" Appalachian Trail was actually designed for; how its history of use intersects w/gender, race, & Indigenous land rights. A blogged peek into their design process:

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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Apr 7

Global DH cookie #msuglobaldh

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · Apr 7

Me, waiting for the collapse of society & staring at my printing press like I imagine doomsday preppers stare at their stockpiles of canned beans:

"They said I was a fool, but soon they’ll see. They’ll ALL see!!!"

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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Apr 7

Shout out to @roopikarisam.bsky.social at the #msuglobaldh

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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Apr 7

In person sessions begin #msuglobaldh2025

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · Apr 5

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.

Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.

www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

www.wired.com

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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Apr 5

And to remind ourselves also that the textiles industry “before machines” was also complicit in settler colonialism and exploitative labor practices.

Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Apr 5

Will your data save the world or justify more settler colonialists?…

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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Apr 5

Pondering the #DH question of “but can you code” and how with a few exceptions such as #dhmakes we take that to mean we have to be engineers or “hard core” quantitative experts to do DH … I want to as … “but can you weave”? “But can you spin yarn” ?

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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Apr 5

Prepping for a keynote last minute as always….

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Apr 1

A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act.

As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.

LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor

YouTube video by Associated Press

www.youtube.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Apr 1

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie

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Global DH Symposium @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social · Mar 18

¡Oradora Principal highlight!
Estamos encantados de anunciar que la Dra. Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social regresa como oradora principal en el Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2025! 🎉 Presentará en persona el 8 de abril—¡no te lo pierdas! #MSUGlobalDH

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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Mar 17

Nothing to see - just me prepping for tomorrow zoom with Leeds …

Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Mar 14

And cheers to cooking up more collabs!

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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · Mar 14

Thrilled to have organised this panel on Sexuality,Mobility,Belonging & to be in conversation with such brilliant, critical colleagues! The audience engagement was fantastic, with thoughtful questions on political blackness, queer joy, & activism in these challenging times @cyberdivalive.bsky.social

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Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social · Mar 14

Was honored to be respondent to a fabulous panel at #aas convention in Columbus - panel put together by @rkdasgupta.bsky.social (with whom I’ve been in conversation for years but only just finally met in person).

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somak_history @somakbiswas.bsky.social · Jan 27

Heidelberg calls! Scholars of Queer South Asian Diaspora, please apply to this wonderful ECSAS panel featuring @churnjeet.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social Kiran Sunar and me!

Deadline 30 January! please spread the word

ecsas2025.com/panel/97-new...

97 – New Routes through Queer South Asian Diaspora Studies – ECSAS 2025

ecsas2025.com

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · Jan 10

The best advice I have for you is to start building robust, alternative networks now and quickly

Don’t assume you will have access or the ability to distribute your material online forever

Make hardcopies. Build local in-person communities.

Build relationships with brick & mortar indie stores

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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · Dec 30

With painful memories, here is to share some resources about a sad anniversary day - five years ago today in Wuhan, its health commission issued the first public notice about an "unknown pneumonia," which later turned out to be COVID-19.
guobin-yang.blogspot.com/2022/01/upco...

Talks and resources about my new book The Wuhan Lockdown

sociology, China, communication studies, journalism, digital activism, digital culture, technology, media studies

guobin-yang.blogspot.com

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · Dec 16

Data is crunched and prepped into a weavable spreadsheet, warp (representing location, and words / time on the variable dent reed) is tied on, so full speed ahead on the data #weaving of my girlfriend's mother's memoir. #DHmakes

A folding rigid heddle loom with warp in shades of green, gold, red, browns, in a variable dent reed.

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