Crystal Lee

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Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT + senior fellow @ Mozilla.

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Princeton's new AI Lab is looking for an Executive Director. Apply here: main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/19339/e...

Careers | Human Resourcesmain-princeton.icims.com A career at Princeton provides the opportunity to make meaningful impact. We invite you to imagine the difference you can make being a part of our community.

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Princeton's new Humanities Initiative is looking for an Executive Director. Apply here: main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/19340/e...

tbh best thing I've seen all day

if it's not from the champagne region of france then it’s just called sparkling fascist tears

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Not the economist is just really whiffing with its covers recently, isn’t it

It held

absolutely this. I feel like part of The Bear's magic was its incredible grasp of cacophony and great dialogue, and the weak writing of 1:1 convos (along with undoing all of the character development from S1/2) really hurt it. Jamie Lee Curtis, on the other hand... 🤩🤩🤩

For the most part, I thought Season 3 of The Bear was crap, but I think Jamie Lee Curtis' acting is brilliant, and I love seeing a woman embrace her age. I think part of the reason her performance was so amazing was that she could convey sooooo many emotions with all of those beautiful wrinkles.

what a delightful looking special issue!! Can’t wait to dig in!

This looks great: Special Issue: Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research journals.sagepub.com/toc/cona/30/1

Convergence - Volume 30, Number 1, Feb 01, 2024journals.sagepub.com Table of contents for Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 30, 1, Feb 01, 2024

i cackled

When you've lost Goldman Sachs...

Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?www.goldmansachs.com

there is something so delicious and yet slightly crushing about reading an article that articulates *exactly* what you've been thinking about and goes even farther with the analysis 😮‍💨

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Calling Elon Musk an idiot is fucking garbage. That word was used to institutionalize folks, sterilize folks, and murder folks all in the name of eugenics and getting rid of people who were undesirable in “mainstream society.” Most people don’t know or care about that because ableism has made it ok.

we can all have a little good news today, as a treat

Hooray for the New York Public Library! It's going to be open 7 days a week, thanks to the budget passed by the City Council today—and all the organizers who pushed to make this happen

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Normal people: enjoying their Sunday The WSJ: we gotta send out the push alert that says fuck the minorities.

So who’s “us”?

I love watching The Bear but somehow all of season 3 seems dead set on erasing any character development from the last two seasons??

if you hover over an in-line numeric citation in the new Zotero, it automagically shows you what the number is referring to???

🚨 JOB ALERT FOR THREE ACADEMIC POSITIONS @ MIT 🚨 My department at MIT, Comparative Media Studies / Writing, is hiring! Two are at the assistant level (applications opened yesterday), and the third is a senior level position (applications will open August 1). Apps (assistant only) due Aug 30!

as someone who bikes to MIT most days of the week, this is absolutely devastating and shakes me to my core. if there are bike advocacy groups in the Camberville / Medford area that you'd recommend, please let me know -- we need much better biking infrastructure. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

MIT student identified as victim in Cambridge bicycle crash, advocates plan vigilwww.boston.com Minh-Thi Nguyen, known to friends as Mint, was killed after a box truck collided with her at the intersection of Hampshire and Portland streets in Cambridge.

hard agreeing with Faine, as per uzh

Shoes in the house are gross as fuck, can make you sick, and I am not going to be convinced otherwise

this is so beautiful 🥺

I am often asked "Catbus, how do you make instant ramen look so delicious?" and the answers rest on this well stocked condiment shelf:

in denial that it's July next week????!!!!!

what a lovely and insightful piece! It says so much of what I've been thinking about re: ~ the algorithm ~ and TikTok algospeak. I'll probably assign it in my intro class this coming semester! www.kernelmag.io/4/algorithma...

Kernel | Algorithmaxxingwww.kernelmag.io There is no organization. There is no manifesto. In order to optimize your content for the algorithm, or “algorithmax,” the c...

Get to know me by 10 TV series 📺 1. Good Omens 2. Derry Girls 3. Fleabag 4. Outnumbered (UK) 5. Jane the Virgin 6. Great British Bakeoff 7. Top Chef 8. Hospital Playlist 9. Insecure 10. Borgen

Get to know me by 10 TV series 📺 1. The Simpsons 2. Bob's Burgers 3. Corner Gas 4. Steven Universe 5. Brooklyn Nine-Nine 6. Fringe 7. The Good Place 8. South Park 9. Supernatural 10. Good Omens

curious to hear other folks' experience, but I have by and large found the presentations at grad student symposia to be vastly superior in quality than many conference talks I've seen from senior faculty

this is a really lovely piece that encapsulates so much of what I've been thinking about re: local-first software -- definitely worth a read in terms of outlining the why and how to do that (fair warning, though, that it's fairly long). www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloudwww.inkandswitch.com A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.

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Two year postdoc for historian using public history approaches, in particular Museum Studies, Historic Preservation, or digital history. Cornell University, USA

With the sponsorship of the Society for the Humanities, the Department of History invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship position beginning August 1, 2025. The fellowship carries a stipend of $62,000/year. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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i think we should stop giving our ai bots female names (alexa, siri) and give them names from the old white boys club (john, james, chad) in honor of how overconfident and annoying they are even when they’re completely wrong or making stuff up

in the year of our lord 2024 I still mourn the disappearance of the Costco everything pizza

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I'm looking for an expert who can talk to me about the history/role of financial consultants hired by universities to help evaluate/make budget cuts. Who's studied this? Who should I talk to? Particularly interested in sources who aren't heavily quoted. DM me with suggestions.

keeping a bag of emergency goldfish in your bag is always a good idea

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If anyone wants a template to email their various orgs about the Windows 11/CoPilot+/Recall nonsense, here's a version of the letter I sent my CIO: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Sent a very angry, very detailed email to my University's Vice-Chancellor for IT/CIO; I mean what else can I fucking do about it right now?

Concerns about Windows 11, CoPilot, and Recalldocs.google.com

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As of 11a CT today, Minnesotans can apply for an e-bike rebate of up to $1,500. Story: www.startribune.com/starting-wed... Application: www.revenue.state.mn.us/electric-ass...

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bsky.app/profile/did:... This is a blocklist for people that are into lolicon. If you don't know what that is, great, let's keep it that way and use the list. If you do know what it is, I'm sorry to hear, please use this list. I do not need to hear the opinions, or existence, of any of them.